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International Conference: Gender Paradoxes in Academic and Scientific Organisation(s) – Change, Excellence and Interventions
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20-21 October 2011 at Örebro University, Forum House, Bio.
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CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION
GEXcel Theme 11-12, Gender Paradoxes of Changing Academic and Scientific Organisation(s), invites scholars, at all career stages, to apply for a workshop conference in October 20-21, 2011 at Örebro University, Sweden.
Conference launching GEXcel Theme 11-12: Gender Paradoxes in Changing Academic and Scientific Organisation(s)
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Launching GEXcel Theme 11-12: GEXcel Conference Gender Paradoxes in Changing Academic and Scientific Organisation(s), at Örebro University, FORUM house, Bio, May 16, 2011 at 10-17. Participation is free but participants need to register before May 9 by email to Mia Fogel, mia.fogel@oru.se. Inquiries: Liisa Husu, liisa.husu@oru.se.
Fellows for Theme 11-12 selected
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Visiting Fellows for GEXcel Theme 11-12, Gender Paradoxes in Changing Academic and Scientific Organisation(s), have now been selected.
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(What's this?)Zengin, Asli, PhD student
By Katherine Harrison on 11 May | 0 comments
GEXcel project: Sexual Plays of Intimate Power: The State, Violence and Sex Workers’ Subjectivities in Istanbul
This project aims to analyze a particular functioning of the Turkish state in its relation to prostitution. In Turkey, sex work is legalized and facilitated under the state rule according to a specific legal code of prostitution which permits only women to work as registered sex workers in the brothels. However, there is also an illegal sex sector where not only women, but also men and transsexuals are involved. In both environments of sex work, the state develops various modes of conduct specific to each sex worker group on the basis of legality/illegality and sexual identity.
Drawing upon a range of regulations, disciplinary mechanisms and various state practices regarding (un)registered women, men and transsexual sex workers in Istanbul, this research will excavate how the state establishes specific relations between its ordering functions, violence and sexuality, and operates its power in an intimate way. In this process, each sex worker group’s response to the state practices, as well as to each other will be examined. Hence, at the intertwinement of sex workers’ relations with the state and the other sex worker groups, my project will also investigate the investments they make to their bodies and spaces, and the involved embodied processes of subjectivity.
Biographical notes:
Asli Zengin holds a MA in Sociology from the Bogazici University in Turkey where she did research on the comparative relation of the registered and unregistered women sex workers with the Turkish state in Istanbul. Currently, Asli is a doctoral student at the University of Toronto where she is exploring the sexual and intimate politics of the Turkish state in relation to prostitution and different sex worker groups including female, male, transsexual, legal and illegal prostitutes. Her research, both past and present, draws on theories of the state, violence, space and subjectivity.
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