Dr. Christian Ersche (Researcher)

• General information
• Publications
• Lectures
• Further Activities

General information

Contact details

• Email: christian.ersche(at)gmx.de
• Telephone: +49 (0)761 203 - 97810
• Address: Hansastraße 9, 79104 Freiburg, Germany

Short personal profile

Dr. Christian Ersche is a sociologist with a research focus on globalization and development theories.

He studied sociology and economic and social history at the University of Freiburg and has worked as a research assistant at the IUniversity of Freiburg's Institute of Sociology and at the Freiburg Institute for Applied Social Sciences (FIFAS).

In 2009, he completed his studies with the MA thesis, "Contemporary Chinese-African Relations: On the Significance of Current Economic Trends for the Sociological Discourse on Development".

Subproject

"European Universalism and the Rise of New Powers: The Chinese-Brazilian Relation as a Case Example of Contemporary South-South Cooperation (subproject)" For more details on the subproject, please click here.

Publications

Books

• (2014) Europäischer Universalismus und der Aufstieg neuer Mächte. Die chinesische-brasilianischen Beziehungen als Fallbeispiel gegenwärtiger Süd-Süd-Kooperation, UVK

Edited Volumes

• (2014) Global Knowledge Production in the Social sciences: Made in Circulation, (mit Keim, W.; Çelik, E.; Wöhrer, V.) Ashgate.
• (2013) Circulating Knowledge: Empirical Examples from the Social Sciences, (mit Çelik, E.; Keim, W.; Wöhrer, V.) Special Issue, Transcience – a Journal of Global Studies 4 (2).
• (2013) Wissenschaft global. Das Rektorat bleibt im Norden, (mit Keim, W.; Çelik, E.; Wöhrer, V.)Sonderausgabe, IZ3W Nr. 335, März/April
   

Articles in journals

• (2014) “Made in Circulation. Towards Social Science on a World Scale: An Introduction”, (mit Keim, W.; Çelik, E.; Wöhrer, V.) in: W. Keim, E. Çelik, C. Ersche, V. Wöhrer (Hg.), Global Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences: Made in Circulation, Ashgate: 1-19.
• (2014) “Conclusion: Next Steps Towards Global Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences”, (mit Keim, W.; Çelik, E.; Wöhrer, V.) in: W. Keim, E. Çelik, C. Ersche, V. Wöhrer (Hg.), Global Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences: Made in Circulation, Ashgate: 251-257.
• (2013): Lokalisieren, nicht kopieren. Internationale Beziehungen aus Perspektive der chinesischen Politikwissenschaft, in: iz3w Nr. 335, March/April 2013: 34-36.
• (2013) “Editorial”, (mit Çelik, E.; Keim, W.; Wöhrer, V.) in: Transcience – a Journal of Global Studies, Special Issue, 4 (2) : 1-2.
• et al. (2011): A Commentary on Boike Rehbein's Approach to Critical Theory after the Rise of the Global South and on his Concept 'Kaleidoscopic Dialectic', in: Transcience Journal 2 (1): 72-80. (Fulltext available online)

Lectures

• (2014) “New Players, old Game: The Chinese-Brazilian Relations” ISA World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama 14.07.2014.
• (2014) “Between catching up with the West, creating own concepts, and meeting political demands. The case of Chinese International Studies”Journée d’ Etudes, Straßburg 13.02.2014.
   

• (2013) “Chinas Rolle in Afrika”,
  Landeszentrale für politische Bildung – Offenes Seminar: “China – Weltmacht im Umbruch”, Buchenbach, 12 May 2013.
• (2012) “South South Cooperation without Europe? Recent Trends in International Development Cooperation”,
  KAAD-Seminar – “The European Unification Process: A Model for Successful South-South Cooperation?”, Strasbourg, 16 November 2012.
• (2012) “The Rejection of Europe as a Basis for South-South Alliances”,
  International Conference on “Circulating Social Science Knowledge”, Freiburg, 29 September 2012.
• (2012) “The Regard for Western Theory in Chinese International Studies”,
  Journées d’ Etudes, Freiburg, 30 March 2012.
• (2012) “Toward an alternative pattern of knowledge distribution”,
  40th IIS World Congress, Delhi, 19 February 2012.

Further Activities

• Organisation of the Workshop, “For a Generational Shift in Analyzing Circulating Knowledge”, 26. September 2012, Freiburg.