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Knowledge production in higher education : between Europe and the Middle East / edited by Michelle Pace and Jan Claudius Völkel.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Europe--Study and teaching (Higher)--Africa, North.
- Europe.
- Europe--Study and teaching (Higher)--Middle East.
- Africa, North--Study and teaching (Higher)--Europe.
- Africa, North.
- Middle East--Study and teaching (Higher)--Europe.
- Middle East.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 267 pages) : illustrations (colour), digital, PDF file(s)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Understanding how knowledge is produced in higher education about Europe and the MENA requires an open, interdisciplinary and interregional approach. This volume systematically challenges the dynamics and realities that go beyond dominant European-MENA-centric accounts, while avoiding the pitfalls of simplification and knowledge fragmentation.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Notes on contributors
- Knowledge production in higher education
- Part I: History
- 1 Between nostalgia and the colonies
- 2 Orient-ations
- 3 Middle East Studies in Italy
- Part II: Liminality
- 4 Malta
- 5 Teaching Europe in Palestine
- 6 Teaching Europe and the Middle East at universities in Turkey
- Part III: Orientalism
- 7 Is decolonisation the decisive factor or even the relevant term? 250 years of Middle East Studies in Denmark
- 8 Challenges to a transformative education
- 9 Teaching the enlightened student
- Part IV: Hierarchies
- 10 Knowledge production at a time of pandemic
- 11 Who teaches the Middle East in Europe? A gender perspective
- 12 In between the academic and policy communities
- A potential paradigm shift in knowledge production
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 17, 2026).
- ISBN:
- 9781526160584
- 1526160587
- OCLC:
- 1376277914
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