Knowledge, Normativity and Power in Academia - Critical Interventions

Contents

Introduction: Critical Interventions in Knowledge Production from Within and Without Academia 7
Aisha-N. Ahmad, Maik Fielitz, Johanna Leinius and Gianna M. Schlichte

I. Critical Perspectives on Knowledge Productionin Academia

Critical Perspectives on Knowledge Production in Academia: Introductory Remarks. 29
Katarina Froebus

Imaging the Power of Academia: Of Deficient Figures, Good Theologies and Governing Rationalities in the German Islam Conference 43
Zubair Ahmad and Luis Manuel Hernandez Aguilar

Nobody Wants to be 'Poor'-Power Effects of Knowledge (Re-)Production and (Im-)Possibilities of Critique 63
Sophie Künstler

Excellence Goes Congo. The Power Structure of Academia between North and South: A Case Study of the Master of Microfinance 85
Anne Reiff, Miranda Loli, Janina Hirth and Kristina Weil

The Political Epistemology of the International Financial Crisis between 2007 and 2009-an International Relations View on the Politics of Knowledge 105
Sebastian Levi

II. Challenging the Norms of Academic Forms of Knowledge

Border Conflicts: The Power of Art in Academia 131
Johann Szews

Challenging Formats: Content and Form in Dialogue. 137
Jörg Holkenbrink and Anna Seitz

Against Functionalization: On Artistic Research 151
Falk Rössler and Philipp Schulte

Beuys as Philosopher: The Aporia of Fat 163
Dror Pimentel

Aesthetic Difference: On the 'Wisdom' of the Arts 181
Dieter Mersch
Notes on Contributors 197

Aisha-Nusrat Ahmad ist wiss. Mitarbeiterin an der International Psychoanalytic University in Berlin. Maik Fielitz ist wiss. Mitarbeiter am Institut für Demokratie und Zivilgesellschaft in Jena. Johanna Leinius ist wiss. Mitarbeiterin an der Universität Kassel. Gianna Magdalena Schlichte ist wiss. Mitarbeiterin am Bremer Institut für Kriminalwissenschaften.