Monolith oder Experiment? Der Block als Raumformat.

Abstract

Der Leipziger Sonderforschungsbereich 1199 arbeitet an einer Theorie von Prozessen der Neuverräumlichung unter den Bedingungen sich wandelnder Globalisierung. Diese geht mit dem Wandel von Territorialstaaten im Zuge von Nationalisierung und Kolonisierung, später auch Dekolonialisierung einher, sie führt zu kulturellen Verflechtungen und Wertschöpfungsketten über Grenzen hinweg und regt die Bildung von politischen Enklaven und ökonomischen Sonderzonen an. Die Vielfalt der Neuverräumlichungen ist beträchtlich. Sie alle sind Anpassungen an die Herausforderungen, die Menschen-, Waren-, Kapital- und Ideenströme sowie die Fluidität von Viren für etablierte Ordnungen darstellen. Dieser Band führt wichtige Erträge der Forschung vor, die der SFB in seiner ersten Arbeitsphase erzielt hat, und erlaubt auf diese Weise einen Blick in die interdisziplinäre Werkstatt eines großangelegten Verbundes, der die historische Entwicklung vom späteren 18. bis zum frühen 21. Jahrhundert in den Amerikas ebenso wie in verschiedenen Teilen Afrikas, Asiens und Europas untersucht.

Biographical Note

Stefan Troebst (SFB1199 & GWZO, Germany)

Stefan Troebst studied history and Slavic studies from 1975 on in Tübingen (then West Germany) and at the Free University of (then West) Berlin, Sofia (Bulgaria), Leningrad (today St. Petersburg, then Soviet Union, today Russian Federation), Skopje (then Yugoslavia, today Macedonia), Bloomington, Indiana (USA). In 1984, he obtained a PhD degree in Russian and East European history and Slavic studies at the Free University of Berlin where he also completed his habilitation in 1995. After terms as assistant and associate professor at the Free University of Berlin, in 1992 he left academia and became a German member in the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) missions of long duration to former Yugoslavia and the former Soviet Union. In 1996, he was nominated founding director of the Danish-German European Centre for Minority Issues, and in 1999 a full professor at Leipzig University. His research focuses on the history of the subregions of Europe’s eastern half (Southeastern Europe, East-Central Europe, Northeastern Europe and Muscovy/Russia/Soviet Union), on the modern history of Europe, on the history of international relations and international public law, as well as on politics of history and cultures of remembrance in contemporary Europe.

Steffi Marung (SFB 1199, Leipzig University, Germany)

Steffi Marung gained a PhD in global studies from the University of Leipzig with a study on shifting border regimes of the expanding European Union since 1990. Prior to earning her PhD, she had studied political science and German literature in Halle, Berlin, and Prague. From there she further developed her interest in processes of (re-)spatialization into an ongoing book project on the transnational history of Soviet African studies during the Cold War. In the framework of the international collaborative project “Socialism Goes Global”, she has extended this research towards more general questions of the geographies of East-South encounters during the Cold War. Teaching global history courses at the Global and European Studies Institute at the University of Leipzig and being involved in further book projects (one on the transnational history of East Central Europe since the nineteenth century, another one on the global history of area studies, and a third one on transregional studies), she contributes to the SFB’s programme with research on the historiographical background of and multiple disciplinary theoretical foundations for the investigation of spatial formats and spatial orders. To this end, she endeavours to facilitate and promote joint cross-project discussions and the formation of a common theoretical language and framework.

Uwe Müller (SFB 1199 & GWZO, Germany)

Uwe Müller studied history at Leipzig University and gained a PhD in economic history at the Humboldt University of Berlin. His research interests include the economic history of East Central Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with a special focus on the integration of this region in the European and world economy and the development of transport infrastructures.