Research Areas
The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS) is a collaborative research center in which a large number of researchers from various disciplines jointly explore societal phenomena of “strong asymmetrical dependencies”, drawing upon a large range of regional, temporal and disciplinary approaches.
The research output of the BCDSS should be more than the sum of the members’ individual projects. Thus, all members of the BCDSS are also members of a Research Area, irrespective of their status group. The BCDSS aims at communication at eye level and, therefore, intends to set an example to reduce hierarchies and hierarchical dependencies that are still common within academia.
In order to benefit from the interdisciplinary potential of the collaborative research, the following five Research Areas are meant to bring the researchers together:
Research Area A
Semantics – Lexical Fields – Narratives
Research Area B
Embodied Dependencies
Research Area C
Institutions – Norms – Practices
Research Area D
Labor and Spatiality
