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Social Theory: Ali Shariati
Social Theory: Ali Shariati 25th Aug 2022 Ali Shariati is often cited as one of the key ‘ideologues’ behind Iran’s revolution, despite not living to see its success in overthrowing the Shah in 1979. The social and political thought of Shariati was highly influential amongst segments of... Read More
Social Theory: Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi
Social Theory: Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi 25th Aug 2022 Ola Rifai University of St AndrewsIn May 2002, dozens of Arab scholars met in the French Institution of Aleppo to commemorate the 100th death anniversary of Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi (1855-1902). During a two-day workshop, organized by al-Kawakibi's... Read More
Social Theory: Loïc Wacquant
Social Theory: Loïc Wacquant 26th Jul 2022 As an interdisciplinary sociologist, Loïc Wacquant fuses two approaches: the material, associated with Marxist thought, and the symbolic as developed by Pierre Bourdieu, to produce a novel and highly relevant social theory. Broadly speaking, Wacquant... Read More
Social Theory: Jacques Lacan
Social Theory: Jacques Lacan 15th Jul 2022 As a region defined through its historical relationship with colonialism, where national and state borders represent nothing more than lines in the sand – both literally and figuratively – political life in the Middle East has been characterised by... Read More
Social Theory: Pierre Bourdieu
Social Theory: Pierre Bourdieu 15th Jul 2022 Toby Dodge ‘Using Pierre Bourdieu’s “thinking tools” to understand Middle East politics’. Introduction. An increasing number of academics seeking to understand the complexities of the contemporary Middle East are reaching for Pierre Bourdieu’s... Read More
Social Theory: Hannah Arendt
Social Theory: Hannah Arendt 13th Jul 2022 The late Iraqi Poet Muthafar al-Nawab once said that "if you see an Arab sleeping hasten to wake him up so that he does not dream of freedom" (al-Dik, 2013). Al-Nawab’s poem was written in the context of his criticism of ruling regimes in the Arab... Read More
Social Theory: Peter Berger
Social Theory: Peter Berger 13th Jul 2022 Peter Berger is interested in a key puzzle related to the creation and evolution of religion. Religion is mainly a social construct or a human activity, but man loses control of this construction process. Along the lines of functionalist schools of thought... Read More
Social Theory: Achille Mbembe
Social Theory: Achille Mbembe 12th Jul 2022 Achille Mbembe and the Afterlives of Interspecies Necropolitics in the Postcolony By Madonna Kalousian In an essay titled ‘Écrire l’Afrique à partir d’une faille’, Mbembe contends that “c’est parce que la colonisation fut ce qu’elle... Read More
Social Theory: Michel Foucault
Social Theory: Michel Foucault 11th Jul 2022 John Nagle (Queen’s University Belfast)   Michel Foucault (1926) is undoubtedly one of the leading social theorists of the twentieth century. His work on the relationship between power and knowledge remains both highly influential and controversial.... Read More
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