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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2018] Negotiating Diversity in the Early Modern and Modern World
DESCRIPTION:The European maritime overseas expansion beginning in 1415 started a process of more frequent encounters of peoples. These encounters were as peaceful as they were violent, and were as
sporadic and temporary as they were regular and long-term. They were usually characterized by the rules imposed by colonial and imperial expansion, and some encounters had more impact than
others in terms of space and time.
European encounters overseas, resulting from global individual and collective movements, faced three specific issues. Firstly, encounters often resulted in cross-cultural exchanges between people
with different cultural backgrounds. Secondly, the ambition of European states like chartered and joint stock companies to control economic resources, often resulted in the need to govern existing
diversity in the places of contact. Thirdly, more often than not, before the nineteenth century, Europeans were unable to govern diversity in the way their metropolitan administrative bodies conceived of because Asian, African and American societies and political entities were able to impose, by force, fact or negotiation, a ‘middle ground’ (R. White).
By the nineteenth century, however, the ‘middle ground’ was ‘subverted’ (White). Imperialism entered its high phase across America, Africa, and Asia at that time: colonial regimes of whichever
nationality introduced rigid measures to ensure the segregation of communities and established topdown state structures intended to secure their rule, governing diversity through separating and
dividing societies. Despite the process of decolonization and the establishment of new nation-states, some of the societal divisions implemented during the colonial period still linger on, as can be seen in debates and conflicts surrounding questions of race, gender, class, and creed.
This panel will conceptualize the problems surrounding the definitions of diversity for Early Modern and Modern Europe and how those concepts were transposed to overseas territories,
whether and how they differed in colonies with different European colonial masters, and how perceptions of diversity changed and transformed through the centuries. Our global framework will
highlight the aspects of diachronic and synchronic comparisons undertaken in the papers of this panel.
Der Beitrag Negotiating Diversity in the Early Modern and Modern World erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2018.
LOCATION:HS102 (Hörsäle im Philosophikum)
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