Beyond Racial Discrimination: ‘Backwardness’ and ‘Indigenous Peoples’ (E03 [B06])

• Subject Area: Public Law
• Term: from 2017 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 317664947

This subproject is exploring the built-in limitations of legal norms prohibiting racial discrimination. The norms under investigation do not rule out the preservation of special rights for certain classes of people, even when the relevant classification draws on racial characteristics. We shall examine the premise that these limitations are driven significantly by stabilized and routinized practices of comparing that may, and indeed do, change over time. We also want to theorize concepts of equality, in particular from the perspective of universalism: how are we to frame ‘universalism’, and how do we relate universalistic and particularistic concepts of equality?

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1288: Practices of comparisons: Ordering and changing the world
• Applicant Institution: Universität Bielefeld
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Ulrike Davy