Change and Persistence, Proceedings of the International Conference, Tunis, 12-13 November 2013

This publication is based on the proceedings of an international conference entitled ‘Arab Revolutions and Beyond: Change and Persistence’, which was held in the framework of a multilateral project called ‘Challenges and Transformations in the Wake of the Arab Spring’ (2012-2014). The project is funded by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and based upon the longstanding partnership between Cairo University in Egypt and Freie Universität Berlin in Germany, specifically between the EuroMed Study Program at the Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences (FEPS) and the Centre for Middle Eastern and North African Politics at Otto-Suhr-Institute, Department for Political and Social Sciences. Dieser Sammelband ist ein Ergebnis der internationalen Tunis-Konferenz "Arab Revolutions and Beyond: Change and Persistence", die im Rahmen des multinationalen DAAD-Projekts "Challenges and Transformations in the Wake of the Arab Spring" im November 2013 stattfand. Neben Kolleg_innen der Universität Kairo, mit der bereits eine langjährige Partnerschaft besteht, sind auch Nachwuchsforscher_innen aus Tunesien, Libyen, Jordanien und weiteren Arabischen Staaten beteiligt. Das Projekt stellt sich den Herausforderungen, welche sich durch die politischen und sozialen Umbrüche in der Region für die akademische Bildung, v.a. in den Sozialwissenschaften ergeben haben. Hieraus soll ein produktiver Dialog über theoretische, methodische und thematische Felder der Sozialwissenschaften eröffnet werden, um die Strukturen von Forschung und Lehre dauerhaft zu verbessern.This publication is based on the proceedings of an international conference entitled ‘Arab Revolutions and Beyond: Change and Persistence’, which was held in the framework of a multilateral project called ‘Challenges and Transformations in the Wake of the Arab Spring’ (2012-2014). The project is funded by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and based upon the longstanding partnership between Cairo University in Egypt and Freie Universität Berlin in Germany, specifically between the EuroMed Study Program at the Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences (FEPS) and the Centre for Middle Eastern and North African Politics at Otto-Suhr-Institute, Department for Political and Social Sciences. The project addresses the challenges of current political and social transformations and their ramifications for higher education and the social sciences in Egypt and the region. The overarching objective of the project is to enter a productive dialogue on theories, methodologies and topics in social science research among Arab and German researchers. At the same time, we aim to improve teaching and research structures in the social sciences in a sustainable and efficient way. This will build students’ and teachers’ capacities on both shores of the Mediterranean and at the same time strengthen institutional efforts to promote the role of social sciences in the current transformations

Pretty interventions and good intentions: Northern European cultural institutions in Cairo's contemporary culture scene after 2011

Cairo’s contemporary cultural field is generally structured by several interrelated dynamics. First, the dire sociopolitical and economic situation, second the crackdown on civil society in Egypt, and third the dominance of northern European cultural institutions in the field of contemporary art and culture. This thesis aims to examine the interconnections and links between European funders and the receivers of such funding in Cairo’s contemporary cultural scene after 2011, and to investigate how these relationships are regulated by hopes and aspirations, the local as well as global political context, the educational situation in Egypt and abroad, good intentions of solidarity, and global access to networks and knowledge. The thesis is based on ethnographic research conducted in Berlin and Cairo between 2011 and 2018. There are two central lines of discussion throughout the thesis: first, that European cultural funding mirrors a specific set of inherent liberal, secular and democratic morals and values which play a role in internal as well as external nation branding; and second that these funding dynamics perpetuate, rather than challenge, structural inequalities and in effect control access to (economic and social) possibilities. The research is an attempt to situate the representation of post-uprising art practices within its neoliberal context. I start by introducing this framing by connecting local nation branding with the representation of the nation abroad. The examples show a neoliberal understanding of an economically productive and hence valuable individual, which means that difference is positively valorized without actually challenging structural differences of inequality that regulate access to social, cultural and economic capital. The link between the European self-image and an international image lays the foundation for this thesis, which combines an analysis of soft power, nation branding, cultural politics and the neoliberal effects of cultural programs, their discursive structures and wider politics

Examination of reaction structure and stabilization mechanism of unconfined swirl-stabilized flames

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