The Dirty Others of New Racism: Kurds, Alevis, Armenians

Dirty Others of New Racism: Kurds, Alevis, Armenians Book Description

Despite all the measures aimed at limiting, controlling and even banning discriminatory practices regarding class, race, ethnicity and gender, discrimination continues to be an important problem that has changed its form and infiltrated daily life, but its visibility has decreased. Indirect forms of discrimination continue to be produced, especially through judgments that hide themselves in the messages disseminated by the media about almost every aspect of daily life, and that get lost between the lines of an ordinary, irrelevant news or text, but can well be described as racist when looked at closely.

This study undertakes the obligation to make this new form of racist discourse visible. In the book, the ways in which racism and discrimination, which are placed behind "ambiguous" appearances and often hidden between the lines, take place in the daily conversations of "ordinary people" who follow the media in some way, are revealed and the curtain of the new racism is opened. It is examined how ordinary media followers construct new racist discourses in their daily lives, and how the new racist ideology functions as a fantasy through the ethnic, religious and sexual differences of the "other".

By articulating discriminatory ideologies, the "old" racism, which is based on biological foundations, is more sexist, nationalist, etc., based on its hateful expressions against Kurds, Alevis, Armenians, women, and different sexual orientations. It traces how the concept transformed and what meanings it took on in the process that evolved into the "new" racism produced by the alliance of ideologies.
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 224

Year of Printing: 2015


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Footnote

First Print Year: 2015

Language Turkish