DECENT SOCIETY

Modernization and globalization have not only aggravated existing inequalities between, as well as within, societies but have also produced new forms of inequality. The research focus Decent Society maps the realities of (in)justice under conditions of multi-scalar governance and legal pluralism as well as delineating new spaces in which citizens and non-citizens strive for justice. Contemporary processes of juridification and multinormativity are reshaping and redrawing the boundaries between domestic and international law as well as between politics and policy. Furthermore, they pose new challenges for democracy, governance, and the exercise of individual and collective citizenship rights under conditions of the dismantling of the rule of law in various societies.

International Law and Multinormativity

International law is only one system of rules next to other normative fields: its manifold and complex interactions with other normativities will be analyzed from the perspective of ‘multi-normativity’.

Religion and Secularism

This research project explores the ways in which globalization impacts the relationship between religion and secularism, thus intertwining the perspectives of different cultures, religions and theoretical backgrounds.

Migrants in City-Making and Urban Politics

How are migrants involved in making and re-making cities? How do migrants contribute to and challenge the sites and scales of participation and citizenship, of social justice claims and narratives, and of the politics of cities?

Scales of Justice and Legal Pluralism

This research project addresses the ambivalences of juridification, which parallel a judicialisation of politics at various scales along with growing legal activism and a judicialisation of politics from the local to the global scale.