Enemy Encounters
Enemy Encounters
Podcast Description
Know your enemy, love your enemy – enmity as the most extreme form of antagonism is often full of ambivalences. Entangling hatred and fear with respect and even admiration, the construction of the enemy is seldom as clear-cut as it seems. In this podcast, members of the research and training group “Ambivalent Enmity” at Heidelberg University and the Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies will talk to selected guests to explore the ambivalences of enmity over time and space. Brace yourself for Enemy Encounters!
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The podcast delves into diverse topics related to enmity, with specific episodes focused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Tamil nationalism. For instance, one episode discusses Arab intellectual perspectives on Jews and Zionism, while another examines the Sri Lankan civil war and theTamil diaspora's role, highlighting the layered complexities in understanding enmity historically and contemporaneously.
Know your enemy, love your enemy – enmity as the most extreme form of antagonism is often full of ambivalences. Entangling hatred and fear with respect and even admiration, the construction of the enemy is seldom as clear-cut as it seems. In this podcast, members of the research and training group “Ambivalent Enmity” at Heidelberg University and the Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies will talk to selected guests to explore the ambivalences of enmity over time and space. Brace yourself for Enemy Encounters!
To kick off the semester, we are joined by Paula Simon, a PhD candidate at the RTG ‘Ambivalent Enmity’, who presents some key insights from her project on anti-Roma racism in Yugoslavia from the interwar era to the Nazi occupation. During her discussion with Dr Fabian Baumann, Simon outlines the challenges of recovering Roma voices from the archives, while also tracing some of the ambivalences within racist discourse surrounding ‘gypsies’. Why did Gypsylorists and gendarmes portray Roma as both ‘primitive’ and a well-organised threat? How did race and class feature in the negative stereotyping of Roma? How did their fate differ in wartime Croatia, Serbia, and Bosnia? Tune in to find out.
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