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New Books in GeographyAnca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă, "Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires" (Cornell UP, 2022)The episode features Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatca, co-authors of an extraordinary, field-shifting new book – Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires (Cornell University Press, 2022). Dr. Boatca is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Freiburg in Germany, where she teaches and publishes widely on world-systems analysis, decolonial perspectives on global inequalities, gender and citizenship in modernity/coloniality, and the geopolitics of knowledge in Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Dr. Parvulescu joins us from St. Louis where she teaches at the Washington University’s English Department. A prolific author, she has worked in the fields of literary theory...2022-12-1042 min
New Books in AnthropologyAnca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă, "Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires" (Cornell UP, 2022)The episode features Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatca, co-authors of an extraordinary, field-shifting new book – Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires (Cornell University Press, 2022). Dr. Boatca is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Freiburg in Germany, where she teaches and publishes widely on world-systems analysis, decolonial perspectives on global inequalities, gender and citizenship in modernity/coloniality, and the geopolitics of knowledge in Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Dr. Parvulescu joins us from St. Louis where she teaches at the Washington University’s English Department. A prolific author, she has worked in the fields of literary theory...2022-12-1042 min
New Books in Eastern European StudiesAnca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă, "Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires" (Cornell UP, 2022)The episode features Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatca, co-authors of an extraordinary, field-shifting new book – Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires (Cornell University Press, 2022). Dr. Boatca is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Freiburg in Germany, where she teaches and publishes widely on world-systems analysis, decolonial perspectives on global inequalities, gender and citizenship in modernity/coloniality, and the geopolitics of knowledge in Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Dr. Parvulescu joins us from St. Louis where she teaches at the Washington University’s English Department. A prolific author, she has worked in the fields of literary theory...2022-12-1042 min
Die Welt(markt)gesellschaft: Vom Handel mit Waren, Daten und MenschenDritte Diskussionsrunde mit Dr. John Ralston Saul, Prof. Dr. Lars P. Feld, Prof. Dr. Yunxiang Yan und Prof. Dr. Manuela BoatcaIn der von Professorin Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha geleiteten Diskussion sprechen Professor Lars P. Feld, Professorin Manuela Boatca, Professor Yunxiang Yan und Dr. John Ralston Saul über weltweite Gesellschaftsentwicklung, Einwanderungspolitik und die globalen Unterschiede in der Demografie.2014-03-1738 minDie Welt(markt)gesellschaft: Vom Handel mit Waren, Daten und MenschenGlobale Ungleichheiten und Staatsbürgerschaft. Zur Vererbung eines knappen GutesProf. Dr. Manuela Boatca, Professorin für Soziologie globaler Ungleichheiten am Lateinamerika-Institut, FU Berlin, spricht über soziale Ungleichheiten in modernen Gesellschaften. Die Staatsbürgerschaft stellt einen zentralen Mechanismus der Ungleichheit zwischen Ländern dar.2014-03-1123 min