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Recent debates on (European) ‚Leitkultur’, the banning of head-scarfs and on refugee- and asylum practices are parts of a larger process of European identity formation after the cold war. Political and public debates concerning large Muslim diasporas within the European nation states play an important role in this process. Migration-Communities are quite often constructed as ‘the Other’ within the (territorial) self. Western feminism takes as well part in the construction of new European identities. The workshop’s organizers call this tendency ‘Feminist Occidentalism’ and propose a perspective of ‚Critical Occidentalism’ as a possible tool to question hegemonic aspects of Western Feminism which enables for example to deconstruct conservative but also feminist rhetorics promoting women’s rights and emancipation as racist. The first part of the workshop discusses these aspects on a comparative U.S.American and European level, whereas the second part focuses on the specific German situation. To enhance chances for a broad German participation in the workshop, the second part will be held on German. | Contact Antje Hornscheidt, E-Mail antje.hornscheidt@rz.hu-berlin.de / Gabriele Dietze, E-Mail gabriele.dietze@rz.hu-berlin.de Zentrum für Transdisziplinäre Geschlechterstudien der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin http://www.gender.hu-berlin.de/
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Aktualisiert: 02.09.2005, hbr