Leyla neyzi biography of michael

  • Current Interests: Oral history, memory studies, European and Middle Eastern ethnography, nationalism and minorities, youth and childhood, subjectivity.
  • This paper thus follows the work of Leyla Neyzi, whose use of oral history has uncovered hitherto unknown aspects of the lives of minorities in modern Turkey.
  • Itself a relatively new interdisciplinary field, oral history and memory studies is a fledgling research area in Turkey.

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    Book Review: "Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey" by Leyla Neyzi

    Book review Ilana Feldman, Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics (2018) Gren, Nina Published in: Conflict and Society 2020 Link to publication Citation for published version (APA): Gren, N. (2020). Book review Ilana Feldman, Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics (2018). Conflict and Society , 2020(6), 260-262. General rights Unless other specific re-use rights are stated the following general rights apply: Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of priv

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    Leyla Neyzi, Professor Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabancı University Orta Mahalle, Universite Caddesi No:27, Tuzla 34956 Istanbul Tel: (90) 216 483 92 43 or (90) 533 540 60 90 neyzi@sabanciuniv.edu http://myweb.sabanciuniv.edu/neyzi/ Education Ph.D. Development Sociology Cornell University, August 1991 M.A. Cultural Anthropology City University of New York, Graduate Center (CUNY), May 1986 B.A. Cultural Anthropology Stanford University, May l982 Current Interests Oral history, memory studies, European and Middle Eastern ethnography, nationalism and minorities, youth and childhood, subjectivity Work Experience Professor Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Cultural Studies Program, Sabancı University June 1998- present Director, Oral History Project Economic and Social History Foundation, Istanbul, 1995-1996 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, 1992-1994 Publications Articles “Remembering Smyrna/Izmir: Shared History, Shared Trauma.” Hi

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    Abstract

    Despite the recent surge in publications on African slavery and Africans and in the late Ottoman Empire, little is known about their descendants, many of whom are concentrated in Izmir and along Turkey’s Aegean coast. In this paper I aim to examine the recent developments in the history of these Turkish citizens of African descent (hitherto Afro-Turks) which began following the publication of a family history by an Afro-Turk in 2005. Thus an examination of the motivations behind the promotion of Afro-Turk identity bygd the Turkish government, the Turkish historical society, and the media since its publication will be in order. inom will argue that this unprecedented attention given to Afro-Turks fryst vatten linked to the desire of the Turkish government to present Turkish kultur as being open, progressive, and respektfull toward its minorities. Whether the impetus behind this promotion fryst vatten related to admission to the europeisk Union or to domestic concerns, it is not clear. However, it