Aladin El-Mafaalani: Misstrauensgemeinschaften

In the organizer's words:

BOOK PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION

In an increasingly complex society, you have to trust. Without trust in social systems and institutions, we become incapable of acting. To avoid becoming incapable of acting as a mistrustful person, there is a plausible alternative: trust those who also mistrust. And not on the basis of their competence or experience, but solely on the basis of shared mistrust. This creates communities of mistrust - a danger to social stability.

Aladin El-Mafaalani, born in 1978 in the Ruhr region, is a professor of migration and educational sociology at TU Dormund. He has received numerous awards, most recently the German Sociological Association's prize for outstanding achievements in the field of public effectiveness in sociology in 2020.

In conversation with Sarah Zerback