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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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