Von einer Geographie der Verräumlichung zu Geographien von Raumsemantiken. Digital Humanities als Schlüssel.

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

Ute Wardenga (SFB 1199 & Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde, Leipzig, Germany)

Ute Wardenga is an honorary professor of global studies at Leipzig University (Germany) and serves on the executive boards of the Centre for Area Studies and the Graduate School Global and Area Studies. Since 2012, she has been the deputy director of the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig where she coordinates the research group “History and Geography”. Ute Wardenga’s current research interests focus on geography as a space-related practice in the process of globalization and in this regard leads the SFB project C1, which compares international histories of geographical societies since the early 19th century. Most recently, she has co-directed the research project entitled “Digital Atlas of Geopolitical Imaginaries of Eastern Central Europe”, which explored the impact of cartographic and mass media representations of space in Eastern Central Europe since 1989.

Ninja Steinbach- Hüther (SFB 1199 & Leibniz-Insititut für Länderkunde, Leipzig, Germany)

Ninja Steinbach-Hüther earned a PhD in Global studies from Leipzig University and the École normale supérieure, Paris, with a study on the “Circulation of African knowledge. Presence and reception of African academic literature in France and Germany”. Before, she studied French culture studies and Intercultural communication, English literature (Transcultural anglophone studies) and German as a foreign language at the University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken, as well as European studies during a semester abroad at Cardiff University, Wales. For several years, she worked as a research assistant, then as the project coordinator of a German-Greek bilateral research project at the Global and European Studies Institute at Leipzig University. Her academic interests include the circulation of knowledge in a globalizing world, cultural transfers, the theoretical and methodological approaches for the investigation of spatial formats and spatial orders and the actors within these processes. She particularly interested in Digital Humanities-driven approaches combined with conventional research perspectives to these topics and their applicability in an interdisciplinary research environment.

Dirk Hänsgen (Leibniz-Insitut für Länderkunde, Leipzig, Germany)

After studying geography and political science, in 1991 Dirk Hänsgen received a Magister Artium for a work on Anglo-American geopolitical concepts in the 20th century. From 1992 to 1997, he was an assistant at the chair of geography and its didactics at the University of Trier and also worked temporarily at the Documentation Centre for German Regional Studies at the same university. From 1998 to 1999, he worked in the map department of the Berlin State Library. Since 2000, he has been at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL) in Leipzig. First, he was a member of the editorial staff of the Nationalatlas Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Since 2011, he has worked in the research group “Historical geographies” in various projects on map history, critical map and mapping analysis, as well as geopolitical imaginations and imaginaries.

Thomas Efer (Automatische Sprachverarbeitung Leipzig University, Germany)

Thomas Efer works at the Department of Automatic Speech Processing at the Institute of Computer Science at Leipzig University. Since 2018, he has been a research assistant in the project Bibliotheca Arabica of the Saxon Academy of Sciences Leipzig. Since 2011, he has been a member of the program committee of the “Student Conference Computer Science” (SKILL). He is a reviewer for “Digital Humanities Quarterly” (DHQ) since 2016, for the Data Science Journal (DSJ) of the International Science Council’s Committee on Data for Science and Technology since 2016, and for the Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities (JDMDH) since 2017.