Research projects

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A02 Property in one’s own body and in the bodies of others in the United States between the eighteenth and twentieth century
Project management
Several Duration
01/2021 - 12/2024
Subproject A02 in the SFB TRR294 "Structural Change of Property". The subproject explores the ownership of others’ bodies based on the history of slavery in the USA. (Funding phase 1)
A02: Racial Capitalism: Property Relationships of Black Families in the Age of Segregation
Project management
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Martschukat Duration
01/2025 - 12/2028
Subproject A02 in SFB TRR294 ‘Structural Change in Property’. The project is based on the recognition that property plays a key role in the constitution and reproduction of material, social and self-relations. (Funding phase 2)
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Contested Democracy. Gender, race and sex in US American history
Project management
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Martschukat Duration
01/2021 - 12/2024 Funding
Gerda Henkel Stiftung:
161 000 €
The project investigates struggles for hegemony and democracy along the lines of gender, race and sex in the form of a conflict history of the USA in the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century.
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Research Group "Voluntariness"
Project management
Several Duration
10/2020 - 03/2027 Funding
Several donors
4 120 551 €
Jürgen Martschukat, Christiane Kuller, Sabine Schmolinsky, Iris Schröder: In this project, the researchers will examine voluntariness as a driving force of human practices in the past and present. The central question is how Western pre-modern and modern, but also non-European societies and subjects are governed through the principle of voluntariness. This includes, for example, religiously motivated voluntariness in medieval martyrdom as well as voluntary "participation" in dictatorships. The…
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Voluntariness as Political Practice. The Emerging United States and American Citizenship
Project management
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Martschukat Duration
10/2020 - 09/2023
Subproject in the research group "Voluntariness". The emerging United States is widely regarded as the cradle of liberalism. This “new form of political life,” to quote philosopher Anthony Appiah, took off in the American republic and spawned the “American citizen” as the ideal of the liberal subject. This subproject examines the significance of voluntariness in this process and shows how liberty took on concrete form in the new republic, pointing up the voluntary forms of thinking and acting…

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