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Papers by Ahmet Zeki Bulunç
Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, 2021
As its title indicates, Patricia Hill Collins' Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory interv... more As its title indicates, Patricia Hill Collins' Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory intervenes into significant conversations about intersectionality as a theoretical framework for looking at social problems in the global west. The term 'critical' in the title could take the reader on two different interpretive paths. On one hand, it announces that intersectionality is part of the field of noteworthy contemporary social theory. On the other hand, it signals intersectionality's belonging with strands of social theorising which have had co-constitutive genealogies with social movements, thus mutually shaping each other's analytical terms and political agendas. Collins' scholarship has been crucial to the study of oppression as an interlocking system of power relations, which she termed the 'matrix of domination' in her seminal 1990 work Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment. Throughout her work, she has consistently foregrounded the relevance of knowledge production in the study of social issues, calling attention to differential lines of access to epistemic privilege, particularly with regard to black women's knowledge, experiences, and politics. Intersectional modalities of social analysis are rooted in the work of civil rights activists such as Sojourner Truth and Ida B. Wells, and later on to black lesbian feminists like Audre Lorde, Barbara Smith, and the Combahee River Collective. By asking how, when, and toward what ends categories of gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, age, nation, and citizenship are deployed, intersectional analyses unearth complex structures of social, economic, and political inequality and power which shape experiences of multiple, interdependent, and simultaneous oppression. Collins' volume is an analytical tour de force of remarkable depth which astutely demonstrates that intersectionality must remain connected to resistive knowledge production projects and social justice movements. In arguing for intersectionality's place within the field of critical social theories, Collins engages with vast and varied sources in an effort to map and elucidate its critical theoretical possibilities, objectives, modes of analysis, and context-specific practices. Her theoretical work and secondary analysis reach across social theories and sociopolitical practices, and in doing so, she foregrounds important dialogues that are crucial to theorising through social action, and most importantly, to bringing about social change. The analytical category of intersectionality was coined by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989 to account theoretically and methodologically for violence experienced by women of colour and migrant women at the confluence of USA race and gender regimes. It soon crossed the disciplinary boundaries of legal studies into all the disciplines and inter-disciplinary areas clustered into the larger field of social studies. Over the course of the past three decades, intersectional analysis has become the preferred framework of inquiry into inequalities structured by race, class, and gender violence. Its influence is also evidenced by the expansion of its geographical Lovin / Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory
Gazi Akademik Bakış, 2007
The Cyprus conflict and its stages have reached today gaining an international dimension by Greec... more The Cyprus conflict and its stages have reached today gaining an international dimension by Greece’s application to the UN in 1954 in order to give the “People of Cyprus” a self determination right. The basis of this conflict is the ENOSIS struggle of Greece and the Greek Cypriots. Turkey’s stance against this policy has been to provide the Cypriots political equality and sovereignty in safety and peace, prevent the Island from being used against Turkey and to maintain the Greek –Turkish balance. There have been ruptures in the Cyprus policy after to the introduction of the Annan Plan and the EU focused initiative driven new policy that the new Turkish government has been pursuing since. One specific breaking point has been the acceptance of the Annan Plan by the Turkish government and its forcing the acceptance of the same plan in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). Furthermore, the Loizidou case decision of the European Court of Human Rights, EU Council’s Brussels deci...
Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, 2021
As its title indicates, Patricia Hill Collins' Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory interv... more As its title indicates, Patricia Hill Collins' Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory intervenes into significant conversations about intersectionality as a theoretical framework for looking at social problems in the global west. The term 'critical' in the title could take the reader on two different interpretive paths. On one hand, it announces that intersectionality is part of the field of noteworthy contemporary social theory. On the other hand, it signals intersectionality's belonging with strands of social theorising which have had co-constitutive genealogies with social movements, thus mutually shaping each other's analytical terms and political agendas. Collins' scholarship has been crucial to the study of oppression as an interlocking system of power relations, which she termed the 'matrix of domination' in her seminal 1990 work Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment. Throughout her work, she has consistently foregrounded the relevance of knowledge production in the study of social issues, calling attention to differential lines of access to epistemic privilege, particularly with regard to black women's knowledge, experiences, and politics. Intersectional modalities of social analysis are rooted in the work of civil rights activists such as Sojourner Truth and Ida B. Wells, and later on to black lesbian feminists like Audre Lorde, Barbara Smith, and the Combahee River Collective. By asking how, when, and toward what ends categories of gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, age, nation, and citizenship are deployed, intersectional analyses unearth complex structures of social, economic, and political inequality and power which shape experiences of multiple, interdependent, and simultaneous oppression. Collins' volume is an analytical tour de force of remarkable depth which astutely demonstrates that intersectionality must remain connected to resistive knowledge production projects and social justice movements. In arguing for intersectionality's place within the field of critical social theories, Collins engages with vast and varied sources in an effort to map and elucidate its critical theoretical possibilities, objectives, modes of analysis, and context-specific practices. Her theoretical work and secondary analysis reach across social theories and sociopolitical practices, and in doing so, she foregrounds important dialogues that are crucial to theorising through social action, and most importantly, to bringing about social change. The analytical category of intersectionality was coined by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989 to account theoretically and methodologically for violence experienced by women of colour and migrant women at the confluence of USA race and gender regimes. It soon crossed the disciplinary boundaries of legal studies into all the disciplines and inter-disciplinary areas clustered into the larger field of social studies. Over the course of the past three decades, intersectional analysis has become the preferred framework of inquiry into inequalities structured by race, class, and gender violence. Its influence is also evidenced by the expansion of its geographical Lovin / Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory
Gazi Akademik Bakış, 2007
The Cyprus conflict and its stages have reached today gaining an international dimension by Greec... more The Cyprus conflict and its stages have reached today gaining an international dimension by Greece’s application to the UN in 1954 in order to give the “People of Cyprus” a self determination right. The basis of this conflict is the ENOSIS struggle of Greece and the Greek Cypriots. Turkey’s stance against this policy has been to provide the Cypriots political equality and sovereignty in safety and peace, prevent the Island from being used against Turkey and to maintain the Greek –Turkish balance. There have been ruptures in the Cyprus policy after to the introduction of the Annan Plan and the EU focused initiative driven new policy that the new Turkish government has been pursuing since. One specific breaking point has been the acceptance of the Annan Plan by the Turkish government and its forcing the acceptance of the same plan in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). Furthermore, the Loizidou case decision of the European Court of Human Rights, EU Council’s Brussels deci...