Das Department entwickelt und baut folgende Einheiten aus:
- Global Capitalism (political ecologies, trade and markets, extractions, commons, property regimes)
- Future Polities (democracy, education, im/mobilities, borders, climate crisis, gendered hierarchies, inequalities, antisemitism)
- Normative Lives (law, religion, spirituality, moralities and emotions)
- Media and Visualities (digitalization, cultural studies, multimodality)
- Pluralities in/of the Past (ideas, concepts, and narrations in/of the past, lived experiences in the past, entanglements, turns and transformations)