Securitisation and Discourses on the Rights of Minorities in Central Europe during the in 19th and 20th century (A06)

• Subject Area: Modern and Contemporary History
• Term: since 2014
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 227068724

The sub-project analyses the interactions between ideas of security and language policies and measures in a phase of dynamic industrialisation and urbanisation. Using the example of three East Central European industrial cities (Pilsen, Drohobych, Lodz), it asks how and by whom urban linguistic diversity was securitised between 1860 and 1918. In doing so, the project examines debates about language law and language justice on the ground and aims to contribute to an understanding of the interactions of cultural differentiation and intersectionality of social categories in the process of securitisation and their contribution to identity formation.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 138: Dynamics of Security. Processes of Securitization in historical perspective
• Applicant Institution: Philipps-Universität Marburg
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Hans-Jürgen Bömelburg, since 1/2022; Professor Dr. Peter Haslinger; Privatdozentin Dr. Heidi Hein-Kircher