Project description
Understanding punk in Turkey youth though fanzines
From the 1990s onwards, Turkish punk subculture has developed fanzines which are inexpensive print media combining elements of music, art and socio-political issues related both to local youth culture and global punk. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the TR PuNK project will analyse unpublished fanzines devoted to Turkish punk issues during the 1990s with regard to their historical value and insights into the youth generation and their critique. The project will look at punk views and politics via fanzines, transcending Eurocentric approaches to the issue. As the only comprehensive study on the topic, it will present various socio-economic and cultural aspects of punk as well as new forms of youth political engagement.
Objective
This project is based on the study of unpublished punk related fanzines produced in Turkey in the 1990s, when punk began to take its first steps in the country. Literally “magazine for fans”, fanzines are informal, photocopied, low-cost self-publications that forged the literary and graphic language of punk. The varied textual framework these documents provide, where aesthetics, music-related information, and interviews interact with commentary on socio-political and personal issues, enable a unique understanding of the local punk youth. In addition, combining the global circulation of punk and its local adaptation, fanzines testify to the complex processes of connection, interface, and interrelation among transnational punk scenes. My research aims to recover and analyse these documents in Turkey which today assume a crucial historical value due to their distinctive contextualization of youthful agency and generational critique. Fanzines will be used also to trace and study the transmission and translation of punk-related attitudes and politics in the Turkish context. Thus, their analysis allows the decontextualization of punk from the ‘core’ of its Western-based production, contributing to a reflection on the roles that these documents play in non-Western contexts. Following a content-focused approach of fanzine carried out by Prof. Matthew Worley and the University of Reading-hosted Subcultures Network, the project submitted for this fellowship aims to be the first comprehensive research on punk-related fanzines in Turkey. This research provides a unique site-specific case that will help broaden the geographies of fanzine studies exemplifying the variety of socioeconomic, cultural, and political lenses through which punk may be read and understood. At the same time this research takes up the challenge posed by youth studies in Turkey, showing renewed forms of commitment situated far from the categories of what came to define the ‘political’ in previous decades.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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