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History on tape interview with michael goebel
Michael Goebel (born 1976) is a German historian. Since 2015 he has been Professor of Global and Latin American history at Freie Universität Berlin.
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Interview with michael goebel for his new book anti imperial metropolis
Biography
Born in Munich, Goebel studied History at Freie Universität Berlin and University College London, where he received his Ph.D. in 2006. He subsequently held a Past & Present Fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research, a Marie Curie Fellowship at the European University Institute, and a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellowship at Harvard University. After four years as "Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter", Freie Universität Berlin appointed him as a professor in June 2015. He is one of the founders of the Global Urban History blog and a member of the Graduate School Global Intellectual History at Freie Universität Berlin.
Goebel’s main research interests are the histories of nationalism, of migration, and of cities. Trained in the intellectual history of Latin America, his first book dealt with nationalism and the political use of history in twentieth-century Argentina. However, his second book, Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Nationalism, deals with the urban history of Paris as the “‘social bedrock’ for the formation of an anti-imperialist consciousness that transformed the world after 1945.” The book won the 2016 Jerry Bentley Prize in World History, awarded by the American Historical Association. Even though the book champions the benefits of “global history,” Goebel elsewhere warned that an “over-endearment with phenomena and historical explanations that cross national, and now regional, boundaries (…) can lead to unconvincing historical accounts, or narratives that drown questions of causality in a never-ending assemblage of sparkly anecdotes about ‘entanglement.’”