Papers by Hagen Schulz-Forberg
The volume shows that neoliberalism concerns a tradition carried by a network of people, who unde... more The volume shows that neoliberalism concerns a tradition carried by a network of people, who understood themselves as liberals (and at times as neoliberals) and who sought to create societies based on individual freedom and a free market economy. It also shows that neoliberalism emerged as a transnational and multilingual phenomenon and that it cannot be reduced to one doctrine or practice. The book will enrich the reader's knowledge of the political-ideological landscapes and developments in various European regions and countries, in addition to transforming the overall picture of European (neo)liberalisms in the twentieth century.
Berghahn Books, Dec 31, 2022
Global Perspectives, 2020
... Authors: SCHULZ-FORBERG, Hagen. Issue Date: 2005. Citation: Rolf-HagenSCHULZ-FORBERG (ed), Un... more ... Authors: SCHULZ-FORBERG, Hagen. Issue Date: 2005. Citation: Rolf-HagenSCHULZ-FORBERG (ed), Unravelling Civilisation. European Travel and Travel Writing, Bruxelles, PIE-Peter Lang, 2005, 13-40. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/3884. ...
Historical Social Research, 2013
»Die räumlichen und zeitlichen Schichten der Globalgeschichte: Überlegungen zu einer globalen Beg... more »Die räumlichen und zeitlichen Schichten der Globalgeschichte: Überlegungen zu einer globalen Begriffsgeschichte anhand der Ausweitung von Reinhart Kosellecks Zeitschichten in globale Räume«. Recent debates on global history have challenged the understanding of history beyond the nationstate. Simultaneously, they search for non-Eurocentric approaches. This has repercussions on the relation between historical space and time in both historical interpretation and in research design. This article reflects on the possibilities of a global conceptual history by expanding Reinhart Koselleck's theory of temporal layers (Zeitschichten) into global spaces. To this end, it introduces the notion of spatial layers (Raumschichten). First, historicisation and its relation to and interaction with spatialisation and temporalisation is pondered; then, the impact of global spatial and temporal complexities on comparative and conceptual history is considered, before, thirdly, a framework of three tensions of global history-normative, temporal and spatial-is introduced as a way to concretely unfold historical research questions through global conceptual history. Regarding time and space, the main lines of argument in global history have focused either on the question of whether or not European powers were ahead of non-European ones or on the supposedly Western linearity of time as opposed to a non-Western cosmology or circularity of time. Taking its point of departure in Zeitschichten, which break from the linear-vs.-circular logic, this article instead proposes to foreground an actor-based, multilingual , global conceptual history to better understand spatio-temporal practices.
The paper explores the existence of a European public sphere drawing upon the example of the Pari... more The paper explores the existence of a European public sphere drawing upon the example of the Paris 1968 May revolts. Its addresses questions as: How European was 1968 when it happened? And what does European refer to? Is it European already when it happens in more than one European country or city? Can one ignore the influence of the USA and still call it European? Are the European experiences so distinct from the American ones that one can carve out a clear-cut European version of 1968? Why do we ask the question of whether or not 1968 was European when it clearly was one of the crucial events in recent history?
»Raum/Zeit-Praktiken und die Produktion von Raum und Zeit. Eine Einführung«. This introduction to... more »Raum/Zeit-Praktiken und die Produktion von Raum und Zeit. Eine Einführung«. This introduction to the HSR Special Issue Space/Time Practices outlines some main aspects of the discussion of space and time in social and cultural studies. Three main epistemic problems are sketched: 1) Space and time have often acquired a transcendental character, which continues to be especially true of time. 2) To this day, a distinct field of research on temporality in cultural studies is still in nascent form. 3) Space and time are often set in "binary oppositions" to one another, thereby inhibiting their combined analysis. The present volume, which is the result of discussions by the SpaceTime research group at the University of Erfurt (Erfurter RaumZeit-Forschung, ERZ), takes this set of problems as its starting point. The contributions share the presupposition that spatiality and temporality are inseparable in their lived and everyday worlds. Discussing concepts of permanences (Whitehead), of Space/ Time Practices and forms of production of time and space, the introduction proposes a constructivist, actor-and praxis-centered approach to space and time that enables an inter-and multidisciplinary platform for different questions about two central facets of human life.
Slagmark - Tidsskrift for idéhistorie, 2020
This article maps the early conceptual and institutional history of neoliberalism, arguing that t... more This article maps the early conceptual and institutional history of neoliberalism, arguing that the social question was of vital importance to the ideology’s early de-velopment in the 1930s. This has been overlooked in recent intellectual histories of neoliberalism, which focus primarily on the post-war period. Those who have ventured into the prehistory of neoliberalism have primarily focused on the neoliberal acceptance of stronger state intervention in the economy, but without contextualizing this shift against the background of the social question. In addition, the article explores another overlooked dimension of early neoliberalism, namely the transnational institutional efforts that were indispensable to the foundation of the neoliberal network.
Global Perspectives, 2020
At first sight, politics, governance, and the law seem distinct and easily categorized as separat... more At first sight, politics, governance, and the law seem distinct and easily categorized as separate disciplines within the social sciences. Yet when considering them from global perspectives, they are ultimately contested, as are the relations among them. Generically, politics might be seen as the continuous self-design of a polity through ways of gaining and arranging power; governance as the way in which governments might function effectively and simultaneously, when conceived of globally, as transnational and global regimes beyond national realms of sovereignty; and law as a social technique by which societies and the international community choose and live by the norms they have reason to value.
European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire, 2019
ABSTRACT In this article, the author follows a history of transnational policy-making to illustra... more ABSTRACT In this article, the author follows a history of transnational policy-making to illustrate a perspective on the crisis of the ‘long 1970s’ that is often neglected: continuity of transnational actors and institutions since the 1930s. In the interwar period early global governance practices consolidated, concerned with questions of global order and the kind of normative statehood needed to sustain it. Neoliberalism emerged at this time and in this field of early global governance actors. The concept of early neoliberalism is established in the article and taken as a red thread to think about European integration’s early history from a transnational perspective. Further, Robert Marjolin’s multi-level agency, his role in early neoliberalism and his thought serve as a prism through which the long 1970s from the financial troubles of the late 1960s to the new language of market optimism of the early 1980s are put into perspective vis-à-vis the continuity of actors and institutions managing the crisis. It is argued that the Left’s relationship with neoliberalism needs more careful attention and that Marjolin acted in accordance with some early neoliberal principles since the 1930s before, rather grudgingly, participating in the shaping of a new, contemporary neoliberal paradigm.
Transnationalization of Public Spheres, 2008
The quest for a European public sphere focuses on the Europeanization of national public spheres ... more The quest for a European public sphere focuses on the Europeanization of national public spheres as opposed to truly transnational spaces of communication. There are two good reasons for this approach, as pointed out in Chapter 1: transnational media are rare, and transnational media do not reach broad audiences in the same way that national media do. Nevertheless, transnational media do deserve closer scrutiny. This chapter will show that a multitude of transnational media have evolved over the last 20 years and that they do have a small, but significant and growing audience. Research on transnational media is underdeveloped, however, owing to the ‘methodological nationalism’ (Beck 2000a) inherent in much of the research on communication.
The European Public Sphere and the Media, 2009
When former French President Charles de Gaulle welcomed the year 1968 in his New Year’s speech he... more When former French President Charles de Gaulle welcomed the year 1968 in his New Year’s speech he proclaimed that it would be the year in which a new social order would be implemented in France. The social order he imagined was very different to the changes France experienced during and following the most deeply cutting crisis of its post-war existence, however. Social unrest exploded in May 1968 in a situation of heightened critical tension inside many Western societies due to anti-war movements and a generally expressed need of the younger generations to break up encrusted social, political, cultural and economic structures. The assassination of Martin Luther King on 4 April and the gunning down of German student protest leader Rudi Dutschke on 11 April were manifestations of deep conflict inside Western societies. The intensity and violence of the Paris crisis was yet more evidence of this deep conflict.
The European Public Sphere and the Media, 2009
Former US Secretary of State Dean Rusk, one of the key actors in the Berlin Wall crisis on the si... more Former US Secretary of State Dean Rusk, one of the key actors in the Berlin Wall crisis on the side of the US administration, explained that when he went to sleep he tried not to think of Berlin. He had feared that an escalation of conflict in Berlin would bring global repercussions. The crisis illustrated a profound rift in the international relations system; although it was contained, it would have had devastating consequences should an armed conflict arise. The Berlin Wall crisis was one of the global Cold War crises alongside the Suez crisis, the Budapest upheavals and the Cuban missile crisis — to name only a few of the sources of possible global conflict in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
European Identity and the Second World War, 2011
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