Arno Sonderegger

Arno Sonderegger (born August 25, 1974 in Bludenz ) is an Austrian African scholar and historian .

Life

Arno Sonderegger grew up in the small Walgau community of Schlins in Vorarlberg and attended grammar school in Bludenz , where he graduated from high school in 1992. After a short interlude at the Pedagogical University in Feldkirch , he moved to Vienna and studied theater studies and ethnology at the University of Vienna from 1993, later also African studies. He finished his diploma studies in 2000 with a critical examination of the philosophy of history and the image of Africa by Johann Gottfried Herder . The following dissertation project posed the question of "African despotism" in terms of conceptual history and was financed over a two-year period by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The doctorate took place in 2005, the dissertation under the title "The Demonization of Africa" ​​appeared as a book three years later.

Since 2004 Arno Sonderegger has been teaching regularly in the International Development Project and at the Institute for African Studies at the University of Vienna , and has accepted various invitations to lectures and guest lectures at home and abroad. In the 2012/13 winter semester he was visiting professor at the Institute for Asian and African Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin , where he represented the chair for the history of Africa. Since 2010 he has been working as a senior lecturer for African history and societies at the Institute for African Studies at the University of Vienna. At the end of 2016 he completed his habilitation with a work on the history of political ideas in the subject of history and societies of Africa.

Research priorities

His teaching and research interests are the history of Africa since 1500, global history, the history of science and historical research on racism. He has published a lot on the history of ideas in Africa, especially on the history of Pan-African thought.

Fonts (selection)

• Brief history of ancient Africa: From the beginnings to 1600. Wiesbaden: Marix Verlag, 2017. marixwissen, 224 pp. ISBN 978-3-7374-1046-5
• The demonization of Africa: the concept of despotism and the history of African despotism. Saarbrücken: VDM, 2008. 655 pp. ISBN 978-3-8364-9380-2 [Also: University of Vienna, dissertation 2005]
• Beyond the racist line. Johann Gottfried Herder's perception of Africa as reflected in his philosophy of history (and the stories of other philosophers). Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Brussels, New York, Oxford, Vienna: Peter Lang, 2002 [European university publications, series I, German language and literature, vol. 1840]. 219 pp. ISBN 3-631-39205-2
• (Ed., 2015) African Thoughts on Colonial and Neo-Colonial Worlds: Facets of an Intellectual History of Africa. Berlin: Neofelis. 220 pp. ISBN 978-3-95808-023-2
• (Ed. With Margarete Grandner, 2015): North-South-East-West Relations: An Introduction to Global History. History-Development-Politics, Vol. 16, Vienna: Mandelbaum. 256 pp. ISBN 978-3-85476-459-5
• (Ed. With Ingeborg Grau and Birgit Englert, 2011): Africa in the 20th Century: History and Society. , Vienna: Promedia. Edition Weltregionen, Vol. 21, 255 pp. ISBN 978-3-85371-338-9
• (Ed. With Andreas Eckert and Ingeborg Grau, 2010): Africa 1500 to 1900: History and Society. , Vienna: Promedia. Edition Weltregionen, vol. 19, p. 235 pp. ISBN 978-3-85371-303-7
• (Ed. With Albert Kraler, 2009): Perspectives on Ethnicity and ”Race“. Vienna: N / A = samples: Vienna Journal of African Studies 16, 2009. 222 pp. ISSN 1992-8610
• (Ed. With Bea Gomes and Walter Schicho, 2008): Rassismus: Contributions to a multifaceted phenomenon. , Vienna: almond tree. [GEP / Society-Development-Policy, Vol. 10] 292 pp. ISBN 978385476-238-6
• (Ed. With Bea Gomes and Veronika Bilger, 2004): Racist dimensions of African history and the present. , Vienna: almond tree. = Samples: Vienna Journal for Critical African Studies 6, 2004. 163 pp. ISBN 3-85476-122-8

Web links

• Sonderegger's curriculum vitae at the University of Vienna

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gerhard Hauck : Review article: The self-discovery of Europe and the "oriental-African despotism" . In: Periphery . tape 31 , no. 121 . Westphalian steam boat, Münster 2011, p. 96-103 ( [1] ).
2. ↑ Homepage Seminar for African Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 28, 2016 ; accessed on June 28, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Neofelis Verlag - Arno Sonderegger. (No longer available online.) In: www.neofelis-verlag.de. Archived from the original on May 31, 2016 ; accessed on May 31, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ U: Cris research documentation CV. Retrieved May 31, 2016 .