Project Details
Projekt
GRK 1261: The Critical Junctures of Globalisation
Subject Area
Social Sciences
Term
from 2006 to 2015
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 968612
The Research Training Group analyses the process of globalisation in relation to its critical junctures. What we mean by this are the historical spaces, moments and arenas of globalisation, which produce a struggle for new spatial reference points and in which a new segmentation of the world becomes evident. In the form of fragmentation and reconfiguration, critical junctures of globalisation are characterised by the destabilisation and unfolding of spatial reference points. The critical junctures generate specific resources and circumstances for social and cultural action.
The aim of the programme is to describe these critical junctures in more detail and, from the analysis of empirical case studies as well as appropriate theoretical considerations, a cogent form of globalisation research will be developed, which is informed by history, the social sciences and cultural studies. We are assuming that globalisation is characterised by - on the one hand - a permanent dialectic of de-territorialisation through cultural interweaving and the acceleration of communication and mobility, and - on the other hand - a re-territorialisation marked by the striving for the most sovereign organisation of possibilities of action and identification processes.
Accordingly conflicts focus, in distinct crisis situations and decision making camps, upon a measured spatial reference of social and cultural action. Critical junctures of globalisation can be seen at different levels of the resolution and reconfiguration of social spaces. They refer to the central characteristic of the globalisation process, which, despite the various different phenomena of the de- and re-territorialisation of social and cultural action, exist in a global context.
A decidedly interdisciplinary composition of applicants guarantees a comparative research programme marked by a distinct approach based upon the analysis of networks and cultural entanglements. The programme consists of a historical depth of the end of the 18th century and includes case studies on Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Involving a large network of international cooperation, and supported by a modular study programme, an international guest lecturer programme as well as interdisciplinary co-supervision in work groups, the Research Training Group offers excellent PhD candidates the possibility of writing a dissertation in a dynamic field which has deep resonance for society as a whole.
The aim of the programme is to describe these critical junctures in more detail and, from the analysis of empirical case studies as well as appropriate theoretical considerations, a cogent form of globalisation research will be developed, which is informed by history, the social sciences and cultural studies. We are assuming that globalisation is characterised by - on the one hand - a permanent dialectic of de-territorialisation through cultural interweaving and the acceleration of communication and mobility, and - on the other hand - a re-territorialisation marked by the striving for the most sovereign organisation of possibilities of action and identification processes.
Accordingly conflicts focus, in distinct crisis situations and decision making camps, upon a measured spatial reference of social and cultural action. Critical junctures of globalisation can be seen at different levels of the resolution and reconfiguration of social spaces. They refer to the central characteristic of the globalisation process, which, despite the various different phenomena of the de- and re-territorialisation of social and cultural action, exist in a global context.
A decidedly interdisciplinary composition of applicants guarantees a comparative research programme marked by a distinct approach based upon the analysis of networks and cultural entanglements. The programme consists of a historical depth of the end of the 18th century and includes case studies on Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Involving a large network of international cooperation, and supported by a modular study programme, an international guest lecturer programme as well as interdisciplinary co-supervision in work groups, the Research Training Group offers excellent PhD candidates the possibility of writing a dissertation in a dynamic field which has deep resonance for society as a whole.
DFG Programme
Research Training Groups
Applicant Institution
Universität Leipzig
Spokesperson
Professor Dr. Ulf Engel
Participating Researchers
Professor Dr. Utz Dornberger; Professor Dr. Jörg Gertel; Professor Dr. Adam Jones; Professor Dr. Sebastian Lentz; Professor Dr. Matthias Middell; Professorin Dr. Steffi Richter; Professor Dr. Stefan Troebst; Professorin Dr. Monika Wohlrab-Sahr; Professorin Dr. Heidrun Zinecker
