Preconditions
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Official Course Description
The diverse “migration debate” that has been going on since 2015 and the current federal election campaign has led to a significant intensification of accommodation for refugees. These so-called arrival architectures have already been examined in many ways - by sociologists, architects and urban planners. In the seminar, we want to critically examine the debates and work out the basics at the interfaces of urban and spatial sociology, migration sociology and cultural sociology. To this end, we will look at the global but also local conditions of accommodation and examine concepts such as “campization” (Kreichauf 2018). Furthermore, the materialities of accommodation as well as the conditions of surveillance and freedom will be examined on the basis of case analyses and, if necessary, excursions.
The seminar will be offered in English and German. As proof of performance, the participating students should develop a small project outline, the progress of which they present regularly and write up at the end of the semester. This means that, on the one hand, students have a great deal of freedom in terms of their own content. On the other hand, milestones are set by the lecturer which they must regularly meet in relation to the project outline. The exact implementation of the project outline teaching method is explained to them in the first session. The lecturer will provide them with information on methods, methodologies, conceptual work and writing.
- Lecturer: Claudia Ba