About RePLITO

RePLITO is an exploration project that was funded in the framework of the Grand Challenge Initiative Social Cohesion by the Berlin University Alliance between 2021-2024.

"Beyond Social Cohesion: Global Repertoires of Living Together" (RePLITO) took marginalized and neglected repertoires of living together as its starting point to rethink social cohesion from a transregional perspective. By joining our expertise in Central, South and Southeast Asia, Europe, Latin America, Southern and East Africa as well as the Middle East, we engaged in comparative and cross-disciplinary research in these regions. We explored how social actors in regions of the Global South and within Europe’s margins imagine and practice communal life and create bonds. These repertoires of living together continue to be negotiated and transformed in the context of dynamic interactions beyond localities, nation states and regions.

RePLITO strived to overcome institutionalized divides between area studies, social sciences and the humanities by establishing long-term collaborative research on a subject of acute academic and political relevance. In light of the manifold attempts to restore national boundaries through exclusionary politics and enhanced border regimes, global perspectives on social cohesion and repertoires of living together beyond the nation-state are urgently needed.

Prof. Dr. Schirin Amir-Moazami (speaker, FU Berlin),

Prof. Dr. Nadja-Christina Schneider (co-speaker, HU Berlin)

Digital Knowledge Archive

In collaboration with Off-University we created a dynamic and easily accessible Digital Knowledge Archive that gathers and conceptualizes global repertoires of living together. It gathered a readership of 62,000 with a monthly number of about 1,500 visitors. Our goal was to make the results of our research available and to supplement them in dialogue with our cooperation partners as well as non-university knowledge actors. We conceived it as a digital space in which we experiment with a variety of academic formats, including multimedia conversations and collaborative publishing. The digital knowledge archive ended with the funding period in December 2024. Off University continues to use the Digital Knowledge Archive for collaborative writing and community publication.