Browsing by Subject "Stigmatization"

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The emergence and evolution of a politicized market : the production and circulation of Kurdish music Turkey
(2015) Kuruoğlu, Alev Pınar
This dissertation explicates the emergence and evolution of a market for Kurdish music in Turkey. Using ethnographic methods, I start by detailing the illegal circulation of cassettes during the restrictive and strife-laden period of the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. Through the resistive practices of circulation - recording, hiding, playing, and exchanging cassettes – cassettes became saturated with emotions, established shared emotional repertoires, and habituated individuals and collectives into common emotional dispositions. An emotional structure was generated, and accompanied the emergence of a sense of “us,” the delineation of the “other,” and the resistive relationship between the two. I thus demonstrate the entwinement of materiality with emotions, and the structuring potentiality that this entwinement generates. In the second part, I ethnographically explore the trajectory of the market after legalization in 1991. Situated within a context characterized by the sociopolitical dynamics of domination and stigmatization, I detail how market producers collectively construct an oppositional “market culture” by framing their marketrelated experiences, as well as by interacting with and borrowing ideological codes from the neighboring Kurdish political movement. These frames become entrenched as a political-normative logic, shaping artistic production and business decisions. This emergent logic negotiates societal-level conflict and stigma, and also resolves the market-level tension between artistic and commercial concerns. Finally, I explore the segmentation of the market in conjunction with changes in the socio-political atmosphere in the 2000s. I discuss how segmentation also corresponds to competing social imaginaries of a Kurdish public.
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How Romani culture was subjected to stigmatization during the peak decline of the Ottoman Empire, and what were its harrowing effects in the following years?
(Bilkent University, 2023) Azimli, Maryam; Bilal, Muhammad; Muhammad, Messem Kazim; Sepehrvand, Elina; Zahid, Iman
The Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878) was a tipping point for Romani culture in Türkiye after the decline of the Ottoman Empire. The war warranted immigration, and a significant inrush of Romani people occurred in Türkiye, which was one of the reasons why the community faced backlash and stigmatization in the later years. When the Ottoman empire was faring well and was at its zenith, the attitude toward the immigrants, the Romani people, was benign, and the Turks were living in a harmonious society where the Romani culture was celebrated copiously, especially in the palaces of the Sultans. Given the sheer number of immigrants that once settled in Türkiye, it was imminent for society to stir up as the opportunities were near zero to accommodate everyone. This eventually snowballed into a scenario where the Romani community was extensively neglected, targeted, and alienated, leaving them to resort to means that further deteriorated their condition in Türkiye.
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The portrayal of marijuana on vice.com documentaries
(2017-09) Özsu, Gökçe
This thesis aims to examine the representational attitude of vice.com (or VICE) documentaries covering marijuana, in the context of normalization. In this respect, this thesis mainly descriptively analyses three VICE documentaries covering marijuana in the setting of recreation, medicine and industry. VICE is a United States based media outlet which uses hybrid form of journalism combining conventional form of media operations and new media techniques. Normalization is a sociological concept for describing the the scale of social acceptance as a norm which was disseminated from the margins of the society towards mainstream scale. To implement descriptive analysis on vice.com documentaries, normalization and drug representation in the United States media has been evaluated in the socio-historical setting, and examined. As a major finding, even though vice.com documentaries represent marijuana as normal, the normative references of normalization of marijuana is not clear. In this respect, in the conclusion, the determiners and normative background of normalization of marijuana are tried to be discussed.