Pace / Unknown / Völkel Knowledge production in higher education

Between Europe and the Middle East
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6058-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Understanding how knowledge is produced in higher education about Europe and the MENA requires an open, interdisciplinary and interregional approach. This volume systematically challenges the dynamics and realities that go beyond dominant European-MENA-centric accounts, while avoiding the pitfalls of simplification and knowledge fragmentation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Pace, Michelle

Völkel, Jan Claudius

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction – Michelle Pace and Jan Claudius Völkel
Part I: History
1 Between nostalgia and the colonies: the evolution of French scholarship on the Middle East – Timo Behr
2 Orient-ations: German scholarship on the Middle East since the nineteenth century – Sonja Hegasy, Stephan Stetter and René Wildangel
3 Middle Eastern Studies in Italy: a field in search of an identity and recognition within and outside academia – Giulia Cimini and Claudia De Martino
Part II: Liminality
4 Malta: Boundaries, identity and positionality in the teaching of the Middle East – James Sater
5 Teaching Europe in Palestine: resisting the ‘new normal’? – Asem Khalil
6 Teaching Europe and the Middle East at universities in Turkey – Aylin Güney, Emre Iseri and Gökay Özerim
Part III: Orientalism
7 Is decolonisation the decisive factor – or even the relevant term? 250 years of Middle East Studies in Denmark – Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen
8 Challenges to a transformative education: ‘EUrientalism’ at Egyptian universities – Bassant Hassib and Jan Claudius Völkel
9 Teaching the enlightened student: political polarisation and the ongoing quest for critical thinking – Anne de Jong
Part IV: Hierarchies
10 Knowledge production at a time of pandemic: navigating between Syria and the UK – Juline Beaujouan
11 Who teaches the Middle East in Europe? A gender perspective – Merve Özdemirkiran-Embel
12 ‘In-between’ the academic and policy communities: the position(ality) of think tank(er)s in knowledge production in and on the Middle East and Europe – Daniela Huber
A potential paradigm shift in knowledge production: some concluding reflections – Michelle Pace and Jan Claudius Völkel
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michelle Pace is Professor in Global Studies at Roskilde University

Jan Claudius Völkel is Senior Researcher at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute, Freiburg