Coordination Fund: "Law – Gender – Collectivity: The contested General and the new Common"

In the second funding phase of the research group, the focus is again on processes of the co-constitution of law, gender, and collectivity in late-modern societies. All projects will focus on conflict-producing negotiations of the General, and on practices and imaginations of the Common. We grasp these as real-world experiments in which new forms of social solidarity and cohesion are explored. We anticipate that something becomes visible here that distinctively distinguishes the otherwise disjointed sense of the social-present: Experiences of the lost or uniquely questioned General encounter hopes for establishing a new, less abstract Common, and for finding new spaces of the Shared. In the coordination project, the research of all projects will be brought together and examined in an overarching way, which answers are found in these processes to questions about the General and the Common and how these can be located genealogically.