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Poles and People · Geographical Societies, Statehood, and Civil Society in Transnational Perspective (1870-1925)

„Хоризонт Европа“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период
2022-07-01 → 2025-04-30
Финансиране от ЕС
226 751 €
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2
Схема
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF

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Накратко на български

Географските дружества в Брюксел, Единбург, Осло и Виена (1870–1925) се анализират чрез техния интерес към Полярните региони и Африка. Това помага да се разбере как тези организации са свързвали науката с държавните амбиции и международното сътрудничество.

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Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

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Poles and People: Geographical Societies, Statehood, and Civil Society in Transnational Perspective (1870-1925)

The MSCA-funded project "Poles and People" investigates the interconnections between scientific institutions, statehood, and civil society by examining geographical societies in Brussels, Edinburgh, Kristiania (Oslo), and Vienna during a period of profound political, scientific, and social transformation between 1870 and 1925. In contrast to dominant narratives that focus on metropolitan centres such as London or Paris, the project deliberately explores scientific life in cities at the margins of European power hierarchies in order to reassess the role of scientific societies in shaping imperial visions and transnational cooperation. The project centres on two types of geographical space that gained extraordinary epistemic and symbolic significance in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: the Polar Regions and so-called “inner Africa.” These territories—portrayed as hostile, unmapped, and culturally distant—were seen as "epistemic frontiers": contested zones where scientific knowledge was produced under extreme conditions, and where political, cultural, and environmental imaginaries intersected. Far from being peripheral, these spaces functioned as laboratories for experimentation, legitimising new forms of scientific practice and state intervention. Geographical societies served as institutional bridges between civic curiosity, imperial ambition, and scholarly innovation. As platforms of exploration and popularisation, they mobilised resources, established new standards for geographical knowledge, and framed public perceptions of unfamiliar environments. Poles and People aims to understand how these societies helped consolidate geography as a discipline and how they negotiated tensions between national loyalty and international cooperation in the sciences.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

This project investigates the foundation of statehood, science popularisation, and (trans)national cooperation with specific regard to the Polar Regions and “inner Africa”. In the nineteenth century, geographical societies formed the institutional base for the rising field of geographical research. Their foundation, mainly in European capitals, coincided with the growth of a civil society and the rise of imperial claims to power. By simultaneously practicing and popularizing science, they developed a lasting impact on the exploration and public perception of formerly inaccessible environments such as the Arctic, Antarctica, and “inner Africa”. However, the study of these “blank spots” followed not only political and economic interests, but also served sociocultural identity-building purposes and promised to provide scientific answers to questions of global interest such as climatology and ecology.The project will compare the geographical societies of four capitals: Brussels, Edinburgh, Oslo, and Vienna. Societies in these cities considered the Polar Regions and/or “inner Africa” as major poles of geographical inquiry. Sources including the understudied archival holdings of geographical societies will be brought together for qualitative and quantitative study. Particular attention will be paid to (1) historical geographies in which research on the Polar Regions and Africa was practiced, networks of exchange established, and scholarship popularised; (2) the relationship between state governance and geographical societies in the context of national and imperial statehood; (3) interaction processes between science, geographical exploration, and the public sphere with regard to practitioners, field sites, and exchange formats involved. Targeted dissemination and communication activities such the development and implementation of teaching materials will contribute to a higher degree of evidence-based self-reflection on global responsibility and colonial heritage.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз