Ronald Daus

Ronald Daus (12 May 1943,

Daus researches in the field of study "Neue Romania" (New Romania) for over 40 years, with the focus on the contacts between European and extra-European cultures. He was a visiting professor in Mexico City for two years, at Colegio de Mexico, and for one year in Singapore, at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, in Manila, at the University of the Philippines, and also in Tahiti, at the Université du Pacifique. Many research trips and lecture tours brought him to Europe, Russia, Latin America, Middle America, United States, Canada, Asia, Africa, Australia and Oceania.

He is a member of the Research Group New Romania, who investigate the «products resulting from the contacts of the

Ronald Daus studied Romance philology and languages (Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian) in Hamburg, Lisbon, Rio de Janeiro and Kiel. At the same time, as related area, he studied orientalism (Arabic, Malay, Tagalog).^[6]

In 1967 he won a doctorate with a

Further, Daus would demonstrate, on the other hand, how other Portuguese settlements, on the other side of the world,[12] faraway in Malaysia, would contribute to the «development and maintenance of particular cultural and linguistic practices» ^[13] at a time when he was seriously concerned with a trifling problem he dared to confront: the wrath against colonialism.^[14]

In

In the meantime, Daus conceives a trilogy having as generic title New city images – new feelings ("Neue Stadtbilder – Neue Gefühle”). In order to better understand European colonialism, he analyses in the first volume the origins of the mega-metropolis in America, Asia, Africa and Oceania, cities constructed stone on stone, evoking as typical

• The epic cycle of the
  Cangaceiros in der Volkspoesie Nordostbrasiliens, Colloquium Berlag, Berlin 1969; O ciclo épico dos cangaceiros na poesia popular do nordeste, Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa, Rio de Janeiro 1982 ^[17]
  )
• Angry Latin America. Self-portrait of a continent (Zorniges Lateinamerika. Selbstdarstellung eines Kontinent, Diederichs Verlag, Berlin 1973)
• The discovery of colonialism. Portuguese in Asia (Die Erfindung des Kolonialismus. Die Portugiesen in Asie, Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal, 1983)
• Manila – essay on the progress of a global city (Manila – Essay über die Karriere einer Weltstadt, Babylon Metropolis Studies, Ursula Opitz Verlag,^[18] Berlin 1987)
• Portuguese Eurasian communities in Southeast Asia ^[19] (Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies^[20])
• Large extra-European cities. The European fundament (Großstädte Außereuropas. Das europäische Fundament), Babylon Metropolis Studies, Ursula Opitz Verlag, Berlin, vol. 1, 1990)
• Large extra-European cities. The construction of nationalities (Großstädte Außereuropas. Die Konstruktion des Nationalen, Babylon Metropolis Studies, Ursula Opitz Verlag, Berlin, vol. 2, 1995)
• Large extra-European cities. Pursuit for living and human suffering (Großstädte Außereuropas. Lebenslust und Menschenleid, Babylon Metropolis Studies, Ursula Opitz Verlag, Berlin, vol. 3, 1997)
• Extreme colonialism. History of the
  Pacific
  (Kolonialismus extrem. Geschichten vom Roten Meer – Bilder vom Pazifik, Babylon Metropolis Studies, Ursula Opitz Verlag, Berlin, 1998)
• Beach culture versus city culture. The early 21st century metropolis from Mediterranean (Strandkultur statt Stadtkultur. Die Metropolen des Mittelmeers zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts, Babylon Metropolis Studies, Ursula Opitz Verlag, Berlin, 2000)
• Banlieue – free spaces in European and extra-European cities (Banlieue – Freiräume in europäischen und außereuropäischen Großstädten. Europa: Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, Babylon Metropolis Studies, Ursula Opitz Verlag, Berlin, 2002)
• Banlieue – free spaces in European and extra-European cities. Large cities in Latin America: Rio de Janeiro, Africa: Douala, Asia: Bangkok (Banlieue – Freiräume in europäischen und außereuropäischen Großstädten. Lateinamerika: Rio de Janeiro, Afrika: Douala, Asien: Bangkok, Babylon Metropolis Studies, Ursula Opitz Verlag, Berlin, 2003)
• La Guajira
  . How a savage land will be noticed (La Guajira. Wie ein wildes Land erzählt wird, Babylon Metropolis Studies, Ursula Opitz Verlag, Berlin, 2006)
• Global cities
  . From norm to caprice (Weltstädte. Von der Norm zur Laune, Babylon Metropolis Studies, Ursula Opitz Verlag, Berlin, Weltstädte – Reihe, vol. 1, 2006, 2. 2009)
• Atypique Global cities. The wish for pleasure in the exotique: Tijuana, Cancún, Dubai (Atypische Weltstädte. Die Verlagerung des Vergnügens ins Exotische: Tijuana, Cancún, Dubai, Babylon Metropolis Studies, Ursula Opitz Verlag, Berlin – Weltstädte – Reihe, vol. 2, 2007, 2009)
• Mise-en-scène of Global cities. Mono maniac reports from
  Schanghai
  (Weltstadtinszenierungen. Monomanische Berichte aus Berlin, Paris, Mexiko-Stadt und Schanghai, Babylon Metropolis Studies, Ursula Opitz Verlag, Berlin, – Weltstädte – Reihe, vol. 3, 2008)
• New city images, new feelings. European buildings as world models Neue Stadtbilder – Neue Gefühle. Europäische Stadtanlagen als Weltmodell, Metropolis Studies, Ursula Opitz Verlag, Berlin, Stadtbilder-Reihe, vol. 1, 2011
• New city images, new feelings. The package-city: Berlin (Neue Stadtbilder – Neue Gefühle. Die Package-City: Berlin, Babylon Metropolis Studies, Ursula Opitz Verlag, Berlin, Stadtbilder – Reihe, vol. 2, 2012)
• New city images, new feelings. The permanent chaos (Neue Stadtbilder – Neue Gefühle. Das permanente Chaos, Babylon Metropolis Studies, Ursula Opitz Verlag, Berlin, Stadtbilder -Reihe, vol. 3, 2013)