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How Has the Issue of Gender Been Negotiated in Tunisia’s Recent History?
(Germany: Latest Thinking, 2017), 11 mins
Since Tunisia’s independence in 1956, the country has had a unique approach to the issue of gender compared to other Arabic countries as it pushed a public discourse on modernization and women’s rights. In this video, STEFFI HOBUß describes the approach of her researcher group to analyze how the issue of gend...
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(Germany: Latest Thinking, 2017), 11 mins
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Since Tunisia’s independence in 1956, the country has had a unique approach to the issue of gender compared to other Arabic countries as it pushed a public discourse on modernization and women’s rights. In this video, STEFFI HOBUß describes the approach of her researcher group to analyze how the issue of gender has been negotiated in Tunisia and how this has influenced Tunisia’s cultural memory ever since. By combining the philosophical id...
Since Tunisia’s independence in 1956, the country has had a unique approach to the issue of gender compared to other Arabic countries as it pushed a public discourse on modernization and women’s rights. In this video, STEFFI HOBUß describes the approach of her researcher group to analyze how the issue of gender has been negotiated in Tunisia and how this has influenced Tunisia’s cultural memory ever since. By combining the philosophical idea of the resignification of concepts with an empirical approach, the team found that on the one hand, there were real improvements for women but on the other hand, the state instrumentalized and almost entirely dominated the discourse on women’s rights in order to present as a modern state what was effectively a dictatorship. This has strong implications for today’s Tunisia because any ideas and policies of modernization or feminism carry dictatorial connotations.
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Field of Study
Women's Studies
Content Type
Instructional material
Date Published / Released
2017
Publisher
Latest Thinking
Topic / Theme
Gender discrimination, Women's rights, Feminism
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Copyright © 2017 Latest Thinking
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How Were Refugees Protected in the Islamic Early Middle Ages?
(Germany: Latest Thinking, 2017), 12 mins
The migration of refugees is not a problem of the twenty-first century. Historian JENNY RAHEL OESTERLE investigates the question of how people in need of protection were treated in the Middle Ages. Her particular focus in this video is the Arabian Peninsula in the early seventh century, specifically the Islamic co...
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(Germany: Latest Thinking, 2017), 12 mins
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The migration of refugees is not a problem of the twenty-first century. Historian JENNY RAHEL OESTERLE investigates the question of how people in need of protection were treated in the Middle Ages. Her particular focus in this video is the Arabian Peninsula in the early seventh century, specifically the Islamic context during the lifetime of Muhammad. The term refugee is coined by a modern understanding in the context of national states and inter...
The migration of refugees is not a problem of the twenty-first century. Historian JENNY RAHEL OESTERLE investigates the question of how people in need of protection were treated in the Middle Ages. Her particular focus in this video is the Arabian Peninsula in the early seventh century, specifically the Islamic context during the lifetime of Muhammad. The term refugee is coined by a modern understanding in the context of national states and international human rights and asylum. The political and legal conditions are clearly different in early Islamic times. The term is applied on early medieval persons in need of protection such as the prophet Muhammad and his followers in awareness of the historical and semantical complexity of its use. As Jenny Oesterle describes, she focused on narrative texts and was inspired by the methods of New Historicism but also considered the legal context. From Islamic historiographies and Prophet biographies, she gained the insight that stories of protection are essential for the understanding of early Islamic history. Muhammad’s role as a refugee, she found, is highly relevant for the development of the first concepts of Muslim protection during the founding of the Islamic communities. This research demonstrates that countries from which many refugees arrive in Europe nowadays, such as Syria or Iraq, already had developed concepts of protection in the Middle Ages.
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Field of Study
Religion & Thought
Content Type
Instructional material
Date Published / Released
2017
Publisher
Latest Thinking
Speaker / Narrator
Jenny Rahel Oesterle, El Nabbout, 1978-
Person Discussed
Jenny Rahel Oesterle, El Nabbout, 1978-, Muhammad the Prophet, 0570-0632
Topic / Theme
Recorded history, Religious texts, Ancient and classical history curriculums, Historical research and historiography, Islam, Refugees
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Introduction: Securing Childcare during World War II: The Case of San Diego
(2022), 3 mins
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(2022), 3 mins
Collection
Women and Social Movements in the United States,1600-2000
Field of Study
Women's Studies
Date Published / Released
2022
Speaker / Narrator
Kyle E. Ciani, fl. 2012
Person Discussed
Kyle E. Ciani, fl. 2012
Topic / Theme
Employment, Wartime economy, Women, Laws and legislation, World War II, 1939-1945, Mexicans
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Women and Social Movements in the United States,1600-2000
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Online Biographical Dictionary
Date Published / Released
2018
Publisher
Alexander Street
Topic / Theme
Political parties, Suffragists, Biographies, Political and Human Rights, Suffrage
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