Presentation

The PhD program Global Histories, Cultures, and Politics is characterized by a global and interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of historical and social processes. The "global" is not merely understood as a wider geographical scale, but rather as an epistemic device leading the study of the present and the past. "Globalization" is therefore not taken as something given but as a set of processes, whose variable combination is necessarily the effect of the action of specific political, social, and economic forces that attract investigation through the interaction of multiple disciplinary approaches.
Historiography, Area and Oriental studies, Cultural Anthropology, Geography, Political philosophy, Intellectual and conceptual history, are the main disciplinary axes to grasp the polycentric of global spaces traversed by transnational flows of people, ideas, and commodities, pursued in a non-Eurocentric perspective, allowing an analysis of the prospects and limits of Western grand narratives, attentive to theoretical traditions and approaches such as cultural, postcolonial, and gender studies.