Episode 05

 
What does it mean to be a woman of Turkish nationality working in academia in the US and Europe? Listen to Ezgi share her struggles of being a female academic of Turkish national in a context where race, class and gender play an important role in sh…

What does it mean to be a woman of Turkish nationality working in academia in the US and Europe? Listen to Ezgi share her struggles of being a female academic of Turkish national in a context where race, class and gender play an important role in shaping one’s experiences.


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Recommended sources:

On racism in Turkey

Bulent Gokay, “Race and racism in modern Turkey,” Open Democracy, November 5, 2014. [an overview]

DW News, Afro-Turks on the legacy of the Ottoman Empire’s slave trade, 2019. [on Afro-Turks - video]

Ozge Ozduzen, Umut Korkut, and Cansu Ozduzen, “‘Refugees are not welcome’: Digital racism, online place-making and the evolving categorization of Syrians in Turkey,” New Media & Society, September 10, 2020. [an academic article]

On racism in Turkey (specifically against Kurds)

“Kurds,” World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples, June 2018. [a brief overview - information on other minorities & indigenous peoples in Turkey can also be found here]

“The Kurds’ quest for independence: 1920-2019,” Council on Foreign Relations, n.d. [a timeline - including but not limited to Turkey]

Pelin Unker, “Kurds in Turkey increasingly subject to violent hate crimes,” DW, October 22, 2019. [current situation in Turkey]

Hugh Pope, “Pride, prejudice and the case of Kurdish ethnicity in Turkey,” International Crisis Group, Feb 25, 2014. [an analysis on recent books about Kurds]

On racism against Turks in Europe

Gülay Türkmen, “‘But you don’t look Turkish!’: The changing face of Turkish immigration to Germany,” Reset Dialogues on Civilizations, May 27, 2019.

Christoph Ramm, “THE MUSLIM MAKERS: How Germany ‘islamizes’ Turkish immigrants,” Interventions 12, no.2 (July 2010):183-97. [an academic article]

Katharina Hametner, “From retreating to resisting: How Austrian-Turkish women deal with experiences of racism,” Migration Letters 11, no.3 (September 14, 2014):288-99. [an academic article]

On women of colour & tokenism

Scott Jaschik, “Inclusivity or tokenism?,” Inside Higher Ed, May 10, 2007.

Ruchika Tulshyan and Jodi-Ann Burey, “Stop telling women they have imposter syndrome,” Harvard Business Review, February 11, 2021.

 
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