The PhD programme in Global Histories, Cultures, and Politics promotes research activities on the global dimension of socio-historical phenomena. The "global" is not understood here as a mere adoption of an enlarged geographical scale, but as an epistemological device that orients the study of the present and the past. Globalisation is a set of processes shaped by political, social, and economic forces within an interplay between transnational and local dimensions. Therefore, studying such processes requires a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach capable of shedding light on their complexity.
History, Area Studies, Oriental Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Geography, Political Theory, and the History of Political Concepts represent the main disciplinary axes of the PhD, aimed at analysing global spaces and socio-historical phenomena shaped by transnational flows of people, ideas, and goods. In this framework, specific attention is paid to non-Eurocentric perspectives of thought that allow us to grasp the limits of Western grand narratives and to highlight approaches emerging from cultural studies, postcolonial studies, feminist political theory, and gender studies.
The training and research activities of the PhD programme are characterised by: