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Theory of Mind at work. Cognition, cooperation and conflict in urban Morocco

PhD-project: Barbara Götsch
Supervisor: Andre Gingrich
Duration: 1.11.2010 – 31.10.2013
Financing: Dissertationsprogramm der phil. hist. Kl. der ÖAW

This interdisciplinary project explores questions of basic human sociality. It is based on ethnographic fieldwork with an NGO-team in Rabat, Morocco. The focus of attention is on the practice of cooperation on the team, looking at communication, conflict and cognition (“theory of mind”) against the background of the current cultural and political environment.