Study Focus Society, Economy and Governance (SEG)

This focus explores issues of Society, Economy and Governance from an explicitly transcultural, anthropological, and historical perspective. There is much interest in the deep and complex histories of globalization and transregional connectivities. Key themes here are the social, political, and cultural dimensions of market dynamics and networks, the shaping and governance of social systems (e.g., civil society), consumer cultures, transregional migration, demographic change, global governance, and urbanization processes.

Study content (selection):

• Concepts and methods of migration studies
• Korean pop-culture and social transformation in East Asia
• Migration of political ideas
• Mediterranean economy (300–1500)
• Global economic history
• Japanese and East Asian law in a European context
• Political ecology