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Promotionsprojekte 

Cluster Transformation und Demokratie 

  • Philipp König: Nationale und europäische Identifikationsformen und ihre Determinanten 

    Betreuung: Prof. Dr. Bettina Westle

  • Daniel Ruttloff: Linkage and Dark Participation – Wie binden Parteien ihre Wähler:innen

    Das PhD-Projekt handelt über die Forschung über das Verhältnis von Politik und Gesellschaft, während dieses von Disruptiven Strategien gestört wird. Vermutet hierbei wird ein Zyklus, welcher als Linkage-Disruption-Cycle bezeichnet werden soll.

    Die Schwächung der Linkage dient dabei als Ausganspunkt dieses Modells. Durch die Schwächung der Linkage gibt es dabei Ansatzpunkte für die Verwendung von Disruptiven Strategien durch populistische Akteure (Rösel & Samartzidis, 2018, S. 13). Als Ziel dieser Strategien kann die weitere Schwächung der Linkage zu den demokratischen Parteien gesehen werden. Als Folge der Verwendung von Disruptiven Strategien und der Schwächung der Linkage kann es zu einer Verbreitung von Verschwörungsnarrativen kommen. Strategien der Parteien zur Linkageherstellung werden benötigt für ein Durchbrechen dieses Kreislaufes. Ein Versagen der Parteien würde zu einer Stagnation oder weiteren Schwächung der Linkage führen. An diesem Punkt bieten sich dann wieder neue Angriffsflächen für Populistische Akteure und Disruptive Strategien. Eine Stärkung der Linkage hingegen würde zu einer Stärkung der Resilienz gegenüber Desinformationen und Populismen führen (Rotte, 2022). Wenngleich in der Realität dies den Kreislauf nicht durchbrechen und auflösen mag so ist die erste Konstruktion eines vereinfachten Zyklus ein erster wichtiger Schritt zur Darstellung des Verhältnisses von Linkage und Disruptiven Strategien.

    Betreuung: Prof. Dr. Isabelle Borucki

Cluster Globale Ordnungen, Globale Differenzen 

  • Clara Fechtner: Unfolding (re-)spatialization processes at the interface of humanitarian, commercial, and military practices in Djibouti

    Clara’s PhD project focuses on questions of space, spatiality and (re)spatialization processes in the context of - and their implications for - different facets of global politics. The project examines the theoretical, epistemological, and analytical significance of nuanced spatial perspectives for the discipline of International Relations (IR), as well as socio-material manifestations of 'spatial political interests'. Using the example of humanitarian infrastructural spatial planning in Djibouti by state and non-state local and extra-territorial actors and by bringing interdisciplinary approaches to space into conversation with infrastructure research and critical logistics literature, an infrastructural approach is designed to examine how humanitarian politics, multimodal transport infrastructure and related military and commercial logistics networks produce spatial configurations that reveal contemporary forms of globalization.

    Betreuung: Prof. Dr. Hubert Zimmermann

  • Matthias van der Minde: Entstehungsbedingungen von nuklearen Abrüstungsregimen

    Why and how have superpower leaders and diplomats agreed on reducing nuclear weapons stockpiles? In the language of political science, how have nuclear disarmament regimes evolved? The research project (German title "Entstehungsbedingungen von nuklearen Abrüstungsregimen") aims at identifying reasons for the evolution of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (case study 1) and the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty regimes (case study 2) – using the perspectives of three different theories (of “medium range”) of International Relations: neoclassical Realism (author of reference: Joseph M. Grieco), liber-al/institutionalist thought (Oran R. Young/Gail Osherenko), and (“weak”) Constructivism (Judith Gold-stein/Robert O. Keohane/Peter M. Haas). Each branch of theory formulates different hypotheses about the emergence of treaty regimes, introduces different terminology and variables, and presumes different social contexts in which treaty formation succeeds or fails. The researcher will apply these hypotheses and theoretical assumptions to the case studies and (qualitatively) analyse and compare their ranges of validity. For further theoretical insights, case study 3 will cover a time period in which no disarmament regime has emerged (“non-case”). In order to compose the case studies, process tracing will be entertained; empirical research will primarily comprise document analysis and oral history, based on newly accessible U.S. and Russian archive material.

    Betreuung: Prof. Dr. Hubert Zimmermann

  • Ngeti Zwane: The Securitization of Migration: investigating the EU’s migration strategies towards sub-Saharan Africa following the migration crisis and the impact on their mutual development relations

    Migration continues to be one of the most controversial issues and critical subject matter in European politics and external action, as can be seen in the recent re-emergence of dominant narratives of security in migration governance, where states continually construct it as a matter of state concern: the securitization of migration. The security discourse in the EU’s migration management gained momentum following the events of the migration crisis as a reaction to the large influx of third-country migration into European shores. Sub-Saharan Africa, albeit a distant neighbour to Europe, continues to be given prominence in the EU’s external initiatives and cooperation frameworks on issues of migration and mobility. The research study is a critical assessment of the securitization processes in the EU’s migration management and specifically investigates the strategic changes that followed the EU’s newly securitized EU Agenda on Migration with countries of origin and transit to ‘manage migration, and save lives. It essentially proposes that the articulation of migration as an existential threat and matter of utmost importance (emergency crisis) resulted in the recent interventions and strategic shifts in EU development cooperation strategies with Africa to now confront the ‘root causes of irregular migration’ (European Commission 2016). The root-cause response strategies that sees the instrumentalization of EU-Africa development cooperation to address the ongoing migration challenges is central to the investigation, which also facilitates the understanding of the EU’s interpretation of the nexus between security-and-development that is at the core of the EU’s root-cause response strategies in sub-Saharan Africa.

    Betreuung: Prof. Dr. Hubert Zimmermann
    Gefördert durch: DAAD

  • Andi Akhmad Basith Dir: Forest in Far East: A Study of Indonesian Perception towards the European Union

    The project concerns with the topic of External Europeanization and wishes to understand why external states appeal to support and accept EU policies in their countries even though they are not conditioned or obliged by their interests or collaboration with the EU to do so. In that regard, the project designates Appropriateness - manifested in norms or collective understanding - as an important variable having the potential of inducing acceptance towards EU policies. Using this line of assumption, the project will focus on the case of Indonesian policy makers' decision in accepting and transposing an EU-based timber policy namely the FLEGT-VPA agreement into Indonesian domestic regulation, and will investigate the extent to which Indonesian policy makers’ positive perception of the EU has contributed towards that acceptance and transposition. Image, Belief and Perception will be the three primary cognitive frameworks used to analyze the policy makers’ perception of the EU. This research is looking forward to expanding discussion on the already existing intersection between External Europeanization and normative spectrum, and is hopeful to contribute to the study of Indonesia’s relations with the EU, with a fresh stint that incorporates the notion of cognition in politics and IR.

    Betreuung: Prof. Dr. Hubert Zimmermann
    Gefördert durch: DAAD

Cluster Macht und Herrschaft 

  • Philipp Klingler: Demokratiebildung in der Schule: Professionsbezogene Überzeugungen von Lehrer*innen

    Oskar Negt stellt heraus, dass Demokratie nicht nur „die anstrengendste und verletzlichste Gesellschaftsordnung“ (Negt, 2016, S. 511), sondern auch die „einzige staatliche verfasste Gesellschaftsordnung, die in ständig erneuter Kraftanstrengung gelernt werden muss“ (Negt, 2016, S. 520), ist. Der „Schule kommt […] als Ort der demokratischen Wissensvermittlung und gleichzeitig als demokratischer Erfahrungsraum eine hohe Verantwortung zu. Schule muss ein Ort sein, an dem demokratische und menschenrechtliche Werte und Normen gelebt, vorgelebt und gelernt werden.“ (KMK, 2018, S. 3)

    Demokratiebildung stellt sich im Diskurs als facettenreiches, aber unterspezifiziertes Konzept heraus. Unklar ist bislang, welche Bedeutung den Lehrer*innen und der Lehrerbildung zukommen. Hieran knüpft die qualitative, leitfadengestützte Interviewstudie (Helfferich, 2010) mit Lehrkräften an. Die Auswertung erfolgt entlang der Grounded-Theory-Methodologie (Glaser & Strauss, 1967), mit dem Ziel, die subjektiven und kollektiv geteilten Überzeugungen (Reusser & Pauli, 2014) bezogen auf Demokratiebildung als professionelles Aufgabenfeld herauszuarbeiten und so zur Konkretisierung des Konzepts unter Einschluss dieser Akteursperspektive beizutragen.

    Betreuung: Prof. Dr. Susann Gessner, Prof. Dr. Sabine Achour

  • Nils Strecker: Political output inequality in local politics – An analysis of budget allocation in German municipalities

    Local differences in wealth and income often are very stark and easily visible. Indeed, their prevalence is hardly a secret. Nearly everybody can instantly name the “good” and “bad” neighborhoods of the place they live in. Yet there is very little research on political inequality on the local level, especially outside the United States. In his PhD project, Nils aims to close this research gap by analyzing public investments of German municipalities. The overall goal of the project is to better our understanding of local distributive politics, both in terms of allocative results and the (political) process to get there. The results will contribute to answer questions like: Who do local governments spend their money on? Do certain socioeconomic groups benefit disproportionately? How does the decision-making process go? The empirical strategy largely consists of quantitative methods, especially (spatial) regression analysis. In addition, to get a deeper understanding of specific processes, Nils is going to conduct qualitative interviews, as well.

    Betreuung: Miquel Pellicer Gallardo

  • Tarek Shukrallah: Global Capitalism, Local Intersections: LGBTQ* in Tunisia between precarity and resistance

    Das Dissertationsvorhaben beschäftigt sich mit den intersektionalen Lebensrealitäten queerer Menschen in Tunesien. Dabei nimmt es aktivistische Perspektiven in den Fokus, und betrachtet politische Praxen im Umgang mit den Folgen von neokolonialen Austeritätspolitiken und ökonomischer Krise, fortdauernder Kriminalisierung und einer autoritären Wende in der Politik. Ein besonderes Augenmerk liegt dabei in der Auseinandersetzung mit Sexualpolitiken von Grenzregimen und der Inwertsetzung von Ein- oder Ausschlüssen queerer Menschen aus den Anrufungen von nationalen und supranationalen Identitäten. Das Projekt knüpft theoretisch insbesondere an dekoloniale Debatten, materialistische Intersektionalitätstheorien und Queer of Color Critique an. Es handelt sich um eine an Grounded Theory Methodology anschließende Situationsanalyse nach Adele Clarke, die durch kritische Theorien erweitert wird. Die Datenerhebung erfolgt anhand von Interviews und ethnographischen Methoden. Im Oktober 2023 hat die insgesamt etwas über einjährige Erhebungsphase begonnen. Das Projekt ist Teil des durch die gewerkschaftsnahe Hans-Böckler-Stiftung an der Universität Bayreuth in Kooperation mit der Philipps-Universität Marburg und der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen geförderten Promotionskollegs für Intersektionalitätsstudien. Darüber hinaus findet eine enge Kooperation mit dem Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb statt. Tarek Shukrallah ist Mitglied des Zentrums für Genderstudies und feministische Zukunftsforschung, dem Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung und in der Themengruppe Queer-feministische Politikwissenschaft und LGBTIQ+-Studies der DVPW. 

    Betreuung:  Prof. Dr. Annette Henninger
    Gefördert durch: Hans Böckler Stiftung

  • Philipp-Niklas Habbel: Technik, Geschlecht und Gesellschaft aus posthumanistischer Perspektive

    Gefördert mit einem Stipendium der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
    Betreuung: Prof. Dr. Annette Henninger

  • Dunja Adigüzel: Frauenbewegung im 21. Jahrhundert – Achtung und Respekt unter Frauen als Stolpersteine für eine neue Protestwelle

    Betreuung: Prof. Dr. Annette Henninger

  • Dina Zabaneh: How applicable are current labour market approaches to Arab Mediterranean countries and how can they be adapted to contribute to better policies and a more practical sustainable future?

    The research investigates the applicability or lack thereof of current labour market approaches to Arab Mediterranean countries, and how they can be adapted to enhance labour market policy reforms. Where the main aim is finding practical and more sustainable approaches to the labour markets. This entails three phases. The first phase assesses the dysfunctionalities, rigidities, and their causes in the labour markets in question, focusing specifically on women and youth. Its setoffs to determine that there are three main causalities that are leading to the malfunctions, and these are imitative capitalism, rent seeking, and patriarchy. From here, the assessment goes further into the gaps and underlying causalities of policy reforms, and targeted local and international assistance projects. This phase builds on the main causalities, and reflects that due to these systems, among other characteristics in the region the neoclassical approaches that are used to implement policy reforms are rendered unrealistic. Thus, enters the third phase, whereby the applicability of the neoclassical theories is questioned, through assessing how the underlying theoretical perspective has led to gaps in labour market policies. Concluding that different labour market theories are required, stemming from a heterodox feminist and socio-economic approaches. 

    Betreuung: Prof. Dr. Annette Henninger

  • Gülten Gizem Fesli: Labor Union Strategies To Organize Transnational Care Workers in Germany and the USA 

    My dissertation, Trade Union Organizing of Transnational Care Workers in Germany and the USA, takes a migrant-centered approach to examine strategies employed by trade unions in organizing transnational domestic care workers in Germany and the USA, spanning from the late 20th century to the present. Through expert and narrative interviews with organizers and transnational domestic care workers, I pay specific attention to intersectional dimensions such as race and gender. The objective of the dissertation is to conduct interviews to explore the unionization of transnational care workers in Germany, and to draw lessons from successful organizing strategies implemented in the USA. I want to analyze strategies developed and utilized by US-American trade unions, such as the Domestic Workers Union (DWU), to organize migrant domestic workers, and their potential application in Germany. My project utilizes the power resource approach to analyze the resources available to trade unions and transnational care workers, despite their precarious working and living conditions.

    Betreuung: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Artus
    Gefördert durch: Hans Böckler Stiftung