Struggle and Survival under Authoritarianism in Turkey
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Struggle and Survival under Authoritarianism in Turkey

Theatre under Threat

  1. 199 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Struggle and Survival under Authoritarianism in Turkey

Theatre under Threat

About this book

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.

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Information

Year
2020
eBook ISBN
9781978787940
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Struggle and Survival under Authoritarianism in Turkey
  3. Struggle and Survival under Authoritarianism in Turkey: Theatre under Threat
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. Section I Theatre Systems
  10. Chapter 1
  11. Theatre Institutions and Systems through Cultural Policies in Turkey
  12. Section II Subsidized Theatres
  13. Chapter 2
  14. The AKP’s Taming of the Istanbul City Theatre and Its Artists
  15. Chapter 3
  16. Denial of Heritage
  17. Section III Decentralized Theatres
  18. Chapter 4
  19. “Belief in Another World Still Persists”
  20. Chapter 5
  21. Toward a More Decentralized Cultural Policy
  22. Section IV Oppressed Theatres
  23. Chapter 6
  24. Battle on Many Fronts
  25. Chapter 7
  26. Cultural Oppression at the Local Government Level
  27. Chapter 8
  28. “My Life Has Become More Absurd than My Play”
  29. Conclusion
  30. Bibliography
  31. Index
  32. About the Author