Using systematic interdisciplinary analysis of linguistic data, the IAS Research Cluster 'Discourse, Politics, Identity' focusses on proposing some innovative explanations of the current processes of social and political change in Europe. For this purpose, it understands discourse in the traditional sense of Wittgenstein's language games: as a social practice that constitutes and is constituted by social structure. The cluster approaches discourse in a trans-, and post-disciplinary way by using multiple theoretical and methodological accounts.