There are many parallels to be drawn between the 2016 impeachment in Brazil and the 2017 coup attempt in Turkey. This panel invites scholars working on Latin America and the Middle East to engage in what we hope to be an ongoing conversation about the theoretical, methodological, and political dilemmas we face when we look at golpe and darbe together as grounded experiences of power.
- What do these two political events imply for discourses of democratization and transitional justice in Brazil, Turkey, and beyond?
- In what ways are they becoming another past to reckon with, with whose voices?
- What are the implications of these large-scale political processes on writing histories and ethnographies?
The intricate histories of state–society relations and political economy in both Brazil and Turkey will provide rich grounds for a productive discussion, on issues such as: corruption, constitutionalism, populism, state legitimacy, citizenship, accountability, the ruling elite, lawfare, “legal coup”, revenge/ purge, economic violence, scales of justice, the role of the media, technologies of truth and evidence.
Please send abstracts (max. 250 words) with titles and keywords to the organizer Hande Sarikuzu hsariku1@binghamton.edu by April 11, 2017. Participants will be notified by April 12, 2017. Please note that all participants must be registered to attend the AAA Annual Meeting by 5:00 pm on Friday, April 14 to appear in the program.
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