Research Projects
Research Approach: Civic Constitutionalism. Constitution and Basis of Democratic Gender Relations in Europe.
The research approach aims to analyze the continued existence and the transition of gender identities, cultures and framework of social actions in European societies, both in response to the institutionalization of new power relations and in their establishment by means of new forms of governance. more information...
Research Focus I: Re-Defining the Public.
The project makes the transformation of the public sphere the subject of its interdisciplinary research. The title Re-Defining the Public predefines a common basic orientation for the collaboration of various disciplines: to examine the changes in the public sphere with regard to whether the increasing visibility of women in the public sphere is synonymous with a new coinage of the public sphere. more information...
Research Focus II: Discourses and Practices of the Authoritarian | Gender Relations in Authoritarian and Hybrid Regimes.
Against the backdrop of an expansion of the research on autocracy in terms of gender, the research focuses on the systematic analysis of the connection between autocracies and the establishment and constitution of gender relations as social power relations from a theoretical and an empirical view. more information...
The subject of interest in this research project is aimed first and foremost at the effects of the restructuring of gainful employment, reproduction, international and gender-specific division of labor and the concomitant social paradigms and political compromises for the situation of women in the European labor market. more information...