Docteure en sociologie de l'EHESS Chercheuse associée à l'IFEA (Insitut français d'études anatoliennes) - Istanbul et au CETOBAC (Centre d'études turques, ottomanes, balkaniques et centrasiatiques) - Paris
L’étude des mouvements sociaux dans les sciences sociales a pris un nouvel essor après les vagues... more L’étude des mouvements sociaux dans les sciences sociales a pris un nouvel essor après les vagues de contestations révolutionnaires et les mouvements Occupy de notre décennie. Cependant notre compréhension de l’action collective est limitée à nos catégories et concepts fondamentalement eurocentriques, puisque forgée dans les cadres des États-nations modernes au Nord, particulièrement pendant la transition de la société industrielle vers l’ère post-industrielle, qu’il s’agisse des paradigmes canoniques de la mobilisation des ressources ou des nouveaux mouvements sociaux ainsi que leurs multiples avatars actuels. Pourtant, les mouvements les plus importants de notre époque se développent plutôt au Sud en même temps qu’ils dialoguent fortement avec le Nord. Ils en appellent donc à une réflexion globale très attentive aux processus locaux de réinvention des pratiques militantes, des cadrages mémoriaux et des projections dans le futur dans les imaginaires des acteurs sociaux. Comment se fait-il que l’insurrection zapatiste trouve son écho à la Place Zuccoti de New York ou bien dans le Parc Gezi à Istanbul, comment se fait-il qu’un jeune révolutionnaire égyptien soit la source d’inspiration d’un jeune catalan indignado ? Qu’y a de commun dans les tracts des activistes grecs de la Place Syntagma à Athènes et le cri qui s’élève depuis Tahrir en Égypte jusqu’en Afrique du Sud ou au Brésil ? La dissémination des vagues d’indignation et de protestation relève d’une configuration globale complexe. Par conséquent, les jeux d’intertextualité et les réverbérations entre ces mouvements nous invitent à reformuler des débats, à reconsidérer nos perspectives et nos méthodes d’enquête. Donc, nous privilégions ici une approche depuis le Sud et par les chercheurs du Sud, certes en dialogue avec la théorie sociale et les paradigmes devenus classiques dans l’analyse de l’action collective. Mais nous souhaitons nous pencher davantage sur la singularité d’un nouveau regard scientifique sur le Sud depuis le Sud. Car, il est nécessaire de comprendre avec de nouveaux outils intellectuels les dynamiques de ces mouvements qui dessinent notre avenir commun, dans un monde troublé par les injustices et les inégalités dues tant au néolibéralisme, à la violence et aux guerres, qu’à leurs conséquences désastreuses telles que le changement climatique, la précarité, la pauvreté, la déstructuration urbaine ou les flux de migration contrainte. Avec la montée en puissance des contestations qui sont d’autant plus vives au Sud et qui s’articulent avec la résistance au Nord, les chercheurs en sciences sociales sont à l’épreuve de ces dynamiques nouvelles. Nous proposons dans ce numéro thématique, des études empiriques des mouvements observés en Amérique latine, en Afrique et en Amérique du Nord, en espérant que ces contributions puissent ouvrir un nouvel horizon théorique pour comprendre nos sociétés en mouvement.
What happened on 19 january 2007? The question has been posed over and over again in the nine yea... more What happened on 19 january 2007? The question has been posed over and over again in the nine years since the day when Hrant Dink was shot dead in Istanbul, in front of the offices of his Turkish-Armenian bilingual journal, Agos. Those gathering spontaneously after the assassination of Hrant Dink have been part of the Gezi movement — in a non-violent way, manifesting their desire to be the Subjects of their own lives.
Based on the results of a field study conducted during the summer following the wave of mobilizat... more Based on the results of a field study conducted during the summer following the wave of mobilizations in Gezi, this article analyzes the development and the social, cultural, and political meanings of this collective movement, which began in Turkey at the end of May 2013 and has been evolving during the summer. The first part of the article addresses the subject of these mobilizations that are opposed to the planning policy, implemented by the government in a process of neo-liberal economic development. The second part discusses the subjective engagement of the protesters and the meaning they give it, by considering alternatives not only to this policy but to the influence exerted on the individual and social life by the technostructures of the systemic forces. The third part analyzes, on the one hand, the methods of direct and online communication for organizing protests and, on the other, the creation of new living constructs, where protesters experiment with the alternatives to the dominations they contest. It is through protest, but also creative and performative actions, that the individuals try to become subjects of their own lives, against these dominations in which the Turkish dimension is part of a global systemic context.
Qu’y a-t-il de commun entre un ancien professeur de l’Université de Sao Paulo revenant sur son po... more Qu’y a-t-il de commun entre un ancien professeur de l’Université de Sao Paulo revenant sur son positionnement durant la dictature, un jeune employé de banque chilien dont l’action syndicale est influencée par sa conception du militantisme de la génération précédente, un couple français passant ses week-ends à reconstituer une bergerie mérovingienne et à en recréer les savoir-faire, ou encore des personnes âgées réunies sur une scène de théâtre pour raconter des fragments poignants de leur vie ?
À partir d'enquêtes qui offrent des observations de contexte socio-historique varié et des explorations par des méthodes ethnographiques aussi diverses que les entretiens, l’observation participante, l’analyse de matériaux comme le journal intime ou les séries télévisées, c’est avant tout le lien entre le rapport au passé et l’horizon d’action des acteurs sociaux qui est posé ici.
Les contributions de ce numéro, ont par ailleurs en commun une approche de la mémoire collective plus proche de la mémoire collectée. Les auteurs font le choix d'une analyse partant, en grande partie, de la subjectivité. La personne est par là placée au centre du dispositif d'étude de la société.
Enfin, on pourra relever que six des sept recherches développées prennent pied sur le continent américain : au Canada, aux États-Unis, au Mexique, en Colombie, au Brésil et au Chili.
This thematic issue of the review New Cultural Frontiers gathers innovative contributions about t... more This thematic issue of the review New Cultural Frontiers gathers innovative contributions about the concept of « memory », from a sociological and anthropological perspective. These articles have been elaborated for and after an international workshop of young researchers organized by the Centre d’Analyse et d’Intervention Sociologiques – EHESS (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) in Paris, in October 2011.
The notion of memory, understood in its collective meaning, has known an increasing and unprecedented popularity over the last 30 years in the public area, in the common uses and the media sphere, generally around political or legal issues. As the sociologist Marie-Claire Lavabre points out, this effervescence of questions related to collective memory has been affected mostly by concerns of History, which coincide with the publication of Lieux de mémoire written by Pierre Nora4. This important sum of publications, released between 1984 and 1994, explores the presence of history in the everyday sphere: whether it concerns street names, patrimonialized places or official commemorations on a nation’s agenda. Likewise, through his invitation to make « de l’histoire au second degré »5, he legitimizes the following question: what the present members of the society do retrospectively with the historical moment in order to make a history of the memory of the events? Simultaneously to Nora, the important place taken by oral history combined with the media coverage of the witnesses of the 20th century’s most dramatic moments, participate to this enthusiasm for the notion of memory, then used in expressions or injunctions, as well as a simple substantive (“devoir de mémoire”, “travail de mémoire”) with this tendency to designate with it institutional speeches, which compete with the historian’s one.
And yet, if we owe the entry of this notion in the social sciences half a century ago to a sociologist, Maurice Halbwachs, this resurgence of the memory in social sciences still lacks of the sociological anchoring that it disposed of before. In order to envisage a sociology of the memory to its full extent, it seems judicious, from the starting point, to carry out a shift concerning the content of the researches. Instead of seeing memory as an almost autonomous social fact and concentrating the researches on the memorial facts (politics of memory, areas of memory, memorial institutions), it should rather be considered as a dimension of wider social phenomena, with researches situated at the crossing between individuals’ memory or the shared social memory, and other fields of contemporary sociology. This tendency can be found and has been highlighted within the contributions of this issue.
Our aim is here to find a way out of this often reifying conception of memory as a discourse about the past, so as to widen it to the social practices, but also to contribute to fit more explicitly the research on memory into a sociology of action. First of all, this consists in suggesting works in which we can understand the place of individuals within the social configuration and the social phenomena in which they are part of.
Le mouvement Gezi participe de la production multi-située d'une culture globale d'activisme, en t... more Le mouvement Gezi participe de la production multi-située d'une culture globale d'activisme, en train de se faire. Il s'agit d'un ensemble de pratiques d'action, façonnées par des déclinaisons locales et individuelles en fonction du contexte et de la créativité déployée. Une telle culture d'activisme permet aux acteurs sociaux de dépasser la simple protestation des forces systémiques.
Questo volume rappresenta un secondo appuntamento editoria- le per la diffusione dei risultati di... more Questo volume rappresenta un secondo appuntamento editoria- le per la diffusione dei risultati di un’esperienza di interscambio formativo europeo sul tema delle Metodologie didattiche innovative per l’educazione delle donne adulte, che si pone in linea di conti- nuità con la prima pubblicazione, edita da L’Harmattan di Parigi nel 2011 con il titolo Université et formation tout au long de la vie. Un partenariat euroéen de mobilité sur les thèmes de l’éducation des adultes. Identico il partenariato universitario, composto dalle uni- versità di Foggia (sempre in funzione di capofila), di Barcellona e di Parigi XIII, tre poli universitari che hanno svolto e continuano ad avere una serie di collaborazioni interistituzionali molto proficue sul piano della ricerca e della sperimentazione didattica.
in : Koçak, Zeynep (ed.) 2017. Kitleleri yeniden düşünmek Hukuk, Şiddet ve Demokrasi, İstanbul: B... more in : Koçak, Zeynep (ed.) 2017. Kitleleri yeniden düşünmek Hukuk, Şiddet ve Demokrasi, İstanbul: Bilgi Üniversitesi Yay. 17-19 Haziran 2013 tarihleri arasında Bilgi Üniversitesi Santral Kampüsü'nde yapılan uluslar arası, "Kitleleri Yeniden Düşünmek: Hukuk, Şiddet, Demokrasi" başlıklı konferansın tebliğleri. Gün geçtikçe daha da büyüyen, çoğalan, farklı etnik yapılara ve sosyal sınıflara dağılan kitle şiddeti, artık hukuk sistemlerini ve adına demokrasi dediğimiz toplumsal örgütlenmeleri tekrar sorgulamamızı gerektirmektedir. Kitlenin hukukla, siyasetle, demokrasiyle ilişkisini ve etki alanını ortaya koymak, hem içinde bulunduğumuz veya bulunmak istediğimiz sistemleri hem de insan hakları kuramını tekrar değerlendirmek açısından önemlidir. Bir diğer yandan, kitlenin farklı siyasi düşünceler içindeki yerinin düşünülmesi bu yeni dünyada tekrar önem kazanmaktadır. Bu konferansın amacı, hem kitlenin şiddetle ve hukukla ilişkisini irdeleyip yeni bir demokrasi anlayışına temel oluşturabilecek bir çalışma yapmak hem de uluslararası forumlardaki tartışmaları Türkiye'deki tartışmalarla harmanlayıp tarihsel-antropolojik açıdan yeni bir düşünce zemini yaratmaktır.
This article has two main aims: to present, on the basis of empirical research, some of the char... more This article has two main aims: to present, on the basis of empirical research, some of the characteristics of the so called alterglobalist movement, and to develop reflect upon the Southern dimension of this movement. Although many transnational campaigns had developed in the 1990s, the explosion of protest in the recent years had not been anticipated by social movement studies, that tended to focus on more institutional forms of protest and on the national level. After having looked at how the different dimensions of globalization provided challenges but also opportunities for transnational mobilization, the authors singles out some open questions referring to the presence of a global social movement, discussing the cleavages existing inside the movement as well as its multilevel nature. Addressing the movement in the global South, relevant research issues are discussed-such as its different social bases, the multiple political opportunities, the complex structure of political cleavages.
Bu kitabın amaçlarından biri öncelikle bu aydın girişimlerine ait bilgileri toplamak, gözler önün... more Bu kitabın amaçlarından biri öncelikle bu aydın girişimlerine ait bilgileri toplamak, gözler önüne sermek, bu gerçeği sıklıkla göz ardı eden Avrupa kamuoyuna aktarmak ve özgürlüğünü savunmak için aydınlarının göze aldığı tehlikelerden çoğunlukla habersiz Türk kamuoyunu bilgilendirmektir. Bu girişimlerde ne Mustafa Kemal'in Cumhuriyet'inden miras otoriter bir devlet, ne de sivil toplumu ve barışı tehdit eden köktenci anlayışlardan ve milliyetçilikten beslenen yabancı düşmanı bir muhafazakarlık değil, yepyeni bir siyaset ufku yaratmaktır. Türkiye'nin en azından imzaladığı Avrupa İnsan Hakları Sözleşmesi ve siyasi Avrupa'nın değerlerinde bulabileceğimiz temel hak ve ilkelerin tanınmasını temel alan bir demokrasi anlayışına hizmet etmektedir."
Remembering What Happened to My (Fore-)Father or Mother Family Memories of Mass Violence and Slavery, 2019
This session invites researchers from a wide range of fields and geographical areas to highlight ... more This session invites researchers from a wide range of fields and geographical areas to highlight and discuss the remaining presence of History in family memories and the way it still affects further generations.
How the memory of the Holocaust, of other genocides and wars, but also of longer-lasting structural violences such as slavery in North-America or Brazil is shaped, transmitted, silenced or reaffirmed among descendants? How this experienced past and its indirect memories have been transmitted over time, even inside families where they seem faded away? How do family secrets and difficult reminiscences reappear one or more generations after?
Jeffrey Olick and Joyce Robbins (1998) proposed a shift of perspective from « "collective memory" to the historical sociology of mnemonic practices ». One can question the intersubjective dynamics within families. The focus of the study can also be broadened to local communities' memories, that are connected to a neighborhood (or any topos), which contributes to the form of remembrance, in contrast with a large-scale and more homogeneous collective memory of events.
Jan Assman (1992) considers social memory as "the connective structure of societies". As such, memory is a privileged object for historical sociology. And social memory is elaborated at many different levels, from the family to the State. This session can openly explore these interconnexions, interdependencies, tensions and contradictions between private sphere and institutional memories.
This session invites researchers to use conceptual tools of memory studies in order to discuss mi... more This session invites researchers to use conceptual tools of memory studies in order to discuss migrations and diasporic experiences over long time.
Even though migrations are widely studied by sociologists, the temporality of the studies often depend on current public debates such as integration, while they are solicited by policy makers' and research funds' agenda. In this session, we will try to go beyond presentism, while considering the "common" feeling of belonging to foreign countries and continents, as well as to diasporic communities. We would like to question the changing collective representations of the origins, the continuities and ruptures in the way memories of the migration shape subjectivities, cultural practices and aspirations for future, after one or several generations.
How do individuals and the families transmit, silence, forget, distort or recreate souvenirs ; how do they form their mnemonic narratives and practices in order to construct their post-migratory trajectories ? What differences and similarities can be found between memories, values, ways of remembering and aspirations of families with a past of forced migrations (as consequences of mass violence, wars, slavery or colonization) and those related with "pull factors"?
Communications which analyse family dynamics of memory making are very welcome in this session, but not exclusively.
L’étude des mouvements sociaux dans les sciences sociales a pris un nouvel essor après les vagues... more L’étude des mouvements sociaux dans les sciences sociales a pris un nouvel essor après les vagues de contestations révolutionnaires et les mouvements Occupy de notre décennie. Cependant notre compréhension de l’action collective est limitée à nos catégories et concepts fondamentalement eurocentriques, puisque forgée dans les cadres des États-nations modernes au Nord, particulièrement pendant la transition de la société industrielle vers l’ère post-industrielle, qu’il s’agisse des paradigmes canoniques de la mobilisation des ressources ou des nouveaux mouvements sociaux ainsi que leurs multiples avatars actuels. Pourtant, les mouvements les plus importants de notre époque se développent plutôt au Sud en même temps qu’ils dialoguent fortement avec le Nord. Ils en appellent donc à une réflexion globale très attentive aux processus locaux de réinvention des pratiques militantes, des cadrages mémoriaux et des projections dans le futur dans les imaginaires des acteurs sociaux. Comment se fait-il que l’insurrection zapatiste trouve son écho à la Place Zuccoti de New York ou bien dans le Parc Gezi à Istanbul, comment se fait-il qu’un jeune révolutionnaire égyptien soit la source d’inspiration d’un jeune catalan indignado ? Qu’y a de commun dans les tracts des activistes grecs de la Place Syntagma à Athènes et le cri qui s’élève depuis Tahrir en Égypte jusqu’en Afrique du Sud ou au Brésil ? La dissémination des vagues d’indignation et de protestation relève d’une configuration globale complexe. Par conséquent, les jeux d’intertextualité et les réverbérations entre ces mouvements nous invitent à reformuler des débats, à reconsidérer nos perspectives et nos méthodes d’enquête. Donc, nous privilégions ici une approche depuis le Sud et par les chercheurs du Sud, certes en dialogue avec la théorie sociale et les paradigmes devenus classiques dans l’analyse de l’action collective. Mais nous souhaitons nous pencher davantage sur la singularité d’un nouveau regard scientifique sur le Sud depuis le Sud. Car, il est nécessaire de comprendre avec de nouveaux outils intellectuels les dynamiques de ces mouvements qui dessinent notre avenir commun, dans un monde troublé par les injustices et les inégalités dues tant au néolibéralisme, à la violence et aux guerres, qu’à leurs conséquences désastreuses telles que le changement climatique, la précarité, la pauvreté, la déstructuration urbaine ou les flux de migration contrainte. Avec la montée en puissance des contestations qui sont d’autant plus vives au Sud et qui s’articulent avec la résistance au Nord, les chercheurs en sciences sociales sont à l’épreuve de ces dynamiques nouvelles. Nous proposons dans ce numéro thématique, des études empiriques des mouvements observés en Amérique latine, en Afrique et en Amérique du Nord, en espérant que ces contributions puissent ouvrir un nouvel horizon théorique pour comprendre nos sociétés en mouvement.
What happened on 19 january 2007? The question has been posed over and over again in the nine yea... more What happened on 19 january 2007? The question has been posed over and over again in the nine years since the day when Hrant Dink was shot dead in Istanbul, in front of the offices of his Turkish-Armenian bilingual journal, Agos. Those gathering spontaneously after the assassination of Hrant Dink have been part of the Gezi movement — in a non-violent way, manifesting their desire to be the Subjects of their own lives.
Based on the results of a field study conducted during the summer following the wave of mobilizat... more Based on the results of a field study conducted during the summer following the wave of mobilizations in Gezi, this article analyzes the development and the social, cultural, and political meanings of this collective movement, which began in Turkey at the end of May 2013 and has been evolving during the summer. The first part of the article addresses the subject of these mobilizations that are opposed to the planning policy, implemented by the government in a process of neo-liberal economic development. The second part discusses the subjective engagement of the protesters and the meaning they give it, by considering alternatives not only to this policy but to the influence exerted on the individual and social life by the technostructures of the systemic forces. The third part analyzes, on the one hand, the methods of direct and online communication for organizing protests and, on the other, the creation of new living constructs, where protesters experiment with the alternatives to the dominations they contest. It is through protest, but also creative and performative actions, that the individuals try to become subjects of their own lives, against these dominations in which the Turkish dimension is part of a global systemic context.
Qu’y a-t-il de commun entre un ancien professeur de l’Université de Sao Paulo revenant sur son po... more Qu’y a-t-il de commun entre un ancien professeur de l’Université de Sao Paulo revenant sur son positionnement durant la dictature, un jeune employé de banque chilien dont l’action syndicale est influencée par sa conception du militantisme de la génération précédente, un couple français passant ses week-ends à reconstituer une bergerie mérovingienne et à en recréer les savoir-faire, ou encore des personnes âgées réunies sur une scène de théâtre pour raconter des fragments poignants de leur vie ?
À partir d'enquêtes qui offrent des observations de contexte socio-historique varié et des explorations par des méthodes ethnographiques aussi diverses que les entretiens, l’observation participante, l’analyse de matériaux comme le journal intime ou les séries télévisées, c’est avant tout le lien entre le rapport au passé et l’horizon d’action des acteurs sociaux qui est posé ici.
Les contributions de ce numéro, ont par ailleurs en commun une approche de la mémoire collective plus proche de la mémoire collectée. Les auteurs font le choix d'une analyse partant, en grande partie, de la subjectivité. La personne est par là placée au centre du dispositif d'étude de la société.
Enfin, on pourra relever que six des sept recherches développées prennent pied sur le continent américain : au Canada, aux États-Unis, au Mexique, en Colombie, au Brésil et au Chili.
This thematic issue of the review New Cultural Frontiers gathers innovative contributions about t... more This thematic issue of the review New Cultural Frontiers gathers innovative contributions about the concept of « memory », from a sociological and anthropological perspective. These articles have been elaborated for and after an international workshop of young researchers organized by the Centre d’Analyse et d’Intervention Sociologiques – EHESS (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) in Paris, in October 2011.
The notion of memory, understood in its collective meaning, has known an increasing and unprecedented popularity over the last 30 years in the public area, in the common uses and the media sphere, generally around political or legal issues. As the sociologist Marie-Claire Lavabre points out, this effervescence of questions related to collective memory has been affected mostly by concerns of History, which coincide with the publication of Lieux de mémoire written by Pierre Nora4. This important sum of publications, released between 1984 and 1994, explores the presence of history in the everyday sphere: whether it concerns street names, patrimonialized places or official commemorations on a nation’s agenda. Likewise, through his invitation to make « de l’histoire au second degré »5, he legitimizes the following question: what the present members of the society do retrospectively with the historical moment in order to make a history of the memory of the events? Simultaneously to Nora, the important place taken by oral history combined with the media coverage of the witnesses of the 20th century’s most dramatic moments, participate to this enthusiasm for the notion of memory, then used in expressions or injunctions, as well as a simple substantive (“devoir de mémoire”, “travail de mémoire”) with this tendency to designate with it institutional speeches, which compete with the historian’s one.
And yet, if we owe the entry of this notion in the social sciences half a century ago to a sociologist, Maurice Halbwachs, this resurgence of the memory in social sciences still lacks of the sociological anchoring that it disposed of before. In order to envisage a sociology of the memory to its full extent, it seems judicious, from the starting point, to carry out a shift concerning the content of the researches. Instead of seeing memory as an almost autonomous social fact and concentrating the researches on the memorial facts (politics of memory, areas of memory, memorial institutions), it should rather be considered as a dimension of wider social phenomena, with researches situated at the crossing between individuals’ memory or the shared social memory, and other fields of contemporary sociology. This tendency can be found and has been highlighted within the contributions of this issue.
Our aim is here to find a way out of this often reifying conception of memory as a discourse about the past, so as to widen it to the social practices, but also to contribute to fit more explicitly the research on memory into a sociology of action. First of all, this consists in suggesting works in which we can understand the place of individuals within the social configuration and the social phenomena in which they are part of.
Le mouvement Gezi participe de la production multi-située d'une culture globale d'activisme, en t... more Le mouvement Gezi participe de la production multi-située d'une culture globale d'activisme, en train de se faire. Il s'agit d'un ensemble de pratiques d'action, façonnées par des déclinaisons locales et individuelles en fonction du contexte et de la créativité déployée. Une telle culture d'activisme permet aux acteurs sociaux de dépasser la simple protestation des forces systémiques.
Questo volume rappresenta un secondo appuntamento editoria- le per la diffusione dei risultati di... more Questo volume rappresenta un secondo appuntamento editoria- le per la diffusione dei risultati di un’esperienza di interscambio formativo europeo sul tema delle Metodologie didattiche innovative per l’educazione delle donne adulte, che si pone in linea di conti- nuità con la prima pubblicazione, edita da L’Harmattan di Parigi nel 2011 con il titolo Université et formation tout au long de la vie. Un partenariat euroéen de mobilité sur les thèmes de l’éducation des adultes. Identico il partenariato universitario, composto dalle uni- versità di Foggia (sempre in funzione di capofila), di Barcellona e di Parigi XIII, tre poli universitari che hanno svolto e continuano ad avere una serie di collaborazioni interistituzionali molto proficue sul piano della ricerca e della sperimentazione didattica.
in : Koçak, Zeynep (ed.) 2017. Kitleleri yeniden düşünmek Hukuk, Şiddet ve Demokrasi, İstanbul: B... more in : Koçak, Zeynep (ed.) 2017. Kitleleri yeniden düşünmek Hukuk, Şiddet ve Demokrasi, İstanbul: Bilgi Üniversitesi Yay. 17-19 Haziran 2013 tarihleri arasında Bilgi Üniversitesi Santral Kampüsü'nde yapılan uluslar arası, "Kitleleri Yeniden Düşünmek: Hukuk, Şiddet, Demokrasi" başlıklı konferansın tebliğleri. Gün geçtikçe daha da büyüyen, çoğalan, farklı etnik yapılara ve sosyal sınıflara dağılan kitle şiddeti, artık hukuk sistemlerini ve adına demokrasi dediğimiz toplumsal örgütlenmeleri tekrar sorgulamamızı gerektirmektedir. Kitlenin hukukla, siyasetle, demokrasiyle ilişkisini ve etki alanını ortaya koymak, hem içinde bulunduğumuz veya bulunmak istediğimiz sistemleri hem de insan hakları kuramını tekrar değerlendirmek açısından önemlidir. Bir diğer yandan, kitlenin farklı siyasi düşünceler içindeki yerinin düşünülmesi bu yeni dünyada tekrar önem kazanmaktadır. Bu konferansın amacı, hem kitlenin şiddetle ve hukukla ilişkisini irdeleyip yeni bir demokrasi anlayışına temel oluşturabilecek bir çalışma yapmak hem de uluslararası forumlardaki tartışmaları Türkiye'deki tartışmalarla harmanlayıp tarihsel-antropolojik açıdan yeni bir düşünce zemini yaratmaktır.
This article has two main aims: to present, on the basis of empirical research, some of the char... more This article has two main aims: to present, on the basis of empirical research, some of the characteristics of the so called alterglobalist movement, and to develop reflect upon the Southern dimension of this movement. Although many transnational campaigns had developed in the 1990s, the explosion of protest in the recent years had not been anticipated by social movement studies, that tended to focus on more institutional forms of protest and on the national level. After having looked at how the different dimensions of globalization provided challenges but also opportunities for transnational mobilization, the authors singles out some open questions referring to the presence of a global social movement, discussing the cleavages existing inside the movement as well as its multilevel nature. Addressing the movement in the global South, relevant research issues are discussed-such as its different social bases, the multiple political opportunities, the complex structure of political cleavages.
Bu kitabın amaçlarından biri öncelikle bu aydın girişimlerine ait bilgileri toplamak, gözler önün... more Bu kitabın amaçlarından biri öncelikle bu aydın girişimlerine ait bilgileri toplamak, gözler önüne sermek, bu gerçeği sıklıkla göz ardı eden Avrupa kamuoyuna aktarmak ve özgürlüğünü savunmak için aydınlarının göze aldığı tehlikelerden çoğunlukla habersiz Türk kamuoyunu bilgilendirmektir. Bu girişimlerde ne Mustafa Kemal'in Cumhuriyet'inden miras otoriter bir devlet, ne de sivil toplumu ve barışı tehdit eden köktenci anlayışlardan ve milliyetçilikten beslenen yabancı düşmanı bir muhafazakarlık değil, yepyeni bir siyaset ufku yaratmaktır. Türkiye'nin en azından imzaladığı Avrupa İnsan Hakları Sözleşmesi ve siyasi Avrupa'nın değerlerinde bulabileceğimiz temel hak ve ilkelerin tanınmasını temel alan bir demokrasi anlayışına hizmet etmektedir."
Remembering What Happened to My (Fore-)Father or Mother Family Memories of Mass Violence and Slavery, 2019
This session invites researchers from a wide range of fields and geographical areas to highlight ... more This session invites researchers from a wide range of fields and geographical areas to highlight and discuss the remaining presence of History in family memories and the way it still affects further generations.
How the memory of the Holocaust, of other genocides and wars, but also of longer-lasting structural violences such as slavery in North-America or Brazil is shaped, transmitted, silenced or reaffirmed among descendants? How this experienced past and its indirect memories have been transmitted over time, even inside families where they seem faded away? How do family secrets and difficult reminiscences reappear one or more generations after?
Jeffrey Olick and Joyce Robbins (1998) proposed a shift of perspective from « "collective memory" to the historical sociology of mnemonic practices ». One can question the intersubjective dynamics within families. The focus of the study can also be broadened to local communities' memories, that are connected to a neighborhood (or any topos), which contributes to the form of remembrance, in contrast with a large-scale and more homogeneous collective memory of events.
Jan Assman (1992) considers social memory as "the connective structure of societies". As such, memory is a privileged object for historical sociology. And social memory is elaborated at many different levels, from the family to the State. This session can openly explore these interconnexions, interdependencies, tensions and contradictions between private sphere and institutional memories.
This session invites researchers to use conceptual tools of memory studies in order to discuss mi... more This session invites researchers to use conceptual tools of memory studies in order to discuss migrations and diasporic experiences over long time.
Even though migrations are widely studied by sociologists, the temporality of the studies often depend on current public debates such as integration, while they are solicited by policy makers' and research funds' agenda. In this session, we will try to go beyond presentism, while considering the "common" feeling of belonging to foreign countries and continents, as well as to diasporic communities. We would like to question the changing collective representations of the origins, the continuities and ruptures in the way memories of the migration shape subjectivities, cultural practices and aspirations for future, after one or several generations.
How do individuals and the families transmit, silence, forget, distort or recreate souvenirs ; how do they form their mnemonic narratives and practices in order to construct their post-migratory trajectories ? What differences and similarities can be found between memories, values, ways of remembering and aspirations of families with a past of forced migrations (as consequences of mass violence, wars, slavery or colonization) and those related with "pull factors"?
Communications which analyse family dynamics of memory making are very welcome in this session, but not exclusively.
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À partir d'enquêtes qui offrent des observations de contexte socio-historique varié et des explorations par des méthodes ethnographiques aussi diverses que les entretiens, l’observation participante, l’analyse de matériaux comme le journal intime ou les séries télévisées, c’est avant tout le lien entre le rapport au passé et l’horizon d’action des acteurs sociaux qui est posé ici.
Les contributions de ce numéro, ont par ailleurs en commun une approche de la mémoire collective plus proche de la mémoire collectée. Les auteurs font le choix d'une analyse partant, en grande partie, de la subjectivité. La personne est par là placée au centre du dispositif d'étude de la société.
Enfin, on pourra relever que six des sept recherches développées prennent pied sur le continent américain : au Canada, aux États-Unis, au Mexique, en Colombie, au Brésil et au Chili.
The notion of memory, understood in its collective meaning, has known an increasing and unprecedented popularity over the last 30 years in the public area, in the common uses and the media sphere, generally around political or legal issues. As the sociologist Marie-Claire Lavabre points out, this effervescence of questions related to collective memory has been affected mostly by concerns of History, which coincide with the publication of Lieux de mémoire written by Pierre Nora4. This important sum of publications, released between 1984 and 1994, explores the presence of history in the everyday sphere: whether it concerns street names, patrimonialized places or official commemorations on a nation’s agenda. Likewise, through his invitation to make « de l’histoire au second degré »5, he legitimizes the following question: what the present members of the society do retrospectively with the historical moment in order to make a history of the memory of the events? Simultaneously to Nora, the important place taken by oral history combined with the media coverage of the witnesses of the 20th century’s most dramatic moments, participate to this enthusiasm for the notion of memory, then used in expressions or injunctions, as well as a simple substantive (“devoir de mémoire”, “travail de mémoire”) with this tendency to designate with it institutional speeches, which compete with the historian’s one.
And yet, if we owe the entry of this notion in the social sciences half a century ago to a sociologist, Maurice Halbwachs, this resurgence of the memory in social sciences still lacks of the sociological anchoring that it disposed of before. In order to envisage a sociology of the memory to its full extent, it seems judicious, from the starting point, to carry out a shift concerning the content of the researches. Instead of seeing memory as an almost autonomous social fact and concentrating the researches on the memorial facts (politics of memory, areas of memory, memorial institutions), it should rather be considered as a dimension of wider social phenomena, with researches situated at the crossing between individuals’ memory or the shared social memory, and other fields of contemporary sociology. This tendency can be found and has been highlighted within the contributions of this issue.
Our aim is here to find a way out of this often reifying conception of memory as a discourse about the past, so as to widen it to the social practices, but also to contribute to fit more explicitly the research on memory into a sociology of action. First of all, this consists in suggesting works in which we can understand the place of individuals within the social configuration and the social phenomena in which they are part of.
17-19 Haziran 2013 tarihleri arasında Bilgi Üniversitesi Santral Kampüsü'nde yapılan uluslar arası, "Kitleleri Yeniden Düşünmek: Hukuk, Şiddet, Demokrasi" başlıklı konferansın tebliğleri.
Gün geçtikçe daha da büyüyen, çoğalan, farklı etnik yapılara ve sosyal sınıflara dağılan kitle şiddeti, artık hukuk sistemlerini ve adına demokrasi dediğimiz toplumsal örgütlenmeleri tekrar sorgulamamızı gerektirmektedir. Kitlenin hukukla, siyasetle, demokrasiyle ilişkisini ve etki alanını ortaya koymak, hem içinde bulunduğumuz veya bulunmak istediğimiz sistemleri hem de insan hakları kuramını tekrar değerlendirmek açısından önemlidir. Bir diğer yandan, kitlenin farklı siyasi düşünceler içindeki yerinin düşünülmesi bu yeni dünyada tekrar önem kazanmaktadır. Bu konferansın amacı, hem kitlenin şiddetle ve hukukla ilişkisini irdeleyip yeni bir demokrasi anlayışına temel oluşturabilecek bir çalışma yapmak hem de uluslararası forumlardaki tartışmaları Türkiye'deki tartışmalarla harmanlayıp tarihsel-antropolojik açıdan yeni bir düşünce zemini yaratmaktır.
Vincent Duclert
How the memory of the Holocaust, of other genocides and wars, but also of longer-lasting structural violences such as slavery in North-America or Brazil is shaped, transmitted, silenced or reaffirmed among descendants? How this experienced past and its indirect memories have been transmitted over time, even inside families where they seem faded away? How do family secrets and difficult reminiscences reappear one or more generations after?
Jeffrey Olick and Joyce Robbins (1998) proposed a shift of perspective from « "collective memory" to the historical sociology of mnemonic practices ». One can question the intersubjective dynamics within families. The focus of the study can also be broadened to local communities' memories, that are connected to a neighborhood (or any topos), which contributes to the form of remembrance, in contrast with a large-scale and more homogeneous collective memory of events.
Jan Assman (1992) considers social memory as "the connective structure of societies". As such, memory is a privileged object for historical sociology. And social memory is elaborated at many different levels, from the family to the State. This session can openly explore these interconnexions, interdependencies, tensions and contradictions between private sphere and institutional memories.
Please send your abstract (300 words) via the online submission portal
www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/forum/porto-alegre-2020
no later than September 20th 2019.
Session Organizers
Deniz Günce DEMIRHISAR, Ph.D. (EHESS - IFEA)
denizgunce@gmail.com
Ilan LEW (Université de Genève - EHESS)
ilanlew@gmail.com
Even though migrations are widely studied by sociologists, the temporality of the studies often depend on current public debates such as integration, while they are solicited by policy makers' and research funds' agenda. In this session, we will try to go beyond presentism, while considering the "common" feeling of belonging to foreign countries and continents, as well as to diasporic communities. We would like to question the changing collective representations of the origins, the continuities and ruptures in the way memories of the migration shape subjectivities, cultural practices and aspirations for future, after one or several generations.
How do individuals and the families transmit, silence, forget, distort or recreate souvenirs ; how do they form their mnemonic narratives and practices in order to construct their post-migratory trajectories ?
What differences and similarities can be found between memories, values, ways of remembering and aspirations of families with a past of forced migrations (as consequences of mass violence, wars, slavery or colonization) and those related with "pull factors"?
Communications which analyse family dynamics of memory making are very welcome in this session, but not exclusively.
Please send your abstract (300 words) via the online submission portal
no later than September 20th 2019.
www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/forum/porto-alegre-2020
Session Organizers :
Deniz Günce DEMIRHISAR, Ph.D. (EHESS) denizgunce@gmail.com
Ilan LEW (Université de Genève/EHESS) ilanlew@gmail.com
Research Committee: RC56 Historical Sociology
(host committee)
À partir d'enquêtes qui offrent des observations de contexte socio-historique varié et des explorations par des méthodes ethnographiques aussi diverses que les entretiens, l’observation participante, l’analyse de matériaux comme le journal intime ou les séries télévisées, c’est avant tout le lien entre le rapport au passé et l’horizon d’action des acteurs sociaux qui est posé ici.
Les contributions de ce numéro, ont par ailleurs en commun une approche de la mémoire collective plus proche de la mémoire collectée. Les auteurs font le choix d'une analyse partant, en grande partie, de la subjectivité. La personne est par là placée au centre du dispositif d'étude de la société.
Enfin, on pourra relever que six des sept recherches développées prennent pied sur le continent américain : au Canada, aux États-Unis, au Mexique, en Colombie, au Brésil et au Chili.
The notion of memory, understood in its collective meaning, has known an increasing and unprecedented popularity over the last 30 years in the public area, in the common uses and the media sphere, generally around political or legal issues. As the sociologist Marie-Claire Lavabre points out, this effervescence of questions related to collective memory has been affected mostly by concerns of History, which coincide with the publication of Lieux de mémoire written by Pierre Nora4. This important sum of publications, released between 1984 and 1994, explores the presence of history in the everyday sphere: whether it concerns street names, patrimonialized places or official commemorations on a nation’s agenda. Likewise, through his invitation to make « de l’histoire au second degré »5, he legitimizes the following question: what the present members of the society do retrospectively with the historical moment in order to make a history of the memory of the events? Simultaneously to Nora, the important place taken by oral history combined with the media coverage of the witnesses of the 20th century’s most dramatic moments, participate to this enthusiasm for the notion of memory, then used in expressions or injunctions, as well as a simple substantive (“devoir de mémoire”, “travail de mémoire”) with this tendency to designate with it institutional speeches, which compete with the historian’s one.
And yet, if we owe the entry of this notion in the social sciences half a century ago to a sociologist, Maurice Halbwachs, this resurgence of the memory in social sciences still lacks of the sociological anchoring that it disposed of before. In order to envisage a sociology of the memory to its full extent, it seems judicious, from the starting point, to carry out a shift concerning the content of the researches. Instead of seeing memory as an almost autonomous social fact and concentrating the researches on the memorial facts (politics of memory, areas of memory, memorial institutions), it should rather be considered as a dimension of wider social phenomena, with researches situated at the crossing between individuals’ memory or the shared social memory, and other fields of contemporary sociology. This tendency can be found and has been highlighted within the contributions of this issue.
Our aim is here to find a way out of this often reifying conception of memory as a discourse about the past, so as to widen it to the social practices, but also to contribute to fit more explicitly the research on memory into a sociology of action. First of all, this consists in suggesting works in which we can understand the place of individuals within the social configuration and the social phenomena in which they are part of.
17-19 Haziran 2013 tarihleri arasında Bilgi Üniversitesi Santral Kampüsü'nde yapılan uluslar arası, "Kitleleri Yeniden Düşünmek: Hukuk, Şiddet, Demokrasi" başlıklı konferansın tebliğleri.
Gün geçtikçe daha da büyüyen, çoğalan, farklı etnik yapılara ve sosyal sınıflara dağılan kitle şiddeti, artık hukuk sistemlerini ve adına demokrasi dediğimiz toplumsal örgütlenmeleri tekrar sorgulamamızı gerektirmektedir. Kitlenin hukukla, siyasetle, demokrasiyle ilişkisini ve etki alanını ortaya koymak, hem içinde bulunduğumuz veya bulunmak istediğimiz sistemleri hem de insan hakları kuramını tekrar değerlendirmek açısından önemlidir. Bir diğer yandan, kitlenin farklı siyasi düşünceler içindeki yerinin düşünülmesi bu yeni dünyada tekrar önem kazanmaktadır. Bu konferansın amacı, hem kitlenin şiddetle ve hukukla ilişkisini irdeleyip yeni bir demokrasi anlayışına temel oluşturabilecek bir çalışma yapmak hem de uluslararası forumlardaki tartışmaları Türkiye'deki tartışmalarla harmanlayıp tarihsel-antropolojik açıdan yeni bir düşünce zemini yaratmaktır.
Vincent Duclert
How the memory of the Holocaust, of other genocides and wars, but also of longer-lasting structural violences such as slavery in North-America or Brazil is shaped, transmitted, silenced or reaffirmed among descendants? How this experienced past and its indirect memories have been transmitted over time, even inside families where they seem faded away? How do family secrets and difficult reminiscences reappear one or more generations after?
Jeffrey Olick and Joyce Robbins (1998) proposed a shift of perspective from « "collective memory" to the historical sociology of mnemonic practices ». One can question the intersubjective dynamics within families. The focus of the study can also be broadened to local communities' memories, that are connected to a neighborhood (or any topos), which contributes to the form of remembrance, in contrast with a large-scale and more homogeneous collective memory of events.
Jan Assman (1992) considers social memory as "the connective structure of societies". As such, memory is a privileged object for historical sociology. And social memory is elaborated at many different levels, from the family to the State. This session can openly explore these interconnexions, interdependencies, tensions and contradictions between private sphere and institutional memories.
Please send your abstract (300 words) via the online submission portal
www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/forum/porto-alegre-2020
no later than September 20th 2019.
Session Organizers
Deniz Günce DEMIRHISAR, Ph.D. (EHESS - IFEA)
denizgunce@gmail.com
Ilan LEW (Université de Genève - EHESS)
ilanlew@gmail.com
Even though migrations are widely studied by sociologists, the temporality of the studies often depend on current public debates such as integration, while they are solicited by policy makers' and research funds' agenda. In this session, we will try to go beyond presentism, while considering the "common" feeling of belonging to foreign countries and continents, as well as to diasporic communities. We would like to question the changing collective representations of the origins, the continuities and ruptures in the way memories of the migration shape subjectivities, cultural practices and aspirations for future, after one or several generations.
How do individuals and the families transmit, silence, forget, distort or recreate souvenirs ; how do they form their mnemonic narratives and practices in order to construct their post-migratory trajectories ?
What differences and similarities can be found between memories, values, ways of remembering and aspirations of families with a past of forced migrations (as consequences of mass violence, wars, slavery or colonization) and those related with "pull factors"?
Communications which analyse family dynamics of memory making are very welcome in this session, but not exclusively.
Please send your abstract (300 words) via the online submission portal
no later than September 20th 2019.
www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/forum/porto-alegre-2020
Session Organizers :
Deniz Günce DEMIRHISAR, Ph.D. (EHESS) denizgunce@gmail.com
Ilan LEW (Université de Genève/EHESS) ilanlew@gmail.com
Research Committee: RC56 Historical Sociology
(host committee)