Research Training Group World Politics RTG 2225
Marc Jacobsen - Doctoral Researcher
E-Mail: marc.jacobsen@uni-bielefeld.de
Doctoral Project: Antisemitism in the World Society: Globalization and the Transformation of Jew Hatred
- Biography
- Abstract
Research on antisemitism is increasingly concerned with the relationship between the hostility towards Jews and globalization. Many scholars assume that, under the impact of globalization, antisemitism is rapidly changing. While some argue that antisemitism is becoming more diverse and complex due to its worldwide dissemination, others even observe that Jew hatred is emerging as a new phenomenon which integrates old features of modern antisemitism, but also new ones deriving from the process of globalization. However, long-term international comparisons are scarce, and theories of globalization are often not well elaborated.
The PhD project contributes to the debate on global antisemitism by comparing antisemitic discourses in Argentina, Egypt, Germany, Japan and the USA from late 19th to the 21st century, based on an extensive integrative synthesis of already existing research. The results of this analysis will then be discussed in the light of a conceptual combination of theories of antisemitism and theories of world society. In that regard, antisemitism is understood and will be analyzed as a specific mode of observing the world that has emerged and developed in relation to global structures, norms and expectations.
- Publications
- Jacobsen, M. (with T. Werron) (2021). 'The World of Anti-Semitismism. A Historical-Sociological Analysis of the Global Element of Hostility Against Jews in Germany (1780-1925)', in: S. Holtgreve, K. Preuß and M. Albert (eds.), Envisioning the World: Mapping and Making the Global. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 45-64..
- Jacobsen, M. (2018). Review: 'Grenzsteine. Beiträge zur Kritik der Gewalt', in: D. Kellerman (ed.), Kritiknetz - Zeitschrift für Kritische Theorie der Gesellschaft.
- Jacobsen, M. (with D. Lehmann and F. Röhrbein) (2014). Kritische Theorie und Emanzipation. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann.
- Jacobsen, M. (2011). 'Abwehr und Angriff. Die Reaktionen in den extrem rechten Printmedien nach den Anschlägen in Norwegen', in: R. Wamper, E. Jadtschenko and M. Jacobsen (eds.), "Das hat doch nichts mit uns zu tun!" Die Anschläge in Norwegen in deutschsprachigen Medien. Münster: Unrast Verlag, pp. 119-156.
- Jacobsen, M. (with R. Wamper and E. Jadtschenko) (2011). "Das hat doch nichts mit uns zu tun!" Die Anschläge in Norwegen in deutschsprachigen Medien. Münster: Unrast Verlag.
- Conferences
- Jacobsen, M. (2019). 'The World of Anti-Semitism'. Paper presented at the workshop 'Envisioning the Global: Perspectives, Positions, Communities', 22 November, Bielefeld University.
- Jacobsen, M. (with A. Elmuradov, S. Holtgreve, K. Preuss, Y. Sunca and G. Vàsquez) (2019). Organisation of the RTG workshop 'Envisioning the Global, Engendering Agency: Perspectives, Positions, Communities', 21-22 November, Bielefeld University.
- Jacobsen, M. (2019). Participation in the RTG workshop 'Organising Competition & Contestation in World Politics', 24-25 October, Bielefeld University.
- Jacobsen, M. (2018). Participation in the RTG workshop 'Balance & Competition in World Politics', 09-10 November, Bielefeld University.
- Jacobsen, M. (with A. Elmuradov, S. Holtgreve, K. Preuss, Y. Sunca and G. Vàsquez) (2018). Organisation of the RTG workshop 'Imagining Belonging in World Politics: Concepts, Practices and Struggles', 01-02 October, Bielefeld University.
- Jacobsen, M. (2018). 'Antisemitism and Nationalism: "The Jew" as the counter principle to the nation'. Paper presented at the workshop 'Imagining Belonging in World Politics: Concepts, Practices and Struggles', 01 October, Bielefeld University.
- Jacobsen, M. (2018). Participation at the conference 'An end to Antisemitism!', 18-22 February, Vienna University, Austria.