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Miriam Tekath

Philipps University of Marburg, Germany

Miriam Tekath is works a research fellow in Prof. Dr. Thorsten Bonacker’s team at the Center for Conflict Studies. Her academic work combines a political research interest with micro-sociological research approaches and focuses on social conflicts in societies, which are polarized by secessionist aspirations.

Her PhD-project “(Un)making sense of differences – reconsidering the meaning of politicized differences for everyday conflict interactions” seeks to understand the process of meaning-making regarding politicized differences in everyday conflict interactions. The politicization processes of the long-term secessionist conflicts in Quebec (Canada) and in Casamance (Senegal) represent the empirical framework for analyzing the respective universities as micro-contexts of social polarization. The interaction strategies by university members who are coping everyday with the contradiction between politicization and cooperation will help us understand the accompanying conflict dynamics and provide insights for conflict transformation in highly polarized societies.

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