In this research focus, we address the central challenges of intersectionality research, namely the question of how dimensions of inequality are categorically captured and politically negotiated. The focus is on processes of boundary drawing and narratives of justification for the inclusion or exclusion of social groups in different social and institutional contexts, such as questions of political representation and participation of socially marginalized groups. Research projects in this focus area deal, for example, with the design of diversity policies at universities, the heterogeneity of political representation, and feminist perspectives on national identity and nationalism.

Projects

“Varieties of Diversity Scripts” (ongoing), project within the Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script,” together with Yasemin Soysal and Kathrin Zippel, project within the Cluster of Excellence Contestations of the Liberal Script.

Open lecture in the summer semester 2024, together with Thorsten Faas, Miriam Hartlapp, and Julia Reuschenbach: “It's representation, stupid?! The promise of equality in modern political democracies.”

“EQUIP—Equal Opportunities in Higher Education: Partnership for Institutional Change at the UCC and KU” (completed), funded by the DAAD and BMZ.

“Shiny Happy Universities? A Comparative Analysis of Diversity Politics in International Higher Education” (completed), funded by central funds from the FU Berlin.

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Publications of the Department

Çağlar, Gülay; Gienow-Hecht, Jessica (2024): Contesting Borders. Towards a Gender Analysis of Secessionism. Historical and Political Science Perspectives, SCRIPTS Working Paper No. 47, Berlin: Cluster of Excellence 2055 “Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS)”. Open Access.

Çağlar, Gülay; Chan de Avila, Jennifer (2021): Das Inklusionsversprechen oder »the dark side of diversity«? Diversitätspolitik an Universitäten. In: Dilger, Hansjörg; Warstat, Matthias (Hrsg.): Umkämpfte Vielfalt. Affektive Dynamiken institutioneller Diversifizierung, Frankfurt/M..: Campus, 318-334.

Çağlar, Gülay; Zippel, Kathrin (2023): Top-down oder Bottom-up? Universitäten müssen beim Thema Diversität das Heft in die Hand nehmen. In: Forschung & Lehre, Ausgabe 4/23, 246-247.