Constructing EU peripheries: a critical assessment of EU enlargement policy in the Western Balkans
Talk given by Amelie Kutter at the 1st ValEUs conference, Nazerbaev University, Astana, Sept 13-16, 2024
Kutter, A. (forthcoming 2024) (De-)Politicising the borderland. Covid-fencing and crisis narratives of cultural workers at the Polish-German border
Kutter, A. (forthcoming 2024). (De-)Politicising the borderland. Covid-fencing and crisis narratives of cultural workers at the Polish-German border. CADAAD journal, 16(1)
Research and teaching project: sustainability transitions in the federal state of Brandenburg (2023-2025)
The project ‘Sustainability transitions in the federal state of Brandenburg’ analyses how actors in the region implement or contest sustainability policies in the areas of water, forests, energy and food. What ideas and practices do experts, governments and local future-makers develop when establishing new ways of living and producing in the region? The project is based on a series of research seminars that draw on the philosophy of challenge-based learning. Students explore challenges and scenarios for problem solution in fields of their choice, in collaboration with local stakeholders, using the methods of document analyis, interviews, and field trips.
Multiple crisis and Discursive Political Studies
Paper presented by Amelie Kutter at the DVPW convention in September 2024. Current diagnoses of crisis often use the term ‘polycrisis’ (Tooze, 2023) to refer to the multiplicity and interdependence of crisis phenomena that seem to characterise contemporary societies. This paper explores the contribution that Discursive Political Studies (DPS, Kutter 2020b) can make to the study of the politics of crisis and, more specifically, polycrisis. Their potential can be exploited by re-considering the different theories of meaning constitution (or: theories of discourse) that they offer. Combined with insights from a review of theories of crisis, they can guide a thorough discourse analysis of crisis.