Arenas of invective mobilization in democracy and National Socialism. Berlin, Gelsenkirchen and Toronto 1924 to 1938 (H)

• Subject Area: Modern and Contemporary History
• Term: from 2017 to 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 317232170

The meanings of invective everyday practices for political mobilization and radicalization between 1924-1938 are analyzed in emotional-historical perspective. The main hypothesis is that the feelings produced by invective communication patterns were central to generating attention and to mobilizing and radicalizing political movements. This insight opens up an important and new analytical perspective on understanding processes of political mobilization. The project’s second funding phase will focus on the playful and exploratory moments of invective everyday practices, and examines invective choreographies, such as those exhibited to large crowds in sports arenas in Berlin, Gelsenkirchen and Toronto, in comparative perspective.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1285: Invectivity. Constellations and Dynamics of disparagement
• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Dresden
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Dagmar Ellerbrock