Dilemmas Of Inclusion Research Articles

Planning inclusive spaces–in a new light

It is deeply satisfying to know that Volume 10 of AESOP Young Academics’ peer-reviewed journal plaNext – Next Generation Planning is now available to you. This volume stems from the 13th Young Academics conference which took place from the 2nd to the 5th of April 2019 in Darmstadt and was hosted by the Graduate School of Urban Studies (URBANgrad) at the Faculty of Architecture of Technical University of Darmstadt. The conference was held under the title “Planning inclusive spaces: An inter- and transdisciplinary approach” and provided 50 young planning researchers with a platform for exchange for the following themes: “'Public space' and the dilemma of inclusion,” “Health promoting urban planning and design,” “Citizenship and governance in the production of space,” and “From sustainable to resilient urban strategies.” This volume comprises three top-quality papers which were presented at the conference. These are highly valuable contributions, as they approach complex matters of “planning inclusive spaces” from a variety of aspects, make critical observations, and reframe and reflect on topical debates in academia and planning practice. By presenting these papers, we believe this volume provides an insight into advancing our collective knowledge through the debates on inclusivity. We learn our lessons from policies and practices that are “good” but also from those that are “not so good”. The volume, therefore, shares these perspectives and viewpoints with relevance to the conference theme, and it does so by trying to identify what is really needed to adequately address spatial challenges and to facilitate a sustainable transition towards (more) inclusive spaces through inter- and transdisciplinarity.

Book Reviews

Rafaela Dancygier, Dilemmas of Inclusion: Muslims in European Politics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017) Reviewed by Hilary Silver, Sociology, George Washington University Thomas Großbölting, Losing Heaven: Religion in Germany since 1945; translated by Alex Skinner (New York: Berghahn Books, 2017. Reviewed by Jeffrey Luppes, World Languages, Indiana University South Bend Hans Vorländer, Maik Herold, and Steven Schäller, PEGIDA and New Right-Wing Populism In Germany (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) Reviewed by Joyce Mushaben, Political Science, University of Missouri St. Louis Kara L. Ritzheimer, “Trash,” Censorship, and National Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Germany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016) Reviewed by Ambika Natarajan, History, Philosophy, and Religion, Oregon State University Anna Saunders, Memorializing the GDR: Monuments and Memory After 1989 (New York: Berghahn Books, 2018) Reviewed by Jeffrey Luppes, World Languages, Indiana University South Bend Desmond Dinan, Neill Nugent and William E. Paterson, eds., The European Union in Crisis (London: Palgrave, 2017) Reviewed by Helge F. Jani, Hamburg, Germany Noah Benezra Strote, Lions and Lambs: Conflict in Weimar and the Creation of Post-Nazi Germany (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017). Reviewed by Darren O’Byrne, History, University of Cambridge Chunjie Zhang, Transculturality and German Discourse in the Age of European Colonialism (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2017) Reviewed by Christopher Thomas Goodwin, History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Marcel Fratzscher, The Germany Illusion: Between Economic Euphoria and Despair (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). Reviewed by Stephen J. Silvia, International Relations, American University

Dilemmas of Inclusion: Muslims in European Politics. By Rafaela M. Dancygier

Dilemmas of Inclusion: Muslims in European Politics. <i>By Rafaela M. Dancygier</i>

Dilemmas of Inclusion: Muslims in European Politics

Dilemmas of Inclusion: Muslims in European Politics

Marginality as a politics of limited entitlements: Street life and the dilemma of inclusion in urban Ethiopia

Marginality is commonly understood as a condition of outsideness. But it is better understood as something internal: the ways poor people are integrated into the wider society define forms and experiences of marginality. In urban Ethiopia, marginality is a historical outcome, contingent on the ways that decades of integration policies have codified poor people's membership in society through an enduring politics of limited entitlements. Such inclusion can marginalize, and dissecting what poor people are included in is key to imagining new grounds for progressive politics. While marginality endures, it also remains a contingent historical product that can be challenged by questioning hegemonic understandings of what it is right to give to the poor.

Muslims in Korea: The Dilemma of Inclusion

Muslims in Korea: The Dilemma of Inclusion

Commentary: Democracy, temporalities of capitalism, and dilemmas of inclusion in Occupy movements

ABSTRACTThe two articles in this issue that I consider here raise fascinating questions about the temporalities of capitalism and about the dilemmas of inclusion in the recent Occupy movements. I explore some of these questions by focusing on three features of the movements: their temporal registers, their moral imaginaries, and their implicit and explicit understandings of democracy. I connect these different threads by showing their relationships to one another and also to what activists believe Occupy has emerged in opposition to: the interrelated crises of global capitalism and representative democracy. [democracy, capitalism, public protest, Occupy, temporality]

On the Borderlands of Loneliness and Community in Twentieth Century German-Jewish Literature

Vivian Liska’s book examines the diverse conflicts and paradoxes of community and identity among twentieth century German-and Austrian-Jewish writers. In a series of readings of paradigmatic texts by Kafka, Paul Celan, Else Lasker-Schuler, Ilse Aichinger and a few others, Liska reveals the tensions and ambivalences of what she calls “uncommon communities,” the unusual affiliations that are generated by literary images and how those images question common assumptions about identity. When Kafka Says We is an important contribution to literary criticism in general and to German-Jewish studies in particular. It throws new light on the dialectics of Germanness and Jewishness, on the dilemmas of inclusion and exclusion, as well as on the relationships of individuals to collectivities.

Transnationalizing the Public Sphere

Contributors Introduction 1. Nancy Fraser - Transnationalizing the Public Sphere: on the Legitimacy and Efficacy of Public Opinion in a Post-Westphalian World 2. Kate Nash - Towards Transnational Democratization? 3. Kimberley Hutchings - Time, Politics and Critique: rethinking the when question 4. Nick Couldry - What and Where is the Transnationalized Public Sphere? 5. Fuyuki Kurasawa - Putting the Social Back into the Transnational Public Sphere 6. David Owen - Dilemmas of Inclusion: the all-affected principle, the all-subjected principle and transnational public spheres 7. Nancy Fraser - Publicity, Subjection, Critique: A Reply to My Critics

Who Is the Enemy? The Nationalist Dilemma of Inclusion and Exclusion in Britain During the First World War

The First World War polarised British society. The British 'nation' needed a definition of the external enemy to generate internal cohesion as much as the production of modern hostility presupposed the existence of nationalism. Apparently, hostility which is nationalistically motivated is of functional importance for the cohesion of a society in war. But the construction of the nation along the lines of the dialectic structure of exclusion and inclusion implies that even its founding act encourages national splits. The manner in which nationalism generates social cohesion by excluding non-members at the same time always turns it into the expression of and the reason for internal conflicts. First and foremost, however, it was the co-existence of a whole host of concepts of the nation competing with each other for supremacy which turned nationalism into a disintegrative power in society. The co-existing national concepts by and large reflected the political factions and camps in the belligerent society. This article tries to outline the various ways in which the borderlines between the internal and the external enemy, between the hostile part of one's own society and a hostile foreign society converged under the circumstances of the exceptional burden of the First World War. At the end the hostility which was motivated and legitimised nationalistically both split and integrated British society.

Choice, interests, and black political actors: The dilemmas of inclusion

This is an analysis of qualitative data collected from formal and informal black political actors in Richmond, Virginia. It will outline the elements of tactical and strategic political styles that have developed during the process of racial inclusion and from the emergence of diverse political interests in the African-American community. These political styles have implications for the biases inherent in American political systems and for the advance of specific and collective political interests. Their differences are displayed in the choices political actors make about structuring their political power, the identity of their constituency, and structuring their demands for political resources. This case illustrates the dilemmas faced by all minority political actors, across the country and around the world, who are involved in the transition from racial political exclusion to racial political participation. Their dilemmas are brought to light in the choices that they must make in the face of both fading and persistent racial inequality.

Some Further Reflections on the Difficulties and Dilemmas of Inclusion

Some Further Reflections on the Difficulties and Dilemmas of Inclusion

Curriculum making in two voices: Dilemmas of inclusion in early childhood education

This article explores ways in which the concept of inclusion as a goal of multicultural education may be understood in reference to the concerns of early childhood education. Originally defined as representation of various dimensions of diversity in children's educational experience, the concept of inclusion is broadened to encompass a dialogue between self and other. Recognition of the teacher's role as mediator among children's knowledge, attitudes, and behavior in fostering inclusionary practice is essential to the promotion of such a dialogue. Work toward these ends must begin with adults in the early childhood program before it can be done effectively with children. Adults need to understand more about the inner structures of their own cultures before they can be expected to recognize those structures in the children they teach. Likewise, adults need to examine possible discontinuities among their own attitudes, behaviors, and current knowledge as sources of negative or mixed messages to children as they strive to implement inclusionary practices in their classrooms.