I Grundlagen der neuzeitlichen europäischen Expansion

Reinhard, Wolfgang

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“…After the voyages of Columbus, poverty, hunger, persecution and war drove millions of people from the crowded European continent to the promised "New Worlds." Here natural and human resources were heavily exploited by conquistadors and settlers, with millions of slaves from Africa, genocides among indigenous peoples and the destruction of traditional livelihoods, the spread of invasive species and deadly diseases (Reinhard, 2016), for instance killing in North America about 90% of the indigenous population (Koch et al, 2019). Technical progress, military superiority and religious justification facilitated the appropriation of foreign wealth and comparative advantages to European economic development, consolidating Western dominance on a global scale.…”

Section: Expansion and Division Since Colonial Timesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Limits to the Anthropocene: geopolitical conflict or cooperative governance?

Scheffran

2023

Front. Polit. Sci.

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In the Anthropocene the world is facing an acceleration of human growth and its impact on nature. The expansionist world order which emerged from Europe since colonial times is reaching multiple limits (environmental, economic, social, political and scientific-technical), increasing marginal costs and risks which trigger multiple crises, conflicts and catastrophes that challenge this world order. Alternative futures range from a collapse of human civilization to geopolitical power competition and conflict between rivals to disruptive technical innovations and systemic transformation of the economy and society within natural boundaries. In response to geopolitical conflicts and their consequences, such as climate change and the Russia-Ukraine war, efforts of cooperative governance can help to mitigate, adapt to and manage complex crisis landscapes. Instead of an epochal turn (Zeitenwende) for arms race and war, more promising are sustainable climate protection and a peaceful energy transition within planetary boundaries. To further prevent escalating and mutually enforcing crisis dynamics and geopolitical conflicts in the Anthropocene, cooperative governance needs to adjust to the world's complexity and move from a negative nexus of problems to a positive nexus of solutions. The interaction between geopolitics and governance and the transition from risk cascades to synergies is discussed for the energy-security nexus and the climate-conflict-migration nexus. Energy conflicts can be contained by diminishing land competition and biodiversity loss, as well as risky dependencies on strategic raw materials and conflict minerals. Measures for a sustainable energy transition include energy efficiency and conservation, renewable energy and decarbonization, a circular economy and nature-based solutions. To prevent risk multiplication in the climate-conflict-migration nexus, synergies in climate, migration and security policy facilitate integrative solutions for a socio-ecological transformation based on mitigation and adaptation, conflict resolution and environmental peacebuilding, aiming for a mutual enforcement of sustainability and peace.

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Section: Expansion and Division Since Colonial Timesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Limits to the Anthropocene: geopolitical conflict or cooperative governance?

Scheffran

2023

Front. Polit. Sci.

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“…During the eighteenth century, Hamburg became one of Europe’s prime locations for sugar refining and for the processing of cotton (Todzi, 2018). Scholars estimate that at the end of the eighteenth century ‘half of Hamburg’s population lived of the offshoots of the enslavement trade’ (Reinhard, 2016: 470). 7…”

Section: Fragments Of Hamburg’s Colonial Legacymentioning

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Silent memorylands: City branding and the coloniality of cultural memory in the Hamburg HafenCity

Prinzleve

2022

Memory Studies

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This article illustrates the predicaments of self-acclaimed global cities that come under pressure to decolonise heritage practices. Examining the politics of public memory in post-imperial Hamburg through the inner-city redevelopment project Hamburg HafenCity, it shows how commemorative landscapes are co-produced by market rationalities. Through document analysis and interviews with city planners, artists and campaigners, the article explores urban toponymies and heritage sites as relational and contested configurations of post-colonial memory and culture. It finds that the HafenCity’s colonial heritage premediates the area’s contemporary symbolic programme which celebrates European expansion, cosmopolitanism and Hamburg’s maritime tradition. The article engages with the multiple modes of encounter and performative responses that (neo-)colonial memory landscapes elicit. It redraws the affective geographies of (un-)belonging in a post-imperial city and charts decolonial propositions of civil society actors.

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“…Nach Holzer ist die Weltgesellschaft vor allem "durch die Universalisierung des modernen Nationalstaats" (173) gekennzeichnet. Lässt man sich von Holzers verzeichnetem Bild der modernen Weltgesellschaft nicht beirren, "sieht die politische Wirklichkeit aber ganz anders aus" (Reinhard, 2016(Reinhard, : 1280. Denn in vielen Regionen der Welt hinterließen die imperialistischen Kolonialmächte innerhalb der ehemaligen Gebiete ein künstliches Konstrukt: In etlichen Fällen waren nur die Symbole des Staates als leere Hüllen entstanden.…”

Section: Exkursionen In Die Ideengeschichteunclassified

Ordnung, Macht, Staat, Recht. Gegenstände der Politischen Soziologie aus interdisziplinärer Sicht

Holzinger

Boehncke²

2019

Soziologische Revue

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I Grundlagen der neuzeitlichen europäischen Expansion

Cited by 4 publications

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Limits to the Anthropocene: geopolitical conflict or cooperative governance?

Limits to the Anthropocene: geopolitical conflict or cooperative governance?

Silent memorylands: City branding and the coloniality of cultural memory in the Hamburg HafenCity

Ordnung, Macht, Staat, Recht. Gegenstände der Politischen Soziologie aus interdisziplinärer Sicht

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