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Papers by Sven Trakulhun

This collection seeks to contribute to the many long-standing discussions on modernity, but also ... more This collection seeks to contribute to the many long-standing discussions on modernity, but also and more specifically to the more recent debates over trends to pluralize modernity. These debates are current in many different academic disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, literature and postcolonial studies. Hitherto, most engagements with modernity in the plural have remained conspicuously confined to one or other intra-disciplinary notion of modernities, such as that of Shmuel Eisenstadt’s “multiple modernities” which has triggered a host of conference papers and publications largely within sociology: all the while, it seems that the literatures, for instance, of multiple modernities and alternative modernities are each distinguished by the fact that one ignores the other. It is the principal aim of this edited volume to subject these disciplinary discussions to a more encompassing view, assembling contributions from different scholars who not only work in different discipl...

Due to successive technological advancements, developments and innovations, the global industrial... more Due to successive technological advancements, developments and innovations, the global industrial landscape has drastically transformed over the last years. The fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) aims at transforming traditional industries into intelligent ones by incorporating innovative technologies. Industry 4.0 enables physical assets to be integrated into intertwined digital and physical processes thus creating smart factories and intelligent manufacturing environments. Internet of Things (IoT) is a rapidly growing technology that has drastically contributed to the Industry 4.0 realization. IoT pursues to pervade our everyday environment and its objects, linking the physical to the digital world and allowing people and "things" to be connected anytime, anywhere, with anything and anyone ideally using any network and service. IoT is regarded as a dynamic and global network of interconnected "things" uniquely addressable, based on standard and interoperable communication protocols and with self-configuring capabilities. Despite still being at an early development, adoption and implementation stage, Industry 4.0 and IoT can provide a multitude of contemporary solutions, applications and services. Hence, they can improve life quality and yield significant personal, professional and economic opportunities and benefits in the near future. This study scrutinizes IoT in the Industry 4.0 context. More specifically, it presents related studies, describes the IoT concept and explores some of the numerous IoT application domains. Moreover, it presents and analyzes the concept of Industry 4.0 and the benefits it offers as well as the relevant key technologies (e.g. industrial internet of things (IIoT), cyber-physical systems (CPSs), cloud computing, big data and advanced data analytics). Furthermore, it describes the concept of intelligent manufacturing and highlights the main IoT and Industry 4.0 challenges and open research issues. Finally, the need for innovation in the industrial domain and the impact and benefits that IoT and Industry 4.0 provide to everyday life and industries is described.

Die politische Landkarte Asiens befand sich im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert in unruhiger, krisenhafter... more Die politische Landkarte Asiens befand sich im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert in unruhiger, krisenhafter Bewegung. Vom Bosporus über Iran, von Nordindien und Südostasien bis nach China durchschritten die asiatischen Monarchien Phasen der staatlichen Umgestaltung und des dynastischen Niedergangs. Europäische Beobachter haben diese Revolutionen sehr genau verfolgt und beschrieben. Im Spiegel der Geschichte des »Orients« wollte Europa sich selbst besser erkennen, indem es die eigenen politischen Erfahrungen immer wieder neu mit denen der »Anderen« verglich. Auf ungewöhnlich breiter Quellenbasis rekonstruiert dieses Buch die universalhistorische Erfassung Asiens als einen geistigen Aneignungsprozess, in dem europäische Revolutionsdiskurse und asiatische Geschichtsschreibung, geschichtsphilosophische Entwicklungsmodelle und Ideologien des Kolonialismus miteinander verwoben waren.

In: Damien Tricoire (ed.), Enlightened Colonialism. Civilization Narratives and Imperial Politics... more In: Damien Tricoire (ed.), Enlightened Colonialism. Civilization Narratives and Imperial Politics in the Age of Reason (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), 179-201.

Daniel Carey, Claire Jowitt (eds.), Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe, Surrey: Ashgate, 2012, 57-66, 2012

Volker Grabowsky (Hg.), Unravelling The Myths of Southeast Asian Historiography. Essays in honour of Barend Jan Terwiel, Bangkok: River Books 2011, pp. 190-209., 2011

Björn Bentlage et al. (eds.): Religious Dynamics under the Impact of Imperialism and Colonialism. A Sourcebook (Leiden: Brill, 2017), 2017

In: Arnez, Monika/Jürgen Sarnowsky (eds.), European Perceptions of Religion in Southeast Asia: Tr... more In: Arnez, Monika/Jürgen Sarnowsky (eds.), European Perceptions of Religion in Southeast Asia: Travel Accounts, 16th to 20th centuries (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2016), 133-155.

Günther Distelrath, Hans Dieter Ölschleger und Heinz Werner Weßler (Hg.): Zur Konstruktion kollektiver Identitäten in Asien. Schenefeld: EB-Verlag, Dr. Brandt 2007., 2007

This collection seeks to contribute to the many long-standing discussions on modernity, but also ... more This collection seeks to contribute to the many long-standing discussions on modernity, but also and more specifically to the more recent debates over trends to pluralize modernity. These debates are current in many different academic disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, literature and postcolonial studies. Hitherto, most engagements with modernity in the plural have remained conspicuously confined to one or other intra-disciplinary notion of modernities, such as that of Shmuel Eisenstadt's "multiple modernities" which has triggered a host of conference papers and publications largely within sociology: all the while, it seems that the literatures, for instance, of multiple modernities and alternative modernities are each distinguished by the fact that one ignores the other. It is the principal aim of this edited volume to subject these disciplinary discussions to a more encompassing view, assembling contributions from different scholars who not only work in different disciplines and regional settings, but who also engage with their research topics in a variety of approaches and at different levels of analysis. The volume thus transcends the sometimes narrow boundaries of the debates over modernities within the established academic disciplines and seeks to turn the unavoidable friction brought about by this interdisciplinary setting into most original and insightful scholarship.

Table of Contents

Part I. Globalization and the Rethinking of Modernity
Chapter 1: 'Of Other Worlds to Come,' Pheng Cheah
Chapter 2: What is 'Modernities' a Plural of? - A Rhetorical Analysis of Some Recent Uses, Ralph Weber
Chapter 3: Varieties of Modernity? Conceptual Prerequisites and Empirical Observations, Volker H. Schmidt
Chapter 4: The Origins of the Social Sciences and the Problem of Conceptualizing 'Modernity'/'Modernities,' Wolfgang Knobl

Part II. Sites of Revision, Ways of Revisioning
Chapter 5: Waiting for the Simorgh: Comparisons, Connections, and the 'Early Modern,' Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Chapter 6: Early Modernity as Cosmopolis: Some Suggestions from Southeast Asia, Anthony Reid
Chapter 7: Revisioning Modernity: Modernity in Eurasian Perspectives, Arif Dirlik
Chapter 8: New Historicism and Chinese Modernity: Multiple Mythologies Revisited, Andrea Riemenschnitter
Chapter 9: Making Modern Muslims: Islamic Reform, Hasan al-Banna, and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, Gudrun Kramer
Chapter 10: Dilemmas of Development: Dr. Krisana Kraisintu's Praxis in Asia and Africa, Tamara Loos

Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung, 2018