Resilience Processes in the Face of Disruptive Phenomena. On the Societal Perception of Security Policies and Terrorist Threats

当前的韧性论述与当代关于社会不安全情景的讨论相一致，典型地反映在(对)西方社会的(对)恐怖主义威胁的恐惧中。该项目的总体目标是全面分析关于这些社会不安全情景的讨论，分析它们的复原力--分析轮廓和潜力。将采用双重经验方法：一方面将分析安全政策领域，作为第一供资阶段知识社会学研究的继续和延伸。另一方面，将借助研究小组制定的复原力战略、复原力配置和复原力资源的分析维度，对作为反恐政策和实践中安全指导思想的解释模式进行调查。该项目由两项互补性研究组成。构成部分研究1(“复原力作为安全政策领域中社会自我认知的一个概念”)旨在发展有关复原力的知识社会学这一总体目标背景下的个案研究。它分析了构建专业政治行为者安全政策的解释模式。构成部分研究2(“公共媒体话语中的安全政策和在恐怖主义时期(恐惧)时的复原力”)与这一分析有系统地相互联系，目的仍然是从知识社会学的角度调查公共媒体在反恐背景下关于安全政策的话语。这两项研究共同构成了关于复原力的社会学理论工作的一个组成部分，并有助于发展关于复原力这一社会自我知觉概念的总体知识社会学。因此，它们与项目(“复原力理论”)密切相关，并有助于勾勒出整个研究小组的社会建构主义方法。研究组的理论和概念分析与知识社会学反思之间的系统联系，将从两个方面促进对社会建构主义探索的历史性的方法论认识：一是关于经验-历史调查，二是关于研究组的理论和比较类型学努力。

The current resilience discourse ties in with contemporary discussions on societal scenarios of insecurity, paradigmatically reflected in the (fear of) terrorist threats to ('western') societies. It is the overall aim of the project to comprehensively analyze the discussions on these societal scenarios of insecurity with regard to their resilience-analytical contours and potentials. A twofold empirical approach will be employed: On the one hand the field of security policy will be analyzed, in continuation and extension of the knowledge-sociological study in the first funding phase. On the other hand, the interpretative patterns, which serve as guiding ideas of security in policies and practices in the context of counterterrorism, will be investigated with the aid of the analytical dimensions developed by the research group, of resilience strategies, resilience dispositions, and resilience resources. The project consists of two complementary studies. Component study 1 ('Resilience as a concept of societal self-perception in the field of security policy') aims at a case study in the context of the overarching objective to develop a sociology of knowledge with regard to resilience. It analyzes the interpretative patterns which structure the security policies of professional political actors. Component study 2 ('Security policy and resilience in times of (fear of) terrorism in public-media discourse') is systematically interrelated with this analysis and aims - again in a knowledge-sociological perspective - at an investigation of the public-media discourse on security policies in the context of counterterrorism. Both studies together constitute an integral element in the sociological theoretical work on resilience and contribute to the development of an overarching sociology of knowledge with regard to resilience as a concept of societal self-perception. They are thus closely related to the project ('Theory of Resilience') and help to contour the social-constructionist approach of the research group as a whole. The systematic linkage between theoretical and conceptual analyses of the research group on the one hand and knowledge-sociological reflections on the other will facilitate the methodological awareness to the historicity of social-constructionist explorations in a twofold manner: with regard to empirical-historical investigations as well as with respect to the theoretical and comparative-typological endeavours of the research group.