Papers by Danielle V Schoon
Edinburgh University Press eBooks, Nov 1, 2021
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Berghahn Books, Dec 31, 2022
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The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Turkey
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JOURNAL OF GYPSY STUDIES, 2017
After much preparation and hard work, we are pleased to release this inaugural issue of the Journ... more After much preparation and hard work, we are pleased to release this inaugural issue of the Journal of Gypsy Studies which is an international, peer-reviewed journal aiming to publish quality and rigorous research and scholarship, as well as intellectual conversations/interviews, book reviews, conference reports, viewpoints, and letters on the groups known as and associated with Gypsies. As the production of academic work pertaining to the cultural, social, economic, and political lives of Gypsies is increasing, there is a need for research and theoretical contributions that centre on issues of poverty, discrimination, the sedentary/nomad divide, migration, urban policies, and citizenship and identity, among others. This is particularly important as right-wing political parties are on the rise in many countries where Roma/Gypsies live. Universities that have been influential in Romani studies are being threatened with closure, and Roma/Gypsies face violent attacks and forced evictio...
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City, 2014
I n the late spring and summer of 2013, Istanbul became the site of a striking public assembly, w... more I n the late spring and summer of 2013, Istanbul became the site of a striking public assembly, when hundreds of thousands of the city’s residents took to the streets in anti-government demonstrations sparked by the controversy over the redevelopment of a public park and square. The occupation of Gezi Park and Taksim Square involved a messy assemblage of people and things—protestors and police, makeshift barricades and riot-control vehicles, tear gas and the wind, empty gas canisters and party flags, trees and television cameras—engaged in a particular place at the heart of a rapidly transforming city. The Gezi protests emerged out of a broader movement loosely organized around the articulation of more expansive notions of the right to the city, critiques of urban development and issues of environmental protection. Moreover, they took place in a moment when the practice of politics in Turkey has become inextricably linked to the construction and transformation of urban landscapes. The material transformation of the built environment, particularly in Istanbul, has played a key role in both the electoral success of the governing Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, hereafter AKP) over the past decade and the more recent challenges to its rule. At both the municipal and the national levels, the AKP has used infrastructure projects large and small to imagine and enact its political authority, grounding its claims to legitimacy and good governance in the transformation of Turkish cities and the provision of services to urban residents. The AKP government has launched a number of ambitious megaprojects—including the extension of the metro system, the construction of new bridges over the Golden Horn and the Bosphorus, and the creation of satellite cities—and developed a vision for the city around the simultaneous restoration of Istanbul’s Ottoman past and its future development into a global megacity. Such projects, and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s heavy-handed interference into what might seem like local questions of urban planning and architectural design, are not only an effort to generate economic value; they are also about the construction and performance of political power in the material form of the cityscape. The protestors who assembled at Gezi Park and in other parks and squares around Istanbul challenged this vision for Istanbul; they were motivated in part by a desire to ‘take back’ the city, a desire that is not only about resisting controversial urban transformation projects, but also about asserting the right to engage in certain kinds of practices—including public assembly—in urban space. What was, and continues to be, at stake is not just the future of one particular
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Journal of Gypsy Studies, 2021
A review of Gypsies in Contemporary Egypt: On the Peripheries of Society, written by Alexandra Pa... more A review of Gypsies in Contemporary Egypt: On the Peripheries of Society, written by Alexandra Parrs and published by AUC Press in 2018.
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