explain anthropology with a related film (The study field is ANTHROPOLOGY)
Fidan Denizci
MilitarizationandPolicing.pptxEthnographies of militarization and policing: Ayşe Gül Altınay: Anthropology major acting as a psychology major, his own office, going back to Istanbul for resources. But listening to stories of people who want to commit suicide or kill other people for the thrill of it. Written and oral narratives of military service. Interviews with different generations. Different types of military service.
-Disciplining, nationalizing and masculinizing citizenship => A social construction of identity and belonging.
- Contradictions and silences
Recent changes, more inequalitarian.
1910 British General Sir Ian Hamilton: Manifacturing of a particular type of human intellect and body. Uniforms, posture, can be differentiated from faraway.
Courage and discipline. Michel Foucault, with education, one of the main institutions and modern techniques of power for creating, docile, disciplinary and utilitarian bodies. Schools and barracks. Never question the orders, particular work by the hours. Since Napoleon. Ott. Modernization of the army. Productive body=obedient body. Routine. Economic aspects: Developed countries’ aid missions, air bases such as İncirlik. Men learn how to be civil servants and capitalism. Rest of the society: Militarized schools, national security classes.
Physical education classes. Especially after the coups. Military service for men is compulsory rite of passage for getting employed and married.
Discipline: Punishment as public spectacle. Submissive to authority, aggressive to the enemy (internal and external!)
Particular kind of citizenship: Citizen-soldier. Civilizing mission for Kurds, teaching Turkish and craftsmanship. Gender inequality. Sacredness of the nation-state and homeland, duty of their protection.” Her Türk Asker Doğar (Every Turk is born as a soldier”. Femininity as an insult, your name will be Ayşe. Us eof female body as a reward. Who survives this rite of passage becomes a proper man. (Hegemonic masculinity). Women and children should be protected.
Gays either excluded as “psychologically unfit” or closeted. Humiliating process to prove that you are gay. To escape military masters and Ph.D.s , paying money. Bribery, network, university graduates. Reproduce and increase political, social and cultural inequalities. Each military service is different according to people’s social and economic resources.
Military and uniformism?
Why ethnography matters? Policing. Didier Fassin. Interviews with the French Police and patroling with them (participant observation), early 2000s Paris, violence in the immigrants’ neighborhoods, after the police “accidentally” killed two teenage Arab boys. Burning of cars, lootings etc. Ethnography becomes public, media simplifies. Is the police racist? Symbolic racism/Institutional racism, racist acts. Etc. never a simple answer. Ruining a peaceful party for no reason, body search and interrogation despite there is no evidence (alcohol or drugs). Not all police are racist, elder, more experienced are more reluctant to provoke. Fieldwork: Different actors, perspectives and discourses. Police and immigrants. Who talks from which point of view?
Interdisciplinary: media and communication studies, psychology, political science, economics, history, sociology and anthropology. Interactive and structural approaches.
Problems of getting permissions, public debt to immigrants and police, representing variety among them. They are and criminality is more than statistics. Voices.
Paris Riots 2005:
