Global Cultures of Enquête: Towards a Praxeology of Surveying (17th–21st Century)

该科学网络旨在建立一个基于测量行为学的跨学科研究议程。探索全球文化的集体探索允许从（历史）社会学，科学史和统计学以及殖民历史领域结合联合收割机专题研究问题，并希望将它们带入对话。在该网络内，调查一词被用作一种启发式工具，使人们能够在全球范围内观察和比较各种不同的、往往相互对比的做法、解释和含义。从行为学的角度来看，它从欧洲中心的历史，理性和现代性的愿景转向全球以及地方文化的相互联系和特质的研究。该网络整合了社会学和历史学的见解和观点，希望加深对当代社会和自然世界知识生产斗争的认识，并从长期角度为替代家谱开辟空间。虽然方法论的方法不受地域限制，但将特别关注撒哈拉以南非洲，将其作为一个首选（但不是唯一的）地区，允许探索殖民前、殖民地和殖民后的格局。

The scientific network aims to establish an interdisciplinary research agenda based on a praxeology of surveying. The collective exploration of Global Cultures of Enquête allows to combine topical research questions from the field of (historical) sociology, the history of science and statistics as well as colonial history, and wishes to bring them into conversation. Within the network, the term enquête is used as a heuristic tool that enables the observation and comparison of a range of diverse and often contrasted practices, interpretations and meanings on a global scale. Drawing on a praxeological perspective it shifts from Eurocentric visions of history, rationality and modernity to the study of the interconnections and idiosyncrasies of global as well as local cultures of enquête. Integrating sociological and historical insights and outlooks, the network wants to sharpen the perspective on contemporary struggles for the production of knowledge on the social and natural world and to open spaces for alternative genealogies in a longue durée perspective. Though the methodological approach is not geographically limited, particular attention will be given to Sub-Saharan Africa as a preferred (but not exclusive) area that allows exploration of pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial configurations.