About
In the past two decades, there has been a world-wide resurgence of discourses that define the people in terms of their unique civilizational identity and call for states to refurbish their timeless civilizational glory. These discourses, or “new civilizationisms” as we call them, both draw on and react against an older, Enlightenment-inspired, and Eurocentric notion of civilization. We are part of an international research network setting out to map the overlapping ecosystems of new civilizationism.
Team
Meet the Civilizationism Project team
Thomas Hansen
Reliance-Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University Department Chair of Anthropology, Stanford University
Srirupa Roy
Professor and Chair of State and Democracy at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS)
Matthew Blackburn
Researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
Asli Igsiz
Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University
Haiyan Lee
Walter A. Haas Professor of the Humanities Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and of Comparative Literature
Dominic Sachsenmaier
Chair Professor of “Modern China with an Emphasis on Global Historical Perspectives”, Department of East Asian Studies; Göttingen University
Partners
Our partner institutions in the Civilisationism Project
