Inequalities in the context of social transformation processes (focus on Southeast and Central Europe)

Equality is a value that plays a central role in the transformation of European discourses and national legal systems in the EU. Nevertheless, numerous forms of old/new social inequalities exist, some of which are caused or reinforced by Europeanization processes.

The research cluster "In/Equalities" deals with such socio-cultural inequalities with a view to current issues and historical dimensions and analyzes how they are represented in Europe and in European discourses. What social, political and cultural processes control them and what counter-movements or equality efforts do they provoke? We discuss various fields of the negotiation of inequalities in culture and society, specifically in law, politics or art. Particular attention will be paid to the intersectional entanglements of difference and an understanding of inequality as situation-bound and context-dependent.