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Ideas form when your brain gets in touch with new perspectives. That’s why we have created this Lab: to provide all the necessary insights to enable your kick off!
Here, we provide you with ideas for research topics on transculturality and its implications – get inspired by the outlines presented in this Lab! Besides, we invite you to check out our existing projects and the opportunities to become a part of them. We are looking forward to jointly tackling burning issues of our present and future world.
We are pleased to introduce our new core format of the Transcultural Caravan’s research activities: Transcultural Research Groups. A Transcultural Research Group links inspiring people from various cultural and disciplinary backgrounds to work on a joint project on transcultural concerns. Below, you can find more information on the Transcultural Research Groups. And don’t forget to check out our current projects!
Please also discover our Blog, our Book or check out our latest Podcast.
Are you ready for transculturality?
Our Transcultural Research Groups
What is a Transcultural Research Group (TRG)?
A TRG consists of students, academics and professionals from various cultural and disciplinary backgrounds who work together on a joint research project.
What kind of research is done by TRGs?
TRG research projects address issues of transcultural relevance. All academic disciplines are invited to launch their topics on transcultural concerns.
What is the organizational structure of a TRG and the design of a TRG project?
TRGs are free to establish their own organizational structure and to choose their individual approach to answering their research questions. Actually, the process of coordinating the TRG, of designing the details of the project and of working on it as a team of people from different backgrounds is exactly the experience that we want to provide. That’s what transculturality is about!
What is the outcome of a TRG?
The findings and results of a TRG can be published as papers, theses or articles. Besides, they can be launched as a blog post or be presented on conferences, symposiums or summits, such as the annual Transcultural Leadership Summit.
What does the Transcultural Caravan offer you?
TRGs are founded and accompanied by us. We offer you a platform to connect with other inspiring people and to get the latest news on transcultural topics, recent publications and best practices. We help you to find financial support for your research.
You want to join a TRG or lauch a new one?
Please contact us.
Research ideas
Some questions for launching
What does transcultural leadership look like in action? What characterizes a truly global organization? And to which degree does a Code of Ethics contribute to reduce ambiguity within a multinational corporation?
What are the key factors of success and failure which led transcultural communities to flourish or to ruin? How can we translate these factors into today’s international organizations, globally operating companies and mega-cities? And in what way can we generate sustainability and wealth in those mega-cities regarding cultural hybridity, ecological awareness and economic progress?
To what degree does trade impact mutual understanding? How can we establish a respectful way of trading as has been practiced along the Silk Road’s transcultural cities? And is urbanization the new major economic factor?
What are the strategies to cooperate despite enormous ethnic and religious differences? How is diplomacy related to transcultural communication? And to which extent does this affect mutual acceptance, forced cooperation, and reciprocal learning?
Does the twenty-first century change the relationship between deviation and unity? What are the impacts on our identities? And should we think of identities as a concept of hybridity?
Which factors allow shared moral conceptions to emerge? How can they be implemented? And what is the role of Shared Mental Models linked with Shared Practices?
Material collection
Library
Material collection
Library
Relevant literature
Resources in English
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Meyer, Erin
The culture map : breaking through the invisible boundaries of global business / Erin Meyer. – 1. ed. – New York, NY : PublicAffairs, 2014. – VIII, 277 p. -
Mangubhai, Jayshree P.
Human rights as practice : Dalit women securing livelihood entitlements in South India / Jayshree P. Mangubhai. – 1. ed. – New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2014. – XIII, 295 p. -
The Oxford handbook of the Indian economy in the 21st century
The Oxford handbook of the Indian economy in the 21st century : understanding the inherent dynamism / ed. by Ashima Goyal. – 1. ed. – New Delhi : Oxford Univ. Press, 2014. – LXXIV, 965 p. -
Clark, Gregory
The son also rises : surnames and the history of social mobility / Gregory Clark … – Princeton, NJ : Princeton Univ. Press, 2014. – XII, 364 p. (The Princeton economic history of the Western world) -
Transcultural encounters between Germany and India
Transcultural encounters between Germany and India : kindred spirits in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / ed. by Joanne Miyang Cho … – 1. publ. – London; New York, NY : Routledge, 2014. – XVI, 238 p. (Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 90) -
Breman, Jan
At work in the informal economy of India : a perspective from the bottom up / Jan Breman. – 1. ed. – New Delhi : Oxford Univ. Press., 2013. – XIII, 457 p. -
Europe's immigration challenge
Europe’s immigration challenge : reconciling work, welfare and mobility / ed. by Elena Jurado … – London : Tauris, 2013. – XIII, 209 p. -
Collier, Paul
Exodus : immigration and multiculturalism in the 21st century / Paul Collier. – London : Allen Lane, 2013. – VIII, 309 p. -
Shaping the city
Shaping the city : studies in history, theory and urban design / ed. by Rodolphe el-Khoury … – 2. ed. – London : Routledge, 2013. – VIII, 362 p. -
Transcultural cities
Transcultural cities : border-crossing and placemaking / ed. by Jeffrey Hou. – New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2013. – XVI, 319 p. -
Bayly, Christopher A.
Rulers, townsmen and bazaars : North Indian Society in the age of British expansion 1770 – 1870 / C. A. Bayly. – 3. ed. – New Delhi : Oxford Univ. Press, 2012. – XXX, 632 p . (Oxford India perennials) -
Sainsbury, Diane
Welfare states and immigrant rights : the politics of inclusion and exclusion / Diane Sainsbury. – 1. ed. – Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. – IX, 327 p.
Resources in German
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Handbuch Interkulturelle Öffnung
Handbuch Interkulturelle Öffnung : Grundlagen, Best Practice, Tools; mit 15 Tab. / Elisabeth Vanderheiden … (Hg.). – Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014. – 714 S. -
Les Convivialistes
Das konvivialistische Manifest : für eine neue Kunst des Zusammenlebens / Les Convivialistes. Hrsg. von Frank Adloff … in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research Duisburg. Übers. aus d. Franz. von Eva Moldenhauer. – Bielefeld : transcript, 2014. – 77 S. (X-Texte zu Kultur und Gesellschaft) -
Haehnel, Birgit
Anziehen! : transkulturelle Moden = Dressed up! / Hrsg. … Birgit Haehnel … – Bielefeld : transcript, 2013. – 157 S. (Zeitschrift für Zeitgenössisches, Kunst, Populärkultur ; 6) -
Meiser, Anna
»Ich trinke aus zwei Flüssen« : zur Logik transkultureller Prozesse bei christlichen Achuar und Shuar im oberen Amazonien / Anna Meiser. – Stuttgart : Kohlhammer, 2013. – 351 S. -
Kulturgrenzen in postimperialen Räumen
Kulturgrenzen in postimperialen Räumen : Bosnien und Westukraine als transkulturelle Regionen / Alexander Kratochvil … (Hg.). – Bielefeld : transcript, 2013. – 347 S. (Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 11) -
Kulturen in Bewegung
Kulturen in Bewegung : Beiträge zur Theorie und Praxis der Transkulturalität / Dorothee Kimmich … (Hg.). Autoren: S. Karin Amos …. – Bielefeld : Transcript, 2012. – 308 S. (Kultur- und Medientheorie) -
Lebensmodell Diaspora
Lebensmodell Diaspora : über moderne Nomaden / Isolde Charim … (Hg.). – Bielefeld : transcript, 2012. – 272 S. (Kultur und soziale Praxis) -
Bredella, Lothar
Narratives und interkulturelles Verstehen : zur Entwicklung von Empathie-, Urteils- und Kooperationsfähigkeit / Lothar Bredella. – Tübingen : Narr, 2012. – 151 S. (Giessener Beiträge zur Fremdsprachendidaktik) -
Verortungen der Interkulturalität
Verortungen der Interkulturalität : die »Europäischen Kulturhauptstädte« Luxemburg und die Großregion (2007), das Ruhrgebiet (2010) und Istanbul (2010) / Thomas Ernst … (Hg.). – Bielefeld : transcript, 2012. – 316 S. (Interkulturalität ; 1) -
Waffen, Wissen, Wandel
Waffen, Wissen, Wandel : Anpassung und Lernen in transkulturellen Erstkonflikten / Dierk Walter … (Hg.). – 1. Aufl. – Hamburg : Hamburger Edition, 2012. – 302 S.
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»There can be no culture except where there is some consensus. Consensus is a matter of understanding. It is transmitted through communication, through example and through participation in a common life.«
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