Burcu Yasemin Seyben

Struggle and Survival under Authoritarianism in Turkey (eBook, PDF)

Theatre under Threat

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

After the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in Turkey in 2002, the AKP grew into an authoritarian government as it politically and culturally oppressed citizens and institutions. In Struggle and Survival under Authoritarianism in Turkey: Theatre under Threat, Burcu Yasemin Seybenargues thattheatre was deliberately targeted because theatre institutions and companies embodied the cultural program of the statist and Kemalist cultural policy that has continually excluded Muslims and various religious and ethnic minorities. Although the AKP claimed to be replacing the top-down, discriminatory, and secular statist and Kemalist theatre system with a facilitative and inclusive one, the AKP gradually adapted a more authoritarian system, as evidenced by their efforts to close and defund theatres, ban plays, and force theatre artists to exile. Despite the AKP's increasing oppression, Seybenstudies contemporary Turkish theatre to establish that a few theatre institutions, companies, and artists have managed to survive and develop democratic cultural policies and strategies that will outlive the AKP government.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978787940
• Artikelnr.: 74842595

Autorenporträt

Burcu Yasemin Seyben is a theatre and general education instructor at the College of Southern Idaho.

Inhaltsangabe

Section I: Theatre Systems
Chapter 1: Theatre Institutions and Systems through Cultural Policies in
Turkey: Historical Overview and Categorization
Section II: Subsidized Theatres
Chapter 2: The AKP's Taming of the Istanbul City Theatre and its Artists
Chapter 3: Denial of Heritage: The Case of the State Theatre
Section III: Decentralized Theatres
Chapter 4: "Belief in Another World Still Persists": The Independent and
Commercial Theatres
Chapter 5: Towards a More Decentralized Cultural Policy: The Kadiköy and
Nilüfer District Municipalities
Section IV: Oppressed Theatres
Chapter 6: Battle on Many Fronts: The Case of Sermola Performans
Chapter 7: Cultural Oppression at the Local Government Level: The
Diyarbakir City Theatre
Chapter 8: "My Life Has Become More Absurd than My Play": Mi Minör and the
Crackdown on Artistic Freedom in Turkey
Conclusion