Project-making and discourse imperialism instead of cooperation and innovation? Some re-flections on my experiences in the European research area
German By Peter-Paul Bänziger (University of Basel) In a 2017 interview, Tuğrul Erbaydar, a physician and founding member of AİDS Savaşım Derneği (Association for the Fight against AIDS), explored the history of AIDS and HIV in 1990s Turkey. Among other things, [...]
Knowledge and Power: The Languages of Academia
Italian By Christian De Vito (Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies) This text was originally written 2019 in Italian, and published under the title Sapere e potere: le lingue dell’accademia in the journal Zapruder, no. 52 (2020): 193–200. It is [...]
Empowerment of new actors and homogenisation of perspectives? The ambivalent effects of European research funding on academic work in the field of rural and agrarian history. A call for a debate.
German By Peter Moser (Archives of Rural History, Bern) Somewhat parallel to the rise of economic and social history, a marginalisation of agricultural historical research and the securing and indexing of sources relating to rural society from the 19th and 20th [...]
Why publishing in English can be the best choice: Experiences of a gender history scholar from Central and Eastern Europe
Polish By Natalia Jarska (Institute of History, Polish Academy of Science, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University in Brno) As I am writing this blog entry, I recall the recent statements by the Polish Minister of Education and Science about publishing [...]
Blog Series #2: Narrowing the horizon. The ambivalent effects of European research funding on academic work.
German Spanish French Polish Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian Edited by Peter-Paul Bänziger, Universität Basel The European research funding, as it is provided not least with the COST Actions, undoubtedly has its positive sides. Not least, it supports cooperation beyond linguistic [...]
Blog Series #3: Convict Labour: Right or Duty? Coercion and Labour Regimes for Prisoners in the 21st Century
In many countries, one way for prisoners to improve their situation in prison is to get a job. Convict labour, however, is often regulated in an ambiguous way. On the one hand, even in the countries where work is considered a right, it is [...]