300102 Forschungskolloquium "Belonging; Politics, Rhetoric, Ritualisation" (Ko) (WiSe 2006/2007)

At the very centre of this seminar will be the under-explored notion of belonging. Over the last two decades social science research has strongly concentrated upon processes of identity formation. Besides, numerous studies have explored the shifting patterns of governance and politics. Curiously however, the interrelations between people-centred notions of commonality and mutuality, on one hand, and the externally imposed patterns of domicance, allegiance and odering, on the other hand, have been neglected so far. However, only by acknowledging this tension, the multi-faceted notion of belonging can be adequately grasped.

These reconfiguations will be narrated and discussed by external speakers, mostly social anthropologists.