Fragmentation and Exclusion: Understanding and Overcoming the Multiple Impacts of the Crisis (FRAGMEX)

The crisis has created processes of fragmentation and exclusion both within and between European societies, on different levels: on a material level, as rising levels of unemployment and poverty are producing new social security “outsiders” and on an ideational level, whereby a discursive-cultural rift is forming between the new (and old) insiders and outsiders. Moreover, the crisis has also created a new level of fragmentation and exclusion. A rift is developing between the societies of the countries of the North, which are called upon to provide financial assistance to the countries of the European periphery hit by the crisis and the societies of the latter countries, which react negatively to the policy conditionality that accompanies this assistance. The objective of this project was to study these phenomena as they threaten stability and cohesion both within and between European societies.

此次危机在欧洲社会内部及各国社会之间催生了碎片化与边缘化进程，且涵盖多个维度：在物质层面，失业率与贫困率的持续攀升催生了新的社会保障“边缘群体”；在观念层面，新旧“边缘群体”与“核心群体”之间正逐渐形成话语文化层面的裂痕。此外，此次危机还催生了新一轮的碎片化与边缘化现象：在需为受危机冲击的欧洲外围国家提供财政援助的北欧国家社会，与那些对援助附带的政策条件性持负面抵触态度的欧洲外围国家社会之间，正逐步形成新的裂痕。本研究项目旨在对上述现象展开深入研究，因其正威胁着欧洲社会内部及各国社会间的稳定与凝聚力。