Projektbeschreibung
Minderheiten der Türkei rücken in den Mittelpunkt
Inwiefern war das Theater an den Vorkommnissen nationaler Erniedrigung in der Türkei und ihrer Diaspora beteiligt? Wie haben erniedrigte Minderheiten das Theater genutzt, um die Politik der Zugehörigkeit zu disputieren? Für die Beantwortung dieser Fragen wird das EU-finanzierte Projekt STAGING-ABJECTION einen disziplinenübergreifenden theoretischen und methodologischen Rahmen anwenden, um zu untersuchen, welche Rolle das Theater in der Verfassung der türkischen Nation und ihren „anderen“ gespielt hat. Auf der Grundlage von klassischen und alternativen Archiven sowie ethnografischen Forschungsmethoden wird sich die Studie über den Zeitraum von der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis hin zu zeitgenössischen Produktionen erstrecken. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Produktionen über die Armenier nach 1915, über Sexualität und nationale Identität in queeren Dramen, sowie islamische, sephardisch-jüdische und alevitische Theater in der Türkei und in Europa.
Ziel
Nation-building processes comprise not only of creating a collectivity but also of defining its borders through abjection. This research will analyse how theatre has served the processes of national abjection, and how abjected minorities have used theatre to negotiate the politics of belonging in Turkey and its diasporas. Employing a rigorous transdisciplinary theoretical and methodological framework, the project will study the key role theatre has played in the constitution of “the Turkish nation” and its Others.
Staging National Abjection covers the period from the rise of European-style theatre in the Ottoman Empire in the mid-nineteenth century to contemporary productions. Using both mainstream and alternative archives and ethnographic research methods, the project will investigate topics of vital importance that have received limited academic attention: theatre productions involving Armenians after the Genocide; negotiation of sexuality and national identity in queer dramas; Islamic theatre in Turkey and its European diasporas; Sephardic Jewish theatre in Turkey and diasporic productions in Israel and Europe; and Alevi theatre in Turkey and Europe. These case studies will bring different perspectives to the issue of national abjection, and provide insights into the political economy of contemporary Turkish theatre responding to pressures of a conservative neoliberal government.
Using the case of Turkey as a vantage point, this project will ask critical questions of broader theoretical significance about the role of theatre in regulating the politics of belonging in the nation-state, and about the relationship between artistic performance and the everyday performance of citizenship. This research will illustrate the political tensions that define Turkey and its growing diasporas, advance our understanding of diasporic and refugee theatre in Europe, and provide ground-breaking insights into cultural politics in post-Imperial contexts and illiberal democracies.
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ERC-STG - Starting GrantGastgebende Einrichtung
34230 Istanbul
Türkei