Commemorating World War II
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Özbek, Egemen. “Commemorating the Armenian Genocide: Spatial Politics of Memory in Post-Imperial Istanbul.” In Critical Approaches to Genocide: History, Politics and Aesthetics of 1915, edited by Hülya Adak, Fatma Müge Göçek, and Ronald Grigor Suny, 238–258. Routledge, 2023.
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Nations, as imagined communities, rely on their members’ sense of unity and belonging with people whom they do not know. Similarly, national memory is sustained by the sense that they have a shared past with these people as a result of belonging to the … more infoMertcan, Hakan, ed. Barış Akademisyenlerinden Hudut Dışı Öyküler. Ankara: NotaBene, 2019.
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KHK’lı akademisyenlerden yeni bir çalışma. Dünya genelinde sağ-popülist dalganın yükselişi, en son yüz yıl önce tanık olunan bir politik salgını andırıyor. Her yanda birbirine benzeyen politikacılar, aynı hamasetle, kopyacı dilleriyle hayatımıza yön veriyorlar. Her biri, kendi milletini sevdiğini söylüyor, başkalarını hor görüyor ve insan … more infoChavez, Chona R., Sayed Mahdi Mosawi, and Leah Wilfreda RE Piling. The Other Side of Gender Inequality: Men and Masculinities in Afghanistan. Kabul: Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2016.
Keywords: domestic violence, forced marriage, gender mainstreaming, harmful traditional practices
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Novelli, Mario, Birgül Kutan, Patrick Kane, Adnan Celik, Tejendra Pherali, and Saranel Benjamin. Laboratories of Learning: Social Movements, Education and Knowledge-Making in the Global South. London: Pluto Press, 2024.
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Laboratories of Learning proves, through exploring inspiring social movements around the world, that the education and knowledge-making happening inside these movements is crucial for the future of social justice for all. It asks three simple but profound questions: How do movements learn and make knowledge? … more infoMöser, Cornelia, Jennifer Ramme, and Judit Takács, eds. Paradoxical Right-Wing Sexual Politics in Europe. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
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How did far-right, hateful and anti-democratic ideologies become so successful in many societies in Europe? This volume analyses the paradoxical roles sexual politics have played in this process and reveals that the incoherence and untruthfulness in right-wing populist, ultraconservative and far-right rhetorics of fear … more infoBorsuk, İmren, Pınar Dinç, Sinem Kavak, and Pınar Sayan, eds. Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Resistance in Turkey: Construction, Consolidation, and Contestation. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
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This book offers new clarity on three important political concepts: authoritarianism, neoliberalism, and resistance. While debates on authoritarian resurgence have been limited to the examination of political factors (e.g., polarisation, conflict) until recently, the rising literature on ‘authoritarian neoliberalism’ highlights how the neoliberal restructuring … more infoYıldız, Pınar. Kayıp Hafızanın İzinde: Sinemada Geçmişle Yüzleşme, Yas ve İnkar. İstanbul: Metis, 2021.
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Son yirmi yıldır Türkiye sinemasında bastırılanın görünür hale geldiği, geçmişteki suçların ve normallik görüntüsünün ardında yatan dehşetin sarsıcı bir şekilde ortaya çıktığı hikâyeler dile getiriliyor. Bu araştırmayı teşvik eden de, geçmişi hatırlamakta kullandığımız ve bize her zaman bir masumiyet, mağduriyet ya da kahramanlık hikâyesinin … more infoSomay, Bülent. The End of Truth: Five Essays on the Demise of Neoliberalism. London: Transnational Press London, 2021.
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