Deadline- 20 August 2013
Applications are accepted for Fellowships at the Center for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen. The topic for this fellowship research will be Culture“ as a limit and/or a resource for global cooperation. The purpose of this program is to focus on the cultural premises and dynamics of emergent governance structures in current world society and analyzing the possibilities for global cooperation.
The Center is interested in the following questions:
- What has, historically, been the role of cultural change for global cooperation? Does ‘time’ (for instance as experience of acceleration) have an effect on cooperation? Were there periods of change in regard to global cooperation that reflect different levels of organisations (such as villages, nation-states)? What can we ‘learn’ from those experiences for a better understanding of global cooperation in the 21st century?
- Does ‘cooperation’ have the same meaning in different cultural settings? What are the implications of different historical meanings for global cooperation in the 21st century?
- How can we understand and explain the proliferation of supra local and supranational „we-identities“, their inscription into cosmopolitan norms, rules and citizenship regulation?
- How do cultural differences and diversity interfere in international bargaining processes and situations (global challenges – universal rules vs. universalized rules – cultural references)? Do new technologies have an effect on rules of international diplomacy? In how far does the meaning and importance of cultural diversity have an impact on nation-, democracy-, and peace building operations?
Eligibility & Criteria-
- Invited are applicants from behavioural sciences, anthropology, social sciences, history as well as cultural studies, but also practitioners from governance and non-governmental organisations, social movements and networks who would like to discuss their experiences in an academic framework.
- The Centre is especially interested in applications from the Global South.
- The Centre looks in particular for researchers who are interested in-
- trans- and interdisciplinary research
- critical and culturally diverse perspectives on global cooperation
- innovative methodological approaches and experimental ways to do and discuss their research.
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