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Diversity and Difference: Perspectives on Subjectivation Research

Diversity and Difference: Perspectives on Subjectivation Research

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Series: Subjektivierung Und Gesellschaft/Studies in Subjectivation

General Sociology

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ISBN10: 3658520140
ISBN13: 9783658520144
Publisher: Springer vs
Published: Sep 17 2026
Pages: 399
Language: English

Diversity characterizes societies of the present. Some fight using the slogans We'll come united, Leave no one behind, Black lives matter, and Trans rights. Others, however, experience diversity as a loss of control, which they counter with defense mechanisms, including an us versus them mindset. Accordingly, demands for inclusion and integration are often interwoven with diffuse fears of new identities (Hall), for example of refugees and migrants, but also of queer persons and non-heteronormative ways of life. In turn, demarcation struggles and identitarian divisions within social groups can arise from emphasizing difference, and can lead to positional fundamentalism (Villa Braslavsky) or so-called social trigger points (Mau/Lux/Westheuser). The publication takes these points of departure to explore processes of subjectivation, that is, processes of becoming a subject shaped through discourses, power relations, and social practices.The volume includes contributions that offer feminist, post/decolonial, and intersectional perspectives on subjectivation research, alongside critiques of ableism and racism, in order to analyse existing relations of diversity and difference, including the privileges and disadvantages, discriminations, inequalities and racisms embedded in them.

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