Description: 

The project focuses on media practices in Marocco and analyzes the emergence of a civil society and the constitution of new public spheres during ongoing processes of social transformation in North Africa. The rapid spread of digital media in the Arab world led to new demands for political participation and has challenged hegemonic power structures since. In this context, socio-informatic research and design zoom in on media infrastructures while media-ethnological research investigates how new media practices (re-)establish issues of concern shaping and re-shaping different public realms. The integrated research perspective analyzes the relationship between civil society, co-operatively constituted publics and their media infrastructures in situ.

Support:
DFG

Duration:
2016 - 2020

Description:
Migration is a key strategy of future-making during land-use change. Ethnographic research is needed to explore how actors engage with changing ecologies of practice and relate to rapidly shifting landscapes of intensification, conservation and decay. This will contribute to a better understanding of both, how actors refine their capacities to aspire and redefine scale on site and in situ.

Support:
DFG

Duration:
2018 - 2021