From the department of Historical Regimes of Normativity at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
Chasing Phantom Archives: How Lost Repositories Still Speak
Archives can vanish without falling silent. Scattered references, missing originals, copies, seals, and memories may still reveal what a lost repository contained and why it mattered. The Chiriguana archives show how Indigenous communities preserved political correspondence and legal guarantees through mobile collections and knowledgeable intermediaries.
“The greatest challenge lies in vocabulary. When we say “law”, we think of people deciding about people…”
An interview with Karolyne Mendes Mendonça Moreira conducted by Ana Isabel Soler.
Bürokratie und Bürokratisierung in verwaltungshistorischer Perspektive. Impressionen von einem Workshop in der Uckermark
Der Begriff „Bürokratie“ lässt sich in verschiedener Weise verstehen: als Idealtypus legaler Herrschaft im Sinne Max Webers, was auch positive Eigenschaften wie Regeltreue, Vorhersehbarkeit und Effizienz einschließt, oder als Umschreibung von Dysfunktionalitäten innerhalb der Verwaltung oder im Verhältnis zur Verwaltungsumwelt.
La aventura del Schreibtisch No. 13
Un escritorio animado: mis experiencias en Frankfurt durante una estancia de investigación sobre narrativas visuales como herramienta para reimaginar el pasado.
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