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    Participedia A Global Partnership to Create and Mobilize Knowledge about Democratic Innovations

    Participedia harnesses the power of collaboration to respond to a recent global phenomenon: the rapid development of experiments in new forms of participatory politics and governance around the world. We…

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    PhD Project: Awards for Democracy? The Adolf Grimme Prize, Education and the Market in West-German Television, 1964-2000

    The television age began with high hopes. The new leading medium was supposed to serve democratisation, and nowhere was this claim reflected more than in the Adolf Grimme Prize. Endowed…

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    PhD Project: Awards for Democracy? The Adolf Grimme Prize, Education and the Market in West-German Television, 1964-2000

    The television age began with high hopes. The new leading medium was supposed to serve democratisation, and nowhere was this claim reflected more than in the Adolf Grimme Prize. Endowed…

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    PhD Project: History in Motion 'Vordenker der Vernichtung' and the History of Nazism and Holocaust Research, 1977–1998

    With the epochal shift in 1989/91, the historiography of Nazism and the Holocaust changed fundamentally. The 1991 study Vordenker der Vernichtung (Architects of Annihilation, 2002) was published at precisely this…

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    Phd project: Persistent Apparatuses On the Relationship between Skin Colour and Digital Photographic Technology

    Skin colour and its social implications are particularly relevant to political questions in the “Melanin Millennium” (Hall, Russel, Wilson). Photographic images have played and continue to play a significant role…

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    PhD: Opposition Experiences Housing Policy and Social Democratic Renewal in Germany and Great Britain, 1979-1998

    During their time in opposition from 1979/82 to 1997/98, British and German social democracy underwent fundamental changes. Initially, the Labour Party and the SPD could still be regarded as the…

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    PlasticBudget Development of Budget Approach and LCA Impact Assessment Methodology for the Governance of Plastic in the Environment

    **SINCE 01.07.2019 THE TEAM OF DR. STEVEN ENGLER RESEARCHES AT THE FACULTY OF GEOSCIENCES OF THE RUHR-UNIVERSITY BOCHUM**. In order to legitimise political decisions on the plastic litter problem, it…

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    Qualitative Methods Transfer of Methods

    The KWI holds a new service, since the placement for method transfers was established in July 2018. The goal of this placement is to facilitate the scientific research practice at…

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    Rhine Ruhr Center for Science Communication Research Practicing Judgement in Times of a Crisis of Truth

    "Alternative facts", conspiracy theories or science denial – they are all symptoms of a crisis of truth marked by more complex forms of relativism, a loss of trust and science…

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    Styles of Life 2.0 On the Genesis and Structure of Lateral Sociation

    F. Tenbruck’s concept of lateral sociation (querläufige Vergesellschaftung) refers to the sociological possibility and probability that manifold sociation processes have, in all likelihood throughout history, been a feature of existing…

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    That Was It Practices and Aesthetics of Coming to an End

    Context for the project “That Was It:  Practices and Aesthetics of Stopping” comes from the societal and aesthetic problematics of closing, stopping, and ending that have been part of the…

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    The communicative construction of ‘pathological’ gambling A sociology of knowledge approach to the parliamentary discourse on gambling addiction in the Federal Republic of Germany

    The project aims at reconstructing the ongoing process of communicative construction of excessive gambling as an ‘addiction’ – thus as a treatable and manageable ‘disease’. The study will examine the…

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    The Essay in Cultural Studies / The Essay as Form and Practice

    The essay form plays a central role in my work – as an object of poetological, literary, and theoretical reflection (for example, in seminars at Goethe University Frankfurt, 2016; Ruhr…

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    The importance and impact of social science research in the development of the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) in Greece A sociology of knowledge, practice-oriented research approach to evaluate and increase the innovation potential of the SSE

    The planned praxis-oriented project focuses on the thematic field of the social impact and innovation potential of the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) and in particular on how these relate…

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    Tied Pictures: The Visual Plural in the Photobook

    A picture rarely stands alone. While this is obvious in contexts like the internet, film, and magazines, art history has long struggled to move beyond the formula one work = one…

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    Visual Languages of Influencers An image-hermeneutic exploration with the means of visual sociology of knowledge

    One of the most impressive developments in the realm of contemporary platform-based internet visual cultures is without doubt the rapid ascendancy and powerful communicative presence of influencer. This social figure…