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Rethinking Protest in the Middle East! New Approaches to Culture and Politics Ten Years after the “Arab Spring” [Import]- Dozent/in
- Prof. Dr. Christian Junge
- Angaben
- Seminar
Rein Präsenz
2 SWS
Erweiterungsbereich
Zeit und Ort: Mi 18:15 - 19:45, SP17/00.13
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- Dieses Modul ist anrechenbar im Elite-MA CSME Modul TM1, Modulprüfung: Portfolio; PSpLit2, PSpLit3.
Im MA Arabistik Module MA Ar 1, 2, 3.
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- Inhalt
- From slogans and songs to graffiti and memes – political protest of the so-called Arab Spring made often use of, and were constituted by, cultural and artistic forms of expression. How did this “creative insurgency” (Kraidy) change our academic perspective on cultural protest in the MENA region? In the last ten years, many studies in the fields of literature, arts, culture, media, society, and politics have challenged conceptions like “the regime vs. the people” or “oppression vs. resistance”, extended the notions of “culture” and “the political” and provided new insights in the cultural and political roles of artists, activists and everyday people. Against this background, the seminar provides an overview on new methodological and theoretical approaches to culture in the MENA region and its complex relationship to politics and power. Using case studies from the mid-20th century to the present, it explores hermeneutical ways of “opening up the text” (Winckler/Junge), includes sociological perspectives on the “field of cultural production” (Bourdieu) and sheds light on empirical approaches to cultural practices. From a postcolonial perspective, it also sheds light on the economy and theorization of the so-called Arab Spring and the “worldliness” (Said) of teaching and studying these transformation processes in Germany.
Students will gain profound methodological skills through text- and context-based analyses of poems, novels, films, but also practice-based analyses of blogs, tweets, graffiti and You-Tube videos. They will learn to critically access complex philosophical and interdisciplinary academic texts and to put them into a fruitful dialogue with practices and products of culture and art. Students will prepare – in tandem and with technical assistance – a video podcast on cultural and political key terms for Middle East Studies. Moreover, the seminar requires the participants to critically reflect on their own positionality as students of Middle East Studies in Germany and to present their suggestions “how to study the Arab Spring in Germany” in a poster session.
Language Skills: No Arabic, Persian or Turkish language skills are required.
Assignments:
Video (3-5 minutes) and poster (both in tandems).
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Hamed Dabashi: The Arab Spring. The End of Postcolonialism. London: 2012, pp. 1–16.
Dalia Said Mostafa, Nicola Pratt and Dana Rezk: “New Directions in the Study of Popular Culture and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa”. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 48.1. (2021) pp. 1–6 (https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2021.1885854).
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Title:
- Rethinking Protest in the Middle East! New Approaches to Culture and Politics Ten Years after the “Arab Spring”
- Credits: 5
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 8
- Institution: Professur für Arabistik
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