psychosozial

This article examines anti-Muslim and anti-Islamic racism (AMIR) as a historically sedimented and contemporarily effective structure of inequality that shapes social fields on macro-, meso-, and micro-levels. Drawing on racism-theoretical and...

This article deals with the difficulties and inhibitions to address racism and race against the backdrop of Germany’s National Socialist past. After 1945 and following the UNESCO-statements on race, the assumption of a biological foundation of...

This article traces Ernst Cassirer’s path of thought and life from epistemology to cultural philosophy and anthropology. The focus is on Cassirer’s symbol-theoretical approach. For Cassirer, man is a self-organizing, culture-creating being. The...

The article conceptualises racism as a historically constituted, discursively mediated, and socially as well as psychologically embedded structure of human societies. It addresses central problem areas in contemporary racism research, including the...

This article discusses how to develop anti-racist competence among teachers and students. It begins by discussing the concept of racism, before going on to differentiate between its various forms. It then focuses on whiteness, before presenting...

The squiggle method developed by D. W. Winnicott initially served him to establish contact with children by encouraging them to articulate themselves visually. In a scribbling game, they were able to express what moved them inwardly in an...

This article examines how the relationship between anti-Semitism and racism in Germany has changed following the events of 7 October 2023. Drawing on specific protests and public debates, it illustrates how anti-Semitic and racist discourses are...

In contemporary debates, ressentiment is conceptualized as a key affective driver of social conflicts. The disclosive posture of ressentiment is characterized by persistent, self-righteous embitterment over (perceived) injustice, connected to...

Imagery and pictorial practices are extremely important for the modes of action and media representation of (animal rights) organizations with links to veganism. For example, images provide insights into the processes and structures of factory...

This article examines how belonging to the Alevi community profoundly shapes adolescent identity formation in post-migrant Germany. Focusing on Eylül, a young woman in her early twenties, it highlights how complex Alevi–Sunni relations – marked...

Aristotle believed that every living being carries the goal of self-development within itself: man is primarily a knower. As with Maslow, the prerequisite is participation in social prosperity. Self-realization requires acceptance of personal and...

The essay focuses on the relationship between solidarity and guilt from a conceptual-historical, political-theoretical and psychoanalytical perspective. Particular attention is paid to the conceptual ambiguity of guilt, whose socially integrative...

This article will explore sexual violence against female prisoners in Nazi concentration camps, with a particular focus on the affects involved. With reference to Primo Levi and Elfriede Jelinek, the extent to which such violence can be regarded as...

Humans are rational and emotional beings. Their individual and collective actions are often determined by conscious or unconscious feelings. This anthropological fact can be exploited politically. This happens, for example, in all those cases in...

The Covid-19 pandemic and the measures taken to contain it gave rise to a protest movement in Austria (as in other countries) that opposed the measures. From the very beginning, the heterogeneity of political opinions in the movement as well as the...

This article examines the ideology and activities of the Grey Wolves in Germany and analyzes their impact on the prevention of right-wing extremism and the promotion of democracy. It highlights the challenges posed by Turkish nationalist structures...

This paper examines the connection between Romantic thought systems and right-wing extremist ideologies. The analysis identifies the myth of eternity as a central structural principle that has shaped right-wing extremist thinking patterns since the...

Der Artikel untersucht den Einfluss des politischen Diskurses in Russland auf die Mobilisierung einer rechtsextremen Anti-Gender Bewegung. Ein besonderes Augenmerk wird auf Anti-Gender-Narrative gelegt, die ein patriarchalisches Familienbild...

Five years after the racist attack in Hanau, the situation of the victims’ families, survivors and witnesses continues to be marked by deep grief, shock, and a profound sense of powerlessness – accompanied by an ongoing need for legal,...

This article examines the methodological and conceptual challenges of a nuanced study of right-wing extremism and right-wing terrorism. Building on a thorough analysis of prevailing academic trends, the article proposes a definition of...