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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 Group’s 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: Spokesperson Professor Dr. Carlos Alba Vega
 
 

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