Hanna Schrodt
(affiliated Friedrich Ebert Fellow)
Religion as a factor in development cooperation in Arab countries
Religion as a factor in development cooperation in Arab countries
Religion is an essential factor in the construction of individual and collective identity and normativity and must therefore be considered in socio-political theory and practice. This has been discussed in English-speaking discourse for around 20 years, whereas the role of religion in development cooperation in the Arabic-speaking discourse is a research gap. Arab knowledge production is marginalized by various factors and hardly participates in the global discourse, although Arab countries are the scene of a large number of development projects. Yemen is of particular note here. In this thesis, the analysis of Arab academic knowledge production is coupled with an insight into development practice in order to find out how religion is negotiated as a factor. This serves both to gain conceptual knowledge and to improve religious literacy in development cooperation.
First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Florian Zemmin