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donate Nikola Tietze
(b.1965) is research assistant at the Hamburg Institute of Social Research. Numerous publications on issues of Islam, including Islamische Identitäten. Formen muslimischer Religiosität junger Männer in Deutschland und Frankreich published 2001 in Hamburg.
Eurozine Articles
More justice through more Europe
An interview with Ulrich Beck
While discrepancies between EU member states can be overlooked during win-win periods of growth, recession triggers xenophobic and anti-European reactions in both rich and poor countries. In interview, Ulrich Beck explains how inequality leaves the Union susceptible to decay. Building on the sense of a common European destiny engendered by the crisis, how can Europe be communicated as an opportunity for more power rather than a threat to national sovereignty? [more]
Experience, institution and critique in post-industrial society
On François Dubet's sociology
With his studies about suburban youths, the French school system or workplace inequality, Francois Dubet has contributed both to the conceptualization of contemporary social relations and, as a "public sociologist", to political debate in France. Nikola Tietze reviews his work. [more]
Zinedine Zidane or games of belonging
Zinedine Zidane is a figurehead around which young Muslims in France and Germany form a sense of community. The footballer's style of play is a direct expression of the immigrant experience; even the head-butt had an instructive value. [more]
Suicide bombings: A literature review
On the sociological, political and economical dimensions of suicide bombings. [more]
The Sociology of Islam
Georg Stauth's Islamische Kultur und moderne Gesellschaft does not deal with the principles of Islam or the goals and acts of fundamentalist Islamic groups and networks. Instead, it focuses on the ways and forms in which the modern ideas of Islam spread and circulate. Stauth's essays, says Nikola Tietze in a review written before the attacks of September 11th, make it possible to reflect on the social consequences of a politicised Islam. [more]
Muslim Experiences
Identities between tradition and emancipation
After extensive interviews with young Muslim men, Nicola Tietze finds that their social reality is quite another from the conventional expectation of behaviour guided by religious tradition. [more]
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