The City is Ours: Spaces of Political Mobilization and Imaginaries of Nationhood in Turkey - a discussion with author Muna Güvenç
Event description
- Academic events
Book Series | “Mass Violence, Displacement and Resiliency: Perspectives on Human Geography of Eastern Anatolia, Iran, and North Caucasus”
The City is Ours: Spaces of Political Mobilization and Imaginaries of Nationhood in Turkey
"Accounts how urban politics mediated the rise of Kurdish nationhood and mobilization in Diyarbakır, Turkey. Muna Güvenç elucidates how urban and architectural forms are not merely the backdrop of the cityscape where political struggles unfold; they constitute the very essence of these conflicts. Güvenç posits that urban spaces offer 'wiggle room', turning oppression into chances for dissent and resilience and offering opportunities for vulnerable minority groups to create sociopolitical blocs and mobilizations."
Based on extensive fieldwork, spatial analysis, and on-site interviews in Diyarbakır, The City is Ours effectively demonstrates how architecture and urban planning are deployed in the city, as much as a strategy for empowerment as for control.--Sibel Bozdoğan, Boston University
Muna Güvenç is an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Department of Fine Arts, Brandeis University. Her research interest encompasses social movements, minority politics, urbanism, and architecture in the Middle East and beyond. Her work resides at the crossroads of contemporary social theory and the politics of urban space.
Discussion moderator: Serap Erincin, Assistant Professor, ASU Hugh Downs School of Human Communication
This event is co-sponsored by the:
* ASU School of Politics and Global Studies and the
* ASU Melikian Center: Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies
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Photo: by DHA of Diyarbakır Human Rights Monument