Focus area "Shifting Worlds: InterAmerican (Dis)­Entanglements"

"Shifting Worlds: InterAmerican (Dis)Entanglements" (SWIAD)

The focus area "Shifting Worlds: InterAmerican (Dis)Entanglements" (SWIAD) builds on the entanglement approach of the Bielefeld social sciences and humanities, developed at the Center for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS). The three new thematic axes (planetary care, disembedding power, contested collectives) extend ongoing collaborative projects, incorporate the disentanglement concept, and broaden the scope to encompass additional interdisciplinary perspectives. The objective is to establish a cross-faculty research focus at Bielefeld University, thereby amplifying the impact of research in the humanities, social sciences, economics, and natural sciences on the Americas in a global context.