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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
Social Theory: Achille Mbembe
Social Theory: Achille Mbembe 12th Jul 2022 Achille Mbembe and the Afterlives of Interspecies Necropolitics in the Postcolony By Madonna Kalousian In an essay titled ‘Écrire l’Afrique à partir d’une faille’, Mbembe contends that “c’est parce que la colonisation fut ce qu’elle... Read More
Social Theory: Michel Foucault
Social Theory: Michel Foucault 11th Jul 2022 John Nagle (Queen’s University Belfast)   Michel Foucault (1926) is undoubtedly one of the leading social theorists of the twentieth century. His work on the relationship between power and knowledge remains both highly influential and controversial.... Read More
Social Theory: Frantz Fanon
Social Theory: Frantz Fanon 5th Jul 2022 By Lucia Ardovini Frantz Omar Fanon (1925-1961), was one of the most influential writers in black Atlantic theory, specifically focusing on issues of anti-colonial liberation. Born in the island of Martinique in the West Indies under French colonial... Read More
Turkey and Saudi Arabia: The view from Ankara
Turkey and Saudi Arabia: The view from Ankara 5th Jul 2022 By Bekir Varoglu, Lancaster University.After years of tensions, Turkey and Saudi Arabia are making efforts to repair and improve their relations. Two regional heavyweights have been mutually attempting to expand their regional influence and... Read More
دعوة لتوثيق الفن التشريني على موقع اليكتروني 4th Jul 2022 دعوة للمشاركين و المشاركات في تظاهرات تشرين والذين قاموا بانتاج اعمال فنية ( كراڤيتي، تصوير، عزف موسيقي، اداء مسرحي، رسم،،) او اي عمل فني... Read More
To Normalize or not Normalize: That is Saudi Arabia’s Question 30th Jun 2022 A Russian-Ukrainian war and a global cost-of-living crisis are not enough to keep the prospects of Saudi-Israeli normalization out of the headlines. Against the backdrop of President Biden’s controversial visit to the Saudi Kingdom, speculation regarding... Read More
Social Theory: Charles Tilly
Social Theory: Charles Tilly 29th Jun 2022 By Ibrahim Halawi, Royal Holloway When Charles Tilly passed away in 2008, Columbia University president, Lee C. Bollinger, said that Tilly “literally wrote the book on the contentious dynamics and the ethnographic foundations of political history”.[1] He... Read More
New Funding Secured
New Funding Secured 28th Jun 2022 SEPAD is delighted to announce that it has secured a third round of funding from Carnegie Corporation of New York. Running until June 2025, this project builds on findings from previous grants in an effort to better understand the complex interplay between... Read More
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