Ufer, Ulrich
scientist
Knowledge society and knowledge policy
Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis
Germany
Biography
Studies in history at University of Cambridge (B.A., 2002) and in social anthropology at EHESS, Paris (diploma, 2003). PhD as co-tutelle in historical and social anthropology at EHESS, Paris and University of Stuttgart on globalization and urban modernity in seventeenth century Amsterdam (2007). Subsequent research, teaching and publications on social change, social movements, identities and heterotopias in the local-global context of urban modernity.
Research Interest
Research: Modernity and social change in the city Identity orientations and social movements Discourses over urban futures and pasts History and contemporary analysis of globalization
Publications
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Ufer, U. La production des paysages culturels. La modernité entre les valeurs d’échange et d’usage. Eurostudia, VIII, 1-2, 2013, p. 35-62.
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Ufer, U. Modern Regimes of Organizing Urban Space. In: M. Stock and N. Vöhringer (Eds.) Spatial Practices. Medieva/Modern. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 2014, p. 241-252.
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Ufer, U. Imagining social change in early-modern Amsterdam. Global processes, local perceptions. In: M. de Waard (Ed.) Imagining Global Amsterdam. History, Culture and Geography in a World City. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2012, 27-44.
