24. Jul 2023
IMPRS “Global Multiplicity: A Social Anthropology for the Now”
spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Ursula Rao, coordinator: Dr. Patrick Desplat (funding 2023-2029)
The topics of the research school respond to the current challenges faced by people around the world: climate change, environmental destruction, and species extinction; health crises; social inequality and the legacies of colonial rule; geopolitical tensions, nationalism, wars and civil wars. The vehemence and simultaneity of these phenomena has resulted in an increased sense of crisis everywhere in the world. This leads to a prolonged, intensive debate about what these changes mean, how to shape the future, and who bears the responsibility for doing so. While investigating processes of societal change and transformation has always been a key concern of the social sciences, there is still much that is not yet known about how reactions to current global transformations differ regionally and how they influence one another. The IMPRS doctoral students will therefore dedicate themselves to investigating the strategies and paradigms that people are developing to grapple with the challenges of the present. [read more]
Partner(s):
• Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
• Leipzig University
• Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
