Knowledge and Ideologies. Europe and the Black Sea Region after World War II

This publication aims to investigate the interrelations of the geopolitical transformation of the BSR after WW II and knowledge and cultural exchanges between and within the region and Western Europe. It discusses the complex interrelations between science on a macro and micro level, where exchange can become complicated even within a single department if it comes to negotiation processes or conflicts about the hegemony of scholars and concepts in a certain discipline. This complexity multiplies if it comes to interactions with additional elements of the micro level and the macro level. Because of a new quality of dense communication in the 20^th century, interactions between the two levels have become intensive at the stage of investigation. Current research emphasizes a plurality of macro-historical and micro-historical transfer and interaction processes. Therefore, the question comes into foreground whether the exchange of knowledge and science can be delimited at all from general cultural exchange processes, including fashion, music, and cinema for instance, and theories. Does the exchange of knowledge in science merely constitute a subgroup of more general cultural exchange or does it have unique features? The fifteen chapters with case studies from across the Black Sea Region explore these questions and more...