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/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Ptolemys_Geography_wikimedia_PublicDomain-885x200.png 885w, /wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Ptolemys_Geography_wikimedia_PublicDomain-187x42.png 187w" sizes="(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Excerpt of Ptolemy´s World, illustrated 1482; Source: wikimedia/public domain</p></div> <p>The area researched the social control mechanisms through which spaces have, in the most diverse ways, been constituted, defined, formed and regulated, and through which space has been endowed with territorial, social, cultural, administrative, political or religious meaning. These practices and their related conceptions are, with regard to the shared knowledge of a given society, fundamental in various ways: they create a framework for operative, symbolic and systematic knowledge relations, while simultaneously enabling the ongoing expansion and modification of certain knowledge contexts. Research in this area focused mainly on those mechanisms which define governed territories on territorial, socio-economic and ideological levels. The individual research projects of area B were distributed between four research groups (B I-V) and a number of subgroups.</p> </article> <aside id="conent-aside"> <h2>Spokespersons</h2><div><a href='/person/breytenbach-cilliers/'>Cilliers Breytenbach</a></div><div><a href='/person/cancik-kirschbaum-eva/'>Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum</a></div><h2>Coordinators</h2><div><a href='/person/esders-judith/'>Judith Esders</a></div><div><a href='/person/feix-sandra/'>Sandra Feix</a></div><div><a href='/person/marcks-jacobs-carmen/'>Carmen Marcks-Jacobs</a></div><div><a href='/person/schabow-stephanie/'>Stephanie Schabow</a></div> <h2>Groups</h2> <div class='area-group-div'><a href='/group/b-defixiones-topoi-1/'>(B - Defixiones) Corpus Defixionum</a></div><div class='area-group-div'><a href='/group/b-i-1-topoi-1/'>(B-I-1) Surveying and Limitation</a></div><div class='area-group-div'><a href='/group/b-i-2-topoi-1/'>(B-I-2) Fuzzy Borders </a></div><div class='area-group-div'><a href='/group/b-ii-1-topoi-1/'>(B-II-1) Governance</a></div><div class='area-group-div'><a href='/group/b-ii-2-topoi-1/'>(B-II-2) The State in Egypt</a></div><div class='area-group-div'><a href='/group/b-iii-1-topoi-1/'>(B-III-1) Israel-Judah-Iudaea</a></div><div class='area-group-div'><a href='/group/b-iii-2-topoi-1/'>(B-III-2) Diversity of Spaces</a></div><div class='area-group-div'><a href='/group/b-iii-3-topoi-1/'>(B-III-3) Diversity & Standardization</a></div><div class='area-group-div'><a href='/group/b-iv-topoi-1/'>(B-IV) Historical Geography</a></div> </aside> </hgroup> </div> </div> </hgroup> </div> <footer id="footer" role="contentinfo"> <div style="width:1000px; margin: 10px auto"> <nav id="access-footer" role="navigation"> <h3 class="assistive-text">Footer menu</h3> <div class="menu-footer-menu-container"><ul id="menu-footer-menu" class="menu"><li id="menu-item-14174" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-14174"><a href="/home/impressum/">Impressum</a></li> </ul></div> </nav> <div style="text-align: right;">There will be no updates to this website after October 31, 2019, as the Excellence Cluster comes to an end on that date.</div> </div> </footer> <script type="text/javascript"> function showhide_toggle(type, post_id, show_text, hide_text) { var $link = jQuery("#"+ type + "-link-" + post_id) , $link_a = jQuery('a', $link) , $content = jQuery("#"+ type + "-content-" + post_id) , $toggle = jQuery("#"+ type + "-toggle-" + post_id) , show_hide_class = 'sh-show sh-hide'; $link.toggleClass(show_hide_class); $content.toggleClass(show_hide_class).toggle(); if($link_a.attr('aria-expanded') === 'true') { $link_a.attr('aria-expanded', 'false'); } else { $link_a.attr('aria-expanded', 'true'); } if($toggle.text() === show_text) { $toggle.text(hide_text); } else { $toggle.text(show_text); } } </script> </body> </html>