Principal Investigator | Deputy Member of Directorate
Political violence is intertwined with the impact of normative projections on social identifications. Translations of these projections take place between institutions and individual as well as collective actors: What can be understood as a ‘good’ life? At what price should it be defended – even at the cost of death? Under the conditions of Europeanization, globalization and super-diversity, these questions are constantly renegotiated in modern societies. Using the international and intra-societal processing of colonial violence, I therefore study the relationships between normative discourse, collective action and representations of past violence and examine what new conflicts emerge in the postcolonial setting
Research Area Interpretations: 3.1 Interpretation of Violence