Development of Cooperation Structures between Hannah Arendt Institute for the Research on Totalitarianism and Institute for Social Cohesion, site Leipzig University in the field of “Social Cohesion, Populism and Social Distance”
The State Ministry of Saxony for Science and Art funds a nine-month project developing cooperation structures between Hannah Arendt Institute for the Research on Totalitarianism and the Institute for Social Cohesion, site Leipzig University in the field of “Social Cohesion, Populism and Social Distance” with about 110,000 EUR.
The project aims to develop cooperation structures between (HAIT) Hannah Arendt Institute for the Research on Totalitarianism, IFRiS (Research Network on Integration, Xenophobia, and Right-Wing Extremism in Saxony) and IfgZ (Institute for Social Cohesion), site Leipzig University in the field of “Social Cohesion, Populism and Social Distance: Empirical and Conceptional Analyses”. It is lead by Prof. Dr. Gert Pickel (Leipzig University) and PD Dr. Steffen Kailitz (HAIT). The project is meant to support Pickel’s efforts to take over the coordination of the research field “populism” in the frame of the IfgZ.
In this framework, cooperation structures on the field of measuring populism and extremism as well as on the field of co-radicalization processes of Islamophobia and Islamism will be established. On both fields, reports are worked out and workshops with national and international experts are conducted within the funded period.