The epistemological focus of the project considers festive events as platforms
for the negotiation of inclusion/exclusion and transformation processes. Minorities
and majorities are hereby seen as historically-evolved dynamic categories. This
choice avoids taking a apriori-defined ethnic, religious or sociocultural category
as key issue for processes of communitarization. Hence, the project questions
how events create, reinforce and change transforming feelings of Communitas.
The link of theoretical debates on rituals and events, on translocal social
spaces and on globalization leads to innovative methodological instruments in
action theory, that allows us to research festive events and their integrative
impact in a migratory context. Following a histoire croisée, qualitative
methods are applied to a multi-sited field in France and Germany, and empirical
research is backed up by historical sources.
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