Associate Fellow
In my planned research project "Ordering Violence" I engage with the question as to what extent transformations of the terminological as well as normative order(s) of political violence can be identified in modernity (~1789 to today). In particular, this involves ordering the perception of violence by developing a modern genealogy of war and its justification. In this genealogy, I will reconstruct changes and continuities in the way ‘political violence’ has been conceptually and normatively ordered in modernity. The aim of the research project is therefore not only to reconstruct the definitions, concepts, and narratives central to this ordering process, but also discursive ruptures, continuities, and contingencies beyond a simple dichotomy of "old" and "new."
Research Area Synergies: 4.1 Language and Language Change | 4.3 Pacification or Transformation