About us
The Chair of Sociology: Security and Resilience explores security and resilience as fundamental sociological concepts in the context of a rise of authoritarian politics and the destruction of habitability on this planet. In the spirit of a critical analysis of the present, we examine security as the question of how the escalating political, social, and ecological crises of the present and the future are being dealt with in concrete practices, plans, affects, and imaginaries of the future. Through resilience, we explore how collectivity, political community and social alternatives are designed and organized hereby. Current research and teaching at the Chair of Sociology of Security and Resilience focuses on the rise of right-wing authoritarian politics and its counter-movements, state and community-oriented preparedness measures in the face of future regressions, crises and disasters, and the associated socio-technical imaginaries and knowledge practices. In a broader context of qualitative-reconstructive research, we work especially with narrative, affective, spatial, technological and multispecies-related methodologies.