BISA 2025 Conference

Middle East Politics: Authoritarianism, Violence, and Solidarity

WE 18

18 Jun 2025, 16:45

1h 30m

Panel International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group

Description

We consider conflict in the Middle East from a range of perspectives, considering the challenges of authoritarian regimes and violent conflicts and the possiblities of solidarity.

Subcontributions

• Intra-Group Competition in Consociational Democracies: Iraq's Intra-Majority Rivalry
• War and the Researcher: How Violent Contexts Shape Ethnographic Work and Identity
• The role of the security establishment in authoritarian resilience
• Making Solidarity Sexy: Frivolity, Social Media, & Political Engagement in the MENA
• “Holocaust > Nakba > Oslo? Collective trauma memory and intractable conflict: problems and possibilities.”