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Conclusions So Far…

It’s weird to think that this is the last blog post of the semester. It’s all gone so quick. I have been researching my project for several weeks now and have a fair amount of source material to work from,

Bernhard Struck April 18, 2016April 18, 2016 Uncategorized Read more

When Things Start to Come Together

In last week’s blog post I wrote about the difficulties I had finding the sort of sources I would need to get kick-started on my project. My topic, whilst not yet clearly defined, revolves around the fact that welfare states

Bernhard Struck February 29, 2016 Uncategorized Read more

Well I have a project idea but lets see if it’s workable!

Having skimmed one or two journal articles about the study of sex in transnational history I came across a mention of an epidemic of venereal disease in Germany right at the end of the Second World War, apparently thanks to

Bernhard Struck February 29, 2016 Discussion, Uncategorized Read more

Transnational Methodology in Rita Chin’s The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany

In the first chapter of her book The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany, Rita Chin makes an excellent case for the roles played by both Aras Ören and the wider Ausländerliteratur community in the German phenomenon which she calls

Bernhard Struck February 7, 2016 Readings Read more

The Nation, a Construct of the Global

Last week discussion of the role of nation proved personally challenging. Having struggled with determining where the nation was situated in a previous post, and with great thanks to Dr. Lawson’s metaphor, Sebastian Conrad’s Globalisation and the Nation in Imperial Germany further helped

Bernhard Struck February 10, 2015February 14, 2015 Uncategorized Read more

Globalisation Revisited – 21st Century Millennialism?

The accepted narrative of globalisation places it as a phenomenon born out of post-Cold War American capitalism; a creation of the late twentieth century manifested in the inescapable homogenising successes of McDonalds, Apple and liberal democracy. However, as Conrad, Tyrell

Bernhard Struck February 9, 2015February 14, 2015 Uncategorized Read more

National Identities and Interconnectedness

Sebastian Conrad stated in the introduction of his book, Globalization and the Nation in Imperial Germany, that it is generally assumed that nation states existed before there were interconnections between peoples of different nations. The issue with this assumption though is that

Bernhard Struck February 9, 2015February 9, 2015 Readings Read more

The transnational histories of nations

The reaction against the ‘nation-state’ paradigm as the inevitable status quo has become well entrenched in recent historical discourse. Gellner’s and Anderson’s seminal works in the 1980s have spawned a plethora of re-evaluations of how we can conceptualise the world.

Bernhard Struck February 9, 2015February 9, 2015 Discussion, Readings Read more

Transnational History & Migration Studies

It is unsurprising that transnational history, a field obsessed with mobility, has much to offer to the study of migration. As we briefly discussed in last week’s seminar, transnational history allows us to move beyond the simplistic analysis of international

Bernhard Struck February 9, 2015February 9, 2015 Uncategorized Read more

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