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Research Area A: Governance & Administration
This Research Area deals with the cultural flows through which concepts, institutions and practices that have to do with governance and administration are transferred across cultures locally, regionally, or globally, and are reconfigured in a continuous but non-linear historical process. It sets out to discover, in all three realms, the particular factors pushing, pulling, and blocking such flows and translating their contents, to map the transculturally shared but mostly intangible basic features that result from this process, and to trace the dynamics in which the concerned cultures deal with a perceived asymmetry in their governance and administration.
The institutional framework of human communities is a core factor in the life environment of individuals and groups. It develops in a complex negotiation between a changing social imaginaire and the powers on the ground. Such communities are in contact and conflict with other communities and establish and change their concepts and values, their institutional set-up, and the practice of their governance and administration in an exchange and competition with them. Asymmetries in the effectiveness and power of different communities may lead to asymmetrical cultural flows as a way to overcome the differential. The process has been radicalised in the modern age to the point of having become global.
- A1 Citizenship
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Coordination: Subrata K. Mitra
Citizenship as Conceptual Flow: Asia in a Comparative Perspective
- A2 Schoolbooks
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Coordination: Gotelind Müller-Saini, Wolfgang Seifert
Cultural Flows in History Education: Shifting Re-creations of European and Asian ‘Others’ in East Asian Schoolbooks
- A3 Networking
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Coordination: Madeleine Herren-Oesch
The Real Fiction of Unreal Equality: Networking the International System
- A4 Bureaucracies
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Coordination: Susan Richter
The Fascination of Efficiency: Migrating Ideas and Emerging Bureaucracies in Europe and Asia since the Early Modern Era
- A5 Nationising the Dynasty
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Coordination: Barbara Mittler, Gita Dharampal-Frick, Thomas Maissen, Bernd Schneidmüller
Nationising the Dynasty. Asymmetrical Flows in Conceptions of Government
- A6 Cultures of Disaster
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Coordination: Gerrit Jasper Schenk
Cultures of Disaster. Shifting Asymmetries between Societies, Cultures, and Nature from a Comparative Historical and Transcultural Perspective
- A7 Ottoman Empire
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Coordination: Michael Ursinus, Thomas Maissen
Dynamic Asymmetries in Transcultural Flows at the Intersection of Asia and Europe: The Case of the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
- A8 Teaching Identity
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Coordination: Gotelind Müller-Saini, Wolfgang Seifert
Teaching Identity: Re-shaping the Citizen in Chinese and Japanese Language History Schoolbooks in Manchuria (1931-1945)
- A9 Cultural Transfer
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Coordination: Antje Flüchter
Cultural Transfer as a Factor of State Building
- A10 Lives Beyond Borders
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Coordination: Ines Prodöhl, Madeleine Herren-Oesch
Lives Beyond Borders: Toward a Social History of Cosmopolitans and Globalization, 1880-1960
- A11 Development of Citizenship
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Coordination: Thomas Maissen, Susan Richter
The Development of Citizenship in a Transcultural Context
- A12 Framing Visions
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Coordination: Gotelind Müller-Saini
Framing Visions of Self and Other: History, Television and the State in Contemporary China
Research Area Coordinator
Sven Externbrink
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