College of Fellows

Global Encounters: Neighbourhoods

Neighbourhoods are increasingly understood, within many branches of scholarship from urban planning to oral histories and archaeology, as places of global encounters. The Global Encounters Fellows cohort in 2024 brings together scholars working on one or more of the following research questions: How are local neighbourhoods global? What guarantees cohesion in neighbourhoods, and how do they deal with conflict and contradiction? What forms of proximity, privacy or distance are needed to make neighbourhoods exist? What conceptual instruments (narrative, political, juridical, governmental, praxeological, religious, etc.) are utilized to make sense of a neighbourhood? What temporal scales are employed to imagine and narrate neighbourhoods, and what spatial models (geographic, architectural, planning-based) serve the work of reflection and articulation? How do forces of globalization, migration and digitalization transform ways of doing and thinking neighbourhood? What notions of homogeneity or heterogeneity underpin ideas of neighbourhood? Are neighbourhoods significantly different from each other whether situated in the North or the South – or within overlapping interzones (e.g. the North in the South)? Are these categories of any utility in conceptualizing the neighbourhood to come? What are the parameters of a neighbourhood-studies that is equipped to deal with the challenges of the mid-21st century?

News

Call for Contributions

Workshop: The Complexities and Dynamics of Social Interaction and Encounters in Neighborhoods

University of Tübingen, 30-31 January 2025

The College of Fellow's Focus Group Neighbourhoods and the Global Encounters Platform at the University of Tübingen are organizing a two-day international workshop in January 2025 to provide an interdisciplinary platform for academics, researchers, policymakers, activists, and professionals to reevaluate the ways of doing and thinking in the neighborhood. It will sharpen the sociological, anthropological, historical, philosophical, cultural, religious, linguistic, and economic dimensions of the complexities and dynamics of social interaction in neighborhoods considering spatiality, temporality, and the agency of change and resistance.

We seek submissions from scholars, activists, and policymakers whose work addresses the following conceptual, theoretical, and practical questions: What are the factors of social change in the neighborhood? What is the role of agency that shapes social interaction within the neighborhood? How did colonialism transform contemporary neighborhoods? How do people utilize temporal and spatial dynamics to (re)organize neighborhood encounters and sociality? How do migration, international mobility, industrial capitalism, urbanization, and technological developments affect neighborhoods? How do neighborhoods resist the changes occasioned by heterogeneity? How do neighborhoods communicate with each other? What guarantees cohesion in a neighborhood? And how do neighborhoods deal with conflict and contradictions?

Interested participants are invited to submit a title and abstract of not more than 300 words in English and institutional affiliation to global-encountersspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de by 13 November 2024.

People

Dr. Deep Chand

Global Encounters Fellow

Dr. Cansu Civelek

Global Encounters Fellow

Dr. Olisa Godson

 Global Encounters Fellow

Dr. Murtala Ibrahim

Global Encounters Fellow

Jun-Prof. Dr. Bani Gill

Soziologie/Urban Futures of the Global South (Host)

Prof. Dr. Bernd-Stefan Grewe

Institute of Didactics of History and Public History  (Host)

Prof. Dr. Andreas Hasenclever

Platform Global Encounters (Host)

Prof. Dr. Boris Nieswand

Sociology (Host)

Matthias Bornemann

Platform Global Encounters

Dr. Sara Bangert

College of Fellows

Events

Global Encounters Workshop "Neighbourhoods"

Date and time: 26 April, 12-15 h
Location: Alte Aula
Topic: Global Encounter Workshop "Neighbourhoods"

In the summer semester, the College of Fellows, together with the Global Encounters Platform, welcomes four new Global Encounters Fellows to Tübingen, who work together and with other Fellows and Tübingen scholars in a Focus Group "Neighbourhoods".