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SFB 1171:  Affective Societies: Dynamics of Social Coexistence in Mobile Worlds

Subject Area Social and Behavioural Sciences
Humanities
Term since 2015
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Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 258523721
 
The collaborative research center (CRC) 1171 Affective Societies studies affect and emotion as crucial factors of coexistence in 21st century societies. The center’s main aim is to build a new understanding of societies that gives due weight to the crucial significance of affect and emotion. Since 2015, the CRC has worked to develop an empirically grounded theory of affective relationality, which has since become a focal reference point in international emotion and affect research within the social sciences, cultural studies, and the humanities. In its current second funding phase, which began in 2019, the CRC has investigated the dynamics of institutional stability and change in fields such as politics, media, education, religion and the arts. Current global crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the escalating climate crisis all support the assumption of the CRC that social, political, and ecological transformations and their concomitant conflicts are characteristic of the global present. Besides the personal harm these events have caused, they have also kindled massive fears and insecurities and have shattered people’s trust. In view of these developments, questions concerning future modes of social coexistence become particularly pressing. Based upon its earlier findings, the CRC Affective Societies proposes to study the affective and emotional dynamics of present day conflicts concerning the constitution of societies and modes of social life. Affect and emotion not only shape, sustain, and shift these conflicts, we recognize that they are increasingly a source of conflict and contestation themselves.Two key questions will guide our future research: In what ways are conflicts about different forms of social coexistence impacted by diverging modes of affectivity and repertoires of emotion? Where and in what manner do affects and emotions themselves become contested in disputes about visions and anticipations for contemporary societies? By answering these questions, we aim to develop a sharpened understanding of the affective and emotional dynamics of social conflicts, the actors involved in them, and the various orientations, lifeforms and identities which are at stake. Of particular interest are those ideas and impulses that anticipate future forms of social life and organization. Researchers from nine disciplines within the social sciences, cultural studies, and the humanities will tackle these topics in eleven subprojects, which are clustered into three thematic areas: mobilizing, negotiating and averting. A new central project for critical reflection (TP R) and the well-established Theory and Methods Workshop will ensure high-quality interdisciplinary research. The new subproject Public Engagement (TP Ö) will disseminate the CRC’s results to the broader public by way of several innovative formats.
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Applicant Institution Freie Universität Berlin
 
 

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