Zümre Gizem Yılmaz | Ankara Sosyal Bilimler Üniversitesi / Social Sciences University of Ankara (original) (raw)
Book Chapters by Zümre Gizem Yılmaz
Ekodrama: Çevreci Tiyatro, Performans ve Sahne Ekolojileri., 2022
Posthuman Pathogenesis: Contagion in Literature, Arts, and Media, 2022
The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Medical-Environmental Humanities, 2022
Turkish Ecocriticism: From Neolithic to Contemporary Timescapes, 2020
Through the Working Class: Ecology and Society Investigated Through the Lens of Labour, 2018
This study aims to examine Mamak Garbage Area and the residents in that neighbourhood within ecop... more This study aims to examine Mamak Garbage Area and the residents in that neighbourhood within ecophobic discourse in terms of analysing why and how they have become the target of ecophobic psyche. Garbage areas in general constitute elemental bodies combining natural elements and human influences since these areas are human-made natural storage yards. Moreover, junkyards reflect the relationship between human and nonhuman encounters. However, when disastrous results are experienced, human beings simply blame nature itself for the wrongdoings of the human practices. Furthermore, ecophobia is also targeted towards the human bodies residing in the garbage areas and depending on garbage for their living. Moreover, similar to wild nature, those human bodies are also excluded from the civil order, contributing to the discursive deep clash between nature and culture.
İngiliz Edebiyatında Toplumsal Cinsiyet , 2017
Representations of Diasporic Identities in Britain , 2017
Innovative Representations of Sexualities in Studies in English, 2016
Commercial Space Exploration: Ethics, Policy and Governance , Aug 2015
History in Western Literature, 2014
Ekoeleştiri: Çevre ve Edebiyat, 2012
Conference Presentations by Zümre Gizem Yılmaz
Ekodrama: Çevreci Tiyatro, Performans ve Sahne Ekolojileri., 2022
Posthuman Pathogenesis: Contagion in Literature, Arts, and Media, 2022
The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Medical-Environmental Humanities, 2022
Turkish Ecocriticism: From Neolithic to Contemporary Timescapes, 2020
Through the Working Class: Ecology and Society Investigated Through the Lens of Labour, 2018
This study aims to examine Mamak Garbage Area and the residents in that neighbourhood within ecop... more This study aims to examine Mamak Garbage Area and the residents in that neighbourhood within ecophobic discourse in terms of analysing why and how they have become the target of ecophobic psyche. Garbage areas in general constitute elemental bodies combining natural elements and human influences since these areas are human-made natural storage yards. Moreover, junkyards reflect the relationship between human and nonhuman encounters. However, when disastrous results are experienced, human beings simply blame nature itself for the wrongdoings of the human practices. Furthermore, ecophobia is also targeted towards the human bodies residing in the garbage areas and depending on garbage for their living. Moreover, similar to wild nature, those human bodies are also excluded from the civil order, contributing to the discursive deep clash between nature and culture.
İngiliz Edebiyatında Toplumsal Cinsiyet , 2017
Representations of Diasporic Identities in Britain , 2017
Innovative Representations of Sexualities in Studies in English, 2016
Commercial Space Exploration: Ethics, Policy and Governance , Aug 2015
History in Western Literature, 2014
Ekoeleştiri: Çevre ve Edebiyat, 2012
Tiyatro Eleştirmenliği ve Dramaturji Bölümü Dergisi , 2023
Bu çalışmanın amacı, posthümanizm felsefesi ışığında robotik bedenlerin konumunu sorgulamak ve bu... more Bu çalışmanın amacı, posthümanizm felsefesi ışığında robotik bedenlerin konumunu sorgulamak ve bu bedenlerle ilişkisine göre insanların yeniden tanımına katkıda bulunmaktadır. Bunun yanı sıra, bu çalışmada hedeflenen bir diğer nokta artık hayatın pek çok alanında karşımıza çıkan robotların varlığını tiyatro sahnelerinde izleyip robotların sahne sanatlarındaki yerini de tartışmaktır. Dahası, tiyatro sahnelerinde ve konser salonlarında bir süredir karşımıza çıkan robotik bedenlerle karşı karşıya kalan ve bu bedenler vasıtasıyla insanlığın özüne ve süregelen konumuna ulaşan insanların insanlığını kaybetme korkusunun ve endişesinin nedenlerini de ortaya koymaktadır. Bu endişelerin kaynağının insan merkezli bakış açısıyla şekillenen felsefi akımlarla çizilmiş Üstün İnsan algısı olduğunu da gösteren bu çalışma, insanın aslında ne olduğunun robotlar da dâhil olmak üzere pek çok eyleyiciyle ilişkisine göre yeniden anlamlandırılması gerektiğinin altını çizmektedir.
NALANS , 2020
APA Citation: Yılmaz Karahan, Z. G. (2020). Lethal narratives and the breakdown of human/nonhuman... more APA Citation: Yılmaz Karahan, Z. G. (2020). Lethal narratives and the breakdown of human/nonhuman spheres: what viruses tell and what we imagine. Journal of Narrative and Language Studies, 8 (15), 236-243. Abstract Narratives on viruses have become an effective way as storied matter that forces us to redefine what human is with its nonhuman proximity and trans-corporeal bonds. Displaying how human beings are enmeshed in volatile planetary processes, narrative agency of the viruses ignites certain speculations for the redefinition of humanity. However, in lieu of comprehending the material stories carried by various viruses that changed the courses of various civilizations to large extents, humans imagine themselves fighting these viruses, as part of their existential meanings, through their intellect which they perceive their divine boon. This brings forth a vicious circle since it requires the segregation of human and nonhuman. Such scenarios as humanity triumphing against a lethal natural force and/or a virus attacking what is uniquely human in every sense just consolidates anthropocentrism, which is the core reason for these environmental catastrophes and imbalances out of which new viruses emerge. This ecophobic imagination, mainly resulting from the fear of losing precious agency against an unknown and unlimited natural force, can be tracked in different literary works. The main aim of this paper is, thus, to highlight the narrative agency of viruses within the theoretical framework of posthumanisms, and to further shed light on how we perceive viruses in some literary works.
Söylem Filoloji Dergisi , 2020
Anatolian village plays and pastoral tradition commonly celebrate the harmonious interactions bet... more Anatolian village plays and pastoral tradition commonly celebrate the harmonious interactions between people and the physical environments and display how such material interactions are warranted upon an anthropocentric desire for power and control over the natural world. Both relying on early rituals as their sources, these early ritualistic performances indicate the dependence of the social life on agricultural, material and meteorological events. This indication coordinates these works with popular celebrations of the co-evolution of the human and the nonhuman. By this way, these ritualistic plays also uncover a materialist undercurrent about the acknowledgement of Naturecultures in that cultural changes are based on natural formations, or vice versa, hence producing a reciprocal relational network. However, this acknowledgement celebrates natural events only for the benefit of the human realm, hinting at weak anthropocentrism. As we will see in these works, union with the environmental forces is important for the survival of the human species. This union is further necessary to avoid punishment from venomous natural beings. In this respect, these cultural performances help us see very different sets of relations with more-than-human habitats. Elaborating on this complicated representation within different sets of relations, this article will analyse traditional folk performances and pastoral tradition in terms of their representing Naturalcultural formations. Naturecultures DOĞAKÜLTÜRLERİ BÜYÜLEMEK: KÖY SEYİRLİK OYUNLARI VE PASTORAL GELENEK Öz Anadolu köy seyirlik oyunları ve pastoral gelenek ortak olarak hem insanlar ve fiziksel çevreler arasındaki birlikteliği kutlamakta hem de bu tarz maddesel ilişkilerin nasıl doğa üzerinde insan merkezli bir kontrol ve güç kurma isteğine bağlı olduğunu göstermektedir. Kaynak olarak daha önceki kırsal geleneklere dayanan her iki gelenek de sosyal hayatın tarımsal, maddesel ve meteorolojik olaylara bağlı olduğunu gösterir. Bu bağlılık, bu tip eserleri insan ve insan olmayanın birlikte evriminin popüler kutlamalarına dönüştürür. Bu şekilde, kültürel değişimler doğal oluşumlara, ya da tam tersi, bağlı olduğundan, dolayısıyla karşılıklı bir ilişki ağı oluşturduklarından, bu kırsal oyunlar aynı zamanda Doğakültürler için maddesel bir algı altyapısı da oluşturur.
Paradoxa Climate Fictions 31, 2019
Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları , 2020
Human beings frequently exhibit destructive behaviours toward the physical environments in most o... more Human beings frequently exhibit destructive behaviours toward the physical environments in most of their institutions, including art. Within this context, some performance arts display the abject situation as a result of the bizarre encounters with the feared and disgusted other. This encounter consecutively determines the relational payoff of human beings. Such display also preserves the so-called distinction between human and Nature as nonhuman is presented as a piece of art separated from the self. Moreover, the exhibition of the Other as a cultural product unwittingly underlines that human beings reveal Nature as the Other prompted for the Cultural gaze. This categorisation feeds on any nonchalance of human beings towards a potential environmental catastrophe created by the very categorisation between Nature and Culture. Within this framework, this study will focus on the nonchalance of humanity towards an unavoidable environmental catastrophe they created, which creates an anthropocentric dilemma. To exemplify this dilemma, this study will make use of examples from Mike Barlett's play entitled Earthquakes in London (2010).
Social Sciences Research Journal , 2020
This article delves into the anthropocentric dichotomy between mind and body, furthered in the En... more This article delves into the anthropocentric dichotomy between mind and body, furthered in the Enlightenment philosophies as an alleged divide between culture and nature. With a specific focus on the embodiment of nature and culture in Dracula, it elaborates on the posthumanist portrayal of the tyrannical male. By formulating a deep contrast between the cultured white English society and natural instinctual non-white community, the novel also hints at colonial ideology. Within this framework, this article illustrates an analysis of Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) with a focal point on the illustration of the collapse of rational sciences and the existence of racial discrimination.
NALANS - Journal of Narrative and Language Studies, 2019
The zombie figure has recently been one of the most dominant monsters in the literature of the co... more The zombie figure has recently been one of the most dominant monsters in the literature of the contemporary century, especially in popular culture. In addition to hinting at the current advanced capitalist society, the zombie is also significant in uncovering certain layers about the human embodiment as well as in promoting the dominant anthropocentric discourse in Western philosophy. In its folkloric and colonial meaning in Haitian history, the zombie is enslaved by Voodoo priests for its manual power and sold as cheap slaves to land owners who, consequently, take advantagef the unconscious zombie. However, in today's perception, the zombie is a symbol for a dsytopic and apocalyptic future for human beings. The aim of this study is, thus, to investigate the zombie figure from its folkloric usage to the contemporary one as the zombie, at the present time, offers alternative modifications for the dystopic future of the humanity. In order to exemplify these modifications, as a comic parody of the classic tragedy, Hamlet, the Zombie Killer of Denmark (2010) by Chris Stiles will be compared to Hamlet (1600) by William Shakespeare.
English Studies , 2019
This article aims to analyse three early modern city comedies, which are to point to the intra-ac... more This article aims to analyse three early modern city comedies, which are to point to the intra-action between the human body and air. The analyses of these plays provide an insight into how air pollution and early phases of toxicity in the city shows the influence of the airy agency on human and nonhuman bodies. In this context, these three city comedies mention the difference between urban (polluted) and rural (fresh) air. The aim of this study is, thus, to trace the impacts of the airy agency in the early modern period on the human body, life, nature, and culture with references to the Ho trilogy.
ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment , 2019
Ecophobia is a complex assemblage of attitudes and behaviors of fear, hatred, and disgust toward ... more Ecophobia is a complex assemblage of attitudes and behaviors of fear, hatred, and disgust toward the natural environment and the nonhuman Others that make up that environment. Performance and other art betray that assemblage in many instances. Ranging from nonhuman animals to human bodily fluids such as vomit, excrement, blood, and urine, the nonhuman Other serves as this art's ecophobic fodder. Cases in point include the performance art of Millie Brown and Vinicius Quesada. The artists putatively explore raw and internal materials of the human body (vomit, blood, and urine) in order to question the dichotomy between the cultured human that produces art and the natured human that produces waste. In doing that, the artists reproduce, either unwittingly or disingenuously, ecophobia. The artwork of Fabian Peña, Chris Trueman, and Rick Gibson epitomize ecophobia through the killing and dismemberment of the nonhuman Other. Provoking fear, hatred, and disgust, the artwork both ecophobically contains and parades the nonhuman Other in the form of artistic and decorative matter. Such exhibition of the abject nonhuman Other identifies in particular with the ecophobic desire to demolish any possible opportunity of becoming or joining with that Other. Contemplated as the source of aesthetic pleasure, the objects-the nonhuman Other-of the art serve to idealize human intellectual and artistic victory over the nonhuman Other (such as nonhuman animals or even of the internal metabolisms of the human body). This use of the nonhuman Other perhaps is intended to be a critique of ontological and epistemological divisions between the human and the nonhuman ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in
SEDERI, 2018
Although the elements have been exploited for human ends in early modern discursive practices, th... more Although the elements have been exploited for human ends in early modern discursive practices, they have so saturated social and cultural life that writers of the period could not avoid mentioning elemental formations. Marlowe's Tamburlaine, Part I and Part II (1587) and Doctor Faustus (1592) are significant representatives of early modern English drama that highlight the interrelationships between the human body and the elements. This study examines elemental agency, to show how the agential capacity of the four classical elements unveils ecophobic treatment; and how the ecophobic strain in the human psyche is reflected in Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine and Doctor Faustus.
Şarkî Edebiyat ve Sanat Dergisi Hayvan Çalışmaları Özel Sayısı , 2018
Şarkî Ekoeleştiri Özel Sayısı , 2017
Although the elements have been exploited for human ends in early modern discursive practices, th... more Although the elements have been exploited for human ends in early modern discursive practices, they have so saturated social and cultural life that writers of the period could not avoid mentioning elemental formations. Marlowe's Tamburlaine, Part I and Part II (1587) and Doctor Faustus (1592) are significant representatives of early modern English drama that highlight the interrelationships between the human body and the elements. This study examines elemental agency, to show how the agential capacity of the four classical elements unveils ecophobic treatment; and how the ecophobic strain in the human psyche is reflected in Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine and Doctor Faustus.
Configurations, Aug 31, 2023
Routledge eBooks, Apr 29, 2022
DergiPark (Istanbul University), Mar 15, 2020
Bu makale kultur ve doga arasinda var oldugu dusunulen ayrim olarak Aydinlanma felsefelerinde onu... more Bu makale kultur ve doga arasinda var oldugu dusunulen ayrim olarak Aydinlanma felsefelerinde onumuze cikan insan merkezli akil ve beden ikilemini incelemektedir. Dracula’daki doga ve kultur somutlasmasina odaklanarak, zalim erkek imajinin posthumanist cizilmesi uzerine odaklanmaktadir. Roman kulturlu beyaz Ingiliz toplumu ve dogal icgudusel beyaz olmayan bir toplum arasindaki derin zitligi ortaya koyarak ayni zamanda somurgecilik anlayisini da ele alir. Bu baglamda, bu makale akilci bilimin cokusu ve irkcilik incelemeleri odaginda Bram Stoker’in Dracula (1897) adli eserini inceleyecektir.
Dil ve edebiyat araştırmaları dergisi, Mar 20, 2020
Human beings frequently exhibit destructive behaviours toward the physical environments in most o... more Human beings frequently exhibit destructive behaviours toward the physical environments in most of their institutions, including art. Within this context, some performance arts display the abject situation as a result of the bizarre encounters with the feared and disgusted other. This encounter consecutively determines the relational payoff of human beings. Such display also preserves the so-called distinction between human and Nature as nonhuman is presented as a piece of art separated from the self. Moreover, the exhibition of the Other as a cultural product unwittingly underlines that human beings reveal Nature as the Other prompted for the Cultural gaze. This categorisation feeds on any nonchalance of human beings towards a potential environmental catastrophe created by the very categorisation between Nature and Culture. Within this framework, this study will focus on the nonchalance of humanity towards an unavoidable environmental catastrophe they created, which creates an anthropocentric dilemma. To exemplify this dilemma, this study will make use of examples from Mike Barlett's play entitled Earthquakes in London (2010).
Tiyatro Eleştirmenliği ve Dramaturji Bölümü Dergisi / Journal of Theatre Criticism and Dramaturgy
The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Medical-Environmental Humanities
Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities, Cappadocia University
Engaging with the intersection of the self and the environment in the wide array of well-chosen p... more Engaging with the intersection of the self and the environment in the wide array of well-chosen performances it analyses, Petra Kuppers’ Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters substantiallyinvites a rethinking of material enmeshmentsembodied in the self that is marked by various agencies—be they geographical, historical, or cultural. Her argument insists on paying attention to performances not as generically embodied and somatic experiences but as tied to specific concerns and struggles. This is where we recognize our true selves embodied in eco somatic relationality. Eco somais a threshold between inclusion andexclusion. This is how new sensations and new formations emerge with shifting time while witnessing and participating at the same time. The founding recognition of minoritized communities in somatic and eco somatic performancesopens a spacefor various works relating minorities to environmental justice.
Journal of Narrative and Language Studies, 2020
Hacettepe Üniversitesi Yayınları eBooks, 2017
The word “diaspora” is derived from the Greek words diaspeirō, meaning “I disperse”, “I scatter,”... more The word “diaspora” is derived from the Greek words diaspeirō, meaning “I disperse”, “I scatter,” and diaspore meaning “dispersion” (“diaspeirō,” “diaspore”). Hence, diaspora refers to a scattered population and their descendants sharing a history, language and culture, living dispersed and outside of their original geographical locales, that is their ancestral lands. Such displacement of mass numbers of people is at times of a voluntary and at times of an involuntary nature, and encompasses a variety of reasons which can be grouped as natural, colonial, slave trade, indentured labour, political, religious and economic, although some of the headings can obviously overlap
Hacettepe Üniversitesi Yayınları eBooks, 2016
This book comprises the papers presented by graduate students at the conference entitled “Innovat... more This book comprises the papers presented by graduate students at the conference entitled “Innovative Representations of ‘Sexualities’ in Studies in English” organised by the Centre for British Literary and Cultural Studies, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey, on 11 March 2015. These papers were not only reviewed by referees but were further revised extensively and edited by myself. The objective in the organisation of the first graduate conference held by the Centre and the publication of the papers presented at the conference was to provide graduate students with an academic platform to present their current research and discuss their ideas with their peers and professors. The papers published in the book deal with different aspects of sexuality in literature and non-literary media. The papers provide readings of sexuality, which is a complex and multidisciplinary topic, not just through poetry, fiction and drama but also as represented in feature films, animations and TV series because of the dominance of visual culture in today’s societies. Drawing on relevant theoretical material, mainly feminist and queer theories, these papers explore and question how sexuality is represented in a variety of mediums and how it functions. In addition, the ways in which sexuality is conceptualised and constructed is interrogated mostly with the intention of deconstructing essentialist notions of sexuality and identity formation. In this postmodernist era in which sexual and gender identities are no longer limited to two binary sexes, the papers invite the readers to reconsider their understanding of sexuality. Along with non-binary understandings of both sex (male, female, or intersex) and gender (man, woman, transgender, third gender and so forth) even non-human sexualities are taken into consideration. Furthermore, how sexualities are linked to hegemonic categories of identity, such as nationality, race, class and gender is discussed
Commercial Space Exploration, 2016
SÖYLEM Filoloji Dergisi, 2020
Anatolian village plays and pastoral tradition commonly celebrate the harmonious interactions bet... more Anatolian village plays and pastoral tradition commonly celebrate the harmonious interactions between people and the physical environments and display how such material interactions are warranted upon an anthropocentric desire for power and control over the natural world. Both relying on early rituals as their sources, these early ritualistic performances indicate the dependence of the social life on agricultural, material and meteorological events. This indication coordinates these works with popular celebrations of the co-evolution of the human and the nonhuman. By this way, these ritualistic plays also uncover a materialist undercurrent about the acknowledgement of Naturecultures in that cultural changes are based on natural formations, or vice versa, hence producing a reciprocal relational network. However, this acknowledgement celebrates natural events only for the benefit of the human realm, hinting at weak anthropocentrism. As we will see in these works, union with the environmental forces is important for the survival of the human species. This union is further necessary to avoid punishment from venomous natural beings. In this respect, these cultural performances help us see very different sets of relations with more-than-human habitats. Elaborating on this complicated representation within different sets of relations, this article will analyse traditional folk performances and pastoral tradition in terms of their representing Naturalcultural formations.
NALANS: Journal of Narrative and Language Studies, 2020
APA Citation: Yılmaz Karahan, Z. G. (2020). Lethal narratives and the breakdown of human/nonhuman... more APA Citation: Yılmaz Karahan, Z. G. (2020). Lethal narratives and the breakdown of human/nonhuman spheres: what viruses tell and what we imagine. Journal of Narrative and Language Studies, 8 (15), 236-243. Abstract Narratives on viruses have become an effective way as storied matter that forces us to redefine what human is with its nonhuman proximity and trans-corporeal bonds. Displaying how human beings are enmeshed in volatile planetary processes, narrative agency of the viruses ignites certain speculations for the redefinition of humanity. However, in lieu of comprehending the material stories carried by various viruses that changed the courses of various civilizations to large extents, humans imagine themselves fighting these viruses, as part of their existential meanings, through their intellect which they perceive their divine boon. This brings forth a vicious circle since it requires the segregation of human and nonhuman. Such scenarios as humanity triumphing against a lethal natural force and/or a virus attacking what is uniquely human in every sense just consolidates anthropocentrism, which is the core reason for these environmental catastrophes and imbalances out of which new viruses emerge. This ecophobic imagination, mainly resulting from the fear of losing precious agency against an unknown and unlimited natural force, can be tracked in different literary works. The main aim of this paper is, thus, to highlight the narrative agency of viruses within the theoretical framework of posthumanisms, and to further shed light on how we perceive viruses in some literary works.
Journal of Narrative and Language Studies, Dec 30, 2019
The zombie figure has recently been one of the most dominant monsters in the literature of the co... more The zombie figure has recently been one of the most dominant monsters in the literature of the contemporary century, especially in popular culture. In addition to hinting at the current advanced capitalist society, the zombie is also significant in uncovering certain layers about the human embodiment as well as in promoting the dominant anthropocentric discourse in Western philosophy. In its folkloric and colonial meaning in Haitian history, the zombie is enslaved by Voodoo priests for its manual power and sold as cheap slaves to land owners who, consequently, take advantagef the unconscious zombie. However, in today's perception, the zombie is a symbol for a dsytopic and apocalyptic future for human beings. The aim of this study is, thus, to investigate the zombie figure from its folkloric usage to the contemporary one as the zombie, at the present time, offers alternative modifications for the dystopic future of the humanity. In order to exemplify these modifications, as a comic parody of the classic tragedy, Hamlet, the Zombie Killer of Denmark (2010) by Chris Stiles will be compared to Hamlet (1600) by William Shakespeare.
Journal of Narrative and Language Studies, 2020
Hacettepe Üniversitesi Yayınları eBooks, 2017
Bu kitabın oluşmasında özveriyle ve titizlikle çalışan katılımcı genç akademisyen arkadaşlara, ba... more Bu kitabın oluşmasında özveriyle ve titizlikle çalışan katılımcı genç akademisyen arkadaşlara, baskıya hazırlayan Hacettepe Üniversitesi Basımevine ve kitabın yayımlanmasına izin ve destek veren Hacettepe Üniversitesi Rektörlüğüne teşekkürlerimizi sunarız
ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 2019
Ecocene: Capadoccia Journal of Environmental Humanities , 2022
, specializing in ecophobia, environmental humanities, new materialisms, ancient philosophy (old ... more , specializing in ecophobia, environmental humanities, new materialisms, ancient philosophy (old materialisms), elemental ecocriticism, early modern English drama and monster studies. She obtained her PhD degree in 2018 at Hacettepe University in the Department of English Language and Literature. Her recent publications include a co-authored book chapter with Simon C. Estok entitled "The Ecophobia/Biophilia Spectrum in Turkish Theatre: Anatolian Village Plays and (Karagöz-Hacivat) Shadow Plays" in Turkish Ecocriticism: From Neolithic to Contemporary Times (edited by Serpil Oppermann and Sinan Akıllı, Lexington Books, 2020).
