By Florian Wagner
To this day, empires seem to be everywhere. Scholars argue that the continuity of empire is due to its ubiquity, since empires covered most of the world, and due to its performativity, since most people…
Florian Wagner holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence and is Assistant Professor at the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History and History Didactics, University of Erfurt. He specializes in the history of repatriation and remigration and was a fellow at GHI-West, affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley, working on the “Migration and Knowledge” program. He has also published on the history of colonialism and postcolonialism. His book on Colonial Internationalism and the Governmentality of Empire has been published in 2021 by Cambridge University Press.
By Florian Wagner
To this day, empires seem to be everywhere. Scholars argue that the continuity of empire is due to its ubiquity, since empires covered most of the world, and due to its performativity, since most people…
On October 10, 2023, Jürgen Martschukat and Florian Wagner, PIs in our subprojects on “Voluntariness as Political Practice” and “Voluntariness and Repatriation”, are going to participate in a workshop on “Freiheit – Unfreiheit – Freiwilligkeit” at the Freie Universität Berlin.
The current work in progress of our historical subprojects explores voluntariness in local historical contexts, in negotiations surrounding migration, in postcolonial settings as well as in different time periods or world regions. In the upcoming summer term, team members will discuss their crucial questions with experts from the respective fields of research.
By Florian Wagner
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Florian Wagner co-edited several contributions to the histories of migration, removals and expulsions in Germany and beyond for a special issue with Zeithistorische Forschungen / Studies in Contemporary History in 2023.