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Short report about the field research of Dr. Kristina Roepstorff
In March/April 2019, Dr. Kristina Roepstorff was in Bangladesh for a two-month field research project to collect data for her habilitation project on local humanitarian actors in the context of forced migration.
You can read her short report in German on the website of the "Büro für Gleichstellungsfragen" here.
Call for Applications 2019
Apply for the International Master's programme Peace and Conflict Studies - Deadline: July, 15th 2019
You can apply now for the Master’s programme PACS - Peace and Conflict StudiesMagdeburg at Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg in 2019.
Learn how to implement peaceful solutions in areas of violent conflicts with students from around the world while pursuing a Master's programme in Germany. Apply now and become part of the PACS community - Application deadline: July 15, 2019!
New publication by Hannah Pfeifer and Alexander Spencer
Once upon a time: Western genres and narrative constructions of a romantic jihad
The article by Dr. Hannah Pfeifer and Prof. Dr. Alexander Spencer examines the romantic narratives told by the “Islamic State” in the propaganda online videos of foreign fighters. Employing a method of narrative analysis, based on insight from Literary Studies and Narratology, it holds that while narratives of jihad differ to “war on terror” narratives told in the West with regard to their content, narratives of jihad employ a very western romantic genre style. Focusing on the narrative elements of setting, characterisation and emplotment the article illustrates a romantic narrative of jihad which contains classical elements of a romantic story in which the everyday person is forced to become a hero in a legitimate struggle against an unjust order for the greater good and in aid of the down trodden. The article thereby aims to contribute to the debate on why such narratives of jihad have an appeal in certain parts of western society.
