Legitimität

Whether in finance, care provision or education, current crises affect the stability of models of legitimation, and need to be reconsidered in the context of scientific and political debates. Are forms of legitimation of, say, democracy, service provision, social inequalities and claims to truth or rule becoming fragile? Are new interpretive horizons appearing in discourses of crisis, or are the received, previously unquestioned models of justification perhaps becoming even more convincing? The essays in this anthology investigate the development and course of the fault lines in justification in areas as diverse as politics, finance and labor, education, academia and the media.

Maria Dammayr, geb. 1977, Soziologin, Theologin und diplomierte Gesundheits- und Krankenpflegerin, forscht an der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz zu Care und Arbeit in der Altenpflege. Doris Graß, geb. 1984, Soziologin, forscht zu LehrerInnenprofession und Bildungsarbeit an der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz. Barbara Rothmüller, geb. 1982, Philosophin und Soziologin, forscht zu Bildungsungleichheiten und Nationalismus an der Université du Luxembourg.