[Reader-list] CFP: EASA panel "Is after the Crisis before the Crisis? New Perspectives on Art, Media and Politics in Turkey"

[Britta Ohm]

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11th Biennial Meeting of the European Association of Social  
Anthropologists

EASA2010: Crisis and imagination Maynooth, Ireland, 24/08/2010 –  
27/08/2010

http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2010/index.htm

CFP FOR WORKSHOP W043

"Is after the Crisis before the Crisis? New perspectives on art, media  
and politics in Turkey"

Convenors:

Britta Ohm (University of Bern); Email: britta.ohm at anthro.unibe.ch; ohm at zedat.fu-berlin.de

Barbara Wolbert (University of Minnesota); Email: wolbert at umn.edu


Short Abstract
The panel seeks to evaluate the conjuncture of neo-liberalism, pro- 
Islamic and pro-EU politics in Turkey in context of the art and media  
scene, taking up questions regarding the relationship between  
censorship and neo-liberalism and the concoctions of Islamisation and  
commercialisation.

Long Abstract
Crisis' and 'Transformation' are terms that have been used to  
characterise the economic and political situation in Turkey for a long  
time. They are embedded in and expressive of Turkey's historical  
constellation of a structural cleavage between a militarily secured  
secularism and capitalism and a multi-party system that allows for  
(and conditions) democratising and welfare-oriented impulses through  
Islam and identity politics. With the incumbency of the AKP, the  
Justice and Development Party, a new conjuncture of neo-liberalism,  
pro-Islamic and pro-EU politics has evolved, which has given a boost  
to the art and media scene. "Istanbul 2010" celebrates the city as the  
European Capital of Culture, while Islamic TV channels and websites  
blossom and the public debate of the Kurdish issue and ethnic politics  
happens to a hitherto unimaginable degree. At the same time access to  
YouTube is banned, ratings govern television production, and a  
restricted popular image construction tends to dominate art and  
cultural representations. Questions thus arise for the contingencies  
and compulsions that channel art and media production in this context  
and for the chances of dissent, allowing for the transgression of new  
ideological barriers.

Against this background we invite papers that explore into the  
relationship between censorship and neo-liberalism, deal with social  
distinction, mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion, strategies of  
legitimisation, scopes and definitions of freedom of expression, as  
well as examine strategies of negotiation with 'official' ideas and  
the concoctions of Islamisation and commercialisation.

Paper proposals:

Length: 250-300 words

Deadline: March 1, 2010

http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2010/panels.php5?PanelID=622


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Dr. Britta Ohm

Institute of Social Anthropology
University of Bern
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