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• 04 sep 2017

  Marbourg

  Appel à contribution - Ethnologie, anthropologie

  Representations of Change

  Time, Space, and Power in Qualitative Research on the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) Region and Europe

  Since the start of the 21^st century seemingly unpredictable change, in all its different guises, has fueled the preoccupations of academic and non-academic publics. The financial crisis, the “Arab Spring”, protest movements in southern Europe, the rise of Daesh and right-wing populism, as well as the environmental crisis all make it very difficult to rely on Francis Fukuyama’s theory of “end of history”, which now seems to merely reflect the euphoria of liberal elites following the collapse of the Soviet Union (1992). This workshop intends to reflect more closely on the webs of power affecting both the researcher and‚ the researched when they intend to represent change.

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• 22 mai 2015

  Marbourg

  Appel à contribution - Ethnologie, anthropologie

  Security Provision in West Asia and North Africa in times of Social and Political Change

  Amongst the various demands of the thousands of people who took to the streets in West Asia and North Africa since late 2010, one common theme has been an end of arbitrary police violence and corruption. Throughout the uprisings and in an attempt to contain the growing insecurity, people started policing in the absence of police. Prominent examples are the liğān šaᶜbiya, the popular committees, in Egypt and in a different shape and outreach in Syria or in Yemen. Yet even before the uprisings, non-state actors have policed territory in spaces of limited statehood, such as Hezbollah in Lebanon, or the People’s Protection Units in Syrian Kurdistan. This workshop aims at conceptualizing the ambivalent relationships in comparative perspective, addressing the different ways in which boundaries and relations between military, police and civilian worlds are reshaped today.

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• 18 déc 2014

  19 déc 2014

  Marbourg

  Colloque - Pensée

  Herder – Raynal – Merkel

  Transformationen der Antikolonialismusdebatte in der europäischen Aufklärung

  Die Rezeption der Schriften von Guillaume-Thomas Raynal zeigt eine facettenreiche Transformation seiner auf die außereuropäische Welt bezogenen Autonomiekonzeption durch die Geschichtsphilosophie Johann Gottfried Herders sowie die Schriften von Garlieb Merkel, der seine Kolonialismuskritik gegen die bedrückenden Verhältnisse in den russischen Ostseeprovinzen wendet. Im Zentrum der Arbeitstagung stehen deshalb der von Raynal initiierte Paradigmenwechsel in der Sicht der Europäer auf die außereuropäische Welt, Herders theologisch grundierte historische Anthropologie sowie Merkels sozialpolitisch motiviertes Befreiungsnarrativ, das die nationalkulturelle Selbstfindung in den baltischen Ländern maßgeblich beeinflusst hat.

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