Book Reviews by Miriam Yosef
KULT_online. Review Journal for the Study of Culture, 2020
In Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory Patricia Hill Collins explores intersectionality’s... more In Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory Patricia Hill Collins explores intersectionality’s potential to become a critical social theory. Collins asserts that in order for intersectionality to develop fully as a critical social theory, its scholars and practitioners have to profoundly engage with its methodologies, epistemologies, and the activist works upon which it is based. Collin’s monograph can be seen as a dialogical engagement of intersectionality with other theoretical schools of thought and furthers its development into a theory of its own.
Papers by Miriam Yosef
In Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory erforscht Patricia Hill Collins die Eignung der In... more In Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory erforscht Patricia Hill Collins die Eignung der Intersektionalitat eine kritische Gesellschaftstheorie zu werden. Laut Collins kann Intersektionalitat sich nur dann als kritische Gesellschaftstheorie entfalten, wenn sich ihre Akademiker_innen und Praktiker_innen tiefgreifend mit den Methodologien, Epistemologien sowie dem Aktivismus, auf dem sie basiert auseinandersetzen. Collins Werk kann als eine dialogische Auseinandersetzung der Intersektionalitat mit anderen theoretischen Stromungen gesehen werden.
KULT_online, 2021
Djordjevic, Edward; Held, Christoph; Rothers, Simon and Miriam Yosef: “Conference Repor... more Djordjevic, Edward; Held, Christoph; Rothers, Simon and Miriam Yosef: “Conference Report on ‘Solidarity in Times of Crisis.’” In: KULT_online 63 (2021).
The topic of solidarity could hardly have been timelier, although the organizers could not have known that when they settled on a seemingly old-fashioned term from the political vocabulary. On December 3rd and 4th, 2020, with the still ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Graduate Center for Social Sciences, Business, Economics and Law (GGS) of the University of Giessen put the notion of solidarity at the center of its annual conference. In addition to the global pandemic, the term was considered in light of political emancipatory struggles: the refugee crisis, the Black Lives Matter movement, and global protests. Led by REGINA KREIDE (Giessen), JEANETTE EHRMANN (Giessen/ Koblenz-Landau) and HANNES KAUFMANN (Giessen), the study group "Human Rights and Democracy" brought together scholars from Europe, Africa, and North America to discuss both the conceptual dimensions and practices of solidarity. Solidarity remains academically ill defined, while clearly growing in significance in the public discourse; taken together, the conference advanced urgently needed research on this politically prominent notion. The first panel of Day 1 was opened by RAHEL JAEGGI (Berlin) elaborating a theoretical approach to solidarity. Without being exhaustive, Jaeggi posited that it must represent a social bond, irreducible to the individual. It acts as a specific, impersonal relation, since an affective relationship is not one of solidarity. Hierarchical structures demanding loyalty, like the mafia, are also not examples of solidarity; it must have a reciprocal aspect that also excludes the asymmetrical practice of charity. Further, solidarity includes mediation by a common cause and is different from a mere coalition of interests, as it transcends narrow individual concern. Jaeggi also presented some obstacles in understanding the concept of solidarity: asymmetry among those in solidarity with one another, due to unequal starting positions. To avoid an alltoo-narrow particularism on one hand, and empty universalism on the other, Jaeggi posited the concept of 'emergent universalism.'
What We Can Relate To, 2021
Yosef, M. & Holev, I.: "Life on Planet Germany" in Johanna-Yasirra Kluhs, Aurora Rodonò, Fabian ... more Yosef, M. & Holev, I.: "Life on Planet Germany" in Johanna-Yasirra Kluhs, Aurora Rodonò, Fabian Saavedra-Lara, Nesrin Tanç (eds.) What We Can Relate To. StrzeleckiBooks. 2021.
ISBN: 978-3-946770-89-3
IKR, 2020
Die Autorinnen Fatima Çalışkan und Miriam Yosef haben Fokusgruppen aus freien Künstler*innen, Kul... more Die Autorinnen Fatima Çalışkan und Miriam Yosef haben Fokusgruppen aus freien Künstler*innen, Kulturschaffenden, Produzent*innen, Praktiker*innen etc. gebildet und Befragungen durchgeführt. Die Kulturpolitischen Handlungsempfehlungen umfassen wesentliche, in die Zukunft gerichtete Anliegen und Konzepte der interkulturellen Szene des Ruhrgebiets und darüber hinaus. Zusätzlich werden Querverweise zum Kulturfördergesetz NRW, dem Gesetz für Teilhabe und Integration des Landes NRW sowie zur Teilhabe- und Integrationsstrategie 2030 des MKFF hergestellt.
Eine Einordnung der umgebenden gesellschaftlichen Dimensionen trägt die Autorin und Publizistin Mithu Sanyal mit ihrem Text “Willkommen in der Neuen Deutschen Welt” bei, der sich als ein orientierendes Geleit zu genau diesen Entwicklungsvorschlägen versteht.
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The topic of solidarity could hardly have been timelier, although the organizers could not have known that when they settled on a seemingly old-fashioned term from the political vocabulary. On December 3rd and 4th, 2020, with the still ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Graduate Center for Social Sciences, Business, Economics and Law (GGS) of the University of Giessen put the notion of solidarity at the center of its annual conference. In addition to the global pandemic, the term was considered in light of political emancipatory struggles: the refugee crisis, the Black Lives Matter movement, and global protests. Led by REGINA KREIDE (Giessen), JEANETTE EHRMANN (Giessen/ Koblenz-Landau) and HANNES KAUFMANN (Giessen), the study group "Human Rights and Democracy" brought together scholars from Europe, Africa, and North America to discuss both the conceptual dimensions and practices of solidarity. Solidarity remains academically ill defined, while clearly growing in significance in the public discourse; taken together, the conference advanced urgently needed research on this politically prominent notion. The first panel of Day 1 was opened by RAHEL JAEGGI (Berlin) elaborating a theoretical approach to solidarity. Without being exhaustive, Jaeggi posited that it must represent a social bond, irreducible to the individual. It acts as a specific, impersonal relation, since an affective relationship is not one of solidarity. Hierarchical structures demanding loyalty, like the mafia, are also not examples of solidarity; it must have a reciprocal aspect that also excludes the asymmetrical practice of charity. Further, solidarity includes mediation by a common cause and is different from a mere coalition of interests, as it transcends narrow individual concern. Jaeggi also presented some obstacles in understanding the concept of solidarity: asymmetry among those in solidarity with one another, due to unequal starting positions. To avoid an alltoo-narrow particularism on one hand, and empty universalism on the other, Jaeggi posited the concept of 'emergent universalism.'
ISBN: 978-3-946770-89-3
Eine Einordnung der umgebenden gesellschaftlichen Dimensionen trägt die Autorin und Publizistin Mithu Sanyal mit ihrem Text “Willkommen in der Neuen Deutschen Welt” bei, der sich als ein orientierendes Geleit zu genau diesen Entwicklungsvorschlägen versteht.
The topic of solidarity could hardly have been timelier, although the organizers could not have known that when they settled on a seemingly old-fashioned term from the political vocabulary. On December 3rd and 4th, 2020, with the still ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Graduate Center for Social Sciences, Business, Economics and Law (GGS) of the University of Giessen put the notion of solidarity at the center of its annual conference. In addition to the global pandemic, the term was considered in light of political emancipatory struggles: the refugee crisis, the Black Lives Matter movement, and global protests. Led by REGINA KREIDE (Giessen), JEANETTE EHRMANN (Giessen/ Koblenz-Landau) and HANNES KAUFMANN (Giessen), the study group "Human Rights and Democracy" brought together scholars from Europe, Africa, and North America to discuss both the conceptual dimensions and practices of solidarity. Solidarity remains academically ill defined, while clearly growing in significance in the public discourse; taken together, the conference advanced urgently needed research on this politically prominent notion. The first panel of Day 1 was opened by RAHEL JAEGGI (Berlin) elaborating a theoretical approach to solidarity. Without being exhaustive, Jaeggi posited that it must represent a social bond, irreducible to the individual. It acts as a specific, impersonal relation, since an affective relationship is not one of solidarity. Hierarchical structures demanding loyalty, like the mafia, are also not examples of solidarity; it must have a reciprocal aspect that also excludes the asymmetrical practice of charity. Further, solidarity includes mediation by a common cause and is different from a mere coalition of interests, as it transcends narrow individual concern. Jaeggi also presented some obstacles in understanding the concept of solidarity: asymmetry among those in solidarity with one another, due to unequal starting positions. To avoid an alltoo-narrow particularism on one hand, and empty universalism on the other, Jaeggi posited the concept of 'emergent universalism.'
ISBN: 978-3-946770-89-3
Eine Einordnung der umgebenden gesellschaftlichen Dimensionen trägt die Autorin und Publizistin Mithu Sanyal mit ihrem Text “Willkommen in der Neuen Deutschen Welt” bei, der sich als ein orientierendes Geleit zu genau diesen Entwicklungsvorschlägen versteht.