Intersectional Challenges to Cohesion?

Social cohesion and marginalization in international and interdisciplinary perspective From different academic perspectives, the volume highlights realities of life and experiences of people in a diverse society on an individual, social, and political level, which are related to their ascribed non-normativity. The book combines different research approaches and results on intersectionality and marginalization discussing their relation to social cohesion. It contributes to a better understanding of how marginalized groups are marked as »not belonging« based on multiple dimensions and are systematically excluded in terms of participation and other democratic principles. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode

Yudit Namer is an assistant professor of mental health and technology at the Department of Psychology, Health, Technology, University of Twente, Netherlands. She is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist by training. She works on the link between marginalisation and mental health and on universal access to health services. Her main interest is to construct equitable research relationships in which members of historically silenced groups are involved in developing research questions and methods. Anne Stöcker is a Doctoral Researcher in Sociology at the Institute for Education and Society at the University of Luxembourg. She is an associated member of the Research Institute Social Cohesion. Her research interests are centered around the phenomenon of dis-/ability, empirical research methods particularly in the context of disability, social participation, and inclusion as well as inclusive education. Amani Ashour is a sociologist and holds a doctoral scholarship from the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich foundation (Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk). 2020-2022 she was a research assistent at the Institute for Democracy and Civil Society Jena as well as the Research Institute Social Cohesion. Since 2022 she is part of the graduate school »Jewish and Muslim lifeworlds from a social science perspective« (Jüdische und muslimische Lebenswelten aus sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive) and is interested in researching Palestinian and Israeli lifeworlds in Germany. Janine Dieckmann is a social psychologist and works as Deputy Director and Senior Researcher at the Institute for Democracy and Civil Society, which is part of the Research Institute for Social Cohesion. Her research interests include issues of discrimination research, engagement of marginalized groups, and manifestations of societal ideologies of inequality at the individual and institutional levels. With an interdisciplinary approach and intersectional perspective, she studies discrimination as a threat to democracy. Philipp Schmidt is an educational scientist and psychotherapist for children and adolescents. He currently works as a research assistant at the Faculty of Education at Bielefeld University with focus on difficult learning and development conditions. He is also a research assistant in the project »Development and Learning of Social Cohesion in School« at the RISC (Section Bielefeld). His research interests include emotions, emotional development, and emotional self-concept. He also focusses on adolescence, internalizing experience, behaviour, and social participation. Carmen Zurbriggen is a full professor in special education at University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and associated member of the RISC Section Bielefeld, Germany. Her main areas of research encompass social participation and cohesion in the context of disability, subjective well-being and emotional experience of children and adolescents in difficult learning and development contexts as well as empirical research methods with a focus on inclusion.