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CONFERENCE HELD IN MEMORY OF SLAIN JOURNALIST HRANT DINK
Today's Zaman, Turkey
Jan 17 2014
Loic Wacquant (Photo: Today's Zaman)
17 January 2014 /SEVGÄ° AKARCEÅ~^ME, Ä°STANBUL
A prominent sociologist gave a lecture on Friday in Ä°stanbul in memory
of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink since the anniversary of
his assassination is around the corner.
The seventh Hrant Dink Human Rights and Freedom of Expression
Conference hosted Loic Wacquant at Bogazici University, and Dink's
wife Rakel Dink presented him a plaque at the end of the event.
Dink emphasized in her short speech the importance of reaching the
truth after she criticized people who kill or steal in the name of God.
In her opening speech, Bogazici University President Gulay Barbarosoglu
talked about the history of the lectures, as she said that they are
ashamed because the forces behind the Hrant Dink murder have not been
brought to light.
The prominent French sociologist, Wacquant from the University of
California at Berkeley, lectured on urbanization, urban poverty and
the evolution of ghettos.
Referring to sociologist Max Weber's statement that "The air of a city
makes you free," Wacquant said that a city is a place of potential
freedom and cultural diversification.
Touching upon the resistance of people in cities, Wacquant talked
about Gezi and said that it is the educated middle class residents
that protested the demolishing of the park.
In his lecture, Wacquant mostly explained how ghettos developed
and disappeared in the Western world. The most important of them
was the Jewish ghetto in Venice. Describing the ghetto as a form of
integration, the professor said that there are four elements of a
ghetto: stigma, constraints, special confinement and institutional
parallelism.
Another important ghetto was the black ghetto in Chicago in the
first half of the 1900s according to him. However, after the 1950s,
ghettos died in the US, as blacks protested the containment. Yet,
as blacks moved to the cities, whites migrated to the suburbs, he said.
In the Turkish context, Wacquant talked about a transformation from
"gecekondu" (a squatters house) to "varoÅ~_" (a neighborhood where
nobody wants to live).
Today's Zaman, Turkey
Jan 17 2014
Loic Wacquant (Photo: Today's Zaman)
17 January 2014 /SEVGÄ° AKARCEÅ~^ME, Ä°STANBUL
A prominent sociologist gave a lecture on Friday in Ä°stanbul in memory
of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink since the anniversary of
his assassination is around the corner.
The seventh Hrant Dink Human Rights and Freedom of Expression
Conference hosted Loic Wacquant at Bogazici University, and Dink's
wife Rakel Dink presented him a plaque at the end of the event.
Dink emphasized in her short speech the importance of reaching the
truth after she criticized people who kill or steal in the name of God.
In her opening speech, Bogazici University President Gulay Barbarosoglu
talked about the history of the lectures, as she said that they are
ashamed because the forces behind the Hrant Dink murder have not been
brought to light.
The prominent French sociologist, Wacquant from the University of
California at Berkeley, lectured on urbanization, urban poverty and
the evolution of ghettos.
Referring to sociologist Max Weber's statement that "The air of a city
makes you free," Wacquant said that a city is a place of potential
freedom and cultural diversification.
Touching upon the resistance of people in cities, Wacquant talked
about Gezi and said that it is the educated middle class residents
that protested the demolishing of the park.
In his lecture, Wacquant mostly explained how ghettos developed
and disappeared in the Western world. The most important of them
was the Jewish ghetto in Venice. Describing the ghetto as a form of
integration, the professor said that there are four elements of a
ghetto: stigma, constraints, special confinement and institutional
parallelism.
Another important ghetto was the black ghetto in Chicago in the
first half of the 1900s according to him. However, after the 1950s,
ghettos died in the US, as blacks protested the containment. Yet,
as blacks moved to the cities, whites migrated to the suburbs, he said.
In the Turkish context, Wacquant talked about a transformation from
"gecekondu" (a squatters house) to "varoÅ~_" (a neighborhood where
nobody wants to live).