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26. April 2021

Conflicted fantasies and spatial identities: from Ramallah to Paris

Aseel Aldeek

This post presents a personal account of my experiences growing up in Ramallah, Palestine, studying at Al-Quds Bard university in Palestine and then emigrating to France. It is an overview of all the spaces I had to interact with throughout my life which have now come to define my identity. By observing the different political and social atmospheres in different spaces and their effect on me, I have come to realise that my identity has no static definition and is continuously redefined through every space I exist in.

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13. July 2020

How We Accidentally Became Pandemic Communication Researchers

Dr. Daniela Stoltenberg | Prof. Dr. Barbara Pfetsch | Prof. Dr. Annie Waldherr | Neta Kligler-Vilenchik | Hadas Gur-Ze’ev | Maya de Vries Kedem

With the Covid-19 pandemic touching all parts of life, academic research has not been an exception. Even for researchers who are able to maintain access to their field – for instance, through online research – considerable changes in the objects of study force them to rethink their research questions and study designs as they go along. The team behind CRC project B05 “Translocal Networks” reflects on their experiences of conducting a survey of intense Twitter users at the height of the first Covid-19 wave in Jerusalem.

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5. November 2019

Raum-Matrix des Westjordanlands

Hannah Wolf

Das Westjordanland ist eine der am stärksten politisch, ideologisch und militärisch umkämpften Regionen unserer Welt, es ist Schauplatz und Projektionsfläche des Nahost-Konflikts. Als ich im Frühjahr 2019 zwei Vertreter*innen der […]

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