Verschlagwortet: Urban Studies
By Malte Fuhrmann. Port city studies have developed many radical reinterpretations of the Middle East or Southeast Europe, but these have made little inroads into the mainstream. With my book, I aim to rise to that challenge by readdressing an issue of classic political and social history of the nineteenth century: the issue of Europeanization.
By Hilal Alkan and Nazan Maksudyan. Our edited book explores the themes of ‘neighbours’ and ‘neighbourhoods’ as points of departure for considering identity, coexistence, solidarity and violence, and their relationship to place.
By Shehab Ismail. The city of Cairo was surrounded by human-made mounds composed of rubbish and debris that had been piling up on the same spots for centuries. This blog post narrates how the author encountered the rubbish mounds during his research on the history of sanitation in Cairo. It explores two materials that were commonly found in the city’s dumpsters: archeological finds and organic fertilizers.
Himmat Zoubi (هِمَّت زعبي) is a Palestinian researcher and feminist activist. Her dissertation at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ben-Gurion University entitled “The Case of Haifa during the Israeli...
by Kim Knott, Volkhard Krech and Birgit Meyer ABSTRACT In order to understand current dynamics of religious diversity, a focus on the tangible presence of religion and the co-existence of new...
Saima Akhtar is an architect and designer whose research focuses on the relationship between the built environment, corporate enterprise, and labor migrations. She received a PhD in Urban Studies from...
The next issue of “Middle East – Topics & Arguments” (META), which will be entitled “Periphery” is looking for submissions. Its focus will be on the spatial differentiation and processes...
Forum Transregionale Studien invites scholars to apply for up to ten postdoctoral fellowships within the framework of the research program Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices. Kunstgeschichte und ästhetische Praktiken for the...
Application Deadline: January 10, 2015 In 2015, for the second time, the Forum Transregionale Studien and the Irmgard Coninx Foundation are issuing a call for applications for the Irmgard Coninx Prize for Transregional Studies....
By Lucy Jarman In February 2014 Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices at the Forum Transregionale Studien, brought a group of art historians, anthropologists and scholars from neighboring disciplines to...