Michael Pesek

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Michael Pesek (born June 5, 1968 in Neuruppin ) is a German historian who mainly deals with topics from the history of Africa and the Arab world.

Life

Pesek studied theater studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1990 to 1996 with a master’s degree and minor subjects sociology and African studies . In 2004, the Humboldt University accepted his dissertation on the subject of colonial discourse and colonial rule in German East Africa 1885–1903 .

From 1998 to 2003 Pesek was a research assistant at the Chair of History in Africa at the Humboldt University and then from 2004 to 2009 a teaching position at the Institute for African and Asian Studies.

During this time he also taught at the Institute for Cultural Studies at the Leuphana University in Lüneburg , at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science at the Free University of Berlin and at the History Department at the University of Hamburg .

Research priorities

Pesek works on the pre-colonial to the post-colonial state-building processes with special attention to organizations such as the OAU , the Organization for African Unity , or ECOWAS , the economic community of West African states . Earlier topics included the cultural and religious transfer processes in the outskirts of Africa on the Indian Ocean and the colonialism of the European states in Central and East Africa.

Fonts

  • 1997: Dances of Hope, Dances of Power. Colonial Experience and Aesthetic Expression in Eastern Africa . The Arabic Book, Berlin, ISSN  0932-5476 .
  • 2008: Colonial rule in German East Africa. Expeditions, military and administration since 1880 , Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 978-3-593-37868-8 .
  • 2010: The end of a colonial empire. East Africa in the First World War . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / New York ISBN 978-3-593-39184-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Pesek at the Collaborative Research Center 640 ( memento from July 1, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ): Representations of Social Orders in Transition (older version of the website), accessed on May 31, 2013.
  2. ↑ Through the desert in the middle ... in: FAZ from September 6, 2011, page 10
personal data
SURNAME Pesek, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 5th June 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuruppin