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»Les Noirs Perfectionnés«

Cultural Embourgeoisement in Belgian Congo during the 1940s and 1950s

The working paper deals with the making of the African elite in late colonial Belgian Congo and the role of cultural embourgeoisement in negotiating its place in the social order. It follows the premise that the discourse ...

Instrumentelle Macht und Repräsentationen

Die russischen Gouverneure, 1903-1906

Kraffzig, Sebastian

Das Working Paper analysiert das Verhältnis von Instrumenteller Macht und Strategien der Repräsentation am Beispiel russischer Gouverneure im späten Zarenreich. Es belegt anhand zweier Fallbeispiele aus den Krisenjahren ...

Anthropological Urban Transect

A Methodology to Study Urban Environment

Krebs, Melanie; Pilz, Madlen

This paper presents the application of a methodological approach originally developed for urban planning to urban anthropology. This research approach focuses on different materialities in order to analyze functional ...

Kulturen und Krisen im Vergleich

Muschg, Adolf; Pflugbeil, Sebastian; Reinecke, Stefan; Baur, Philipp; Heé, Nadine; Hedinger, Daniel; Braun, Matthias

The workshop »Global Atoms«, held at the Collaborative Research Centre »Representations« at Humboldt University in Berlin in November 2011, intended to open threads into a global history of the »nuclear age«. The ...

Savoir et ordre social

Une critique de la société du savoir

Reinecke, Christiane; Feuchter, Jörg; Finsterhölzl, Regina; Fischer-Tahir, Andrea; Hoffmann, Friedhelm; Holzwarth, Simone; Klotz, Maren; Knecht, Michi; Oelsner, Verónica; Polat, Nurhak; Tamme, Reet; Wagner, Johan

The concept of knowledge society has been invented by the social sciences in order to describe perspectives of modern societies. Nowadays the concept circulates increasingly in the political, educational, and economic ...

Wissen und soziale Ordnung

Eine Kritik der Wissensgesellschaft

Reinecke, Christiane; Feuchter, Jörg; Finsterhölzl, Regina; Fischer-Tahir, Andrea; Hoffmann, Friedhelm; Grußendorf, Johan; Holzwarth, Simone; Klotz, Maren; Knecht, Michi; Oelsner, Verónica; Polat, Nurhak; Tamme, Reet

The concept of knowledge society has been invented by the social sciences in order to describe perspectives of modern societies. Nowadays the concept circulates increasingly in the political, educational, and economical ...

»The time has come when we have got to do something ourselves«

Spielplätze, Schweineköpfe und inszenierter Wandel in Nothing Hill um 1970

Klöß, Sebastian

Around 1970, the impression of being ignored by the authorities was widespread in London’s Nothing Hill area. Therefore, actors from different fields decided that it was time to make a change and to take things into their ...

Europarepräsentationen

Spanien, Frankreich und Deutschland im Vergleich

Grußendorf, Johan; Weiß, Andreas

The geographical and cultural boundaries of Europe are constantly disputed. Especially in the debates regarding the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, politicians and experts in Spain, France, and Germany had to reflect about ...

Defense et illustration de la notion dereprésentation

Chartier, Roger

By tracing connotations of the word « representation » in history, Roger Chartier elaborates on the word’s various meanings. On the one hand, representation refers to someone or something acting in place of an absent person ...

Challenging the Theory of Diaspora from the Field

Harutyunyan, Anna

This paper argues that the theoretical categories, descriptive and analytical frameworks applied to the phenomenon of Diasporas have become overused, overtheorized, yet at the same time uncontested and taken for granted ...

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