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Tagged: Area Studies

The Battle for Bangladesh: Students Lead the Charge Against Autocracy

by Julian Kuttig Bangladesh is witnessing a renewed wave of student-led protests, pushing the Awami League (AL) government to the brink of collapse. Once again, students are challenging autocracy and demanding democracy, continuing a legacy of resistance that the AL regime seemed to have forgotten.   A Legacy of Student...

Democratic South Africa at 30 years: Battling state capture and ethno-racial populism

By Christi van der Westhuizen South Africa’s seventh democratic election sees the country teetering amid several simultaneous crises. The ruling African National Congress has failed in addressing the colonial and apartheid legacies of severe under-development and socio-economic inequality. Its attempts at imposing a Leninist-influenced African nationalist hegemony on the state...

Area studies in Germany: Investigating research topics, denominations and structures in continuous change

By Carolina Rozo Higuera and Kathleen Schlütter – Area studies, transregional studies, global studies – is there a difference between those denominations of research fields and should we care about it? At first glance, the debate about the naming of research fields in this part of the humanities and social...