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Bibliography for Turkey Presentation, Dec. 3
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged kevin duong, turkey on December 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Turkey Input Paper 3
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Desai, globalization, Input Paper, kevin duong, narrative, sexuality, turkey on November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Input Paper #3 for Turkey
By Kevin Duong
The Gender/Sexuality Narrative in Turkey
In my previous input paper, I had attempted to map out the terrain with which an analysis of cultural narratives and the way that the politics of writing and rewriting narratives sustained and precluded the Kurdish population in Turkey in asserting stories about their lives. [...]
Input Paper #2: Turkey
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Input Paper, kevin duong, turkey on November 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Input Paper #2: Turkey
By Kevin Duong
In the past few decades after the ratification of Turkey’s new constitution in 1982, their project of nation building has re-oriented itself due to external circumstances. Primarily, the possibility of Turkey’s EU ascension has shifted the terms of political transformation in Turkey’s domestic politics. There are several elements of nation [...]
Transnational Social Movements and GITMO
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Desai, Guantanamo Bay, Joachim, kevin duong, Transnational Feminism on November 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just finished Desai, and I was really impressed with her article. Something I thought of while reading her:
She writes about the rise of the human rights framework as something that feminists around the world, and especially during the Vienna convention, could rally around. They could create a “solidarity of difference” rather than one based [...]
Input Paper # 1 – Turkey
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Input Paper, kevin duong, turkey on November 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Input Paper – Turkey
By Kevin Duong
I think that I would like to focus on the relationship between Turkey’s EU accession candidacy, which broadly falls under the category of nation building, and the changing orientation of Turkey’s nation building as the macro-discourse that provides the context for a changing discourse on human security and peace within [...]
Thinking Through Petchesky’s Challenge
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged kevin duong, petchesky, sexuality on November 4, 2008 | 6 Comments »
If reproductive rights include the right not to reproduce, then doesn’t this include all forms of non-procreative sex, and why then should any one form have the status of normativity or moral virtue? That is, [...]
