The TCG NCT continues the work of Module 4 (see Former Research Themes 2015-2024). The TCG attempts to understand the direction and the processes as well as the agencies of normative change. Focussing on competing and conflicting normativities, the modes and mechanisms of struggle and mediation, and the processes of norm transformation, the TCG addresses core problems in contemporary societies, In the final phase three conflict areas will successively be in focus. In 2024/25 we concentrate on ‘Urban Futures: Entrepreneurial states, private capital and new forms of citizenship in the making of cities’. We explore new contexts of urbanism that involve fundamental shifts in the ways cities are designed, governed and lived in. In the year 2025/26 TCG NCT is devoted to the topic ‘Collective Action and the Self – South Asian Perspectives’. We ask how, and under what conditions, are subjectivities capable of acting collectively, how do they stabilize and in which way are selves being transformed? Finally, in 2026/27, the research of TCG NCT evolves around the issues of climate change and sustainability. Under the focus of ‘Breathing well, together – South Asian Perspectives’ we examine the conditions under which breathing has become an existential and political act. Questions to be posed may ask how the act of breathing creates new conditions of vulnerability and what new conceptions of the body and the social are needed to address contemporary concerns around air? What is the role of the state, civil society and private enterprises?
Coordinators:
- Prof. Dr. Martin Fuchs, Max Weber Kolleg, University of Erfurt
- Prof. Vidhu Verma, JNU, New Delhi
Members:
- Prof. Rajeev Bhargava,Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
- Prof. Lajwanti P. Chatani, The M. S. University of Baroda
- Prof. Florian Hoffmann, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
- PD Dr. Bettina Hollstein, Max Weber Kolleg, University of Erfurt
- PD Dr. Antje Linkenbach-Fuchs, Max Weber Kolleg, University of Erfurt
- PD Dr. Andreas Pettenkofer, Max Weber Kolleg, University of Erfurt
- Prof. Dr. Beatrice Renzi, Max Weber Kolleg, University of Erfurt
- Prof. Valerian Rodrigues, Ambedkar University, Delhi
- Prof. Dr. Hartmut Rosa, Max Weber Kolleg, University of Erfurt/ KFG Postwachstumsgesellschaften, Jena
- Prof. Sanjay Srivastava, SOAS University of London
- Dr. Awadhendra Sharan, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
- Dr. Hanna Werner, Max Weber Kolleg, University of Erfurt

