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WITTGENSTEIN
AWARD 2000
LOCAL IDENTITIES AND WIDER INFLUENCES
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NOTICE
for all visitors:
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We
want to inform you that the research program came
to an end on the 31st of March 2007. Since that time the
data on this homepage will not be updated anymore.
By the 1st of January 2007 the Social Anthropology Unit was transformed into the Social Anthropology Research Unit. It is now part of the Centre for Studies in Asian Cultures and Social Anthropology. In May 2007 the Social Anthropology Research Unit will move into its new office:
Prinz Eugen-Straße 8-10, 1st floor
A-1040 Vienna
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The research program "Local Identities and wider Influences"
was established at the Austrian
Academy of Sciences (Social Anthropology Unit) on 1st January 2001. When Prof.
Andre Gingrich won the Wittgenstein Award for the year 2000
the prize money made it possible to establish this six-year
research program. A small amount of the prize money has been
invested into cooperations with the University of Vienna (Center
for Advanced Gender Studies and Department
of Social and Cultural Anthropology).
Research-Directive Perspectives
The research program deals with the current social and historical
changes of structure under the conditions of processes of
globalization and regional integration. The aim is to conduct
a regionally specific as well as comparative and transcultural
research of the dynamics of changing claims to hegemony from
the perspective of cultural and social anthropology.
Instead of proceeding from sweeping hypotheses of cultural
streamlining, economic uniformity and medial standardization,
the aim is to strive for scientific differentiation and concrete
analyses of local and wider processes of change. The simultaneousness
of globalization and regionalization demands a dialectic approach
to cultural and social developments that cannot be reached
from a perspective of centre/periphery.
Regional focuses
Three regional areas are anchored within the research program:
the Middle East, Tibet and Europe (including post-Communist
Southeastern Europe). Three subject-oriented research teams
are working on these regional focuses:
In the three regional research focuses, local cultural processes
are empirically recorded and analyzed with respect to wider
influences (transnational and religious forms of hegemony,
migration movements, formation of national states, phenomena
of globalization, medial practices, forms and conditions of
the formation of ethnicalization and identity).
The essential findings of the research program are published
in three Volumes and made utilizable for a potentially wide
field of application via the follow-up project "Handbook
Globalisation Face to Face. Anthropological Insights for Practical
Use".
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