Discourse and practices in shrinking regions. An analysis of the subjective relevance of shrinkage discourses using the example of the municipality of Altenburger Land

一些社会结构的发展，如外流，社会和技术基础设施的淡化，人口的下降等等，都被一篇关于收缩的讨论所涵盖和抓住。因此，它涉及到处理这种诊断的政治、规划和空间规划方法，这种诊断通常是一种空间诊断。基于这一观察，该项目考察了关于收缩的话语是否以及如何能够获得与相关主题的相关性。主要的问题是：缩小的过程和话语如何影响相应被贴上标签(和污名)的地区公民的日常生活？这一点将以图林根州阿尔滕堡市为例进行分析。分析的实体是受试者，他们面临着日常生活中的萎缩现象。这些问题表现为例如高空置率、外流和基础设施密度下降，但也表现为例如污名化。该项目遵循这样的假设，即收缩话语会影响口译的主观模式，并在一定程度上影响基于个人决定的预配置过程(如外移)。同时，收缩话语除了具有霸权特征外，并不决定个人的决定，当然也不是由于话语与主体之间的线性关系。将特别认可缩小区域中的主体对替代和反霸权的解释。该项目有助于在对话语和主题的非线性理解的基础上，加深对收缩的社会和空间层面的相互关系的理解。

Several social-structural developments such as outmigration, thinning out of social and technical infrastructure, a decline in population and more are covered and grasped by a discourse on shrinkage. It thus implicates political, programmatic and spatial-planning ways of dealing with this diagnosis which is regularly a spatial diagnosis. Based on this observation, the project examines if and how discourses on shrinkage could gain relevance for subjects concerned. The leading question is: How do processes of and discourses on shrinkage impact on the everyday life of the citizens in regions labeled (and stigmatized) accordingly? This will be analyzed with the use of the example of the municipality Altenburger Land (Thuringia). Entities of the analysis are subjects, who are confronted with phenomena of shrinkage within their everyday life. These are manifested as e.g. high vacancy rate, outmigration and a decreasing density of infrastructure, but also discursively e.g. by stigmatization. The project follows the hypothesis that shrinkage discourses influence subjective patterns of interpretation and insofar preconfigure processes based on individual decisions (such as outmigration). Simultaneously, shrinkage discourses, besides his hegemonic characteristics, do not determine individual decisions and certainly not owing to a linear relation between discourse and subject. Special recognition will be given to alternative and counter-hegemonic interpretations by the subjects in shrinking regions. The project contributes to a deepened understanding of the reciprocal relationship of the social and spatial dimension of shrinkage based on a non-linear understanding of discourse and subject.