Coordination Funds

伊朗高地在近东历史上的文化发展中发挥了重要作用。它的社会与邻近的文化密切互动，并不断发展政治和经济联系。从美索不达米亚、高加索和中亚的角度来看，无论是通过经济活动、移民还是政治包容，与伊朗高地的关系一次又一次地加强。从他们的角度来看，伊朗高地社会能够将这些关系整合到他们自己的网络中，也能够修改或抵制它们。因此，高地及其参与者能够定期地在与其周围环境的关系中发挥形成作用，并影响政治、经济和社会变革。特别方案项目内的调查应以三个研究领域为基础：原材料制度、机构关系和居民的流动性。各种形式的危机管理和复原力，以及综合潜力是这些高地社会的核心要素。在SPP 2176协调计划的协助下，我们将对这些问题进行调查和历时性比较：各种科学成果将被浓缩为六个工作包，从数据库和网络地理信息系统项目，到联合分析策略，一系列研讨会和会议，以及伊朗学者和外国研究员参与我们的计划。协调项目的明确目标是发展和支持与伊朗同事和机构的相互关系，以便在项目内制定共同的科学目标和成果。在第二阶段，我们从多尺度、长时间的视角来评估伊朗高地，将其视为具有生态变化（包括气候）、中期事件和短期事件历史的景观马赛克。历史-地缘政治和生态决定论的观点都不是这种理解的基础，而是对实践的物质化及其（共同）产生的制度和组织结构的综合观点。

The Iranian highlands played a significant role in cultural developments in the Near East throughout the history of the region. Its societies interacted closely with neighboring cultures to which they repeatedly developed political and economic ties. From the perspective of Mesopotamia, the Caucasus and Middle Asia, intensified relationships with the Iranian highlands developed again and again, whether through economic activities, migration or political inclusion. From their side, Iranian highland societies were able to integrate these relationships into their own networks as well as to modify or resist them. The highlands and its actors were thereby periodically able to play a formative role in relation to their surroundings and to effect political, economic and social changes. Investigations within SPP-projects shall be based on three fields of research: raw material regimes, institutional relationships and mobility of the inhabitants. Various forms of crisis management and resilience, but also the integrative potential are core elements of these highland societies. These will be investigated and diachronically compared by help of the coordination project of the SPP 2176: The various scientific results shall be condensed by six work packages that range from a data-base and Web-GIS-project, to a joint analytical strategy, a series of works-shops and conferences as well as to an integration of Iranian scholars and foreign fellows to our program. It is an explicit goal of the coordination project to develop and support mutuality with Iranian colleagues and institution in order to develop joint scientific goals and results within the project. In Phase 2, we evaluate the Iranian highlands from multi-scalar, longue durée perspective as a mosaic of landscapes with ecological changes (including climate), middle-term conjunctures, and a short-term history of events. Neither historical-geopolitical nor eco-deterministic perspectives are at the base of this understanding, but rather an integrated view of materializations of practices and the institutional and organizational structures they (co-)produce.