‘Blijf met jullie rotpoten af van onze rotherdenking’, Over de tijdgeest rond 4 mei

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In Vorden kan het dit jaar wel: tijdens de stille tocht die op 4 mei wordt gehouden mag locoburgemeester Paul Seesing (CDA) aan kop gaan om óók langs de graven van gesneuvelde Wehrmachtsoldaten te lopen. De organisatoren van de Dodenherdenking …
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REVOLUTION IN BAD TIMES, By: Asef bayat

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Back in 2011, the Arab uprisings were celebrated as world-changing events that would re-define the spirit of our political times. The astonishing spread of these mass uprisings, followed soon after by the Occupy protests, left observers in little doubt that …
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Towards a Critical Arab Social Science, By Ghassan Hage

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Keynote presented to the inaugural conference of the Arab Council of Social Sciences, Beirut, March 2013 What does being a crit­ical social sci­ent­ist mean in the Arab world today? Or to ask the ques­tion dif­fer­ently: How can social sci­ent­ists think …
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Tunisia under schizophrenic Political Islam

Egypt and Tunisia appear to be a laboratory of democracy as well as an example of the cul-de-sac in which the political Islam finds itself. In both countries the Islamist parties have won – more or less democratically – the …
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Een mens is een mens ongeacht zijn status, door Solmaz Mahmoudi

In de Rapportage minderheden 1999 van het Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau (SCP), een studie gewijd aan de positie van allochtonen in het onderwijs en op de arbeidsmarkt, werd al voorspeld dat in 2015 twaalf procent van de bevolking tot de …
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The Urban Subalterns and the Non-Movements of the Arab Uprisings: An Interview with Asef Bayat

This interview was conducted with Asef Bayat  via electronic correspondence. In it, Bayat discusses the inside-out character of neoliberal cities in the Arab world and its influence on the recent wave of protests known collectives as the Arab uprisings. In …
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De toekomst is niet meer wat hij geweest is, door Michiel Leezenberg

Postmodernisme, postkolonialisme, postsecularisme en daarna

Shto delatj? ‘Wat te doen?’ vraagt Michiel Leezenberg zich af. We staan voor enorme veranderingen, maar paradoxaal genoeg staat het aloude vooruitgangsdenken een werkelijk nieuwe toekomstvisie in de weg.
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Hugo Chavez, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Hugo Chávez and the Middle East: Which Side Was He On? By Danny Postel

Most of the postmortem commentary on Hugo Chávez has focused on his domestic legacy in Venezuela, his wider regional legacy within Latin America, and what we might call his hemispheric legacy—his “special relationship” with the United States. And for good …
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OR Book Going Rouge

The Egyptian Revolution in a Maximum of 140 Characters

Idle, Nadia & Alex Nunns (ed.) (2011) Tweets from Tahrir. New York: OR Books. “History has never been recounted in this fashion” Reading these words on the back cover of Tweets from Tahrir, indicates a remarkable change in the way …
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