Confronting European pasts in the present: theoretical reflections and methodological approaches to researching formations of ‘race’ and whiteness
Conference of the Section “Migration and ethnic minorities” of the German Sociological Association (DGS)
Organizers: Christine Barwick-Gross & Christy Kulz
Place: Technical University Berlin, Institute for Sociology, Room FH 804, Fraunhoferstraße 33-36, 10587 Berlin, U Bahn Ernst Reuter Platz (U2)
The conference is hosted in collaboration with the SFB 1265 Refiguration of Spaces and supported by the Volkswagen Foundation. Attendance is free, but please register at sektionMueM@gmx.de.
Over the past decade activist movements have ‘forced’ societies across the Global North to actively reflect on how colonialism, racism and whiteness shape both institutional and material structures, and everyday affective encounters. This conference invites a dialogue around what theoretical and methodological lenses we use to study ‘race’ and whiteness in societies across the Global North and South, and what sort of knowledge of the social world our approaches either generate or obscure. This connects to how ‘race’ is produced through a continuous, yet differentially regulated flow of persons, knowledge and materials between the Global South and North.
This workshop, organized by the project B02 "Control/Space" at the Collaborative Research Center 1265 at TU Berlin, explores different spatial changes and dynamics of the Internet infrastructure using the notion of refiguration, which presents a concept of tensions between four key spatial figures and spatial logics: the place, the territory, the network, and the route. […]
Dr. Thomas Dörfler, social geographer at the University of Jena, is engaged in interdisciplinary research on social space, urban-rural differences and methodologies. Projects on atmospheres, (rural) gentrification and socio-spatial milieus; interim professor at Heidelberg University (2021–22) and RUB Bochum (2014–16). Prof. Dr. Eberhard Rothfuß has the Chair of Social and Population Geography at the University […]
