Date: 5th/6th Feb 2019
Location: Leipzig/Germany, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography
Host partner: TUD
IMAJINE work package 7 analyses the various ways in which autonomous movements in Europe justify their demands for greater autonomy, and in what way these demands are interwoven with territorial inequalities and spatial justice. In order to analyse these demands in a comparative manner, the work package consortium with partners from Italy, Switzerland, Wales, Poland, the Netherlands and Germany met in Leipzig/Germany on the 5th and 6th of February 2019. Here, partners with different disciplinary and methodological backgrounds discussed the conceptual outline of the study in task 7.2 and learn the methods to be employ.
On order to do this, aspects such as the selection of political documents, the coding scheme for the analysis of these documents and the practical aspects of coding were thoroughly debated on day 1. Furthermore, a software training took place to make every partner familiar with MaxQDA. Here, not only the basic work flows of using the software were demonstrated but, in addition, many aspects of making use of it in a distributed manner were debated to enable the merging of results later in the work package. On day 2, several exemplary texts served as the basis for experimental coding with its results being intensely discussed. Issues such as a publication strategy and a reliability test for each coder were further topics on both days.
In conclusion, the common approach was finalised while obstacles for collaborative research were constructively negotiated, e.g. with regard to different backgrounds and schedules. Thus, the workshop proved to be central to a work package that, to a considerable extent, needs to integrate different cases, e.g. Scotland, the Kashubian minority in Poland, Corsica and Friesland, and different disciplinary backgrounds. From this point on, the work package 7 consortium is looking forward to an intense phase of reviewing the different political documents and will conclude this task 7.2 in summer 2019.