The Heart That Doesn't Concede

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Author Meets Readers  | Challenging Racism Project | School of Social Sciences | Western Sydney University

<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/89646376/admin/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Challenging Racism Project </a> invites you to join the Author Meets Readers Series with Assoc Prof Seçil Dağtaş to discuss her unpublished book chapter "The Heart That Doesn't Concede” in her upcoming book An Uneasy Coexistence: Everyday Politics of Religious Difference in Southern Turkey on Tuesday, 7 March at 11:00 am AEDT. Please register to receive a copy of the chapter and attend the seminar online. Zoom details will be provided closer to the date.AbstractSince the turn of the 21st century, Turkey has experienced both the rise of democratization efforts making formerly excluded minority citizens more visible in public life and an authoritarian nationalism that has bolstered the country’s longstanding racial, religious, and political divides. Drawing on extended fieldwork in Antakya (Antioch) near Turkey’s border with Syria, this session focuses on the ambiguous sites of intimacy and social cohabitation that emerge for the minoritized from the interplay between these seemingly opposite political developments. I examine how unevenly situated minority and refugee groups at Turkey’s national margins forge each other’s existence through reproducing religious differences amid various forms of precarity, political polarization, and structural violence.B﻿ioSeçil Dağtaş is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Religious Studies at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She has published widely on gender relations, religious difference, tolerance, and refugee and minority displacement in Turkey, both in scholarly journals (including Cultural Anthropology, Current History, Social Politics, International Journal of Middle East Studies, and Anthropological Quarterly) and in peer reviewed online platforms (including The Conversation and Cultural Anthropology Hotspots). Dağtaş is currently finishing her book, An Uneasy Coexistence: Everyday Politics of Religious Difference in Southern Turkey and has also begun new research on religious networks among diverse migrant communities in Southern Cyprus. Dağtaş, S. “The Heart That Doesn't Concede” in An Uneasy Coexistence: Everyday Politics of Religious Difference in Southern Turkey. Unpublished.

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