Full Description
Mindful of divisive labels in constructions of the 'Middle East and North Africa' (MENA) and of 'Europe', the editors and contributors of Knowledge production in higher education reflexively immerse themselves in an investigation of how knowledge about these regions is produced at higher educational establishments. Zooming in on mutual scholarship about 'Europe' and/or 'the MENA' opens up a wide range of possibilities for supplanting visions of so-called traditional Orientalists, to abandon the sets of magnifying glasses through which the Other is studied. For those interested in the decolonisation of academia and issues of positionality this is a must read.
This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4, Quality education
Contents
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
