CASA Meeting 2005
Borders, Markets, Movements
Program Booklet
Contents:
1. List of Participants (alphabetically)……………2
2. Abstracts………………………..………….………3
3. Biographical Information of participants……14
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1. List of participants:
Albayrak, Őzlem
Al-Haq, Fawwaz
Boletsi, Maria
Chiper, Sorina
Ciccareli, Barbara
Coban, Asli
Coban, Aslihan
Cuninghame, Patrick
Elmas, Esra
Eray, Senay
Erek, Ayse
Feigenbaum, Anna
Finn, Julian
Gökalp, Ela
Gönüllü, Ayse
Haarstad, Havard
Haché, Alexandra
Huijg, Dieuwertje
Klei, Alice van der
Kuloglu, Ceyda
Langen, Esther
Lara, Sebastian
Lopez, Miguel Martinez
Melnyk, Daria
Muňoz, Beatriz Calderón
Pantea, Maria Carmen
Papadimitriou, Tasos
Pezzini, Hugo
Poldervaart, Saskia
Post, Suzan van der
Ree, Rutger van
Rossi, Davide
Sabatino, Emilio
Sanders, Angela
Scholl, Christian
Serbezova, Cema Martinova
Siray, Mehmet
Smith, Monica
Stergiou, Evangelia
Wege, Mark
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2. Abstracts:
Őzlem Albayrak
Market and Welfare: The Magic Relationship of the Economics
The main goal of “the economics” is to find an answer to the question: How does a
society use its scarce resources to provide and to increase social welfare? The answer
of this question is simple: Perfectly competitive markets. Mainstream economics, “the
economics”, does not have any suspicion about existence of perfectly competitive
markets and its power in providing individual and social welfare. The theoretical
relationship between market and welfare connection in a liberal view has two basic
problems. First of them is based on the definition of welfare and liberalism: They are only
interested in economic welfare. The answer to the question “why are they only interested
in economic welfare?” is the restriction of their theoretical framework to the economic
aspect of a society. Naturally the result of this type of position is to consider a society as
an economy and reduce the social economic welfare to the economic one.
Fawwaz Al-Haq
Linguistic Imperialism and Linguistic Globalization: Understanding the Concepts
and Working Out the Linguistic Challenges
This presentation aims at investigating critically the concepts of "Imperialism" and
"Globalization" at linguistic level. The major objective is to demystify the concepts, and
to find out how they are going to be reflected on the sociolinguistic profile of Arab
countries. The age of globalization signals the urgent need for Arab nations to re-
engineer themselves to encounter the challenges arising from the integral relationship
between linguistic homogenization and hegemonization, and between globalization,
informative technology and the knowledge economy. Implication from language
planning will be drawn to delineate the problem.
Maria Boletsi
A (new) spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of immigration (for abstract
see: Tasos Papadimitriou)
Sorina Chiper
The Roma - truly anti-global or genuinely global?
My presentation will dwell upon the dichotomies that the gypsy/Roma representations
and identity are riddled with. I will mainly focus on Romanian data, addressing such
questions as: to what extent the terms “Gypsy” and “Roma” are positively or negatively
loaded, and whether a change in name can foster a change in attitude? What have been
the consequences of gypsy/Roma migration in the eyes of the Romanian population? To
what degree is the Romanian society able, or ready to integrate the Roma, or, vice
versa, to what degree are they willing to integrate? Is there a solution to the Roma
problem? Is there a Roma problem in the first place? How to “purge” people‟s mind from
racism, when they believe they are not racists? How to understand the Roma
communities when, as a non- Roma, as any outsider, one cannot cross the “border”
separating them from other groups or communities?
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Barbara Ciccareli
The Commodification of Exclusion: The ―Outsider Art‖ of Henry Darger
The commodification of exclusion has been a highly debated topic in academia for years
in regards particularly to the exploitation of Jewish suffering by the Holocaust Industry.
A similar case can be made regarding the fascination with the creative genius of the
mentally ill. My paper will focus on Henri Darger‟s art and how it draws the public‟s
attention. This is because of the speculations about the artist‟s mental illness and the
shocking display of naked little girls engaged in scenes of battle. The outrage just
heightens the celebrity status of the deceased artist, which is reflected in the famous
poet John Ashbery choosing Darger‟s art as the subject of his book of poems entitled,
Girls on the Run. Darger‟s artistic production was fueled by the desire to break out of
exclusion and validate his inclusion, his place in culture. Thus, is it not time that we
embrace him and all others who are designated as “outsiders” instead of commodifying
their exclusion in such a way as to validate ourselves as insiders? The fascination with
so-called “outsiders” seems to be a creative possibility beyond the psychic borders of the
western or dominant perspective. This paper will explore other possibilities for making
that psychic break, in particular, the possibility of intentionally inducing a traumatic
moment to generate creativity for the purpose of social change.
Asli Coban - Aslihan Coban – Senay Eray – Ela Gökalp – Ayse Gönüllü – Ceyda
Kuloglu
General Abstract (roundtable):
THE ROLE OF THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT IN THE PROCESS OF THE NEW
TURKISH PENAL CODE
Our workshop aims to examine the process of engendering the political agenda of
Turkey during the reform process concerning the New Turkish Penal Code. Turkey is a
country where important reforms concerning gender equality objective have been put
into implementation. Throughout this workshop the Turkish Penal Code reformation is
considered as a marking process with respect to gender equality movement in Turkey.
With the advent of New Turkish Penal Code, the difference between men and women,
the norms about their normal conducts and relations, gender related presumptions
concerning the concrete –standart situations- are negotiated by involved parties and
redefined. In this context, the reformation process highlights the historical characteristic
of Turkish women‟s movement, its engagement with international bodies and women‟s
rights regime concerning gender equality objective and Turkish state‟s approach to the
issue and its cooperation with other actors. In the roundtable discussion the issue
mentioned above will be examined from four perspectives, respectively:
1. The importance of the Turkish Penal Code Reformation and its Historical
Background with respect to Gender Equality Movement in Turkey, discussed by
Aslı Çoban;
2. The Turkish Women‟s Movement after 1980‟s in the Democratization Process of
Turkey, discussed by Ayşe Gönüllü;
3. Impacts of International Gender Equality Mechanisms on the New Turkish Penal
Code, discussed by Ceyda Kuloğlu and Ela Gökalp;
4. The stance of the Turkish State through the New Turkish Penal Code
Reformation Process, discussed by Şenay Eray.
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5. Importance of the Turkish Penal Code Reformation and its Historical Background
with respect to Gender Equality Movement in Turkey, discussed by Aslihan
Coban.
Aslihan Coban
-European Union and the Borders of European Identity
As we all could agree with the idea that, establishment of European Union (EU) in 1991
was a project of European integration after the cold war period. In this study, the project
of European integration will be discussed through the conception of European identity
together with the tension between Eastern and Western Europe. The major problem of
this work is to investigate the dynamics of Europe‟s identity construction and the
changing definition of “Europe”, “Europeanness” during and after the collapse of Soviet
Block. In order for a proper focus on the Eastern enlargement which has enlarged the
“borders of Europe” to the twenty five countries with the join of ten post Soviet countries
on 1st May 2004, I think, one should consider the statement that, “Europe as a cold-war
construct was subordinated to the wider opposition of West versus East” (Delanty,
1995). This makes us to ask that, what about the contradiction between European
identity and Eastern enlargement of EU? In short, regarding the new borders of EU, I
would like to contest the borders of “Europeanness” and discuss the role of East-West
tension considering the ideal of “overcoming the divisions in Europe” and the “unity of
Europe”.
-Importance of the Turkish Penal Code Reformation and its Historical Background
with respect to Gender Equality Movement in Turkey
The reform process is a crucial historical moment to examine the women‟s activism in
Turkey, and its relations with the international bodies, and state‟s approach to gender
equality objective and struggle. In 2004 a penal code reform has been passed in the
Turkish parliamentary and issued to be enforced on the 1th April (it has been postponed
to 1th July). Throughout the process when draft law was prepared, voted and legislated,
women‟s movement in Turkey have raised its voice through lobbying, conducting
discussion meetings, report-preparing and organizing mass street-meetings in order to
influence the process and pushed for a new code breaking with its historical patriarchal
philosophy. Most of the debated articles did not change completely in a way women‟s
activism demanded. We argue that this failure in some critical articles stemmed from
both weaknesses in the Turkish women‟s movement and weaknesses of its relations
with the international agencies (UN, EU) and also Turkish state‟s instrumentalist
approach to the gender related concerns in the reform. Still these are not the
weaknesses came about first in this specific occasion but reflective of the historical
characteristic of the gender equality struggle in Turkey and relations between women‟s
movement, international agencies, and the state as the actors involved.
Patrick Cuninghame
Maquiladoras, identity and gender on the US-Mexican Border
This presentation‟s point of departure is that the local and global configurations of
identity in the US-Mexican border community of “El Paso del Norte” (Ciudad Juarez,
Mexico, and El Paso, Texas) are determined by processes of economic globalisation,
whose main manifestation is or has been until recently the maquiladora assembly plant.
Previous studies on border identities have emphasized more socio-cultural processes
and have not analysed economic processes sufficiently as decisive in the construction of
identities. Deploying an interdisciplinary approach based on recent theories of cultural
and economic globalisation and of gender and hybrid identities, the paper‟s objective is
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to identify and problematise the salient characteristics of the identities of maquiladora
women workers on both sides of the border and to ascertain if transnational and hybrid
identities are emerging because of the impacts of globalisation. This question and others
raised by gendered border theory are only too pertinent in the context of the
internationally notorious failure of the local and national Mexican judiciary to halt the
continuing „feminicide‟ of over 400 women in Ciudad Juarez and in the state of
Chihuahua since 1993, most of them maquiladora workers and internal migrants. The
paper also seeks, therefore, to explore the nexus of globalisation, gender, border, work
and violence and the forms of resistance of women workers.
Esra Elmas and Ayse Erek
Marketing the borders: Establishing a Cultural Identity
The metropolitan city of Istanbul, with its constant flux- unlike other cities in Turkey- has
been and is a zone of cultural contestation. On the eve of Turkey joining the EU, Istanbul
today can be regarded as an emerging market for the new economy of cultural identity,
namely „Europeanness.‟ Throughout the city, spaces, from billboards to university
emblems and company logos, act as a medium of exchange where it is possible to
locate, describe, and metaphorize Europeanness. Within this multidimensional space
exists a perspective, held by market participants, which can be defined as the already
„Europeanized‟ gaze. The space, as representation itself, is an active space in which the
borders of „Europeanness‟ are intersected and reworked. In our work in progress, we will
try to trace how marketing the borders becomes a political strategy of cultural identity
through verbal and visual representations. How social change becomes possible through
rethinking and redescribing boundaries will be followed by several examples we face in
our everyday lives in Istanbul.
Senay Eray
The Stance of the Turkish State through the new Penal Code Reformation Process
This presentation focuses on the Turkish State as an actor in the process of the Turkish
Penal Code reformation. The presentation examines which groups and organizations
were effective in the early discussions about the idea of changing the Turkish Penal
Code into the New Turkish Penal Code, and whose demands were considered during
the later developments. A second focus is on the response to the women‟s movement
and the requirements of the E.U.; I will examine whether the government acted on the
demands of one or the other. Thirdly, I will look at the different opinions on gender
equality that emerged from within the government. Finally, the reasons for the
postponement of the New Turkish Penal Code will be analyzed.
Ayse Erek
Marketing the borders: Establishing a Cultural Identity (for abstract see: Esra
Almas)
Anna Feigenbaum
Transdisciplinarity and/as a Methodology of the Oppressed
This roundtable engage the research and activist work of participants to investigate the
political potential and limitations of transdisciplinarity and/as a Methodology of the
Oppressed (based on Chela Sandoval). Paying particular attention to how disciplinary
borders and boundaries function as mechanisms of control, the roundtable will
investigate the importance of tactical movements and strategies for pursuing a “shared
understanding of resistance.” We will address questions such as: How does knowledge
move in academia? What structures and obstacles create and maintain an “apartheid of
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academic knowledges”? Is there a shared understanding of resistance? What types of
scholarship and activities contribute to such a shared understanding? How can and do
certain gatherings contribute to this projects? Are there dangers in mapping the escape
of subordination and domination? What can we as researchers and activists do to help
knowledges move across the borders and boundaries of instutions?
Julian Finn
Copyright and Copyleft – Opportunities for academic and civil societies
As Copyright is getting more and more important in today‟s life, its restrictions bccome
more and more problematic. On the other hand, alternatives like Copyleft do not only
solve problems but also open up many opportunities for society. In this three-hour
workshop we want to give an insight into copyright law and its existing alternatives, such
as Creative Commons and the GNO Licenses GPL and FDL. Afterwards we want to
discuss the problem of copyright and the changes of alternative licenses and alternative
compensation systems for academic and civil societies as well as in economic
environments.
Ela Gökalp and Ceyda Kuloglu
The Impact of International Gender Equality Mechanisms on the New Turkish
Penal Code
Two international gender equality mechanisms are significant concerning women‟s rights
in Turkey, ”The European Union‟s gender regime, and the United Nations. Since
Turkey‟s full membership application to the EU in 1989, gender equality has become
increasingly important for the Turkish state because it has become pre-condition for
membership. The reformation of the Turkish Penal Code is an important issue to achieve
gender equality in Turkey. This presentation analyzes the impacts of conventions and
other documents of these two international gender equality (E.U. and U.N.) mechanisms
on the reformation process of the New Turkish Penal Code.
Ayse Gönüllü
The Role of the Turkish Women’s Movement after 1980 in the Democratization
Process of Turkey
The second wave of the Turkish Women‟s Movement (based on the first wave which had
lasted from 1910-1920) started in 1980 as the first social movement after the military
coup on 12th September 1980. The coup, during which all democratic rights were
abolished, led to a de-politization of Turkish society. Repression of both radical left and
radical right brought political life to a complete halt. In this atmosphere Feminism was
heard as a first voice of civil society. The demands of women for equality, freedom and
solidarity brought the feminist point of view to the forefront of the fight for democracy.
This presentation analyzes the process of the Turkish Women‟s Movement, its
continuities and breaks until today.
Havard Haarstad
EEF and the Bologna process: ways forward in the struggle over education
I will talk about EEF in Bergen, some of the discussion that has been taking place, the
main differences between the EEF and the Bologna approaches to education, and
possible ways forward. Hopefully the discussion can revolve around what system of
education we want, and how can it be achieved.
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Alexandra Haché
Presentation of the ―European Guide for Social Transformation and the ―Action
Research Network for the ESF Process‖
This workshop presents these two European networks, their activities and objectives.
For further information on them please visit www.euromovements.info
Dieuwertje Huijg
Utopian aspects of Feminism (No Abstract)
Alice van der Klei
The Ché Guevara Photograph
This presentation analyzes the over-famous Ché Guevara photograph which quickly
developed into a very lucrative poster, stuck-on iconic image industry. I will approach the
picture in terms of power representation in the present-day pop culture. Spilling out of its
frame, the photograph is permanently reinventing itself as well as crossing borders to
reinvent the concept of freedom, reframing itself through the autopoeisis of the Ché
himself.
Ceyda Kuloglu
The Impact of International Gender Equality Mechanisms on the New Turkish
Penal Code (for abstract see: Ela Gökalp)
Esther Langen
The Position of Foreign Students and Staff in Higher Education
This workshop will address the position of foreign students / staff in higher education. I
will give some facts and figures about foreign students and staff, and I will talk about
cultural differences and intercultural competences.
Sebastian Lara
Inner Tourism (No Abstract)
Miguel Martínez Lopez
Space and Politics in the Spanish Squatters Movement
This presentation investigates the Politics of the Spanish Squatters‟ Movement since the
1980s. The movement is very diverse, developing its own specificities in each city and
being organized in different ways in with different political ideologies. Furthermore, most
activists denied their membership to a “squatter‟s movement” and instead pointed out
that squatting was a means to their diverse political ends. Yet, the different movements
share characteristics like the types of buildings they squatted, shared libertarian
principles and the local authorities as main opponents, and some coordination among
each group and among the different groups.This presentation informs about internal and
external complexities faced by these urban and global activists.
Daria Melnyk
The Animatrix
This workshop will look into questions The Animatrix film throws up. It problematizes the
relations between technology and reality, history and art. Within The Animatrix a new
space seems to be created through the conception of a new technological language, that
attempts to redeem history. The film negotiates the boundaries between reality and
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representation by creating a narrative that is nor far removed from the political reality of
our own age. Walter Benjamin believed that “the destructiveness of war furnishes proof
that society has not been mature enough to incorporate technology as its organ,”(242).
The tragic consequence in the film of humans‟ inability to coexist with machines and to
imagine the redistribution of economic and political power in space is the destruction of
the earth, the fall of mankind, and the rise of machines. When art becomes
indistinguishable from history, we have reached the end of both art and history. When
the process is the product, then art no longer refers to another reality, but has merged
with it.
History is bound to repeat itself unless it is radically reconstructed. Is The Animatrix
able to escape history? The film succeeds in envisioning a world that is beyond nature,
politics, economy, and society as we know it, but it is not beyond the technology that
threatens us. The film depends on this technology to convey to us the importance of
seeking truth. It cannot be beyond history because we aren‟t, in the sense that we
haven‟t yet reached utopia, and it relies on history to maintain continuity with the real
world in order to move us to change it.
Beatriz Calderón Munoz
Home, Exile, Fragmentation: A reading of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Following, among others, Avtar Brah‟s argument that presents the concept of diaspora
as a critique of discourses of fixed origins and explores the idea of home and return in
the diasporic context, I propose to discuss the implications of these concepts and study
and debate how they are represented in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha‟s work, both as a
writer and as an artist. This Korean American author, who migrated to the United States
when she was a child, explores exile and the concepts of “migration” and “home” in
order to re-articulate a dislocated identity. In her best-known literary work, Dictée, she
strives to portray and articulate the idea of home and belonging both to a tradition and to
a particular location even if the very essence of these concepts is radically challenged.
Through a multiplicity of voices which give account of the hybrid nature both of the
author and of the text and which are embedded in the frame of a postmodern narrative,
she examines power relations, historical and literary traditions and the idea of
fragmentation and dislocation whose sentiment we find pervading the whole book. Her
work raises questions as to how we can study and/or define identities, ethnicities? How
these concepts are constructed and read in the contemporary world? And, also how we
can relate our own personal experiences as travelers, border-crossers, immigrants or
tourists to this discussion?
Maria Carmen Pantea
Child Labor: In Between Global Standards and Cultural Relativism
Child labor discourse is characterized by two conflicting tendencies. According to global
standards children have the right to be protected from performing any work that is likely
to be hazardous or to interfere with the child‟s education or to be harmful to the child‟s
health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development (UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 1989: Article 32). However, according to principles of cultural
relativism “childhood” is social construct defined differently by different cultures,
societies, and states. There thus is an apparent need for a standard that is both
universal and reflects the diversity of childhood(s). How are we, however, to deal with
the tension between cultural relativism and universal standards? Should the one be
preferred over the other? Is a balancing required? Are the tensions between cultural
relativism and human rights discourse to be conciliated in a globalized society?
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Moreover, is conciliation a hazardous compromise? Can one sustain universal human
rights while promoting openness to diversity?
Tasos Papadimitriou – Evangelia Stergiou – Maria Boletsi
A (new) spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of immigration
Although obviously not a stranger to such phenomena, for over two decades, Europe
has seen a rising tide of racism and xenophobia threatening to engulf its politics.
Increasingly since 9/11, this has become particularized in the form of Islamophobia,
coupled with an ideological anti-Semitism propagated by neo-Nazi parties. Recent
events have triggered the perception that Christianity is at war with Islam, allowing far-
right parties to claim a popular resonance and repackage their message in a way that
jettisons much of their historical baggage. Immigration has become a highly charged
issue throughout Europe, and governments and mainstream political parties increasingly
co-opt exclusive and even explicitly xenophobic and racist policies and rhetoric as a
response to public „concerns‟ that are fuelled, if not created outright, by sectors of the
media often through hysterical misinformation. This workshop aims to share knowledge
and experiences on the situation in various countries around Europe, while trying to
analyze why xenophobia is on the rise and immigration and multiculturalism are
perceived as such a threat. It also wants to discuss on a practical level what we, as
citizens/activists/teachers etc, can do to counter these developments, and it aims to
attempt to formulate convincing answers to the most prevalent misinformed anti-
immigration arguments, while taking into consideration „legitimate‟ concerns about
economic welfare, social cohesion and cultural identity
Hugo Pezzini
The Formation of the Latin American Neoliberal Individuality
My work interrogates whether it is rational to even hypothesize the notion of molding a
human being so she/he finds meaning in her/his continuous dedication to serving the
needs of the market –the creation of „a consumer archetype.‟ Next, I try to assess the
neoliberal market‟s possibilities of balancing the means, disposition, and desires and
number of the consumers with the market's need of allocating its output. It would seem
to be that the dependence of the market on the generation of „proper desires,‟ and
availability, of consumers is sufficient reason for violence as described by Frederic
Jameson. Defying the various apocalyptic scenarios delineated by defeatist
preconceptions of the mainstream eschatologists of Latin Americanist theory, my work
closes presenting real, pragmatic alternatives. They are informed by the actions and
experiences of several Latin American communities that are devising “posthegemonic”
strategies of resistance. They are immediately put to work to cope with the devastating
effects of the so far unsuccessful hostile struggle by the market‟s mentioned-above
emissaries to jumpstart and incorporate modern local economies into the postmodern
neoliberal project of globalization.
Saskia Poldervaart
This workshop will deal with the question how different groups/streams of the
alterglobalisation movement interact with each other and with society? The question it
will simultaneously try to address is whether Do-it-Yourself politics is enough to change
society?
Suzan van der Post
Utopian Aspects of Feminism (No Abstract)
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Rutger van Ree
Squatting Movements and Pleasure
This presentation will focus on two main questions,
1. Is „the personal political‟? And what is the relationship between „politics‟ and
„culture‟ in modern social/political movements?
2. What is the role of pleasure in social/political movements?
As to the first question I will elaborate on the idea of public and private and how this idea
corresponds mostly with the sphere dominated by men, women might also had a say,
but they were confined within a modern construction. Second wave feminists in order to
create a change had to create an alternative to the accepted idea of public and private.
However, while history is made up of individual and collective actions, and so, one has a
(minor) influence on the shape of things to come, if one feels the need for a change, it
does not do only to reflect theoretically on political systems, or to change things on a
governmental level, but also to change the day-to-day situation of „real‟ people. The
concept of D.I.Y. comes to mind, as does „buurtstrijd‟, a squat term with militant
connotation for changing the world by beginning in your own neighborhood. One of the
consequences is that the separation between „culture‟ and „politics‟ is not so strict as it is
usually assumed to be.
As to the second question I will ask whether because the true revolutionary is in a
constant struggle with the powers that be and is constantly aware of the dire situation of
the less privileged, the revolutionary leftist movement has a difficult relationship to
idleness and frivolity? So are revolutionaries always to work hard, be serious and stay
devoid of joy? Undoubtedly, there will be a wide consensus that this is at least a
caricature. But in how far is this image factually correct? And in how far is this necessary
or preferable?
Davide Rossi – Emilio Sabatino
For a school system with a future
From Paris to Milan, from Lisbon to Bellinzona, European students and professors are
asking themselves impatiently about the freedom of thought, the energy and intelligence.
Schools and Universities are places of culture and cannot be reduced to offices of a
consumerist society. We are getting organized everywhere in Europe to construct an
alternative for a different tomorrow. For these reasons we funded “FESAL-E”, “European
Federation of alternative trade unionism in Education” in September 2003. Pupils,
students, teachers and parents of pupils of different countries (France, Italy, Switzerland,
Portugal, Slovenia and Spain, and with contacts in Holland and Germany) united in the
desire to recuperate the lost essence of a school that should be the home of all of
society. While the school should encourage the liberty of teaching of the teachers as well
as the liberty of learning of students, instead of limiting such liberties, we experience that
increasingly, external systems of “qualitative evaluation” are inserted. These have the
aim to stop the pupils and professors from constructing through daily analysis and
confrontation the indispensable knowledge that allows them to confront the society they
face daily. This is happening as a consequence of the “General Agreement of Trades
and Services” (GATS) in which the European governments pretend to transform the
school in a location at the service of the rules of the market. Only a school in which
knowledge is the patrimony of youngsters and of teachers has a future. Only the passion
for what is taught, and for what is studied, brings the school to life. Therefore, the school
should be a free public space, liberated of reasons of state.
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“FESAL-E” also struggles for the respect of the rights of organization in trade unions, a
fundamental element of democracy and plurality.
The feeling of freedom that unites us wants to return the smile (not the stomach pains!)
to the students, pupils and teachers that every day make the school with their heart and
their intelligence. Together, with courage, with determination, with passion, for freedom
and for culture.
Emilio Sabatino
For a school system with a future (for abstract see: Davide Rossi)
Angela Sanders
Film Screening: Europlex and Domestic Scapes
Christian Scholl
Utopian Aspets of Feminism (No Abstract)
Cema Martinova Serbezova
Trade, Growth and Poverty
Globalization is unavoidable and trade liberalization is an important policy which
should exist in the reform packages for both industrialized and developing countries.
Gross domestic product (GDP) growth has a strong link with the degree of the openness
of a country which refers to the share of import and export percentage of GDP. Social
effects of trade will be discussed based on a short theory introduction to the topic.
Mehmet Siray
Performance and Performativity: The problematization of Border(s)and
(non)Identity in the Kutlu Atman's Video Installation "1+1=1"
The article aims at analyzing Kutlug Ataman's video installation (2 DVDs, each
approximately 50 minutes, two- screen video installation with variable
dimensions) 1+1=1 shown in Istanbul Biennial in 18 September-16 November 2003.
The article problematizes the illegal journey of a Turkish Cypriot who crosses illegally the
border in between north and south Cyprus. The video installation covers the Turkish
Cypriot's memories about her childhood in the southern part of Cyprus, the obligatory
immigration of her family members to northern part and the division of two parts after
1974. She memorizes all those "events" from various perspectives. If we repeat what
she said at the beginning of the video installation: "memory is, no doubt, selective", we
can claim that the art work questions several issues from different point of views while
showing at the same time how this (these) selective memory (ies) shifts. My aim is to
show how the bodies and identities are determined in terms of the division of spaces
which are usually defined by law and prohibition. Even though bodies and identities are
determined by borders and limits, I will argue that "the law" cannot succeed to substitute
well defined and absolute identity roles to citizens/individuals. In this article, following
and underlining Kutlug Ataman's indications, I will discuss how certain kinds of identities
(and respectively bodies) are transgressed in terms of radicalizing and ridiculising the
borders.
Monica Smith
Domestic Migrant Workers Through Artistic Means
I am interested in organizing one workshop and one roundtable discussion. I would like
to organize a workshop for people interested in addressing the issues of domestic
migrant workers through artistic means: film, theater, writing. I am in the process of
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completing a film on Sri Lankan domestic laborers working in Lebanon. A cut of the film
should be ready to be viewed by mid-June. I would also like to organize a roundtable to
talk about ways to address agency of domestic migrant workers. Recently much has
been written in academia in regards to how the worth and identity of the domestic is
constructed through
governmental bodies, hiring agencies, and economic policies. Drawing upon Foucault
and Agamben, many have attended to the powers that create the worker's subjectivity.
But I am more interested in attending to the ways that these women have agency in the
shaping of their identities, their lives and constructed work. For example, why are they
deciding to go to work? How are they able to subvert the system to work for them?
What are they doing with the money they earn? In focusing on these aspects we are
able to work outside of the frame of globalization and neo-liberalism that constructs such
workers as pawns within the capitalist system.
Evangelia Stergiou
A (new) spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of immigration (for abstract
see: Tasos Papadimitriou)
Mark Wege
The conflict between the individual emancipation and the rationalising tendencies
in social movements
Social movements base and flourish from their diversity. There are as many reasons for
engaging oneself in a movement as activists. These subjective motivations stand in a
conflict with the rationalising tendencies to answer questions like: What are the common
goals and demands and how should they be pursued? The discussions in the movement
often rather focus on these strategic questions, then adressing this conflict. During the
last months I was concerned with this problem from a psychological and historical
perspective. In this workshop I want to share some of my thoughts and conclusions. I
hope the discussion in the workshop, will be more concrete than this description :-) and
involve the shared experiences of the participants. Therefore the group should not be
bigger than 15 people.
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3. Biographical information participants:
Albayrak Őzlem
I am a PhD student at Department of Economics, Institute for Social Sciences, Ankara
University. I got my MA degree in economics in 2003. The title of my MA thesis is
"Theorical Bases of Welfare Economics: The Link Between Market and Welfare."
Fawwaz Al-Haq
Professor of linguistics and English language,Ph.D and MA University of Wisconsin-
Madison, MA in Tefl Yarmouk University, BA English, Chairman of Uwalumni in Jordan,
Vice dean of the Faculty of Arts, published more than 60 articles/chapters in refereed
journals.
Maria Boletsi
I have studied Greek Philology (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Literary Studies
(University of Amsterdam), and Cultural Analysis (University of Amsterdam) and I am
now a PhD candidate at the University of Leiden. In my research I try to re-examine the
concept of barbarism and the figure of the barbaric Other in works of contemporary
literature and the visual arts.
Sorina Chiper
I am a PhD student of 20th American autobiography and an assistant lecturer of English
for Business in the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration in Iasi, Romania.
Barbara Ciccarelli
I'm an Assistant Professor of English at Neumann College, Aston, PA, USA. I received
my PhD from University of Exeter, UK and specialized in Life Writing and Trauma
Studies.
Aslihan Coban
I'm a sociology graduate of METU and continue my M.A. degree in political science at
METU.
Asli Coban
Research Assistant in the Gender and Women's Studies Program of Middle East
Techical University.
Patrick Cuninghame
I completed a PhD thesis on Autonomia (Italian radical social movement of the 1970s) at
Middlesex University, London, and now lecture in Sociology at the Universidad
Autónoma Ciudad Juárez in Mexico. I am researching on globalization, maquiladoras
and identity on the US-Mexican border. In London I was involved in various social
movements and Zapatista solidarity groups.
Esra Elmas
PhD candidate in English Literature at Bogazici University Istanbul. Interests include
identity formation: minorities, stereotypes, and semiotics.
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Senay Eray
I am a MSc student and a research assistant in Middle East Technical University in
Gender and Women's Studies.
Ayse Erek
PhD candidate in Art History in Istanbul. Interests include visual culture, technoculture,
cultural identity, new media art, visual semiotics.
Anna Feigenbaum
Anna Feigenbaum is a doctoral student in Communication Studies at McGill University in
Montreal, Quebec where she co-coordinates the Graduate Group for Feminist
Scholarship. She is also a founding member of the [ctrl] collective, a group that runs
projects on control, resistance and creative engagements of space. Her dissertation
research investigates feminist activists‟ use of media technologies over the course of the
20th century.
Julian Finn
Founding member of Attac-Germany's Workgroup "Wissensallmende". Current focus:
Campaign against software patents (www.stoppt-softwarepatente.de) Campaign for an
alternative compensation system (www.fairsharing.de) Work on copyright and
alternatives, global effects of western intellectual monopoly rights systems.
Ela Gökalp
I am MSc student at the Middle East Technical University, Sociology Department.
Recently, I am at the thesis stage, and my thesis subject is "European Gender Equality
Policies and Turkey". Also, since December 2003 I am working as "project manager" for
Flying Broom, which is one of the national women's network organization in Turkey.
Ayse Gönüllü
I'm research assistant in Middle East Technical University at Department of Gender and
Women's Studies. I'm also an activist feminist in Turkish Women's Movement. I am
writing a master thesis, the subject of my resarch is "How women's activism engender
the political agenda in Turkey?".
Havard Haarstad
Håvard Haarstad from the University of Bergen, Norway, recently completed
his Master‟s thesis on globalization and the potential for resistance with a
case study from Peru.
Alexandra Haché
I was in the core team group that did prepare the meeting in Barcelona about "Social
movements and activist reserach" last year 23/25 january 2004. I am also part of the
action reserach network for ESF process (check www.euromovements.info), and a
group working in urbanistic thematics (http://redactiva.tk). To end, I am making a PhD on
how
social movements uses the ict to communicate the fights and resistances.
Dieuwertje Huijg
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Alice van der Klei
Alice van der Klei holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the Université de Montréal
on cultural icons (one of them being Che Guevara) in hypertext, new technologies,
memory and literature. She is an MA graduate from the University of Amsterdam in
French Language and Literature, specialized in Quebec culture and literature after
having received a Canadian grant to study in Quebec Studies. She is presently a
research agent at the Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Emerging Technologies,
Faculté des Arts et des Sciences, Université de Montréal.
Ceyda Kuloglu
I am currently working as the assistant of Yajkin Erturk, UN Special Rapporteur on
Violence against Women and I have graduated from Middle East Technical University
Sociology Department Master's Programme and Turkish Military Academy Crime
Research Master's Programme. I am a Ph.D student in Hacettepe University Sociology
Department.
Esther Langen
I work for the Dutch Council of Vocational Education and Training. Last year I created
with a friend our own organisation: Communicado Foundation, with the aim of improving
intercultural communication among youth.
Sebastian Lara
More of 10 years of experience in the international arena with indigenous peoples issues
at the UN. Experience in ITC activism, and intercultural matters.
Miguel Martinez Lopez
Sociologist and PhD in Political Science. I have researched about Squatting in Spain,
Urban Sociology, Migrations, Co-Op, Participatory-Action-Research, etc. I have been
also activist in antimilitarist movements. Books published as author: "¿Dónde están las
llaves? El movimiento okupa: prácticas y contextos sociales" (Madrid: La Catarata,
2004), "Okupaciones de viviendas y centros sociales" (Barcelona: Virus, 2002),
"Asambleas y reuniones" (Madrid: Traficantes de Sueños, 2001), etc.
Daria Melnyk
Beatriz Calderón Muňoz
She took her degree at the University in León in Spain and, after a year teaching
Spanish as a foreign language, she started working on her MA that she hopes will be
ready for June. Her main areas of interest are Postmodernism, cultural and literary
hybridity and Asian American literature.
Maria Carmen Pantea
I am a PhD candidate in Sociology and a Returning Scholar under the Academic
Fellowship Program, part of OSI. I conduct seminars on Sociology of Childhood and on
Sociology of Education at the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Babes-Bolyai
University, Romania. I have a Master degree in Gender Studies at the Central European
University. I also have postgraduate studies in Social Relations and
Public Communications and an MA in Integrated Education at Babes-Bolyai University,
Romania.
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Tasos Papadimitriou
I am from Greece, but living in the UK for the last five years. Recent political
involvement: Stop the War Coalition, London ESF, Kent Refugee Support Group. I am
currently working on a PhD on social movements.
Hugo Pezzini
Please, go to Http://www.hugopezzini.com/beta/ There is extensive information about
myself and my work.
Saskia Poldervaart
Saskia Poldervaart (1945) was very active in all kinds of feminism, is a assistant
professor genderstudies at the Univ. of Amsterdam and her research is about
utopianism, feminism and social movements. Latest publications about the
alterglobalisation movement.
Suzan van der Post
Rutger van Ree
-I recently graduated from the UvA in Genderstudies.
-have been more or less active in the amsterdam squatmovement for some ten years.
-My thesis was on the subculture of the squat movement, as opposed to other texts,
which usually refer mainly to the outward aspect of confrontation and occupation. I do
not mean to downplay the impotence of those aspects, or deny their legitimacy, but
wanted to shed light on some other factors that I think are important in maintaining the
movement.
Davide Rossi
Fesal-e, Unicobas
Emilio Sabatino
Fesal-e
Angela Sanders
Angela Sanders studied visual anthropology and film studies at the Universities of Zurich
and Edinburgh. Her research and video practice focuses on the Spanish-Moroccan
borderlands and on the living spaces of Moroccan domestic workers in Spain. In 2003,
she co-produced "Europlex" and the video installation "Estrecho Complex" with Ursula
Biemann, and later produced the video Domestic Scapes (2004). Her videos have been
exhibited internationally, e.g. at Femme Totale video festival in Dortmund, Center for
Contemporary Culture, Barcelona and at Urban Diaries at ARCO Madrid. Sanders
publishes on subjects related to gender, identity and media and is in the editorial team of
FRAZ, a Swiss feminist magazine where she signed for the issue on the Mediterranean.
ajade@bluemail.ch / www.fronterasur.geobodies.org
Christian Scholl
Cema Martinova Serbezova
Cema Martinova Serbezova is from Bulgaria. She is 26 years old and
studies International Project Management in Germany
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Mehmet Siray
I am a phD student in the program of "Performance and Media Studies" in the University
of Mainz. My current project is about Performance Studies, which is titled as
"Performance and Performativity." After I got B.A from philosophy department at Middle
East Technical University, Ankara , Turkey, I registered to the master program in Bilkent
University where I got MFA degree. My master thesis was about philosophy of art, which
is titled as "George Battaille's Notion of Transgression: A Possible Exprience Concerning
Art and Philosophy."My last publication is titled as "Antonin Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty:
Can rituals be the Ground for the New Theatre?" which published in "Beyond Aesthetics:
Performance, Media, and Cultural Studies", Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2004
Mainz.
Monica Smith
I am currently a graduate student in human geography at the University of Colorado,
Boulder. My research is primarily focused on domestic migrant workers moving from
Asia into the Middle East. Previously, I worked as a journalist in Beirut, Lebanon where I
wrote articles on various social issues, including the plight of domestic workers within the
country.
Evangelia Stergiou
I come from Athens, Greece, but have been mainly living in the UK since 1998. I am
interested in the study of language and society and I've been recently researching into
the area of comedy and society. As an immigrant myself (first time at the tender age of
3) I have an interest in issues relating to migration and people's attitudes.
Mark Peter Wege
Born 1973 in Berlin, Mark Wege is a student of psychology in Bremen (Germany). He is
currently studying at the Roskilde University Center (RUC) (Denmark). He has been
active for a long time in the (youth) environmental and the anti-nuclear movement.
In the past years he has concentrated on activities within local psychology student board
which he has founded together with others.
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