Solidaritäten transformieren / Transforming Solidarities

Our present is characterised by upheavals, crises and challenges. Pandemics and wars are challenging our societies. Climate change and digitalisation are having a fundamental impact on the way we live together. The reality of global mobility and the migration society requires us to rethink democracy and belonging. The global wave of solidarity erosion calls on everyone to reshape our relationships with one another. But what practices and infrastructures are necessary for this in the migration society? The Transforming Solidarities research project has been researching this question in the fields of work, health and housing since 2021. In the laboratory of the migration society in Berlin, the project investigated how solidarities can provide the necessary answers to these challenges. And: how these are negotiated, enabled or prevented. This volume presents the results of the research project, theoretical considerations on solidarity, forms of desolidarisation, reflections on methodological and solidary practices, investigations into infrastructures of solidarity and suggestions for developing new solidary practices. 35 concise essays take a look at solidarity as a transformative force from different perspectives.

Transforming Solidarities is an interdisciplinary research group from Berlin. Since 2021, members of Technische Universität, Freie Universität, Humboldt-Universität and Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin have been working together. The group works in an explorative, inter- and transdisciplinary manner at the intersection of science and urban society. It combines the expertise of six renowned research institutes in Berlin's scientific landscape with actors from urban society and cultural institutions. Transforming Solidarities understands research as part of a collaborative, reflexive and polyphonic production of knowledge and develops new modes of knowledge transfer and science communication.