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Speakers from Turkey reflect on the predominant absence of ‘racism’ in political and theoretical framings of historical and ongoing forms of subordination in the country. They will discuss the historical context, the grounds for invoking racial logics as a frame of analysis, and the political stakes of doing so.
Our two speakers will pose conceptual questions around how to understand the subject of racism in Turkey.
They will briefly consider the forms, history, and entangled conditions of ongoing and historical racialisation processes against different populations. They will pay careful attention to defining what is at stake in these conceptions – including the stakes of invoking a racial logic, and the stakes for building an anti-racist strategy in the country. This will be rooted within the concrete realities of Turkey, while also situated within international trends of heightened racist mobilisation.
Meet our speakers and chair
Foti Benlisoy (@fotibenlisoy) is an Independent researcher and Co-founder of Istos publishing house. He has published books on the protests of Greece, Tunisia and Egypt and the Gezi movement – both in Turkish.
Özgür Sevgi Göral (@SevgiGoral) is an Associate Researcher at EHESS. Her research interests include anthropology of the state, political movements, memory studies, critical legal studies, political violence, feminist legal theory, and gender studies.
Helen Mackreath (@helenmackreath) is a Research Student in the Department of Sociology, LSE and writer. Her research interests include migration, critical race theory, urban studies and human rights.
Ayça Çubukçu (@ayca_cu) is Associate Professor in Human Rights and Co-Director of LSE Human Rights at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Before LSE, Dr Çubukçu was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, and taught for the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University and the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies at Harvard University. In 2020, she was appointed as a Senior Fellow of the Fung Global Fellows programme at Princeton University.
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