Practicing Place – Socio-Cultural Practices and Epistemic Configurations

About the Research Training Group

The interdisciplinary Research Training Group 2589 “Practicing Place: Socio-Cultural Practices and Epistemic Configurations” is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and located at the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. We research the intersections, tensions, and dynamics of place and practice. Every practice is shaped by given places, while it at the same time also designs and produces new places in a performative, ongoing process. Seen this way, places can never be conceived of as singular static entities, in the sense of ‘Heimat’ or a closed life-world; rather, places have to be thought of in terms of a dynamic, multifaceted, dialogical, often controversial, affective, and especially participatory system of relations, informed by aspects of performance, construction, perception, production, experience, recognition, and inscription. Our goal is to unpick the ‘how’ of places in relation to the situatedness of any and all practices.

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News

Have a look at the interview with our faculty member Miriam Lay Brander on “tv ingolstadt” about the 40th anniversary of the Central Institute of Latin American Studies (ZILAS) at KU Eichstätt.

Der 250. Jahrestag der Unabhängigkeitserklärung am 4. Juli ist für die Vereinigten Staaten ein historisches Jubiläum von hoher politischer und symbolischer Bedeutung. Der Feiertag, in den USA dieses Jahr in umstrittenen Veranstaltungen begangen, bietet Anlass, nicht nur auf die Gründungsgeschichte des Landes zurückzublicken, sondern auch Fragen nach Demokratie, Autoritarismus und historischen Kontinuitäten zu stellen. Die […]

Publication of our fellow Gabriela Iracema Randig on “Territorien der Emanzipation im Alten Zentrum von Salvador”

Gabriela, working on a project about the “right to the city” in Salvador de Bahia, has published an article in the journal “sub\urban”. It is an interview with activists of the Articulação do Centro Antigo de Salvador. The article has the title “Territorien der Emanzipation im Alten Zentrum von Salvador. Ein Gespräch mit Aktivist*innen der […]