C03Pandemic Human Differentiation
The project investigates how pandemics affect the differentiation of people.
Masks being distributed at the carneval in Mainz.
Proxemic Shifts in Virally Exposed Sociality
To what extent can viruses, as non-human entities, become co-players in social relations? How did the always uncertain guiding distinction between endangering and endangered unfold? How were socio-spatial microstructures adapted to new physical distancing regulations?
Using an interdisciplinary approach, we decipher such processes in the Corona pandemic sociologically and put them into perspective in a historical comparison. The study reconstructs human differentiations in different cultural layers of meaning: in legal texts, material infrastructures and bodily practices.