{"id":249,"date":"2021-06-03T23:02:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T21:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/posthumus.sites.uu.nl\/?page_id=249"},"modified":"2021-06-03T23:02:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T21:02:01","slug":"research-network-globalization-inequality-sustainable-development-long-term-perspective","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/?page_id=249","title":{"rendered":"Research Network ‘Globalisation, Inequality and Sustainability in Long-Term Perspective’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The network aims to enhance inter-university research cooperation between economic, social, technology and business historians working on globalisation, (economic) inequality and sustainable development in the Flemish-Dutch research community.<\/p>\n

Research directors<\/h2>\n

Dr ir Frank Veraart<\/a> (Eindhoven University of Technology)
\nDr Daniel Gallardo Albarr\u00e1n<\/a> (Wageningen University & Research)<\/p>\n

Description<\/h2>\n

This research network is a continuation of the former Research Network ‘Drivers and Carriers of Globalisation’, and is organised around three interrelated key themes central to current debates in the social sciences: globalisation, inequality, and sustainable development. These themes arguably represent some of the greatest societal challenges facing the world today. Our network aims to contribute to a better understanding of these challenges by rooting these themes in a historical perspective. The network hosts a variety of approaches, e.g. comparative and transnational, and stimulates the use of both quantitative and qualitative methods. Research within this network is not confined to a particular period of time. The network welcomes research initiatives, projects and thinking that tackle issues of globalisation, inequality, and sustainability in a long-term perspective.<\/p>\n

Focus points<\/h2>\n

The network distinguishes three subthemes:<\/p>\n

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  1. Questions related to the subtheme of global connections and integration, or globalisation<\/em>, of which various historians have shown that many characteristics of of its present-day\u2019s processes can be traced back much further in time. Global history means both a way of looking at history, unravelling the interconnectedness of particular developments and phenomena, as well as a study object on its own:\n