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Social Theory: Edward Saïd
Social Theory: Edward Saïd 12th Oct 2022 In order to wage our struggle [“against the whole system of confinement, dispossession, exploitation and oppression that still holds us down”], we must first feel our chains, then we must understand them, then we must break them. And we... Read More
Social Theory: Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe
Social Theory: Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe 30th Aug 2022 By Betul Dogan-Akkas (PhD Candidate Gulf Studies Joint Degree PhD Program Durham University SGIA & Qatar University Gulf Studies Centre)  Argentine political philosopher Ernesto Laclau was renowned for his ideas about hegemony... Read More
Social Theory: Ali Shariati
Social Theory: Ali Shariati 25th Aug 2022 Ali Shariati is often cited as one of the key ‘ideologues’ behind Iran’s revolution, despite not living to see its success in overthrowing the Shah in 1979. The social and political thought of Shariati was highly influential amongst segments of... Read More
Social Theory: Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi
Social Theory: Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi 25th Aug 2022 Ola Rifai University of St AndrewsIn May 2002, dozens of Arab scholars met in the French Institution of Aleppo to commemorate the 100th death anniversary of Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi (1855-1902). During a two-day workshop, organized by al-Kawakibi's... Read More
Social Theory: Loïc Wacquant
Social Theory: Loïc Wacquant 26th Jul 2022 As an interdisciplinary sociologist, Loïc Wacquant fuses two approaches: the material, associated with Marxist thought, and the symbolic as developed by Pierre Bourdieu, to produce a novel and highly relevant social theory. Broadly speaking, Wacquant... Read More
Social Theory: Jacques Lacan
Social Theory: Jacques Lacan 15th Jul 2022 As a region defined through its historical relationship with colonialism, where national and state borders represent nothing more than lines in the sand – both literally and figuratively – political life in the Middle East has been characterised by... Read More
Social Theory: Pierre Bourdieu
Social Theory: Pierre Bourdieu 15th Jul 2022 Toby Dodge ‘Using Pierre Bourdieu’s “thinking tools” to understand Middle East politics’. Introduction. An increasing number of academics seeking to understand the complexities of the contemporary Middle East are reaching for Pierre Bourdieu’s... Read More
Social Theory: Hannah Arendt
Social Theory: Hannah Arendt 13th Jul 2022 The late Iraqi Poet Muthafar al-Nawab once said that "if you see an Arab sleeping hasten to wake him up so that he does not dream of freedom" (al-Dik, 2013). Al-Nawab’s poem was written in the context of his criticism of ruling regimes in the Arab... Read More
Social Theory: Peter Berger
Social Theory: Peter Berger 13th Jul 2022 Peter Berger is interested in a key puzzle related to the creation and evolution of religion. Religion is mainly a social construct or a human activity, but man loses control of this construction process. Along the lines of functionalist schools of thought... Read More
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