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Money Religion and Symbolic Exchange in Winter Sleep
(Berghahn Journals, 2017)
Winter Sleep is the latest film from Nuri Bilge Ceylan a Turkish director and screenwriter who has received international acclaim. For the purpose of social and cultural analysis this article critically focuses on the ...
‘I am here’: women workers’ experiences at the former Cibali Tekel Tobacco and Cigarette Factory in Istanbul
(Routledge, 2017)
This study presents oral history research which investigated the experiences of surviving women workers from the former Cibali Tekel Tobacco and Cigarette Factory in Istanbul Turkey. For most of its history the factory was ...
The stage: a space for queer subjectification in contemporary Turkey
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2012)
This article focuses on the role of the stage in complex modes of gender performativity in the work of three Turkish performers: Zeki Muren (1931-1996) Bulent Ersoy (b. 1952) and Seyfi Dursunoglu (b. 1932) a.k.a. Huysuz ...
BİR ANA MENDİETA VARMIŞ, BİR ANA MENDİETA YOKMUŞ
(Ege Üniversitesi, Edebiyat Fakültesi, 2018)
8 Eylül 1985’te New York’taki Soho polis departmanı bir acil durum çağrısı aldı.
Ünlü minimalist sanatçı Carl Andre, karısı Ana’nın, yaşadıkları apartmanın 34’üncü kat
penceresinden düştüğünü söyleyerek yardım istiyordu. ...
“The Public Immoralist”: Discourses of Queer Subjectification in Contemporary Turkey
(University of Southern California, 2020)
This study examines the forms of queer subjectification that have been molded through regular acts of gender- and sexuality-based violence against LGBTQ+ citizens as encouraged by the dominant religious and secular discourses ...
Versions of Minor Literature: Two Contemporary Cases from
(İmge Kitabevi Yayınları, 2016)
The concept of “collective enunciation,” which Deleuze and Guattari propose in
delineating their idea of minor literature/cinema, remains regrettably underdeveloped for
the purpose of exploring the political investment ...
Theatre and Solidarity among the Transnational Alevi Community: Memory, trauma and political economy
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023-05-12)
The Alevi religious minority makes up the largest religious minority in Turkey, and their history of persecution dates back before the Republic of Turkey. The inception of the Republic of Turkey as a secular nation-state ...
Hidden Archives, Closeted Desires, Postponed Utopias: Queer ultra-nationalism in Turkish opera
(2022-10-03)
How do queer intellectuals produce dramatic texts for utopian archival projects? How do (once) hidden theatre practices exist in a complicated relationship with the claims about covert or clandestine performances in the ...
Large-Scale Collaborative Research Projects in Theatre and Performance Studies: Resources, Politics, and Ethics in the Margins of Europe during the COVID-19 Pandemic
(The University of Kansas, Department of Theatre and Dance, 2021-09)
Staging National Abjection: Theatre and Politics in Turkey and Its Diasporas is a research
project funded by the European Research Council’s Starting Grants program. Building on
the initial insights of the project, the ...
Cinematic Visual Representation of Refugee Journeys in Turkey in the Context of Precarious Class Dynamics
(MIGRATION LETTERS, 2019-09-29)
In this article, I comparatively analyse the imagery of precarious class through the narration of refugee
journeys in Turkey for two different films, with an emphasis on the visuality of cinematic narration. Whilst
The ...