APPEAR METAREFLECTIONS From Transcultural and Transdisciplinary University Cooperation to Critical Epistemological Analyses of Knowledge Production

Andreas J. Obrecht is a sociologist, social and cultural anthropologist and a writer. He was an assistant professor at the Institute of Sociology, University of Vienna (1988–1993); was the head of the Interdisciplinary Research Institute for Development Cooperation (IEZ), Johannes Kepler University Linz (1998‐2009); was a visiting professor for the thematic focus Sub‐Saharan Africa and South Pacific at the Department for Contemporary History, Karl Franzens University Graz (1998–2013); has been the host of cultural and scientific programs at the Austrian Broadcasting Cooperation (ORF) since 2004; and has been the head of the section “Science and Research for Development Cooperation” at Austria’s Agency for Education and Internationalisation (OeAD) since 2009, currently responsible for following programs: APPEAR, Africa-UniNet, and Cooperation Development.