Description du projet
Les minorités de Turquie sous le feu des projecteurs
Dans quelle mesure le théâtre a-t-il été au service des processus d’abjection nationale en Turquie et de ses diasporas? Comment les minorités mises au banc de la société ont-elles utilisé le théâtre comme moyen de négocier l’aspect politique de l’intégration? Pour répondre à ces questions, le projet STAGING-ABJECTION, financé par l’UE, appliquera un cadre théorique et méthodologique transdisciplinaire pour étudier le rôle du théâtre dans la constitution de la nation turque et de ses «autres». Sur la base des archives grand public et alternatives et de méthodes de recherche ethnographiques, les recherches porteront sur des productions comprises entre la moitié du 19e siècle et aujourd’hui. Le projet s’intéressera tout particulièrement aux productions liées aux arméniens après 1915, à la sexualité et l’identité nationale dans les pièces d’art dramatique queer, ainsi qu’au théâtre islamique, juif séfarade et aléviste en Turquie et en Europe.
Objectif
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 GrantInstitution d’accueil
34230 Istanbul
Turquie