Universität Wien

080070 VU B220 Selected Field of Research: Understanding everyday conflicts. (2021W)

Ethnographical research on social climate

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 8 - Kunstgeschichte und Europäische Ethnologie
Continuous assessment of course work
REMOTE
Moodle

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Details

max. 30 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Due to the current Covid19 pandemic, the course will be held digitally. You will find an access link in the moodle course of the event. Should the situation change, the course management reserves the right to switch to face-to-face teaching. The examination requirements will remain the same in all cases.

  • Wednesday 06.10. 09:15 - 10:45 Digital
  • Wednesday 13.10. 09:15 - 10:45 Digital
  • Wednesday 20.10. 09:15 - 10:45 Digital
  • Wednesday 27.10. 09:15 - 10:45 Digital
  • Wednesday 03.11. 09:15 - 10:45 Digital
  • Wednesday 10.11. 09:15 - 10:45 Digital
  • Wednesday 17.11. 09:15 - 10:45 Digital
  • Wednesday 24.11. 09:15 - 10:45 Digital
  • Wednesday 01.12. 09:15 - 10:45 Digital
  • Wednesday 15.12. 09:15 - 10:45 Digital
  • Wednesday 12.01. 09:15 - 10:45 Digital
  • Wednesday 19.01. 09:15 - 10:45 Digital
  • Wednesday 26.01. 09:15 - 10:45 Digital

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Conflicts are part of everyday urban life. Be it the use of public space or disputes in the residential environment, social coexistence is constantly negotiated in neighborhoods. And in this context - a (hypo)thesis to be discussed in the seminar - major social and political issues shape the argumentations, images, fears and stereotypes that are conveyed and processed on a "small scale". In this respect, the seminar moves between socio-political issues and their negotiation in microstructural fields. This is followed by the question of how a "social climate" is formed in it and how this can be analyzed.

By means of preparatory reading of specialized texts on urban and everyday culture research, current (disciplinary) debates on "uncomfortable" research fields and partners, as well as the relevance of cultural studies research, we will develop perspectives on current social developments and possibilities of their ethnographic exploration. To this end, we will explore approaches to urban everyday life, fundamental methodological considerations in the discourse of the discipline, and the role of empirical cultural studies in socio-political negotiations. In doing so, we will alternate between theoretical and conceptual discussions and empirical insights into concrete research. A prerequisite for the discussion in the seminar is also the reading of English-language academic texts.

Seminar participants will gain insight into ongoing research projects and their challenges. By means of inputs from the course instructor, discussions in the plenum as well as in small groups, the various topics will be dealt with using various didactic methods of digital teaching. The basis for this are (group) presentations or lesson designs by the students or reading notes on the given texts. In an empirical exercise, the students also develop their own initial research questions and approaches in current social fields. The seminar is conceived as a space for thought and discussion, in which no final theses are presented, but rather a lively reflection and questioning of all parts of a research process forms the basis.

Assessment and permitted materials

The course is immanent to the examination. (Attendance compulsory, 2 x absences allowed).

Points will be awarded as follows:
40 points: written homework
30 points: (Group) presentation / lesson design or 3x Reading notes à 10 points.
30 points: Active participation, text reading and discussion

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

The requirements of the seminar include the reading of texts and active participation in the seminar, an presentation in the form of a (group) paper or three reading notes distributed over the semester on the given texts, as well as the independent written preparation of a small empirical exercise.

For the successful completion of the course at least 50 out of 100 possible points have to be achieved.
Grading scale:
= > 87.5 very good (1)
= > 75 good (2)
= > 62,5 satisfactory (3)
= > 50 sufficient (4)
< 50 not sufficient (5)

Examination topics

Active participation, text reading and participation in the discussion is the basis for successful completion of the seminar.

The lesson design in the form of a (group) presentation or three reading notes reflect the given texts and raise discussion and comprehension questions.

The written final paper in the sense of an empirical exercise includes the development of an own topic with field access, a research question and the reflection on the contents of the course.

Reading list

Bangstad, Sindre (2017): Doing Fieldwork among People We Don't (Necessarily) Like. In: Anthropology News 58/4, 238-243.

Becker, Franziska (2018): Erhebung der Konflikte im hinteren Bereich des Leopoldplatzes (Maxplatz) mit Handlungsempfehlungen. Eine ethnographische Analyse. http://www.ethnologie-mediation.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Endbericht-Maxplatz_final_Franziska-Becker_20-01-2018.pdf.

Bescherer, Peter; Burkhardt, Anne; Feustel, Robert; Mackenroth, Gisela; Sievi, Luzia (2019): Antiurbane Utopien. Die Stadt im Diskurs der Rechten. Forschungsprojekt PODESTA. Populismus und Demokratie in der Stadt - Working Paper 2. Online verfügbar unter http://podesta-projekt.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/2019_06_21_WP2-Antiurbane-Utopien-webversion.pdf.

Brockhaus, Gudrun (2018): Erosion von Struktur und Gewissheit. Zur politischen Psychologie des gesellschaftlichen Klimawandels. In: Gruppenpsychotherapie und Gruppendynamik 54, 272-292.

Dümling, Sebastian (2020): Changing Societies, Changing Narratives. Wie man über gesellschaftlichen Wandel spricht und verstanden wird. In: ZfVK 116 (1), S. 46–66. DOI: 10.31244/zfvk/2020/01.04.

Heimerdinger, Timo; Näser-Lather, Marion (2019): Einführung: Gute Themen, schlechte Themen. In dies. (Hg.): Wie kann man nur dazu forschen? Themenpolitik in der Europäischen Ethnologie. Wien: Selbstverlag des Vereins für Volkskunde (Buchreihe der Österreichischen Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, Neue Serie, Band 29).

Kramer, Dieter (2006): Lokaler Alltag und globale Probleme. Die Wissenschaft von der Kultur des Alltags der Vielen und die Politik. In: Olaf Bockhorn / Margot Schindler / Christian Stadelmann (Hg.), Alltagskulturen. Forschungen und Dokumentationen zu österreichischen Alltagen seit 1945. Wien: Selbstverl. des Vereins für Volkskunde, 35–59.

Lange, Jan/Liebig, Manuel (2019): "Wir haben schon genug Probleme hier". Konflikte um städtische Transformation und den Zuzug von Geflüchteten. In: Johler, Reinhard/Lange, Jan (Hg.): Konfliktfeld Fluchtmigration. Historische und ethnographische Perspektiven. Bielefeld, 139-154.

Lindner, Rolf (1981): Die Angst des Forschers vor dem Feld. Überlegungen zur teilnehmenden Beobachtung als Interaktionsprozeß. In: Zeitschrift für Volkskunde 77/I. Halbjahresband, 51–64.

Mepschen, Paul (2016): The Culturalization of Everyday Life. Autochthony in Amsterdam New West. In: Jan Willem Duyvendak und Evelien Tonkens (Hg.): The Culturalization of Citizenship. Belonging and Polarization in a Globalizing World, Bd. 19. London: Palgrave Macmillan, S. 73–96.

Mückler, Hermann (2014): Konflikt und Konflikthaftigkeit - ambivalente Kategorien. Grundsätzliche kultur- und sozialanthropologische Annäherungen. In: Walter Feichtinger, Hermann Mückler, Gerald Hainzl und Predrag Jurekovič (Hg.): Wege und Irrwege des Krisenmanagements. Von Afghanistan bis Südsudan. Wien, Köln, Weimar: Böhlau (Internationale Sicherheit und Konfliktmanagement, Bd. 7), S. 39–66.

Sutter, Ove (2016): Alltagsverstand. Zu einem hegemonietheoretischen Verständnis alltäglicher Sichtweisen und Deutungen. In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde 1+2, 41–70.

Warneken, Bernd Jürgen (2019): Rechts liegen lassen? Über das europäisch-ethnologische Desinteresse an der Lebenssituation nichtmigrantischer Unter- und Mittelschichten. In: Timo Heimerdinger / Marion Näser-Lather (Hg.), Wie kann man nur dazu forschen? Themenpolitik in der Europäischen Ethnologie. Wien, 117–130.

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