Project Details
Projekt
Pandemic Human Categorization. Proxemic Shifts in Virally Exposed Sociality (C03)
Subject Area
Sociological Theory
Term
since 2021
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 442261292
The project examines the Corona Pandemic as a case of a historically reoccurring form of human categorization. Its focus lies on three aspects: 1. The medical identification and the societal imagination of a viral participant in social relations at the outer limits of the human experience; 2. the precarious identification of humans as infected or uncontaminated with this participant; 3. the proxemic micro-structures resulting from the identification issue. Via discourse-analytical and ethnographical methods the project will investigate how the pandemic present morphs into history and how pandemic history makes itself present in the current societal dilemma.
DFG Programme
Collaborative Research Centres
Subproject of
SFB 1482:
Studies in Human Categorization
Applicant Institution
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Project Heads
Professor Dr. Stefan Hirschauer; Professor Dr. Johannes Paulmann
