Social Change and Political Development in the Maghrib. The genesis of 'Radical Islamism' - a reconstruction of its Origins

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    Subject of the investigation are processes of social and political change in the states of the Maghrib, especially Algeria. The central question is: what are the main reasons, which led there to the development and the militarization of "radical Islamism"? The historical, structural and genetic reconstruction of the phenomenon ist situated in the methodological background of the "historical-genetic theory" of Günter Dux, which is

    applicated and developped along this case study. Radical Islamism - as vision of the world - is situated into the context of substantial social and political change; its socio-structural and cognitive conditions are reconstructed.



    Theory development and application; historical-genetic reconstruction; text analysis.

    StatusFinished
    Effective start/end date1/07/9630/12/05

    Austrian Classification of Fields of Science and Technology (OEFOS)

    • 504001 General sociology