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India’s Non-Policy towards Arts and Culture: A Missed (Soft Power) Opportunity?

Annika Hampel writes about India's art and culture policy, which does not yet adequately showcase the country's cultural riches.

26. November 2020

Interview: The European Union and African states have a fundamentally different understanding of migration – what conflicts does this cause?

25. November 2020

Yonatan N. Gez writes about the still lacking international visibility of African dissertations and their valuable local perspectives.

20. November 2020

Stefan Rother talks about the influence of the Corona crisis on the situation of migrants on the podcast of the University of Freiburg.

12. November 2020

Franzisca Zanker gave an interview on reasons for migration from Gambia, which also forced professional footballer Musa Juwara to leave for Europe.

3. November 2020

Noura Wahby provides a corrective to environmental discourses that too often ignore the importance of class, gender and race.

29. October 2020

The Gero Erdmann Prize is awarded for dissertations that are based on a comparative approach and the consideration of area studies.

13. October 2020

Lewis Turner argues for a new approach in EU migration and refugee policy towards a meaningful solidarity with asylum seekers and refugees.

13. October 2020

In the framework of the research project "Authoritarian Urbanism" two researchers from Brazil and Turkey are currently working at the ABI.

12. October 2020

New Blog Entry: A decolonial and historicised approach on the Zapatista Movement from Mariana Mora

30. September 2020