International conference "B/ORDERING CULTURES" 2020

The central concept of bordering ties in with the focus on the discursive and practical production and the associated dynamics of border and order processes that has been widespread in border studies since the 2000s. We invite researchers to discuss the conditions, modes of production and order-generating effects of border demarcations here on the German-Polish border. How do orders, which are largely constituted through the marking of differences, develop their meaning(s) in the interplay of these distinctions?

Everyday life, politics and aesthetics form socially relevant domains for the processing of boundary/order relations. Interaction orders, gender orders or even political orders in their effects on everyday behaviour, aesthetic-performative practices of exclusion and marginalisation or temporal demarcations as a moment structuring everyday life are only hinted at here as possible topics. In addition to substantive-empirical questions, the conference also aims at methodological perspectives on orders and borders:

• How can we look at the boundaries of orders and analyse the overlaps, superimpositions and plurality of different order structures?

• How can the drawing, negotiation and dissolution of boundaries be adequately described as a social practice in its own orderliness from a cultural studies perspective?

• How can the otherwise dominant bivalence of border and order logics be countered so that dynamics and processes between border demarcations and order structures also become visible (in betweenness)?