Intersectional Challenges to Cohesion?

Yudit Namer is an assistant professor of mental health and technology at the Department of Psychology, Health, Technology, University of Twente, Netherlands. She is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist by training. She works on the link between marginalisation and mental health and on universal access to health services. Her main interest is to construct equitable research relationships in which members of historically silenced groups are involved in developing research questions and methods. Anne Stöcker is a Doctoral Researcher in Sociology at the Institute for Education and Society at the University of Luxembourg. She is an associated member of the Research Institute Social Cohesion. Her research interests are centered around the phenomenon of dis-/ability, empirical research methods particularly in the context of disability, social participation, and inclusion as well as inclusive education. Amani Ashour is a sociologist and holds a doctoral scholarship from the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich foundation (Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk). 2020-2022 she was a research assistent at the Institute for Democracy and Civil Society Jena as well as the Research Institute Social Cohesion. Since 2022 she is part of the graduate school »Jewish and Muslim lifeworlds from a social science perspective« (Jüdische und muslimische Lebenswelten aus sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive) and is interested in researching Palestinian and Israeli lifeworlds in Germany. Janine Dieckmann is a social psychologist and works as Deputy Director and Senior Researcher at the Institute for Democracy and Civil Society, which is part of the Research Institute for Social Cohesion. Her research interests include issues of discrimination research, engagement of marginalized groups, and manifestations of societal ideologies of inequality at the individual and institutional levels. With an interdisciplinary approach and intersectional perspective, she studies discrimination as a threat to democracy.