psychosozial

The public sphere of liberal regimes is undergoing significant change, as evidenced by an increase in moralistic discourse patterns as well as a change in the norms of expressing emotions in public debates. The paper proposes the concept of moral...

This article discusses experiences of repression in the GDR in the light of their respective historical and political context. The psychosocial long-term effects of persecution, imprisonment and disintegration by the Stasi are analysed in connection...

In order to examine whether those affected by SED injustice who experienced stigmatisation in the GDR are still confronted with it in the present, two selected cases were contrasted within the framework of a qualitative study. The results show that,...

Between 1949 and 1990, approximately half a million children and adolescents grew up in children’s homes and reformatories in the former GDR. Contemporary witnesses repeatedly report on stressful or traumatising experiences in the youth welfare...

Former political prisoners in the GDR may claim benefits due to health damages according to §21 StrRehaG. In practice, despite the scientifically proven physical and psychological trauma sequelae following political imprisonment, there is a...

This article shows how resettlement in the context of Morocco’s national housing programme »Cities Without Slums« changes the nature and dynamics of social conflicts around equal access to adequate housing. Introducing the concept of...

In conflict and violence research, the question has been raised whether and to what extent classical explanatory approaches and claims must be dispensed when conflict and violence are understood as emergent phenomena. The authors take up this...

The International Ethnographic Practicum at the University of Haifa in Israel offers a oneor two-semester workshop program for international master’s and graduate students and gives them the opportunity to conduct ethnographic fieldwork under...

The term »conflict« is ambiguous. Its definition is always a contingent social construction. Not only does it take on different meanings in different disciplines, in the diverse fields of interand transdisciplinary conflict research or practical...

Public protests serve as a reflection of evolving societal dynamics and tensions. The ongoing »Monday protests« which have been occurring for several years encompass a diverse range of topics and participants. They primarily voice criticism...

In major German cities, residents of apartment buildings face their neighbors with a special mixture of indifference and curiosity, of prejudice and openness. If it comes to a dispute, a broad spectrum of involvement, ill-will, and bitterness...

When a conflict escalates, a process begins that might be compared to a journey: The parties enter a foreign country. But at the same time, this country is strangely familiar to them. The rules that apply there, the patterns of communication that...

Based on interviews with members of the Post-Apartheid and Born Free Generation in the regions of Somerset West, Lwandle and Nomzamo, this article presents three types of historical and social awareness among young South Africans: Little or no...

The article deals with the legitimization of mosque construction projects in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region. The conceptual framework of this article consists of relationalist considerations that places special emphasis on a neo-institutionalist...

One of the main concerns of the project Bochum – Stadt der Vielen | Senior*innen erzählen vom Einwandern (IFAK e.V.) is to use biographical narratives to make the diversity of unique migration experiences of different communities and individuals...

The article assumes that reproductive technologies change the conditions for planning and realizing parenthood in many ways. In doing so, they expand the possibilities for the formation of partnerships, but also produce new forms of psychological...

This article examines social relationships in the context of digital transformation in contemporary society and the increasing importance of digital measuring and comparing. Drawing on findings from the research project »The Quantified Life«, the...

With new psychosexual phenomena, e.g. fluidification and ambiguity of gender and increasing distance from sex binaries, sexology and psychoanalysis are faced with the tasks of reviewing and modifying their concepts and fundamental views for better...

This article interrogates the current cultural practice of mobile dating, using the dating app Tinder as an example, for its subjective and psychodynamic meanings. The essential features of this application are explained and supplemented by...

This article sheds light on the partly unconscious conflicts that can find expression in the consumption of pornography. The background of the explanations is the psychoanalytic theory, which understands pornography as a perverse defense fantasy, in...