Coordination Funds

协调基金

• 批准号: 521857790
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Frank Adloff
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Professur für Soziologie, insb. Dynamiken und Regulierung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Advanced Studies Centres in SSH
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/521857790?language=en
• 关键词: Coordination; Funds

The Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies “Futures of Sustainability” pursues a theory-driven analysis of the present that asks how societies change under different imaginaries of sustainability. In recent decades, sustainability has become a guiding concept of social change and a largely unavoidable frame of reference, but the goals and visions of the future it informs vary greatly. The Centre analyses modernization, transformation and control as three distinct paths of sustainability – each of which designs societal change differently and is shaped by different practices, (infra-)structures and imaginaries of the future. In the first funding phase of the Centre, the three trajectories were primarily located and investigated in three different social fields: modernization in the economic sphere, transformation in civil society, and control in the realm of the state. In the second funding phase, we place the focus increasingly on interconnections and overlaps between these fields and trajectories. On the one hand, we pursue the thesis that the path of control plays an increasingly important role in current efforts to govern sustainability. This leads us to investigate how control-based imaginaries and practices also reach into projects of modernization and transformation. On the other hand, we assume that current struggles over sustainable futures primarily unfold in a number of social arenas that form around specific issues and cut across the distinction between state, economy and civil society. They take shape around processes of participation, collective decision-making and cooperation (arena of participation), the renegotiation of fundamental rights and collective obligations (arena of law), emerging public and private systems of classification, valuation and evaluation (arena of taxonomies) and questions of cultural and religious interpretation of the world (arena of meaning-making). In these arenas, futures of sustainability are negotiated and prefigured through concrete problems. Finally, three overarching conceptual perspectives will guide our theory building over the next four years. The first perspective is dedicated to the diversity of social relations between humans and nature and holds that sustainability can only be adequately grasped analytically as multiple sustainabilities. The second focuses on questions of power and domination and examines how ecological emergencies and exceptional political situations exacerbate existing inequalities, but also how sustainability debates establish new powerful asymmetries. The third focuses on imaginaries and prefigurations of the future in the face of catastrophes and conceptualizes the struggle between defeatism, design optimism, and enlightened catastrophism.

人文高级研究中心“可持续发展的未来”对当前进行了理论驱动的分析，探讨了在不同的可持续发展想象下社会如何变化。近几十年来，可持续发展已成为社会变革的指导性概念和基本不可避免的参考框架，但它所传达的未来目标和愿景却大相径庭。该中心将现代化、转型和控制作为可持续性的三条不同路径进行分析，每一条路径都以不同的方式设计社会变革，并受到不同的实践、（基础设施）结构和对未来的想象的影响。在该中心的第一个资助阶段，这三条轨迹主要在三个不同的社会领域进行定位和研究：经济领域的现代化、公民社会的转型和国家领域的控制。在第二个资助阶段，我们将越来越多地关注这些领域和轨迹之间的相互联系和重叠。一方面，我们追求的主题是控制路径在当前治理可持续性的努力中发挥着越来越重要的作用。这引导我们去研究基于控制的想象和实践是如何进入现代化和转型项目的。另一方面，我们假设当前关于可持续未来的斗争主要在围绕具体问题形成的许多社会领域展开，并跨越了国家、经济和公民社会之间的区别。它们围绕着参与、集体决策和合作（参与领域）、基本权利和集体义务的重新谈判（法律领域）、新兴的公共和私人分类、估价和评价系统（分类学领域）以及对世界的文化和宗教解释问题（意义创造领域）的过程形成。在这些领域，可持续性的未来是通过具体问题进行谈判和预测的。最后，三个总体概念视角将指导我们在未来四年的理论建设。第一种观点致力于人与自然之间社会关系的多样性，认为可持续发展只能被充分地分析为多重可持续性。第二部分侧重于权力和统治的问题，研究生态紧急情况和特殊的政治局势如何加剧现有的不平等，以及可持续性辩论如何建立新的强大的不对称。第三部分侧重于面对灾难时对未来的想象和预言，并概念化了失败主义、设计乐观主义和启蒙灾难主义之间的斗争。