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Dr. Christian Helge Peters

Project member

Profil

Christian Helge Peters completed his master's degree at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena in social theory. He is a research assistant at the Institute of Sociology, Chair of Economic and Organisational Sociology, at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in the project "Good Work and Social Cohesion" and coordinator for the Halle sub-institute. He is doing his doctorate in sociological theory at the University of Hamburg. In his doctorate, he develops a social theory of affect modulation following Gilles Deleuze and Brian Massumi. He is currently working mainly on the relationship between work and social context, focusing on affect, emotion, resonance, and self-efficacy.

That is why I am interested in social cohesion

What interests me about social cohesion is, on the one hand, what social cohesion is and, on the other hand, what conditions it is subject to. I work on the influence of economic and cultural factors plus feelings and self-efficacy on social cohesion. In particular, work and employment relationships in a comprehensive understanding, including care work and voluntary work, still have a special status in society and shape social cohesion and what role people play in it.

Research project

Social cohesion and good work

Publications (Selection)

• (2022) Zwischen Affinität und Solidarität. Formen des gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalts, in: Zeitschrift für Kultur- und Kollektivwissenschaft, Schwerpunktheft „Solidarität, Loyalität und andere affektive Kräfte und ihr Verhältnis zu rationalen Kollektivierungsgründen“, hrsg. von Jan Marschelke und Danae Simmermacher. Jg. 8, H. 1., S. 75-108.
• (2021) Angst, Hass und Liebe als Affekte des Widerstandes: Bürgerwehren und exzessive Affektdynamiken im Sicherheitsdispositiv, in: diskurs. Schwerpunkt: Gefühle des Widerstandes? Jg. 7, H. 6., 128-152.
• (2020) Singularitäten und neue Massen. Die Wiederkehr der Masse in der Affekttheorie und die medialen Bedingungen affektiver Kollektivierungen, in: Zeitschrift für Kultur- und Kollektivwissenschaft, Jg. 6, H. 1, S. 177-208.
• (2019) Kemmer, Laura/Peters, Christian Helge/Weber, Vanessa: On right-wing movements, spheres, and resonances: an interview with Ben Anderson and Rainer Mühlhoff, in: Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory. Special Issue: Locating Affect: On the Ambivalence of Affective Situatedness 20: 1, S. 25-41.

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