Disruption

Author Biographies

• Farouk El Maarouf, GCSC

  Farouk El Maarouf is a cultural studies scholar and Ph.D. candidate at the International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Justus Liebig University Giessen, with an affiliation to Ibn Tofail University, Kénitra. His ethnographic work examines vernacular art communities, alternative economies, and cultural practices in contemporary Morocco. Research interests span postdigital media, precarious and marginal communities, youth activism, decolonial theory, and migration studies. He is a former MECAM fellow and is currently developing a postdoctoral project on migration, hope, and digital mobilization in Morocco. This project explores how platformed publics, rumor, and aspiration reshape belonging, value, and imagination.

• Anastasiia Marsheva, GCSC

  Anastasiia Marsheva studied Linguistics at Kazan Federal University (Russia) and East-West Studies at the University of Regensburg. Since October 2022, she has been a doctoral candidate at the International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at Justus Liebig University Giessen. In her dissertation, she deals with pan-ethnic identities of people with a migration background from ‘Central,’ ‘Eastern’ and ‘Southeastern Europe’ (such as Post-Ost).

• Justus Grebe, GCSC

  Justus Grebe is a historian and doctoral student at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at Justus Liebig University Giessen. His PhD project explores the time cultures of youths in 1980s West Germany, focusing on the temporal practices and modes of thinking of the Young Liberals, the Free Democratic Party’s youth wing. His research interests include the history of time, the role of young people in political parties, and the study of subcultures, particularly punk.