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Tuesday, September 20, 2016

12 cute libraries in Istanbul… and an Istanbul news roundup…

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This Atatürk Library, close to Gezi Park. It has a good newspaper archive;)

12 Libraries piece is in Turkish but you might get some clues in any case;)

Iconic Istanbul neighborhoods are struggling

Hurriyet Daily News

Beyoğlu on the European side of Istanbul and Bağdat Street on the Anatolian side are sad. Morale is down for the owners of shops and those working

Spotlight: Istanbul striving to be among safest cities in the world

Xinhua

ISTANBUL, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) — Istanbul, the most populous city in Turkey, has been working hard to upgrade security measures in an effort to palliate …

Turkey detains female PKK militant at Istanbul airport – The Express Tribune

Istanbul’s Neve Shalom Massacre: How the ‘Oasis of Peace’ Turned Into a Scene of Sava …

Algemeiner

Thirty years ago, Neve Shalom — Istanbul’s largest synagogue, whose name means “oasis of peace” — was the target of a brutal attack at the hands

Istanbul Atatürk Airport breaks record with 1,500 takeoffs and landings

Istanbul Atatürk Airport reached all-time high numbers with a total of 1,500 takeoffs and landings on Sept. 18, setting a new record for the airport, Doğan News Agency has reported

Film: The Eye of Istanbul

CultureCapital.com

The Eye of Istanbul tells the story of Ara Guler, the legendary Armenian-Turkish photographer, through the culmination of his retrospective exhibition in

Study and Restoration of the Zeyrek Camii in Istanbul

Dumbarton Oaks

The Zeyrek Camii (Monastery of Christ Pantokrator) represents the most significant monument in the city to survive from the period between Hagia

International Istanbul Initiative on Ageing

International Federation on Ageing

From October 4-6, 2013, the International Istanbul Initiative on Ageing (IIIA) was held in Istanbul, Turkey at the WOW International Convention Center.

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Main opposition party believes “1 million sufferers in post-coup process

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CHP urges fair trial, cites 1 million sufferers in post-coup process

The number of people who have suffered from the government’s “reckless measures” against suspected Gülenists within the civil service has hit 1 million, the main opposition leader has said

Turkish schools reopen after purge of teachers suspected of coup links

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Agence France-Presse in Istanbul

Unions predict a chaotic start to the school year with as many as 50,000 teaching vacancies unfilled

Turkey has dismissed over 27,000 teachers, suspended 9,000: Deputy PM

Turkey has recently dismissed 27,715 teachers and suspended 9,465, Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli stated late on Sept. 19, adding that the decisions were made over teachers’ suspected links to either the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) or the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ)

Rights Organizations: UN Must Monitor Turkey Closely

Bianet :: English

In the human rights session of the UN Human Rights Council, NGOs have underlined the increasing human rights violations during the State of Emergency and stated that the violations must be monitored closely.

Euro court fines Turkey over lack of investigation into death of soldier

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Sept. 20 ordered Turkey to pay compensation to a couple from the eastern province of Ağrı who had filed a complaint over their son’s death during his compulsory military service

Town quarantined over rabies epidemic in Turkey’s south

A town has been quarantined following the outbreak of a rabies epidemic in the southern province of Osmaniye, with at least 104 people receiving treatment in hospital

Court jails 45 university students in Turkish capital Ankara

Jail sentences have been given to 45 university students who staged a protest against then Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during the launch ceremony of a Turkish satellite in December 2012 at the Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ)

Demirtaş Calls on PKK, Government to Agree Ceasefire

Bianet :: English

HDP Co-Leader Demirtaş has called on the PKK and the government to agree a ceasefire,

Turkey continues to lose the publicity war

Turkey is its own worst enemy when it comes to public diplomacy.

Governor’s office bans rallies, protests before controversial mine hearing in Turkey’s north

The Artvin Governor’s Office has banned rallies and protests in the Black Sea province for a month in the wake of an announcement that a hearing for a controversial mine construction will be held on Sept. 19

Turkey will not act unilaterally against ISIL in Raqqa, Erdoğan says

Turkey supports plans to drive the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) out of its Syrian stronghold of Raqqa and it would not act alone in any such operation, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has stated

Court arrests man who attacked woman for wearing shorts in Istanbul

A court on Sept. 19 ordered the arrest of a man who attacked and injured a young woman on a public bus in Istanbul for wearing shorts on Sept. 12

On Syria’s Border With Turkey

NYT > Turkey by By ANNE BARNARD

Fattah Issa, 38, lives in Kobani, a city in northern Syria far from the front lines and controlled by Kurdish militias. An ethnic Kurd, he left a government job in Damascus as the country’s crisis began.

Turkey-backed rebels could push further south in Syria, Erdoğan says

Turkey-backed rebels may extend their zone of control in northern Syria by pushing south and were now focused on heading toward the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)-held town of al-Bab, Turkish President RecepTayyip Erdoğan said on Sept. 19

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New photo from Facebook September 20, 2016 at 06:06PM

Mitch Dobrowner’dan fırtına fotoğrafçılığı. Daha fazlası için bkz: http://ift.tt/2d6sBDT via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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New photo from Facebook September 20, 2016 at 10:53AM

Bu arada Innsbruck, Avusturya. via Reddit. via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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Sunday, September 20, 2015

New photo from Facebook September 20, 2015 at 05:07PM

Şangay, Çin’de yükseltilmiş yaya yolu. via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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New photo from Facebook September 20, 2015 at 04:38PM

Eski zaman google’laması. via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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Anthropology roundup: “Jack Goody (1919-2015): an oral history

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Jack Goody (1919-2015): an oral history

Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog

[The following is an invited post by Keith Hart, Centennial Professor of Economic Anthropology in the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics and International Director of the Human Economy Program in the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship at the University of Pretoria.]

Thomas Marchione Award 2015

FoodAnthropology

The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition ispleased to announce the 2015 Thomas Marchione Award.

Honoring the seminal academic and humanitarian work of Thomas J. Marchione, this award is given to MA and Ph.D. students whose active engagement in food security and food sovereignty issues continues and expands Dr. Marchione’s efforts toward food justice, food access, and food as a human right.

Anthropology in Action: Training the Next Generation
UANews (press release)
Learn more about the School of Anthropology’s activities and accomplishments during UA Anthropology’s 100th Birthday celebration on Tuesday from 4-7 p.m. in the Student Union Memorial Center’s South Ballroom. The school also will have a booth at …

Professor champions archaeology, anthropology at ETSU
Johnson City Press (subscription)

Since receiving his position, Franklin has cooperated with colleagues to make the anthropology department at ETSU more inviting to students with an interest in archaeology. Originally, ETSU only offered anthropology as a minor. “When I got here part of …

Notes on the third digital ethnography reading session

media/anthropology by John Postill

by Will Balmford
PhD Candidate
RMIT University, Melbourne

See other posts on the digital ethnography reading group (DERG)

This session we discussed Helen Kennedy’s 2003 article Technobiography: Researching lives, online and off. As has become practice for DERG, we had a wide variety of voices from different areas, including all the regulars but also adding Lucy Chen (who is studying life changes through social media), Nicholas Hansen (exploring interactive documentary) and Julian Waters-Lynch (an expert in the arena of education and support for social entrepreneurship).

Guava Anthropology Meets Savage Minds

Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog by Renée Salmonsen

Language choice can be an issue of access. In attempt to shorten some of the gaps, but mostly to highlight some of the awesome anthropology happening in Taiwan, we have taken on this exciting translation project. Beginning with last week’s article, The Riddle of Sean Lien, we will be translating a handful of articles written in Chinese from the Guava Anthropology blog for Savage Minds this September. The articles we have chosen range in theme, background, and chronology, and yet all remain, in our opinion, excitingly relevant.

Language panels at #AAA2015

Society for Linguistic Anthropology by Chad Nilep

Once again this year, the list of language-related panels and activities at the American Anthropological Association’s Annual Meeting. The 114th AAA Annual Meeting will be held November 18-22 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. See the Annual Meeting Central page on the AAA web site for details and links.

#OpenAccess as Famine

Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology

The current state of thinking about open access today is a lot like our contemporary understanding of famine.

In the early 1980s Amartya Sen and Jean Drèze published the ground-breaking book Hunger and Public Action. In it, Sen and Drèze made the unexpected and original argument that famines are not caused by lack of food. Rather, they are caused by lack of entitlement — when famines occur, there is typically enough food to feed everyone, but the social system that distributes it is out of whack. Prices change such that poor people can no longer afford food, and there are not enough (or not correctly designed) social programs that ensure the food is distributed to the poor. It’s not the food that’s missing, it’s the justice.

To Fieldwork, To Write

Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog by Carole McGranahan

[Savage Minds is pleased to run this essay by guest author Kim Fortun as part of our Writers’ Workshop series. Fortun is Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is the author of Advocacy After Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders (University of Chicago Press 2001), former co-editor of Cultural Anthropology, and is now playing a lead role in the development of the Platform for Experimental, Collaborative Ethnography.]

Anthropology in Action: Identifying Missing Migrants
UANews (press release)
Learn more about the School of Anthropology’s activities and accomplishments during UA Anthropology’s 100th Birthday celebration on Tuesday from 4-7 p.m. in the Student Union Memorial Center’s South Ballroom. The school also will have a booth at .

Anthropologies #21: Why do we need to teach climate change in anthropology?

Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog by Ryan

This entry is part 6 of 6 in the Anthropologies #21 series.

Our next installment in the climate change series comes from Katherine J. Johnson, who is currently a PhD candidate in the department of anthropology at the University of Maryland. –R.A.

College students have acquired a lot of useful information, but a limited ability to utilize that knowledge–and sometimes a surprising lack of perspective on real world problems. Many of the students I have taught in Anthropology and Climate Change courses seem to have little factual and context-specific understanding of climate change, despite growing up in an era of public contestation around this issue. Anthropology has a lot of strengths stemming from core theoretical tenants such as holism, reflexivity, and concern for marginalized populations. We can easily leverage these strengths to aid students in better understanding of climate change issues within relevant contexts, and to build on their weak knowledge of accepted science.

Anthropologies #21: ‘Patabea se bariu’–Rethinking environmental change

Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology

This entry is part 5 of 5 in the Anthropologies #21 series.

Our next essay comes from Elena Burgos-Martínez, who is currently completing her PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology at Durham University. Her research explores local conceptualisations of the environment at the intersection between cultures in coastal Indonesia. She is interested in linguistic variations brought about by semantic expansion and new forms of rationalization which define local senses of modernity and belonging. Elena has background in Education, Geology, Chemistry, Sociolinguistics and Social Anthropology and strives to integrate different scientific paradigms when undertaking research. –R.A.

Anthropology in Action: UA Helps Plant a New Kind of Library
UANews (press release)
Learn more about the School of Anthropology’s activities and accomplishments during UA Anthropology’s 100th Birthday celebration on Sept. 15 from 4-7 p.m. in the Student Union Memorial Center’s South Ballroom. The school also will have a booth at ..

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