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.

人文科学高级研究中心“可持续发展的未来”对当前进行理论驱动的分析，询问社会在可持续发展的不同想象下如何变化。近几十年来，可持续发展已成为社会变革的指导概念和在很大程度上不可避免的参照系，但它所揭示的未来目标和愿景差异很大。该中心将现代化、转型和控制分析为三条不同的可持续发展道路--每条道路设计不同的社会变革，并由不同的做法、(基础)结构和对未来的想象塑造。在该中心的第一个供资阶段，这三个轨迹主要在三个不同的社会领域进行定位和调查：经济领域的现代化、民间社会的转型和国家领域的控制。在第二个供资阶段，我们越来越多地把重点放在这些领域和发展轨迹之间的相互联系和重叠。一方面，我们追求的论点是，控制路径在当前治理可持续发展的努力中发挥着越来越重要的作用。这导致我们研究基于控制的想象和实践如何也延伸到现代化和转型项目中。另一方面，我们假设，当前围绕可持续未来的斗争主要在一些社会领域展开，这些领域围绕特定问题形成，跨越了国家、经济和公民社会之间的区别。它们围绕参与、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)、新出现的公共和私人分类、估价和评估系统(分类领域)以及对世界的文化和宗教解释问题(意义形成领域)形成。在这些领域，可持续发展的未来是通过具体问题进行谈判和预测的。最后，三个主要的概念观点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，认为只有通过分析才能充分地将可持续性理解为多重可持续。第二个重点是权力和支配的问题，并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，但可持续发展辩论如何建立新的强大的不对称。第三部集中于对未来在灾难面前的想象和预想，并概念化了失败主义、设计乐观主义和开明的灾难主义之间的斗争。