Cultures of Rejection: Conditions of Acceptability in Socio-Spatial and Digital Environments in Contemporary Europe [CuRe]

Abstract

CuRe gathers five research teams from Austria, Croatia, Germany, Serbia and Sweden. Its goal is to understand the recshift in everyday life towards polarization and radicalization, and the successes of right-wing movements and parties in Europe. We start from the premise that cultures of rejection emerge as the result of crises in Europe’s democracies, as well as due to changes in national institutions and civil society. Since rejection is a threat to all forms of social cohesion and peaceful coexistence, the project seeks to study the conditions that have led to the rejection of, among else, immigration, political elites, media and cultural values such as gender equality and sexual liberty.

Specifically, the research focuses on the way economic and technological changes impact employees in logistics and sales, and in which way employees ascribe any particular meaning to these changes.

The researchers assess the situation along the 2015 migration route across Sweden, Germany, Austria, Croatia and Serbia, thoroughly examining work places, digital and socio-spatial environments in interviews and ethnographic fieldwork.

Project web page: http://www.culturesofrejection.net/

Keywords

Citizenship, Populism, Work, Culture, Crisis

Publications

CuRe Research Team (2021) Cultures of rejection in the Covid-19 crisis. Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Bojanic, Sanja (2019) Retorica dell’emancipazione vs. retorica della misoginia. Pensare la violenza con Judith Butler. Aut aut, 384 (2019), 43-57.

Bojadžijev, Manuela (2019) Die Logistik der Migration. Ethnographische und epistemische Perspektiven. In: Johler, R. und Lange, J. (Hg.): Konfliktfeld Flucht Migration. Historische und ethnographische Perspektiven“. Münster: Transkript.

Jonsson, Stefan (2020) A society which is not: Political emergence and migrant agency. Current Sociology, 68 (2), 204–222.

Opratko, Benjamin (2019) Devils from our past: liberal Islamophobia in Austria as historicist racism. Ethnic and Racial Studies 42(16), 159-176.

Sauer, Birgit and Birte Siim (2019) Inclusive Political Intersections of Migration, Race, Gender and Sexuality – The Cases of Austria and Denmark. NORA – Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research.

Gazela Pudar Draško and Petar Bojani? (2019) Che cos’è la polizia? L’istituzione della violenza universale e la violenza dell’universale, Aut Aut, 94–112.

Neergaard, Anders & Dahlstedt, Magnus (2019) Crisis of Solidarity? Changing Welfare and Migration Regimes in Sweden. Critical Sociology, 45(1), 121–135.

Opratko, Benjamin (2020) Die Kultur der Ablehnung. Tagebuch, 16-18.