MECAM SPECTRUM Event week: (In-)Equities in the Maghreb – Perspectives for development

The Merian Center for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM) is pleased to invite you to its event-week dealing with the theme “(In-)Equities in the Maghreb – Perspectives for development” which will be jointly organized by its fellows, from November 12-15, 2024 in Tunis. From the pre-national independence period to the golden age of post-colonial planning and the neo-liberal and Arab Spring moments, “development” a and its cousins and relatives – equality, egalitarianism, justice, utopia, models —have served as guiding aims for practitioners and politicians, often as distractions. Post 2011, the economic doors that seemed closed by the denial of politics in the ancient regime’s strongholds of Carthage, Rabat, and Algiers appeared open, reigniting discussions about development, utopias, and the barriers to achieving them. A rising call for equity found its way through the tunnels of people who demonstrated against decades of injustices. MECAM’s November event week addresses these themes through issues of disparity, inequity, and future potentials, examining how contemporary matters like green transitions, apartheid and colonialism, northern-induced anthropogenic climate change, and the Green Revolution have altered southern history. It also explores southern agency and resistance, including migration strategies, agricultural resistance, and knowledge preservation through oral and visual oral and visual communications and mainstream and pop art. This event week brings researchers from different disciplines and backgrounds in order to jointly discuss the nexus of equity and inequity in the Maghreb and how their understanding of the Maghrebi case can influence their perception of the neighboring regions.

Venues

• This event will be held at:  Faculté des Sciences Humaines et Sociales de Tunis (https://www.fshst.rnu.tn/)
• Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches économiques et sociales (https://ceres.rnrt.tn/ )
• MECAM – Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (https://mecam.tn/)

Link to the program