KPA IV enhances the international and national visibility of interdisciplinary studies on cultural, social and economic transformations in the Global South in an era of rapid globalization, acts as an incubator for coordinated projects and creates an academic environment conducive for the academic development of junior researchers. It contributes to the emergent field of comparative and interdisciplinary research on entanglements embodied in material and non-material flows within the Global South and between the South and the North. It focusses with its interdisciplinary approach on exchanges and flows between continents, between regions and between metropolitan areas and hinterland.