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    INSTANBUL HOSTS CONFERENCE TO COMEMORATE HRANT DINK

    January 17, 2014 - 21:14 AMT

    PanARMENIAN.Net - A prominent sociologist gave a lecture on Friday,
    Jan 17, in Istanbul in memory of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant
    Dink since the anniversary of his assassination is around the corner,
    Today's Zaman reports.

    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 U.S., 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).

    http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/175021/

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