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Connectivities and disconnectivities

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Gigi Scaria - Face to Face, 2010

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Street sign in Tanga

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Daniel Koßmann

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Maritime trade in Zanzibar

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John Njenga Karugia

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A road funded by Chinese loans

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Linda Ammann

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The research consortium De:link//Re:link aims to demonstrate the importance of area studies for knowledge production, communication and dissemination in a world increasingly characterized by uncontrolled digitization and fragmented knowledge. Engaging with the notion of “link”, the group brings local perspectives and new dimensions of knowledge into focus: Local Insights and New Knowledges. In the research, the term “local” does not only include spatial but also, and even more so, relational components.

De:link // Re:link - Local perspectives on transregional (dis-)entanglements

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Long Night of the Sciences 2025

We’ll be presenting our work at the Long Night of the Sciences on Saturday, 28 June 2025. Come by and see us at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin for a language quiz, a blindfolded game of ‘guess the BRI country’, and short talks from some of our researchers. On top of all that, there will be an

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New Phase, New Connections: Our Journey along the BRI Continues​

Since the De:link//Re:link research consortium formed in April 2021, there have been dramatic political changes in (Eur)Asia. Among them the return of the Taliban to power in Afghanistan later that year, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The expansion of the BRICS group of nations added to significant shifts in international relations. These

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De:link // Re:link final conference

The conference marking the end of our first phase of funding took place at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin on 23 and 24 May 2024. Titled ‘Local Roads, Global Belts’, the event covered the wide spectrum of research on the BRI that has been produced since 2021. The programme consisted of panels concieved by the partners in

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