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On September, 30 at 19:00 Max Weber Stiftung - Georgian Branch Office will host the lecture: "Global History From the Margins".The lecture by Robert Kramm ((LMU Munich, Freigeist Fellow & Junior Research Group Leader “Radical Utopian Communities“) is part of the "Global History" series.
Global history perspectives have unearthed the multiple forms of a world connected, and demonstrated the accelerated and intensified contacts, encounters, flows, transfers, networks in the modern world. Yet, how does this modern, connected world look like from the margins? And what are the challenges, chances, and opportunities to narrate this modern world beyond the grand narratives of capital, empire, and (nation) state power?
This lecture will address these issues by the example of radical utopian communities that were built all around the world in the first half of the twentieth century. Such communes mostly existed in spatially remote and sometimes also socially secluded spaces, usually apart from the urbanizing metropoles and developing industrial centers. They often followed the aim of creating a self-governed, autarchic lifestyle based on collective, agricultural labor. And they reflected on and developed new concepts of an ideal society, experimented with new ways of being, and established a base for staging their radical utopian projects.
Based on case studies in South Africa, imperial Japan and colonial Jamaica, this lecture highlights the astounding global pervasiveness of radical utopian communities. It demonstrates, firstly, that alternative, and arguably radical communal life was possible despite of—and arguably because of—the multiple constraints of empire and global capitalism in the early twentieth century, and, secondly, how their analysis opens avenues of possibilities for developing critical global history perspectives from the margins.
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Please note, registration is open until September 28, 2024!
Venue: Max Weber Stiftung - Georgia Branch Office, Rustaveli Avenue, 20
Language: English (without translation) See less
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Rustaveli Avenue 20, 0108 Tbilisi, Georgia, შოთა რუსთაველის გამზირი 10, თბილისი, საქართველო,Tbilisi, Georgia
