Politics of knowledge in current regulation of prostitution in Germany

本项目从社会问题的建构主义社会学视角出发，以话语知识社会学的理论方法框架为分析基础，研究1985 - 2017年间德国现行卖淫监管制度中的知识关系和知识政治。它将审查话语冲突在联邦一级，以及在四个选定的联邦州和个别城市在他们。计划对这一讨论及其广泛的社会政治影响进行的研究的中心问题是：如何在不同的政治-行政级别（联邦一级、四个选定的州和市）以及在公共辩论中就卖淫和监管缺陷方面的哪些事实是可靠的或哪些是不可靠的达成共识？使用了哪些知识形式，通过显示问题的证据、证明需要采取行动和使干预战略合法化，使卖淫问题化？哪些伦理和道德模式的评价和公共秩序（例如，人权、受保护的权利、自决权和被承认的权利）被用来评估事实知识，它与其他形式的知识有何联系？

Taking on the perspective of a constructivist sociology of social problems, this project intends to study knowledge relations and politics of knowledge within the current regulatory regime of prostitution in Germany from 1985 to 2017, using the theoretical-methodological framework of the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse as a basis for analysis. It will examine discursive conflicts at a federal level as well as in four select federal states and individual municipalities within them. The central questions in the planned study on this discussion and its wide-ranging sociopolitical implications are: how is a consensus regarding what is or what is not reliable fact regarding prostitution and regulatory deficits established at different political-administrative levels (federal levels, four select states and municipalities) and in public debate? Which forms of knowledge are used problematize prostitution by showing evidence of problems, justifying a need for action, and legitimizing intervention strategies? Which ethical and moral patterns of evaluation and public order (e.g., human rights, protective rights, the right to self-determination and to be acknowledged) are used to evaluate factual knowledge and how is it connected to other forms of knowledge?