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-------- Original-Nachricht -------- clash of civilizations; the coming of anarchy; empire - diese globalen Szenarios und ihr Entstehen sind Thema des renommierten Anthropologen Ulf Hannerz. Diese Geschichten haben ein großes, internationales Publikum erreicht und zu Diskussionen und Auseinandersetzungen geführt. Hannerz diskutiert die Frage, ob es ein transnationales, kollektives Bewusstsein gibt und wie dieses entstanden ist? ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 28. Jänner 2008 Ort: IFK Zeit: 18 Uhr c. t. Vortrag (in englischer Sprache) ULF HANNERZ THE GEOCULTURAL IMAGINATION: SCENARIOS AND STORY LINES The geocultural imagination engages in a kind of mapmaking, seeking to grasp the distribution of things cultural over territories and their human populations, in the past, present, and future. Such thinking has an extensive history in the cultural sciences. Recently the geocultural imagination has become more volatile, readily crossing the boundaries between academic and public arenas. Since the 1990s a number of global scenarios have appeared "clash of civilizations", "the coming anarchy", "Empire" primarily with geopolitical intent, but often based on geocultural assumptions. Such scenarios have reached large transnational audiences, leading to critiques and debates. They also interact with the need of global journalism for steady story lines, to guide news reporting from various regions. This mixed genre of scholarship and journalism can be scrutinized at two levels. The writings can be evaluated with regard to their acceptability as scholarship concerned with cultural organization and process. They can also be viewed as significant components in an emergent transnational collective consciousness, a set of representations of the world which circulate in a world-wide web of social relationships. Ulf Hannerz is Professor emeritus of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, Sweden (where he also received his Ph. D. in 1969) and has taught at several American, European, Asian and Australian universities. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an honorary fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, a former Chair of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, and a former director of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences (SCASSS). His research has been especially in urban anthropology, media anthropology, and transnational cultural processes, with field studies in West Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. More recently he has been engaged in a study of the work of news media foreign correspondents, including field research in four continents, and in directing an interdisciplinary research project on cosmopolitanism. He is IFK_Senior Fellow. Publications (among others): Soulside. Inquiries into Ghetto Culture and Community, New York 1969; Exploring the City. Inquiries Toward an Urban Anthropology, New York 1980; Cultural Complexity. Studies in the Social Organization of Meaning, New York 1992; Transnational Connections, London 1996; Foreign News. Exploring the World of Foreign Correspondents, Chicago 2004. Several of Ulf Hannerz publications have also appeared in French, Spanish, Italian and Polish. He was the Anthropology editor for the International Enyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2001). Hannerz was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 198485, gave the Lewis Henry Morgan lectures at the University of Rochester in 2000 and a Munro Lecture at the University of Edinburgh in 2002. In 2005 he was awarded an honorary doctorate at the University of Oslo. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Kontakt: Mag.a Edith Wildmann .:. Tel.: +43-1-504 11 26-28 .:. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________ IFK Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften Reichsratsstraße 17 1010 Wien Österreich/Austria Tel.: (+43-1) 504 11 26 Fax: (+43-1) 504 11 32 http://www.ifk.ac.at _______________________________________________ netznetz.net mailing list [email protected] http://listen.esel.at/mailman/listinfo/liste
