Publications
Contributions in Edited Volumes
Making Use of Models: Perspectives in Historical Research
In: Comparing & Change: Orders, Models, Perceptions. Flüchter A, Schwandt S, Mertens R, Kramer K (Eds); Bielefeld: Bielefeld University Press / transcript Verlag: 49-70
Abstract
This essay sheds light on the question of how models and modeling could be applied to historical research. In three sections, different research fields in History will be explored concerning this question, i.e., economic history, situations of cultural contact, denazification, and the use of models in Digital Humanities. In every section, two authors discuss problems and chancesin using models and modelingintheir research projects withinthe SFB 1288 “Practices of comparing.” This essay relates to a “Roundtable” of doctoral students held on the Midterm Conference of the SFB: “Comparing & Change: Orders, Models, Perceptions.”
Die Legitimationsproblematik der Grundsteuer und Alternativen
In: Beiträge zur Kommunalwirtschaft. Steinrücken T (Ed); Books on Demand: 49-64.
Working-Paper
So vielfältig ist Vereinheitlichung: Warum Praktiken ähnlicher werden und welche Rolle Vergleichspraktiken dabei spielen
Ackermann M, Al-Bayaa N, Bohé J et al. (2024) Praktiken des Vergleichens. Working Paper of SFB 1288, 14. Bielefeld: Universität Bielefeld
Abstract
Homogenization is often described as a key dynamic of modernity. This working paper teases
out the crucial role that comparative practices play in processes of homogenization. It
develops a broad understanding of variegated forms of homogenization and heuristically
distinguishes four dimensions of the relation between these processes and comparative
practices: homogenization as a precondition for comparative practices, the homogenization
of comparative practices, comparative practices in debates about homogenization and
comparative practices as engines of homogenization. To illustrate how this heuristic can be
productively used to generate deeper insights into processes of homogenization, the working
paper presents several brief case studies which cover a broad spectrum of empirical
phenomena: racist comparisons, the evolution of the literary field, discussions about
standards in the automobile sector and the real estate market, debates about world political
change, the diffusion of rankings as well as comparisons between metropoles and their
colonies