Andrea Rehling center manager of the Jakob-Fugger-Zentrum - Center for Advanced Transnational Studies at the University of Augsburg. Before, she was a researcher at the Leibniz-Institute of European History in Mainz. Between 2013 and 2016, she was principal investigator for the research project "Knowledge of the World – Heritage of Mankind: The History of UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage" funded by the Competition of the Leibniz Association under funding line 2: Particularly innovative and high-risk projects. She studied History, Political Science and German Literature at the Ruhr University, Bochum. In 2009, she took her doctoral degree with a thesis on German corporatism between 1880 and 1980 at the Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen. She has been a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Mannheim and a junior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Constance (Konstanz). In 2016 and 2017 she was visiting fellow at the Institute for European Global Studies in Basel, Switzerland. Phone: +49 821 5 98 5924 Address: Universität Augsburg Jakob-Fugger-Zentrum 86135 Augsburg Germany
Andrea Rehling and Isabella Löhr: The opening contribution introduces the reader to concepts, dis... more Andrea Rehling and Isabella Löhr: The opening contribution introduces the reader to concepts, discussions and practices related to the pitfalls of communally and privately exploited resources on a global scale. It offers a historical perspective and suggests understanding the global commons as markers for competing visions of world order in the course of the 20th century. To throw light onto a complex field of research, the chapter gives an outline of what has been discussed in the social sciences as global commonsand sketches the contexts of the international conventionswhich have established these commons under the legal principle of CommonHeritage of Mankind in international law. In a second part, the authors situate the subject in the wider framework of global history. The global commons serve as an analytic instrument to challengemaster narratives of the post-war era. The chapter advocates a nuanced approach that explores the way global commons were connected with space and territoriality, global integration and statehood, law and international organisations. It emphasises border crossings and sets out the diversity of agencies pursued by states, international communities, non-governmental interests and multinational corporations alike.
With its international perspective and by situating itself "beyond the market and tate", this vol... more With its international perspective and by situating itself "beyond the market and tate", this volume on the "Global Commons in the twentieth century" generates many new insights. Space and territorialization, global integration and statehood, law and international organizations - these dimensions of the global commons enrich our perspectives on the Cold War, decolonzation, and the Nord-South conflict.
Themenheft: Global Commons im 20. Jahrhundert: Entwürfe für eine Globale Welt, hrsg. v. Isabella Löhr und Andrea Rehling. Jahrbuch für Europäische Geschichte European History Yearbook, Bd. 15 , Sep 2014
The opening contribution introduces the reader to concepts, discussions and practices related to ... more The opening contribution introduces the reader to concepts, discussions and practices related to the pitfalls of communally and privately exploited resources on a global scale. It offers a historical perspective and suggests understanding the global commons as markers for competing visions of world order in the course of the 20th century. To throw light onto a complex field of research, the chapter gives an outline of what has been discussed in the social sciences as global commons and sketches the contexts of the international conventions which have established these commons under the legal principle of Common Heritage of Mankind in international law. In a second part, the authors situate the subject in the wider framework of global history. The global commons serve as an analytic instrument to challenge master narratives of the post-war era. The chapter advocates a nuanced approach that explores the way global commons were connected with space and territoriality, global integration and statehood, law and international organisations. It emphasises border crossings and sets out the diversity of agencies pursued by states, international communities, non-governmental interests and multinational corporations alike.
Themenheft: Global Commons im 20. Jahrhundert: Entwürfe für eine globale Welt, hrsg. v. Isabella Löhr und Andrea Rehling. Jahrbuch für Europäische Geschichte Eurpean History Yearbook, Bd. 15, Sep 2014
World Heritage is one of UNESCO’s prominent programmes protecting cultural heritage. Its roots li... more World Heritage is one of UNESCO’s prominent programmes protecting cultural heritage. Its roots lie in the legal principle of the Common Heritage of Mankind, which was introduced to international law after the Second World War. Yet the legal concept conceals substantial shifts in what has been subsumed under the term ‘culture’. The author delves into this multi-layered semantic field and examines the development of thereto related interest groups, concepts and practices. The chapter argues that, since the 1950s, it was in the context of decolonisation and UNESCO’s endeavours for cultural diversity and multiculturalism as new leading concepts that the understanding of culture shifted from monuments to anthropology. Heritage was declared a resource of cultural identity which was elevated to a human right. Thus, it triggered conflicts inside UNESCO from the 1980s, culminating in the discussion about a New World Information and Communication Order.
Debating Time Blog. Care for the Future: Thinking Forward through the Past, http://careforthefuture.exeter.ac.uk/2014/09/concepts-of-time-and-unesco-world-heritage/
Andrea Rehling and Isabella Löhr: The opening contribution introduces the reader to concepts, dis... more Andrea Rehling and Isabella Löhr: The opening contribution introduces the reader to concepts, discussions and practices related to the pitfalls of communally and privately exploited resources on a global scale. It offers a historical perspective and suggests understanding the global commons as markers for competing visions of world order in the course of the 20th century. To throw light onto a complex field of research, the chapter gives an outline of what has been discussed in the social sciences as global commonsand sketches the contexts of the international conventionswhich have established these commons under the legal principle of CommonHeritage of Mankind in international law. In a second part, the authors situate the subject in the wider framework of global history. The global commons serve as an analytic instrument to challengemaster narratives of the post-war era. The chapter advocates a nuanced approach that explores the way global commons were connected with space and territoriality, global integration and statehood, law and international organisations. It emphasises border crossings and sets out the diversity of agencies pursued by states, international communities, non-governmental interests and multinational corporations alike.
With its international perspective and by situating itself "beyond the market and tate", this vol... more With its international perspective and by situating itself "beyond the market and tate", this volume on the "Global Commons in the twentieth century" generates many new insights. Space and territorialization, global integration and statehood, law and international organizations - these dimensions of the global commons enrich our perspectives on the Cold War, decolonzation, and the Nord-South conflict.
Themenheft: Global Commons im 20. Jahrhundert: Entwürfe für eine Globale Welt, hrsg. v. Isabella Löhr und Andrea Rehling. Jahrbuch für Europäische Geschichte European History Yearbook, Bd. 15 , Sep 2014
The opening contribution introduces the reader to concepts, discussions and practices related to ... more The opening contribution introduces the reader to concepts, discussions and practices related to the pitfalls of communally and privately exploited resources on a global scale. It offers a historical perspective and suggests understanding the global commons as markers for competing visions of world order in the course of the 20th century. To throw light onto a complex field of research, the chapter gives an outline of what has been discussed in the social sciences as global commons and sketches the contexts of the international conventions which have established these commons under the legal principle of Common Heritage of Mankind in international law. In a second part, the authors situate the subject in the wider framework of global history. The global commons serve as an analytic instrument to challenge master narratives of the post-war era. The chapter advocates a nuanced approach that explores the way global commons were connected with space and territoriality, global integration and statehood, law and international organisations. It emphasises border crossings and sets out the diversity of agencies pursued by states, international communities, non-governmental interests and multinational corporations alike.
Themenheft: Global Commons im 20. Jahrhundert: Entwürfe für eine globale Welt, hrsg. v. Isabella Löhr und Andrea Rehling. Jahrbuch für Europäische Geschichte Eurpean History Yearbook, Bd. 15, Sep 2014
World Heritage is one of UNESCO’s prominent programmes protecting cultural heritage. Its roots li... more World Heritage is one of UNESCO’s prominent programmes protecting cultural heritage. Its roots lie in the legal principle of the Common Heritage of Mankind, which was introduced to international law after the Second World War. Yet the legal concept conceals substantial shifts in what has been subsumed under the term ‘culture’. The author delves into this multi-layered semantic field and examines the development of thereto related interest groups, concepts and practices. The chapter argues that, since the 1950s, it was in the context of decolonisation and UNESCO’s endeavours for cultural diversity and multiculturalism as new leading concepts that the understanding of culture shifted from monuments to anthropology. Heritage was declared a resource of cultural identity which was elevated to a human right. Thus, it triggered conflicts inside UNESCO from the 1980s, culminating in the discussion about a New World Information and Communication Order.
Debating Time Blog. Care for the Future: Thinking Forward through the Past, http://careforthefuture.exeter.ac.uk/2014/09/concepts-of-time-and-unesco-world-heritage/
During the »long 20th century«[1] , political decisions and their implementation have been inconc... more During the »long 20th century«[1] , political decisions and their implementation have been inconceivable without experts and their expertise. As a result, they recently developed into a promising interdisciplinary area of research.[2] In societies describing themselves as »knowledge societies«[3] and framing knowledge as an important pillar of development, experts were ascribed the role of modern day prophets: they framed the notions of the world, its nature and its environments, diagnosed transformations and continuities and provided advice how to improve certain political schemes and measures. But they were not only observers. They took also active parts in the shaping and implementation of political programs. Thus, they were active in international organizations, cooperated in national and transnational networks and provided technical assistance on missions on the spot or worked in the field in order to evaluate and improve the local situation. In this way experts had to perform their expertise according to different and often overlapping contexts. They used organizational and personal networks to pursue international, national or local agendas, and struggled through supposed objectivity and their personal advocacy.
All these aspects of expertise are in the center of the workshop »Experts Shape the World: Environments, Economies and Cultures of Expertise« in Mainz, which will be the platform for international scholars to discuss the role of experts in historical perspective in specific contexts and on different levels. The panels focus on »Experts on the Spot and in the Field: Locality and Expertise«, »Experts in Networks: Cooperation and Collaboration across Borders and Boundaries« and on »interacting Experts: Organized Experts and the multi‐level game of Expertise«. The talks deal with a manifold spectrum of experts ranging from conservation experts over scientists, agricultural experts, political, social and economic scholars to education experts and architects. Addressing the questions, how experts generated their knowledge and performed their expertise, how they interacted with other experts, politicians and non-experts, which orienting knowledge guided their evaluations and expertise, how and why they influenced agenda-setting, policy- and decision-making and how expertise was negotiated on different levels, the workshop promises fresh insights into the ways experts shaped the world. The workshop language will be English.
[1] Charles S. Maier, »Consigning the Twentieth Century to History: Alternative Narratives for the Modern Era«, in: The American Historical Review 105 (2000), Nr. 3, S. 807-831. [2] For example: Stefan Fisch /Wilfried Rudloff (Hg.): Experten und Politik: Wissenschaftliche Politikberatung in geschichtlicher Perspektive, Berlin 2004; Martin Kohlrausch/ Katrin Steffen/ Stefan Wiederkehr (eds.): Expert Cultures in Central Eastern Europe. The Internationalization of Knowledge and the Transformation of Nation States since World War I. Osnabrück 2010; Ariane Leendertz, »Experten - Dynamiken zwischen Wissenschaft und Politik«, in: Christiane Reinecke/ Thomas Mergel (Hg.), Das Soziale ordnen. Sozialwissenschaften und gesellschaftliche Ungleichheit im 20. Jahrhundert, Frankfurt a. M. 2012, S. 337-369; Martin Kohlrausch/ Helmuth Trischler, Building Europe on Expertise. Innovators, Organizers, Networkers. Basingstoke 2014; Joris Vandendriessche/ Evert Peeters/ Kaat Wils (ed.): Scientists' Expertise Performance. Between State and Society, 1860-1960, Milton Park/ New York 2015. [3] Christiane Reinecke, Wissensgesellschaft und Informationsgesellschaft, Version: 1.0, in: Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte, 11.02.2010. Programm
Program: Experts Shape the World: Environments, Economies and Cultures of Expertise
Friday, 8 July 2016 11:00 Johannes Paulmann (IEG Mainz): Welcome Andrea Rehling (IEG Mainz): Introduction
Panel 1: Experts on the Spot and in the Field: Locality and Expertise Chair: Andrea Rehling (IEG Mainz) 11:15 Elke Ackermann (IEG Mainz): An Invasive Species? Conservation Experts on Galapagos 12:15 Claudia Leal (Bogotá): The Nature of Expertise: Scholarly Knowledge vs everyday Experience on the ground 13:15 Lunch 14:30 Jane Carruthers (Pretoria): The Changing Role and Changing Scientific Expertise in South Africa’s Protected Areas 15:30 Coffee break
Panel 2: Experts in Networks: Cooperation and Collaboration across Borders and Boundaries Chair: Katharina Stornig (IEG Mainz) 15:45 Raf de Bont (Maastricht): White Men in Suits: Conservation Conferences and Expert Networks in the short 20th Century 16:45 Martin Deuerlein (Tübingen): »Everything that we’ve done so far is now outdated« - Soviet Foreign Policy Experts and the Transformation of International Politics in the 1970s 17:45 Frank Reichherzer (Potsdam/Berlin): The Trilateral Commission. Managing Global Interdependecies in the 1970s 20:00 Dinner
Saturday, 9 July 2016
Panel 3: Interacting Experts: Organized Experts and the Multi-Level Game of Expertise Chair: Esther Möller (IEG Mainz) 09:00 Amalia Ribi Forclaz (Geneve): Negotiating the Gap between Field and Office: Agricultural Experts and International Organizations, 1920s-1950s 10:00 Simone Turchetti (Manchester): In the Thick of ‘Boundary Work’: Experts at NATO during the Cold War 11:00 Coffee break 11:15 Valeska Huber (London): Literacy Experts as Cold Warriors: The Case of Frank C Laubach 12:15 Martin Kohlrausch (Leuven): Designers of Modernity: Architects, Social Renewal and the Burden of Expectations 13:15 Lunch 14:30 Frank Rexroth: Commentary & Final Debate
The workshop "Auschwitz as World Heritage – UNESCO, Poland and History Politics" analyses the eve... more The workshop "Auschwitz as World Heritage – UNESCO, Poland and History Politics" analyses the events that led to the inscription of Auschwitz-Birkenau in the World Heritage List and its further development as a World Heritage site. The focus is not only on assessing cultural and political processes at global and transnational levels, but also on investigating regional and national as well as locally rooted developments.
Using archival sources, the project firstly reconstructs the history of the foundation of the Wor... more Using archival sources, the project firstly reconstructs the history of the foundation of the World Heritage programme. It investigates the political dimensions of discussions about cultural and natural heritage, identifies the various forms which the debate took, and measures the relationship between the state and civil society in the governance of the World Heritage programme in five subprojects:
UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage: Cosmopolitanization of Collective Memory (Dr. Andrea Rehling)
Aachener Cathedral (Elsa Duval)
The Old City of Jerusalem and its City Walls (Benedetta Serapioni)
Auschwitz Concentration Camp (Julia Röttjer)
The Galápagos Islands National Park (Elke Ackermann)
The project “UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage: Cosmopolitanization of Collective Memory... more The project “UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage: Cosmopolitanization of Collective Memory” deals with the history of UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage in its totality. Using archival sources, the project firstly reconstructs the history of the foundation of the World Heritage programme up to the International Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage of 1972. Secondly, the project investigates the subsequent practice of the nomination procedure and of entry on the World Heritage List up to 1994. The project offers a critical analysis of the cosmopolitanization of collective memory and of “post- national memory culture”. It is a contribution to the expanded international history and global history. Due attention is paid to the interplay and tensions between regional, national, and international or global levels. Particular attention is paid to conflict lines in international relations, such as the east-west conflict and the north-south conflict, as well as to the supposed “clash of civilizations” and its effects on the UNESCO World Heritage programme. Additionally, conflicts between representatives of the internationalorganizations, of national and local authorities, and users and inhabitants of the heritage will be investigated. At what points did conflicting interests and diverging concepts and interpretations of the actual sites occur? To what extent did the use of the cultural or natural sites, and therefore local life, change as a result of entry on the World Heritage List?
International Journal of Heritage Studies, Feb 7, 2017
exacerbate the very issues that led to conflict in the first place. A key reason for this, as the... more exacerbate the very issues that led to conflict in the first place. A key reason for this, as the authors point out, is that unless memorials have a meaning and a connection to the local community they will universally cause division. Seemingly neutral spaces become corrupted by tangible versions of history and a bias of memory that deliberately seeks to legitimise violence or attribute blame. The biography of memory regularly elides one event over another and memorialisation that begins with a few flowers or small personal items can become something much larger, or be appropriated by the other side to reassert control over space, something common in Israel and Palestine. Here memorials can take other forms such as the many elevated motorways that allow Israelis to cross the unseen Palestinian territory far below the asphalt, steel and concrete, safe in the air conditioned cabins of their cars (see Weizman 2007). These roads in effect memorialise the ‘victory’ of Israel over its enemy, controlling space and defining place without the names of the dead needing to be displayed. Braniff and McDowell do not delve this deeply into the material culture of conflict related memory, and if there is a criticism of their book it is that a greater focus on the modern interdisciplinary study of objects is perhaps not fully developed. Nevertheless, Commemoration of Conflict is well written, informative and original. As students of the past we would do well to remember that objects contain not only reflections of the past, but of the present and the future too. It is to the authors’ credit that they bring this to the fore, and their book deserves its place amongst the burgeoning academic literature on the many complexities of modern conflict and its myriad legacies.
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global commonsand sketches the contexts of the international conventionswhich have established these commons under the legal principle of CommonHeritage of Mankind in international law. In a second part, the authors situate the subject in
the wider framework of global history. The global commons serve as an analytic instrument to challengemaster narratives of the post-war era. The chapter advocates a nuanced approach that explores the way global commons were connected with space and territoriality, global integration and statehood, law and international organisations. It emphasises border crossings and sets out the diversity of agencies pursued by states, international communities, non-governmental interests and multinational corporations alike.
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global commonsand sketches the contexts of the international conventionswhich have established these commons under the legal principle of CommonHeritage of Mankind in international law. In a second part, the authors situate the subject in
the wider framework of global history. The global commons serve as an analytic instrument to challengemaster narratives of the post-war era. The chapter advocates a nuanced approach that explores the way global commons were connected with space and territoriality, global integration and statehood, law and international organisations. It emphasises border crossings and sets out the diversity of agencies pursued by states, international communities, non-governmental interests and multinational corporations alike.
All these aspects of expertise are in the center of the workshop »Experts Shape the World: Environments, Economies and Cultures of Expertise« in Mainz, which will be the platform for international scholars to discuss the role of experts in historical perspective in specific contexts and on different levels. The panels focus on »Experts on the Spot and in the Field: Locality and Expertise«, »Experts in Networks: Cooperation and Collaboration across Borders and Boundaries« and on »interacting Experts: Organized Experts and the multi‐level game of Expertise«. The talks deal with a manifold spectrum of experts ranging from conservation experts over scientists, agricultural experts, political, social and economic scholars to education experts and architects. Addressing the questions, how experts generated their knowledge and performed their expertise, how they interacted with other experts, politicians and non-experts, which orienting knowledge guided their evaluations and expertise, how and why they influenced agenda-setting, policy- and decision-making and how expertise was negotiated on different levels, the workshop promises fresh insights into the ways experts shaped the world. The workshop language will be English.
[1] Charles S. Maier, »Consigning the Twentieth Century to History: Alternative Narratives for the Modern Era«, in: The American Historical Review 105 (2000), Nr. 3, S. 807-831.
[2] For example: Stefan Fisch /Wilfried Rudloff (Hg.): Experten und Politik: Wissenschaftliche Politikberatung in geschichtlicher Perspektive, Berlin 2004; Martin Kohlrausch/ Katrin Steffen/ Stefan Wiederkehr (eds.): Expert Cultures in Central Eastern Europe. The Internationalization of Knowledge and the Transformation of Nation States since World War I. Osnabrück 2010; Ariane Leendertz, »Experten - Dynamiken zwischen Wissenschaft und Politik«, in: Christiane Reinecke/ Thomas Mergel (Hg.), Das Soziale ordnen. Sozialwissenschaften und gesellschaftliche Ungleichheit im 20. Jahrhundert, Frankfurt a. M. 2012, S. 337-369; Martin Kohlrausch/ Helmuth Trischler, Building Europe on Expertise. Innovators, Organizers, Networkers. Basingstoke 2014; Joris Vandendriessche/ Evert Peeters/ Kaat Wils (ed.): Scientists' Expertise Performance. Between State and Society, 1860-1960, Milton Park/ New York 2015.
[3] Christiane Reinecke, Wissensgesellschaft und Informationsgesellschaft, Version: 1.0, in: Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte, 11.02.2010.
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Program: Experts Shape the World: Environments, Economies and Cultures of Expertise
Friday, 8 July 2016
11:00 Johannes Paulmann (IEG Mainz): Welcome
Andrea Rehling (IEG Mainz): Introduction
Panel 1: Experts on the Spot and in the Field: Locality and Expertise
Chair: Andrea Rehling (IEG Mainz)
11:15 Elke Ackermann (IEG Mainz): An Invasive Species? Conservation Experts on Galapagos
12:15 Claudia Leal (Bogotá): The Nature of Expertise: Scholarly Knowledge vs everyday Experience on the ground
13:15 Lunch
14:30 Jane Carruthers (Pretoria): The Changing Role and Changing Scientific Expertise in South Africa’s Protected Areas
15:30 Coffee break
Panel 2: Experts in Networks: Cooperation and Collaboration across Borders and Boundaries
Chair: Katharina Stornig (IEG Mainz)
15:45 Raf de Bont (Maastricht): White Men in Suits: Conservation Conferences and Expert Networks in the short 20th Century
16:45 Martin Deuerlein (Tübingen): »Everything that we’ve done so far is now outdated« - Soviet Foreign Policy Experts and the Transformation of International Politics in the 1970s
17:45 Frank Reichherzer (Potsdam/Berlin): The Trilateral Commission. Managing Global Interdependecies in the 1970s
20:00 Dinner
Saturday, 9 July 2016
Panel 3: Interacting Experts: Organized Experts and the Multi-Level Game of Expertise
Chair: Esther Möller (IEG Mainz)
09:00 Amalia Ribi Forclaz (Geneve): Negotiating the Gap between Field and Office: Agricultural Experts and International Organizations, 1920s-1950s
10:00 Simone Turchetti (Manchester): In the Thick of ‘Boundary Work’: Experts at NATO during the Cold War
11:00 Coffee break
11:15 Valeska Huber (London): Literacy Experts as Cold Warriors: The Case of Frank C Laubach
12:15 Martin Kohlrausch (Leuven): Designers of Modernity: Architects, Social Renewal and the Burden of Expectations
13:15 Lunch
14:30 Frank Rexroth: Commentary & Final Debate
UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage: Cosmopolitanization of Collective Memory (Dr. Andrea Rehling)
Aachener Cathedral (Elsa Duval)
The Old City of Jerusalem and its City Walls (Benedetta Serapioni)
Auschwitz Concentration Camp (Julia Röttjer)
The Galápagos Islands National Park (Elke Ackermann)