Research Projects
The University of Freiburg pursues an interdisciplinary concept of Southeast Asian research. The disciplines involved include Political Science, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Economics and History.
This interactive research map gives an overview about interesting research projects funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. (only available in German)
The aim of the research project is to trace transcultural perspectives on Europe and the emergence of hybrid European identities among European immigrants and émigrés in the United States between the 1940s and 1970s.
Based on the examination of household appliances, it analyzes the complicated sets of relationships and interdependencies which led to the rise of private households as primary consumer of energy. Building on the recent shift in the history and sociology of technology from the production to the consumption aspects of technologies and applying it to the debated field of energy, the project makes use of theories and methods in technology studies as well as museum and material culture studies.
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