The research network \u2018Routes and Roots in Colonial and Global History\u2019 convenes Dutch and Flemish scholars, whose aim it is to combine a global approach with a sensitivity for local and emic perspectives<\/p>\n
Dr Elisabeth Heijmans<\/a> (IISH) The research network \u2018Routes and Roots in Colonial and Global History\u2019 convenes Dutch and Flemish scholars, whose aim it is to combine a global approach with a sensitivity for local and emic perspectives. Projects within this network study globalizing societies starting from a micro level and highlight individual agency. Their focus is on the various ways these local societies and individual persons participated in inter-regional networks, how their encounters with \u2018others\u2019 impacted their (social, cultural, religious) lives on a local level, and how in turn these encounters also had an impact on these supra-local levels.<\/p>\n There is a wide range of research projects: from cosmopolitanism among the elites at the Indo-Islamic courts, to modern life-styles of contemporary Africans to non-western urbanisation. The network also includes studies on how new hardware, from ships, to roads, to cars, to cell phones, transformed spaces from relatively sequestered into globalised.<\/p>\n Research in this network further concerns interactions between colonial\/postcolonial policies and grassroots\u2019 negotiation of and impact on these colonial\/postcolonial policies. Or, focus on how missionary messages were transformed in local cultures and often resulted in indigenous re-translations of external concepts. As a rule of thumb these research projects include critical reflections on the various ways in which people contest, transform and appropriate their colonial heritage.<\/p>\n The network is planning to further its agenda by organising annual seminars with foreign guests and guest speakers from other Posthumus research networks devoted each year to a specific theme. We could think of themes like \u2018qualitative methodologies\u2019 (fieldwork, oral history etc.), \u2018Legal Pluralism\u2019, \u2018state formation\u2019, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The research network \u2018Routes and Roots in Colonial and Global History\u2019 convenes Dutch and Flemish scholars, whose aim it is to combine a global approach with a sensitivity for local and emic perspectives Research directors Dr Elisabeth Heijmans (IISH) Dr Dries Lyna (Radboud University) Dr Margot Luyckfasseel (University of Antwerp) Description The research network \u2018Routes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-272","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDr Dries Lyna<\/a> (Radboud University)
\nDr Margot Luyckfasseel<\/a> (University of Antwerp)<\/p>\nDescription<\/h2>\n
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