BUA Modules

• Politics and Society - Islam in Europe

  0608aA1.8

  BUA Module with 10 ECTS credit points: module description (German, p. 413)

  The module is offered for students of humanities and social sciences at Master's level.

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  • 14227 Seminar
    Dis:Integration. Whiteness, Gender, and the Politics of Belonging in Germany (Miriam Kurz)
    Schedule: Do 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2025-10-16)
    Location: 0.3099B Seminarraum (Zugang von der L-Strasse) (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
    

    Comments

    While “integration” remains a central term in public and political debates on migration and diversity in contemporary Germany, it appears to function rather as a mechanism of exclusion than one of inclusion. This interdisciplinary seminar critically interrogates the dominant integration paradigm in Germany through the lenses of intersectionality, gender, and critical whiteness studies. Rather than approaching integration as a neutral or inclusive goal, we will interrogate how integration discourses function to secure white national identity and marginalize those marked as migrants, Muslim, or Other. This seminar addresses questions such as: Who is expected to integrate, and into what? What role do whiteness and “white innocence” (Wekker 2016) play in shaping societal norms in Germany and Europe? How are women’s and LGBTQ rights instrumentalized in nationalist discourse about belonging? Who is allowed to belong, and under what conditions? Analyzing these questions, we will also examine shifting discourses around skilled labor, deportation, and citizenship in Germany. We will engage with the particular ways in which Muslims are targeted by integration discourses and policies in Germany, exploring how white supremacy and Christian supremacy are entangled. We will do close readings of academic texts, analyze public discourse, and engage with postmigrant, decolonial, and antiracist interventions that propose creative counter-narratives and frameworks for living together beyond integration.

  • 14228 Methods Tutorial
    Dis:Integration. Whiteness, Gender, and the Politics of Belonging in Germany (Miriam Kurz)
    Schedule: Do 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2025-10-16)
    Location: 0.3099B Seminarraum (Zugang von der L-Strasse) (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
    

• Modules w/o courses in this semester

  2 Modules
  • Normative Orders and Religious Plurality in Europe 0611aA1.1
  • Epochen und Kulturen, Afrika 0611aA1.2