Global History in Practice

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Hubertus Büschel
• Subject Area: Modern and Contemporary History
• Term: from 2015 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 277237184

The overall project intends to give practical impulses and assistance to junior researchers undertaking global historical research - especially in areas of the Global South. The goal is to promote empirical historical research in the field of global history. This responds to the fact that there is still a lack of empirical work in global history, besides many very helpful, instructive and fundamental overviews of and introductions to theories and methods in the study of global history. The project is subdivided into three projects: Firstly, a monograph intended to serve as a short and practical handbook. This book will introduce theories, methods, sources, narratives of global history and the history of entanglement and will - in addition to existing introductions - discuss problems and solutions pertaining to research in so-called developing- and threshold-countries (2a). The courses of specific projects would be presented, on an exemplary basis. Readers would be informed - step by step - about questions related to finding a topic, problems and solutions in research, case studies about sources, aspects of specific global historical narratives, and about possibilities for publishing their work. Secondly, a workshop (2b) would be organized that would foster debate between historians and anthropologists about their research-experiences in areas of the Global South. Central to the workshop would be the question of how to share practical advice gained from these experiences with junior researchers. Thirdly, the results of this workshop would be published in a collected volume (2c). Lastly, a web page would provide current information about practical questions in global historical research (2d).

• DFG Programme: Research Grants