Lea Zentgraf is participating in the 41st Congress of the German Sociological Association 'Polarized Worlds', September 26-30, 2022 at Bielefeld University. The congress is marked by a world community shaken in several respects. Regarding the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, and other global challenges, the congress focuses on the theme of polarization.

As part of the congress, Lea Zentgraf will give her presentation on food as a mediator for political-ecological coalitions on September 30 as part of the ad hoc group "Polarizing Social Debates as Impulses for Sociology of Land and Agriculture" from 9:00 - 11:45 in room X-E0-224.

Other participants* in the group are:

Jana Rückert-John (Fulda): Perspectives of the sociology of land, agriculture, and food on social transformation processes;

Anna Henkel (Passau): Materiality of Society as a Perspective on Challenges around Soil, Land, and Agriculture;

Lukas Lapschieß (Hamburg): Civil society agriculture as an economy of the gift;

Laura Scheler (Passau): Digitalization in agriculture - polarization or solution?;

Lea Zentgraf (Berlin), Renata Motta (Berlin): food as a mediator for political-ecological coalitions;

Lilian Pungas (Jena), Jonathan Friedrich (Göttingen / Müncheberg), Jana Rebecca Holz (Jena), Philip Koch (Jena): The bioeconomy in rural areas between harmonization and polarization: social-ecological conflicts in agriculture and forestry;

Holli Gruber (Passau): Mit Bourdieu auf 's Land: Regional Development and Polarization.

More information about the program is available here.