In this research area, we examine how the production of particular spaces is intertwined with specific politics and with the (re-)production of social differentiations and identities.
Research projects address, for example, processes of the “religionisation” of municipal integration policies and related questions of integration and identity, issues of migration and identity, as well as the fundamental challenges that planetary environmental crises pose to the self-description and organisation of modern societies.
In recent projects, we investigate how responsibility, justice and rights are being spatially reorganised under conditions of planetary environmental crises and digital transformation. From the perspective of cultural and political geography, we ask where human rights become effective, how responsibility is attributed across territorial boundaries, and what conflicts around belonging, protection and participation emerge as a result.