Shaping the Humanities

With the project Scholars in Residence, taking the processes of transformation as point of departure, the Goethe-Institut seeks to promote intercultural dialogue in the area of academic research and to strengthen scientific relations between Germany and the Arabic world on a long-term basis.

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About Shaping the Humanities
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In view of the Arab Spring in the North African region, the cultural sciences are posing new questions. At this time, the analysis of themes such as digital media, culture and public space, as well as culture and conflict are playing a central part in societal and academic discourse. In the future, too, these themes will be relevant in the humanities, cultural and social sciences, above all with a view to processes of individual and collective identity construction. More...

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Conference
“Space for Transformations”
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An international conference on current discourses within the scope of the Arab Spring and transformation processes in North Africa in the Humanities.

27 to 28 June 2013
Palais, Kulturbrauerei Berlin

Organised by the Goethe-Institut, the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (KWI) and and the Ruhr University Bochum’s Centre of Mediterranean Studies (ZMS).

Participants: Prof. Dr. Mohamed Turki, Dr. Sarhan Dhouib, Prof. Dr. Soumaya Mestiri and Loay Mudhoon

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Networked Movements and Citizen Innovations in Activism

Dienstag, Oktober 29. 2013

In previous blog posts I argued that both the recent global outbreaks of mass dissent as well as the historical universalism of the triggers of such movements (the “why”) warrant more attention of the technological catalysts (the “how”) of an increasingly accelerating pace of global social and political change.


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Hani Morsi
in Transformation Processes | Kommentare (0)

Tunisia and the Islamic Environmental Movement I/III

Freitag, Mai 31. 2013

To determine the extent to which an environmental movement motivated by Islamic principles is present in Tunisia, we must first sketch a picture of the “western” Islamic-ecological movement. To this end, it is important to define the concept of “Islamic environmentalism”.
Following Richard Foltz, we distinguish between “Muslim” and “Islamic” environmentalism: the first refers to all environmentalism in Muslim-majority countries, and the second to environmental behaviour based on reasoning from Islamic principles.

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Monika Zbidi
in Environmental Ethics | Kommentare (0)

The Cross-National Public Sphere II/II

Dienstag, Mai 28. 2013

The increase of movements of contestation and protestation creates a form of accountability which imposes limits on the politics of cross-national political and non-political powers. The critical discourse of these movements contributes to the abolition of faux legitimacy of certain orders of power or orders of norms. Nevertheless, they are not able to establish alternative orders without the formation of “a new public”. It is only through the discussion that this public can forge a common will and a self identity.

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Mongi Serbaji
in Constitution of Public Sphere | Kommentare (0)

Technology as a Catalyst for Citizen-Driven Politics

Montag, Mai 27. 2013

© Joel CarilletMore than two years have passed since Egyptians brought down the Mubarak regime. "Technology as a Catalyst for Citizen-Driven..." vollständig lesen »

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Hani Morsi
in Media Sphere | Kommentare (0)

The Cross-National Public Sphere I/II

Freitag, Mai 24. 2013

The main issue of this contribution is: how and to what extent a cross-national public sphere can be defined as a sphere of legitimation of standards which, hence, can claim a universal validity and a local acceptability? By legitimation I mean the acceptance and recognition of an order of norms.

The notion of cross-national public sphere(s) is less clear than we might assume. Firstly, it does not designate a clear sphere.

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Mongi Serbaji
in Constitution of Public Sphere | Kommentare (0)

Citizen-Driven Politics and New Media Ecologies

Sonntag, Mai 19. 2013

More than two years after the waves of mass uprisings in the Arab world, and the term ‘Arab Spring’ has lost its glamour in the media. Current social and political indicators in the countries that witnessed the protests are not conducive to optimism, with the common theme being a persistence of authoritarianism, and the post citizen uprisings political arenas largely dominated by new hegemons who appear to be disinterested in push an agenda of genuine, progressive democratic reforms.

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Hani Morsi
in Media Sphere | Kommentare (0)
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