Project Details
GRK 1571: Between Spaces - Movements, Actors and Representations of Globalisation
Subject Area
History
Term
from 2009 to 2018
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 89269325
The International Research Training Group envisions a new perspective in the study of globalisation. It seeks to make an innovative contribution to the reorientation of area studies as a transnational and interdisciplinary field of study by means of a dialogue between disciplines from the social sciences and the humanities. It further encourages a close cooperation of scholars from different backgrounds and countries, with a focus on the academic traditions from Mexico and Germany.
The contemporary globalisation experience has induced both social sciences and humanities to ask for the movements that form and transform space and spatial orders. Over the centuries different movements and actors have continually produced new spaces of action and interaction as well as transnational and transregional interconnections within Latin America, between the Americas and on a global scale. This was always accompanied by representations and discourses underlying a world imagined as fixed spatial units. The research programme focusses on these movements, actors and representations. From this perspective, we can identify those spaces that lie between the global and the national levels. Within these spaces, we analyse practices of inclusion and exclusion on the basis of different categories such as race, class, gender and ethnicity.
By analysing those in-between spaces, which have emerged in globalisation processes from the colonial period until today, the Research Training Group seeks to make an original contribution to the study of globalisation from the perspective of Latin America. It draws upon theories and concepts under discussion during the last decade in history as well as in other social sciences and humanities, such as transnational and transcultural perspectives, cultural transfers and translation studies. In order to systematise the wide range of interactions implied by the Research Training Groups agenda, the research programme is sub-divided into three research areas: Spaces of Interconnections, Spaces of the Local and Spaces of Representations.
The study programme will enhance the bilateral dialogue by a closely connected conception of teaching and research. This cooperation plans to intertwine perspectives of different disciplines and research traditions as well as a wide range of academic networks. This concept allows a promotion of young researchers in terms of cooperative research in an international and intercultural teaching and research environment.
The contemporary globalisation experience has induced both social sciences and humanities to ask for the movements that form and transform space and spatial orders. Over the centuries different movements and actors have continually produced new spaces of action and interaction as well as transnational and transregional interconnections within Latin America, between the Americas and on a global scale. This was always accompanied by representations and discourses underlying a world imagined as fixed spatial units. The research programme focusses on these movements, actors and representations. From this perspective, we can identify those spaces that lie between the global and the national levels. Within these spaces, we analyse practices of inclusion and exclusion on the basis of different categories such as race, class, gender and ethnicity.
By analysing those in-between spaces, which have emerged in globalisation processes from the colonial period until today, the Research Training Group seeks to make an original contribution to the study of globalisation from the perspective of Latin America. It draws upon theories and concepts under discussion during the last decade in history as well as in other social sciences and humanities, such as transnational and transcultural perspectives, cultural transfers and translation studies. In order to systematise the wide range of interactions implied by the Research Training Groups agenda, the research programme is sub-divided into three research areas: Spaces of Interconnections, Spaces of the Local and Spaces of Representations.
The study programme will enhance the bilateral dialogue by a closely connected conception of teaching and research. This cooperation plans to intertwine perspectives of different disciplines and research traditions as well as a wide range of academic networks. This concept allows a promotion of young researchers in terms of cooperative research in an international and intercultural teaching and research environment.
DFG Programme
International Research Training Groups
International Connection
Mexico
Applicant Institution
Freie Universität Berlin
IRTG-Partner Institution
Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS); El Colegio de México (COLMEX); Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Partner Organisation
Consejo Nacional de Humanidades Ciencias y Tecnologías (CONAHCYT)
Spokesperson
Professor Dr. Stefan Rinke
Cooperation Partners
Professor Dr. Alberto Aziz Nassif; Professorin Dr. María Isabel Belausteguigoitia Rius; Professor Dr. Ilán Bizberg; Professorin Dr. Teresa Carbó Pérez; Professorin Dr. Rosalba Casas Guerrero; Professorin Virginia Garcia Acosta; Professorin Luz Elena Gutiérrez de Velasco; Professor Dr. Bernd Hausberger; Professor Dr. Antonio Ibarra; Professor Dr. Jean François Prud`homme; Professor Dr. Ricardo Pérez Montfort; Professor Dr. Carlos Riojas; Professor Dr. Juan Manuel Sandoval Palacios; Professor Dr. Mariano Torres; Professorin Dr. Lorenza Villa Lever; Professorin Dr. Liliana Weinberg; Professor Dr. Guillermo Zermeno
Participating Researchers
Professorin Dr. Marianne Braig; Professor Dr. Sergio Costa; Professor Dr. Ottmar Ette; Professorin Dr. Barbara Fritz; Professorin Dr. Debora Gerstenberger; Professor Dr. Dieter Ingenschay; Professorin Dr. Susanne Klengel; Professorin Dr. Ingrid Kummels
IRTG-Partner: Spokesperson
Professor Dr. Carlos Alba Vega