Landnahme, Acceleration, Activation. Dynamics and (de-)stabilisation of modern growth societies

在我们最初的应用中，我们的论点是，不断升级的兰德纳姆、加速和激活过程的逻辑可能已经超过了一个关键门槛，超过了这个门槛，资本主义现代性的动态化要求本身正受到一个关键挑战。在研究组工作了三年多之后，我们认为这篇论文比以往任何时候都更具主题。一方面，许多早期工业化社会，包括一些重要的欧元区国家，继续面临经济增长危机，另一方面，对基于无节制地消费化石燃料的增长模式的批评继续增长。对增长至关重要的冲动已进入国际精英话语，它们在生产流程创新和数字化的背景下进行讨论，并引发了日益增长的社会运动。在这种多层面的后增长话语中，研究小组扮演着重要的角色，成为关于增长资本主义危机的国际辩论的场所。我们的关键概念Landnahme，Acceleration和Activation以不同的方式影响了社会学辩论，甚至公共和政治话语。我们打算在第二个资助期内在这些事态发展的基础上再接再厉并加以延长。在我们最初关注增长的社会经济和社会文化驱动因素之后，我们现在将把注意力转向社会政治增长引擎以及向后增长星座过渡的可能轨迹。研究组打算主要解决三个研究问题：(1)增长的必要性和障碍以及新的不平等对“生产主体”的构成和复制产生了什么后果？(2)经济危机和缓慢增长与民主问题有何关系？(3)后增长社会的轮廓是可想象的、可取的和现实的？有什么迹象表明正在向这样的社会过渡吗？这样的转变过程如何以民主的方式进行？我们将把这三个问题情结与四个新强调的元主题(危机的概念和理论、公共社会学、男性气概的增长和构建、反增长运动)联系起来。(……)第一阶段的指导性术语将补充新的类别(复原力/民主化；异化/共鸣、外部化/再分配)。在扩大我们最初的目标时，我们现在追求三个目标：第一，将关于增长资本主义危机的辩论更系统地纳入全球南北背景。其次，通过深化和扩大致力于关键公共社会学的国际科学机构网络内的合作来促进这一点。第三，利用这一网络，在全球对话中深入了解和辩论向后增长社会转型的可能性。

In our initial application, our thesis was that the escalatory logic of incessant processes of Landnahme, acceleration and activation may have surpassed a critical threshold, beyond which the dynamisation imperatives of capitalist modernity are themselves becoming subject to a crucial challenge. After more than three years of work at the Research Group we consider this thesis more topical than ever. On the one hand, many early-industrialised societies, including some important Eurozone countries, continue to face an economic growth crisis, while on the other hand the criticism of growth models based upon unbridled consumption of fossil fuels continues to grow. Growth-critical impulses have entered into international elite discourse, they are discussed in the context of innovation and digitalisation of production processes, and they have sparked growing social movements. Within this multifaceted post-growth discourse, the Research Group plays an important role, having become a site for international debates on the crises of growth capitalism. Our key concepts of Landnahme, Acceleration and Activation have influenced sociological debates and even public and political discourse in various ways. We intend to build upon and extend these developments in the second funding period. Following our initial focus on the socio-economic and socio-cultural drivers of growth, we shall now turn our attention to the socio-political growth engines and to possible trajectories of transition toward a post-growth constellation. The Research Group intends to primarily address three research questions: (1) What consequences for the constitution and reproduction of "productive subjects" arise from the imperatives of and hindrances to growth, as well as from new inequalities? (2) How do economic crises and slow growth relate to the democratic question?(3) What contours of a post-growth society are conceivable, desirable and realistic? Does anything indicate transitions toward such societies? How can such processes of transformation proceed in a democratic fashion?We will relate these three question complexes to four newly accentuated meta-themes (notions and theories of crisis, Public Sociology, growth and constructions of masculinity, degrowth movements). (...)The guiding terminology of the first phase will be complemented by new categories (resilience/democratisation; alienation/resonance, externalisation/redistribution). In an expansion of our original objectives, we now pursue three goals: Firstly, to more systematically embed the debate on the crisis of growth capitalism within a global north-south context. Secondly, to further this by deepening and expanding cooperation within an international network scientific institutions committed to a critical Public Sociology. And thirdly, to draw on this network for fathoming and debating the possibilities of transformation towards post-growth societies in a global dialogue.