18:00 - 20:00
Online
14.12.
The new right, Corona and conspiracy ideologies
Referent * within: Natascha Strobl (Wien)
Overview of all events as part of the lecture series “Very extreme - knowledge, Thinking and believing in the crisis”
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In memory of the racist murder of Halit Yozgat, which the right-wing NSU 2006 not far from the campus Holländischer Platz, takes place since 2012 Every year the lecture series against right-wing extremism takes place at the University of Kassel with changing topics. After the lecture in the last winter semester was devoted to right-wing populist and right-wing extremist dynamics in different areas of civil society, we want in the coming winter semester 2020/21 the view of the tension between knowledge, Judging my own beliefs in times of social crisis. Knowledge of the specific structures and complicity of the NSU can still be regarded as unsecured and incomplete to this day. Certain knowledge is kept under lock and key to this day - racist assumptions have ensured that for a long time, that it was determined in the wrong directions.
In recent years, crises have shown themselves to be real existential threats (climate crisis, currently the "Corona crisis") society as well as crisis narratives, which are increasingly brought into focus. Empirical and theoretical analyzes point to far-reaching social upheavals in times of crisis. Crisis diagnoses are also being made in the course of the current Covid 19 pandemic: There is now more emphasis on the consequences of the pandemic, which hardened social inequalities within the framework of a capitalist organized society. There is agreement on this, that such global and economic crises provoke a certain instability in society and put democracy to the test. Other social movements were given the narrative of the crisis, like the summer of migration 2015, which was marked as a “refugee crisis” - right-wing actors use science-denying and misanthropic interpretations, which are combined with anti-pluralist and racist interpretations.
So-called "hygiene demos" have existed in many large cities since the beginning of April, who allegedly demonstrate for fundamental rights and against the measures to contain the pandemic - but their demands do not refer to the fundamental rights of all people (how about for those, that are held at the European borders) or social issues (such as better pay for workers in nursing, Social- and healthcare), but on their individual rights of freedom. In addition to “concerned citizens” and anti-vaccination campaigners, cross-front ideologues are also involved, which often turn these events into a platform for right-wing to right-wing extremist slogans. Anti-Semitist images are openly propagated there.
At these events v. a. Missing information and supposedly exclusive knowledge shared. Scientific knowledge is negated or instrumentalized there. We take this snapshot of the current pandemic situation as an opportunity, to think about it:
a) what role knowledge(shaft), Playing my own faith and belief in our society,
b) what opportunities such crises offer, to be captured by the law and
c) what these negotiations mean for our democracy.
We would like to do this from a political science, social science, educational science, mind- and cultural studies but also from an epistemological perspective shed light on how: What knowledge is available about right-wing extremism / populism and where is explicit knowledge missing? How captured the authoritarian (Right-)Populism fake science for its concerns? How does this happen, that very traditional anti-Semitic conspiracy ideologies continue to gain popularity? What is the difference between a theory and an ideology? What role did and does science actually play in the creation of stereotypes?, stigmatizing images? How does scientific knowledge find its way into right-wing ideologies?
But we also want to discuss, how change can be set in motion in such "times of crisis": The current pandemic situation is also attributed to the summer of migration, Bringing solidarity to society. Besides the challenges, who stand for extracurricular education or social work, e.g.. To strengthen democracy education, we also discuss the possibilities of civil society counter-strategies.
The concept of the lecture series provides, Representatives from different disciplines (u.a. sociology, Political science, History, pedagogy, Social work, Psychology, Literary studies, Cultural studies, Linguistics, Philosophy) to invite, who give theoretical or empirical analytical insights into recent social developments. As in previous years, the lectures are aimed at members of the university as well as other residents of the city of Kassel; again students should take part in various modules, especially in the core course and in key competencies, Studies- and be able to perform examinations. Due to the uncertain planning situation regarding. of the winter semester we could imagine, plan the format as an online lecture.