Crossroad Asia
Crossroad Asia was a BMBF- funded research network of six institutions with regional expertise in Kashmir , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , Nepal , North India , Pakistan , Tajikistan , Turkmenistan , Uzbekistan and Xinjiang . The project, which ran from 2009 to 2016, aimed to contribute to a better understanding of the geographic area between East Iran and West China as well as the Aral Sea and North India. At the same time, new approaches to territorially scheduled regional studies should be tried out.
New conceptions of regions
As an alternative to the traditional regional studies, the network wanted to identify regional concepts. The concepts should take dynamic processes such as the permanent mobility of people, goods and ideas across borders into account.
Involved
The project had a strong social anthropological approach and employed scientists from the fields of geography, political science, sociology, linguistics and social anthropology.
The following institutions were involved:
- Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)
- Institute for Ethnology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich
- Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies (IOA), University of Bonn
- Central Asia Seminar, Humboldt University Berlin
- Center for Research on Developing Countries (ZELF), Free University of Berlin
- Center of the Modern Orient (ZMO)
Publications
- A.-K. Hornidge, A. Shtaltovna & C. Schetter: Agricultural Knowledge and Knowledge Systems in Post-Soviet Societies . Bern 2016.
- K. van Assche & A.-K. Hornidge: Rural Development. Knowledge and Expertise in Governance. Wageningen Academic Publishers 2015, ISBN 9789086862566 .