The State Multiple II: Practices, Resources and Sites of Planning (2020)
Planning as a research perspective recasts the initial questions of the state in the light of maintenance and care. Our working group meets on a monthly basis to discuss texts and to organize workshops [more on events]. It brings together scholars from different fields of study, such as the ethnography of accounting, the history of administration, economics and literature, environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the history of bureaucratic knowledge [more on individual projects]. Current research interests converge in an emphasis on practices. This approach opens up new perspectives on idealized notions of bureaucracy, abstract numbering systems, risk calculation or environmental protection. In this manner we explore modes of environmental or multispecies planning. We aim not only at pointing out the tensions between the planned and not-planned, intended and unintended consequences of planning, but also the temporalities and moods that allow for coping with the inconsistencies of planning in the everyday.
Members:
- Peter Becker (Austrian history and history of the 19th and 20th century / Institute of Austrian Historical Research)
- Anna Echterhölter (History of science / Institute of History)
- Alexa Färber (Historical dimensions of everyday cultures/ Institute of European Ethnology)
- Sebastian Felten (History of science / Institute of History)
- Onur Inal (Environmental history, Ottoman Empire / Institute of Near Eastern Studies
- Yavuz Köse (Environmental history, Ottoman Empire / Institute of Near Eastern Studies)
- Anton Tantner (Numerical systems / Institute of History)
- Borbála Zsuzsanna Török (Austrian history and history of the 19th and 20th century / Institute of Austrian Historical Research)
- Anna Weichselbraun (Historical dimensions of everyday cultures/ Institute of European Ethnology)
- Burkhardt Wolf (Professor of modern German literature / Institute of German Literature)