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Imaginaries Out of Place
\"As new geographies of mobility and hybridity make the concept of national identity highly problematic, new questions emerge that challenge and destabilize our conventional ways of thinking. Where do migrants belong? Are they members of a distant nation, or natives of the places in which they live? What kind of changes does the sense of Turkishness undergo, and what does it mean to various Turkish communities living in various parts of the world? Most important of all, can emergent migran.
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Transnational feminism in film and media
This collection of interdisciplinary essays examines current cinematic and media landscapes from the perspective of transnational feminist practices and methodologies. Focusing on film, media art, and video essays, the contributors chart innovative strategies for exploring contemporary visual cultures.
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KURDISH CINEMA AS A TRANSNATIONAL DISCOURSE GENRE: CINEMATIC VISIBILITY, CULTURAL RESILIENCE, AND POLITICAL AGENCY
Within the last few years, “Kurdish cinema” has emerged as a unique discursive subject in Turkey. Subsequent to and in line with efforts to unify Kurdish cultural production in diaspora, Kurdish intellectuals have endeavored to define and frame the substance of Kurdish cinema as an orienting framework for the production and reception of films by and about Kurds. In this article, my argument is threefold. First, Kurdish cinema has emerged as a national cinema in transnational space. Second, like all media texts, Kurdish films are nationalized in discourse. Third, the communicative strategies used to nationalize Kurdish cinema must be viewed both in the context of the historical forces of Turkish nationalism and against a backdrop of contemporary politics in Turkey, specifically the Turkish government's discourses and policies related to the Kurds. The empirical data for this article derive from ethnographic research in Turkey and Europe conducted between 2009 and 2012.
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Making transnational publics: Circuits of censorship and technologies of publicity in Kurdish media circulation
Kurdish media producers who interweave social and political agendas with their filmmaking are often marginalized within Turkish media worlds. Impeded by national censorship, these filmmakers move between national and transnational media worlds to advance their cinematic work. Such movement helps them create and maintain transnational publics that reinforce circulation of their media texts. Here I analyze how a documentary film about a seminomadic Kurdish community moves through international screening venues. As it journeys through film festivals in Europe, its director, Kazim Öz, accompanies it and, through deliberate discourse, attempts to increase and accelerate the film's transnational circulation. I explore the ways that Öz discursively globalizes his film, relates it to festival audiences, flags the politics of Kurdish media production, and seeks to construct a European public sensitive to the plight of Turkey's Kurds.
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The exorcist in Istanbul: Processes of transcultural appropriation within Turkish popular cinema
Rather than the manufactured clash of civilisations, we need to concentrate on the slow working together of cultures that overlap, borrow from each other and live together in far more interesting ways than any abridged or inauthentic mode of understanding can allow. (Said 2003: xxii).
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Media, performance, and transpolitics: Kurdish culture production in Turkey
This dissertation studies the Kurdish identity movement in Turkey which has transformed from a secessionist armed struggle to a transnational culture movement since the late nineties. Kurdish activists now utilize media and performance events as platforms for imagining, solidifying, and contesting Kurdish national identity and creating transnational publics that attend the Kurdish issue in Turkey. I explore, particularly, the production aspect of media and performance events, such as documentary films, from the initial phases of brainstorming and fundraising to circulation and exhibition as a lens on the dynamics of culture-making within a context of larger national and transnational structures, such as the Turkish state's new policies about the Kurds and Turkey's European Union accession. I pose two major research questions: How is a historically sub-national identity movement that operated, in part, through violence reconstituting itself as a transnational culture movement? And how are media and performance events emerging as critical vehicles for the reconstitution of Kurdishness in this new context?
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