{"id":270,"date":"2021-06-09T13:52:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T11:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/posthumus.sites.uu.nl\/?page_id=270"},"modified":"2021-06-09T13:52:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T11:52:20","slug":"inclusion-exclusion-mobility","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/?page_id=270","title":{"rendered":"Research Network ‘Inclusion, Exclusion, and Mobility’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Flemish-Dutch research network on ‘Inclusion, Exclusion, and Mobility’ is a\u00a0 network for scholars working on the broad field of social history from the late medieval period to the present. It also welcomes PhD-researchers who work on stand-alone projects that relate to social history.<\/p>\n

Research directors<\/h2>\n

Dr Kristof Loockx<\/a> (University of Antwerp)
\nDr Swantje Falcke<\/a> (Utrecht University)<\/p>\n

Description<\/h2>\n

Researchers in the Inclusion, Exclusion and Mobility network are interested in how past communities functioned, looking at both the forces that kept people and social groups together and at what drove them apart. Research topics include the study of social relations, group formation, and social conflicts, in both urban and rural settings.<\/p>\n

Focus points<\/h2>\n
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  1. The inclusion and exclusion of social groups due to factors such as gender, race, ethnicity, or class<\/em>. Processes of inclusion and exclusion are quintessential to examine the ways communities functioned and are strongly linked to the balance of power within communities. As such, research on the role of intersectionality in community forming and the tools used to define these communities is an important component of this network. We want to explicitly look at the vulnerable and less powerful groups within these communities and at how their position, level of agency, and capacity to navigate historical changes can be defined.<\/li>\n
  2. The effects of mobility and immobility<\/em>. Migration \u2013 internal, seasonal, emigration, immigration, asylum, forced movement, return \u2013 was an integral part of late medieval, early modern and modern societies, impacting significantly upon the ways in which they functioned. But, mobility does not solely relate to the geographical movement of people. Our researchers also work on processes of social mobility and immobility, studying to what extent the position of groups and individuals within societies changed over time.<\/li>\n
  3. The role of institutions within societies<\/em>. We are particularly interested in the impact of institutions on processes of inclusion and exclusion and on geographical and social mobility within communities. Several of our researchers focus on the rise of \u2018civil society\u2019 or, in other words, the institutions that do not belong to the market or state, but are formed by citizens, such as guilds, churches, voluntary associations, charitable bodies, NGOs, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Projects<\/h2>\n