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Odense Tekniske Gymnasium

• Denmark
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lecturer

  • Aug 2018 - Present



The Australian National University

• Australia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Consultant

  • 2018 - 2020



Svendborg Museum

• Research Consultant

  • Mar 2018 - Jun 2018



Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen

• Denmark
• Research
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Jan 2016 - Dec 2017

  The Danish Council for Independent Research – Humanities (FKK) has granted 1.7 million DKK to Martin Müller and his postdoc project "Territoriality, Governmentality & Colonial Rule: A Global History of the War on Non-Sedentary Peoples and Itinerant Cultures during the Long 19th Century." The project will be hosted by the Saxo Institute. This project studies the importance of the concept of territoriality in the entwined processes of national and imperial state formation throughout the long 19th century. It emphasizes the foundational part played by this concept in the perception of non-sedentary peoples and cultures; the focus is on how it facilitated the marginalizing discourses and violent practices through which these peoples were excluded from modernity’s trajectories. A central hypothesis is that this concept was pivotal not merely by stipulating geographical, political, and economic demarcations on the map, but also by constituting conceptual grids and in defining cultural worlds. As a result, non-sedentary peoples came to be perceived as deviating from the norm and thus posing a problem in need of explanation as well as a threat that had to be contained. Applying a framework of global history allows us to examine the aspects of conceptual connectivity with regard to the ideas associated with territoriality and their impact upon non-sedentary peoples. Notwithstanding their ubiquity, these ideas and practises also have to be located within their linguistic, cultural, economic, and political contexts. I contend that the perceptions of- and politics towards these ‘nomads’ provide a thematic prism that accentuates central – albeit often ignored – aspects concerning the production of space, place, and identity: of the connections between geographical location, political affiliation, and cultural grounding. See also: http://saxoinstitute.ku.dk/news/new-project-to-explore-the-influence-of-colonial-concepts/ Show less



University of South-Eastern Norway

• Norway
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lecturer in Social Science and History

  • Oct 2014 - Dec 2015

  At present I am teaching undergraduate courses in social science and history at Telemark University College. These have included topics such as: - Globalization and global history: contemporary challenges and new historical perspectives. - Norway and/in Europe: past and present. - Norwegian Society throughout the ages. - The organization, function, and history of the Norwegian kindergarten system. - Critical approaches to social sciences, to their theories and methodologies. At present I am teaching undergraduate courses in social science and history at Telemark University College. These have included topics such as: - Globalization and global history: contemporary challenges and new historical perspectives. - Norway and/in Europe: past and present. - Norwegian Society throughout the ages. - The organization, function, and history of the Norwegian kindergarten system. - Critical approaches to social sciences, to their theories and methodologies.



European University Institute

• Italy
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Researcher

  • 2007 - 2013

  In my dissertation I examine the uses of the notions of civilization, race, and culture within a set of British 19th century discourses on especially Southeast Asian societies, their present state and history. Taking the point of departure in John Crawfurd’s (1783-1868) publications, it contains a study of the many debates on economic, ethnological, historical, and linguistic issues to which he contributed significantly throughout six decades. Through this approach I aim at providing a contextualized analysis of the colonial, intellectual, political, and socio-cultural aspects of Crawfurd et al’s knowledge production, its routes of transmission, receptions, and appropriations. The analytic focus is directed at the evaluative-descriptive qualities attributed to the terms civilization, race, and culture, and immanent in the concepts they refer to; on the surface claiming to be primarily descriptive, they nonetheless were normatively cogent in their inherent hierarchal and classificatory structures, as well as in providing a theoretical template delineating the naturalized historical trajectories. Arguing that the notions of civilization, race and culture were pivotal key concepts in this colonial knowledge production, I chart the intertwined dynamics between these notions. During this quest I endeavour to demonstrate the interpretive primacy of the concept of civilization throughout the entire period, even though racial concerns clearly were on the ascendancy and by the 1860s constituted the major theme of discussion and dissent. Common to all the analysed discourses is that they were hinged upon these three fundamental notions and their ability to address the universal as well as the particular, their capacity to encompass the past, present and future within one interpretive framework, and not at least their provision of a conceptual common ground which also, however, facilitated the possibilities of fundamental dissent within the actual interpretations. Show less



Roskilde Gymnasium

• Denmark
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lecturer (temporary)

  • 2006 - 2007

  Teaching in history, including courses on: - Imperialism & colonial history - The (European) history of human rights in theory and practice - Terrorism Teaching in history, including courses on: - Imperialism & colonial history - The (European) history of human rights in theory and practice - Terrorism



Municipality of Odense

• Odense Area, Denmark

• Primary School Teacher

  • 1995 - 2006