The interdisciplinary exchange on ‘negotiations’ focuses on the ongoing social, economic and cultural dynamics in which family is formed. Drawing on the concept of ‘Doing Family’, the family is conceived as a dynamic formation negotiated in everyday practices and influenced by constantly changing legal, political, economic, and cultural conditions.
The diverse projects joining this interdisciplinary conversation analyse communication processes within the family, in the neighborhood and in the wider social context. The entanglement between idealised images of family and lived forms of this fundamental formation plays a central role.
The interaction between empirical research and conceptual reflections is structured according to following questions: (1) How is family delimitated and by whom? (2) How do material resources influence family negotiation processes? (3) Which role do normative dimensions play?
