Dirk Hoerder

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Dirk Hoerder (born May 15, 1943 in Eutin , Schleswig-Holstein ) is a German historian and was professor of social history in North America at the University of Bremen and for global migrations at Arizona State University . He is considered to be one of the pioneers and leading representatives of global migration history.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1963, Hoerder studied history, political science and English at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis-St. Paul . In 1968 he completed his Master of Arts with a thesis on the revolutionary townships of Massachusetts 1760–1780 and received his doctorate three years later at the Free University of Berlin on the logic of the riots in those years. In keeping with the historiography of the new left of the 1960s and 70s, he described the riots of the apparently “inarticulate” subclasses as the prelude to the era of European revolutions.

From 1969 Hoerder was an assistant at the Free University of Berlin, at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies and a fellow at Harvard University . Since 1977 professor at the University of Bremen , he founded the Labor Migration Project in 1980 with over 90 participants from 34 cultures in Europe and North America . On the basis of new sources, particularly the non-English speaking labor press in the US and Canada , the team began a re-imagining of the history of proletarian mass migrations in the Atlantic economies. Traditional terms such as assimilation , immigration , emigration have been replaced by new ones such as step-by-step acculturation .

In the 1990s, the history of transatlantic labor migration was expanded to include global migration history. On the basis of Fernando Ortiz and Canadian transdisciplinary research, Hoerder developed the concept of Transcultural Society Studies using the example of Canada. According to this model, cultures anchor themselves regionally on the one hand and at the same time produce transcultural and interregional connections on the other .

Cultures in Contact , published in 2002 and awarded the Sharlin Prize of the Social Science History Association in 2003 . World Migrations in the Second Millennium reconstructs the migrations in the Judeo - Christian - Islamic Mediterranean world and indigenous and colonial- induced migrations in all parts of the world since the 11th century . In the 19th century, people migrated within several, partially overlapping migration systems - in addition to the migration areas of Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean, the transatlantic, Russian - Siberian, and the transpacific and north Chinese - Manchurian migration systems. Due to the breadth of its concept of migration, the breaking of the boundaries set by the Eurocentric- transatlantic perspective and the elaboration of global and local contexts and networks, the book opens up new perspectives for global migration research : migration processes and the continuous transcultural change they trigger are not considered historical To understand exceptional phenomena, but as a constituent element of human history .

He is a member of the Migration Council .

Focus of work
American Union and Multicultural Workers History in the 19th Century
Global Migration History and Acculturation, 11th to 20th Centuries
Rewriting European history: national consciousness , migration, transcultural exchange
North America migration landscape
  • National and multicultural identities and affiliations
Canadian ethnic history, nation building , multiculturalism
Immigrant Experiences: Biographical Approaches
Accumulation of social capital among young migrants and indigenous young people in England , Germany and Canada in the 1990s and 2000s

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • People and Mobs: Crowd Action in Massachusetts during the American Revolution, 1765–1780 (also: Berlin, Free University, dissertation, 1971).
  • Protest, direct action, repression. Dissent in American Society from Colonial Times to the Present. A Bibliography with introductions, chronological register of events cited and a survey of the development of social protest in US history (Munich: Verlag Documentation, 1977), ISBN 978-3-7940-7009-1 .
  • Creating Societies: Immigrant Lives in Canada (Montreal: McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, 1999).
  • Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium (Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 2002), ISBN 978-0-8223-2834-6 .
  • "To Know Our Many Selves Changing Across Time and Space": From the Study of Canada to Canadian Studies (rev. Ed. Edmonton: Athabasca Univ. Press, 2010), ISBN 978-1-897425-72-5 .
  • History of German Migration from the Middle Ages to Today (Munich: Beck, 2010), ISBN 978-3-406-58794-8 .
  • Migrations and Belongings (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Univ. Press, 2014), ISBN 978-0-674-28131-8 .

Editorships

  • Labor Migration in the Atlantic Economies. The European and North American Working Classes During the Period of Industrialization (Westport, Ct .: Greenwood, 1985), ISBN 978-0-313-24637-1 .
  • with Christiane Harzig , The Immigrant Labor Press in North America, 1840s-1970s. An Annotated Bibliography, 3 vols. (Westport, Ct .: Greenwood Press, 1987), ISBN 978-0-313-26077-3 .
  • with Diethelm Knauf , departure for a foreign country. European emigration overseas (Bremen: Temmen, 1992), ISBN 978-3-926958-95-2 ; English edition: Fame, Fortune and Sweet Liberty. The Great European Migration, transl. Thomas Kozak (Bremen: Temmen, 1992).
  • with Inge Blank and Horst Rössler, Roots of the Transplanted - East European Monographs, 2 vols. (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1994); vol. 1: "Late 19th Century East Central and Southeastern Europe"; vol. 2: "Plebeian Culture, Class and Politics in the Life of Labor Migrants", ISBN 978-0-88033-288-0 .
  • with Leslie Page Moch , European Migrants: Global and Local Perspectives (Boston: Northeastern Univ. Press, 1996), hardcover and paperback, ISBN 978-1-55553-242-0 .
  • with Christiane Harzig, Adrian Shubert , The Historical Practice of Diversity: Transcultural Interactions from the Early Modern Mediterranean to the Postcolonial World (New York: Berghahn, 2003), ISBN 978-1-57181-377-0 .
  • with Yvonne Hébert , Irina Schmitt , Negotiating Transcultural Lives: Belongings and Social Capital among Youth in Comparative Perspective - Transkulturelle Perspektiven 2 (Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2005 and Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2006), ISBN 978-0-8020- 9463-6 .
  • with Christiane Harzig and Donna Gabaccia , What is Migration History? (Cambridge: Polity, 2009), ISBN 978-0-7456-4336-6 .
  • with Donna Gabaccia, Connecting Seas and Connected Ocean Rims: Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans and China Seas Migrations from the 1830s to the 1930s, Studies in Global Social History, vol. 8 - Marcel van der Linden, ed. (Leiden: Brill, 2011), ISBN 978-90-04-19316-1 .
  • with Nora Faires, Migrants and Migration in Modern North America: Cross-Border Lives, Labor Markets, and Politics (Durham: Duke, 2011), ISBN 978-0-8223-5051-4 .
  • with Amarjit Kaur , Proletarian and Gendered Mass Migrations: A Global Perspective on Continuities and Discontinuities from the 19th to the 21st Century - Studies in Global Migration History 1 (Leiden: Brill, 2013), ISBN 978-90-04-25136-6 .
  • with Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk , Silke Neunsinger , eds., Towards a Global History of Domestic and Caregiving Workers - Studies in Global Migration History 6 (Leiden: Brill, 2015), ISBN 978-90-04-29329-8 .
  • The Weak and the Powerful: A longue-durée and Comprehensive Perspective on Diasporas, Diasporas Online , 23–24 | 2014, online since June 1, 2015; doi: 10.4000 / diasporas.298 .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dirk Hoerder: Cultures in Contact. World Migrations in the Second Millennium Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 2002.
  2. ↑ Alexander Schunka: Review of: Hoerder, Dirk: Cultures in Contact. World Migrations in the Second Millennium. Durham 2002, in: H-Soz-Kult, December 11, 2004.
  3. ↑ https://rat-fuer-migration.de/verbindungen/
  4. ^ People and Mobs: Crowd Action in Massachusetts during the American Revolution, 1765-1780
  5. ^ Creating Societies: Immigrant Lives in Canada (Montreal: McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, 1999)
  6. ↑ Sharlin Prize ( memento of March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) of the Social Science History Association ( memento of the original dated) 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ssha.org
  7. ^ University of Nova Gorica
personal data
SURNAME Hoerder, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Eutin