18.09.2015

3rd Biennial Results Conference of the SPP 1448

The third and final Biennial Results Conference of the SPP 1448 will be held from 29 September to 2 October 2016[more]


01.09.2015

New book: "Cultures and Disasters: Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction"

A former SPP-Member, Fred Krüger, published a new book. This book has just appeared and should be of interest to some SPP members: "Cultures and Disasters: Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction"[more]

Category: News

17.08.2015

SPP 1448 Working Paper No. 15 now online

We are happy to announce the fifteenth issue of the SPP 1448 Working Paper Series: Model transfer in the making: changing development strategies of, and expectations towards, the state in Ethiopia and Ghana The fifteenth...[more]


12.08.2015

Call for papers: International Sociological Association (ISA) Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS International Sociological Association (ISA) Conference Panel in the Research Committee 35 "Conceptual and terminological analysis" Session 6: Modernity Re-Visited: The Role of Technology and...[more]


03.08.2015

Report on workshop "Technologies of control and the limits of social creativity"

The workshop "Technologies of control and the limits of social creativity" took place from June 18-20, 2015 and was organised by the research project “Roads and Roadsides: Towards an Understanding of Appropriation and Creativity...[more]


21.07.2015

Job Advertisement: Research Fellow/Lecturer in the Graduate Program

Job Advertisement: Research Fellow/Lecturer in the Graduate Program (full-time) at The Graduate School of Urban Studies (URBANgrad) at Darmstadt University of Technology[more]


22.06.2015

New article: "2002, Year Zero: History as Anti-Politics in the ‘New Angola’" by Jon Schubert

In his latest article, CAS postdoctoral researcher Jon Schubert details how Angola’s ruling MPLA has been promoting a ‘master narrative’ of ‘peace and reconstruction’ since the end of the war in 2002, through which the Angolan...[more]