Lecture series (summer semester)

From an interdisciplinary and international perspective, the lecture series deals with the multidimensional and intersectional entanglements between different forms of orders of violence and gender that make life precarious. What kind of life is worth living - on the border between recognition and non-recognition? We ask how social, economic and cultural practices contribute to the precarization of work and housing, or more generally, life practices, and thereby (re-)produce gendered and gendering orders. For example, the question of whether and to what extent certain working conditions, lifestyles or bodies are particularly vulnerable or systematically marginalized through exploitation, discrimination, violence, marginalization, categorization or exclusion will be explored. The lecture series will address various aspects of precarious and precarious living realities and conditions that are (re-)produced and materialized by global, national or socially overlapping orders of violence. These include the areas of work, care work, body, space, nature-technology and nature-human relations, refugee and migration regimes and housing.