The Concept of arrangement – a preliminary outline Viadrina B/ORDERS IN MOTION CENTRE Research Group „Tensions of Europe: Technological Change and Re-arrangements of Work and Migration” Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Aristotle Tympas, Klaus Weber, Falk Flade and Norbert Cyrus

Background information The research group has already submitted at 2 February 2017 two proposals responding to HORIZON 2020 calls: ARETE – The Values of Europe and the Migration Challenge TROUBLE – Evoking Troubled Pasts in National and European Controversies about Migration and Employment The decision-making is organized in a two-stage procedure. In the first stage, the European Commission will review all submitted proposals (for each of the calls about 30 proposals were delivered) and select only few for the second stage, i.e. the preparation of a full proposal. The first-stage decision is expected for about Mid-May. The proposals submitted by the research group “European Challenges” included references to the concepts of arrangement and technology as heuristic tools The concepts require further elaborations in face of the specific requirements of the calls and the co-operation with consortium partners.

Initial Idea: Order as arrangement Exploring an Technology-Arrangement Nexus The concept of Technology (Large Technology Systems) Exploring Technology as cause and effect of societal change Hard technologies Soft technologies The concept of Arrangement Play with the ambigious meaning of „order“ and „agreement“ Arrangements imply some level of (implicit) acceptance Societal arrangements constituted by arena-specific arrangements Normative orders established by societal conventions Institutional orders laid down in legal forms and formal rules Situational orders constituted in the course of actions at the level of everyday encounters and interactions Overarching societal arrangements constituted by arrangements negotiated in specific arenas

Initial action-theoretical foundation Overarching societal arrangements Effect of interaction among social arrangements negotiated in specific arenas Stability when actors come to an arrangement with a situation-specific and arena- specific order A precarious stability of the arrangements achieved by everyday cooperation Arrangements as compromises, open to immanent critique. Arrangements characterised nonetheless by tensions and contradictions. When actors feel that tensions between situational, normative and institutional order become too strong, the effect may be social critique Actors may demand Enforcement of normative or institutional order in a situation Struggle for recognition of situational arrangement as accepted normative or institutional order Technological change Provides offers for the formation of new arrangements Essential driver of societal tensions

Arrangement as theoretical concept in social science approaches I References to arrangement one-dimensional Ordering Agreement ‘Material Arrangement’ in Schatzki’s theory of practice approach Material arrangements are defined as ‘connexions of people, organisms, artefacts and natural things’ Practices: ‘open, space-time distributed amount of acts and speeches, organised by a joint understanding, teleo-affectivity (purposes, objectives, affects) and rules’ ‘material arrangements’ and ‘practices’ form bunches which constitute the locus of the social practices generate, use, change, orient on or be an inseparable element of arrangements arrangements orientate, prefigure, and enable practices Agreement - a feature of practices or ‚material arrangements‘?

Arrangement as theoretical concept in social science approaches II Public and private arrangements in Boltanski’s Sociology of Critique Arrangements base on the assumption of a common good that justifies a compromise Arrangements (or agreement, dtsch. Übereinkunft) as a social practice that mediates conflicting or antagonistic necessities Arrangements organise the relation between conflicting necessities and have of a joint orientation that allow conflicting parties to compromise – without solving the controversy Private arrangement benefits only the direct advantage of the involved parties no claim to a common good. Denouncing an arrangement as ‘private’ challenges the arrangement and enacts the right to ask for justification. Response to critique is a practice of justification Showing with reference to a ‘common good’ that a situation is coherent (stimmig), that all related elements are well ordered. Agreement is related to the coherence of ‚material arrangments‘

Implications for border research Exploring the Arrangement-Technology nexus of borders Focus on border-related practices and material arrangements Capturing the complexity of borders Following the connexions of elements of the ‚material arrangements‘ Borders constituted by multiple co-acting and interacting practices Surveying and Crossing Generative Questions: What are border-related practices? What are the material arrangements, these practices relate to? How are these arrangements connected and arranged?