Episode #9: What is a Worldmaking Project?

What do imperialist, religious, egalitarian, or flat earth theory movements have in common? How do they conceptualize their visions of the world or their ideas of a world order? And how do they each try to convince others of the superiority of their model or idea?

The ZiF research group „Understanding the Transformations of World Politics: Ordering Principles and the Infrastructures of Communication“ challenges rather mono-narrative understandings of world order, and we are talking about how they do that in this episode with two of the convenors, the historian Heidi Tworek and the sociologist Tobias Werron, and a fellow of the group, the political scientist Heikki Patomäki.

Links

• Research Group "Understanding the Transformations of World Politics" at ZiF, April - September 2024

We are grateful for the intro by Niklas Schönfeld, for the voice recordings of Molina Panzner and Erica Shires and for the podcast cover by Corinna Mehl.
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