Apr 14, 2023
Invitation to the Lecture on 'Struggles for Justice and Pockets of Anti-Colonial Worldmaking in Tunisia'
We warmly invite you to the lecture by Dr. Mariam Salehi followed by a discussion on "Struggles for Justice and Pockets of Anti-Colonial Worldmaking in Tunisia" in the Gerber-Bau of the TU Dresden on Wednesday, 26 April 2023. The lecture will be held in English and will take place at 16:40-18:10 in room GER/013.
Dr. Mariam Salehi is head of the research group "Transnational Conflicts" at the INTERACT Centre for Interdisciplinary Peace and Conflict Research at Freie Universität Berlin. Her dissertation on Tunisia's transitional justice process was awarded the 2019 Dissertation Prize of the German Association for Middle East Studies. She works mainly with interpretative research approaches, especially qualitative methods such as interviews and participant observation.
The talk explores struggles for justice that link colonial oppression and societal conflicts today. Zooming in on empirical examples from Tunisia, it links two notions of worldmaking: (1) technocratic worldmaking shaped by transnational expert rule, technical knowledge, and professional practice (Kennedy 2016) and (2) anticolonial worldmaking, working towards overcoming transnational hierarchy (Getachew 2019), and asks what pockets of emancipatory worldmaking we can find in (supposedly) technocratic projects.
We look forward to your coming, an exciting lecture and the exchange afterwards.