Ege Selin Islekel
Biographic Data
| ID | 1490101 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ege Selin Islekel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ege Selin |
| FAMILY NAME | Islekel |
| SIGNATURE | ISLEKEL E S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fordham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7447-5653 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Subaltern Silence
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Genealogies of Nothing
This article investigates the political impact of collective story-telling practices in the enforced disappearances from a Foucauldian perspective. I utilize two main theoretical frameworks: on the one hand, that of necropolitics, a kind of power that works on the management of death. On the other hand, that of genealogy as a type of history that mobilizes subjugated knowledges. The first part situates these stories within the framework of geneal…
The Biopolitics of Punishment
Gender in Necropolitics
This article focuses on gender in the theoretical framework of necropolitics. To this end, I first articulate the role of gender in Mbembe's own account, and then explicate necropolitics as a conceptual tool that accounts for the overwhelming presence of death in contemporary politics. Gender is an undertheorized element of Mbembe's account of necropolitics; as it takes a secondary role while accounting for racial and (post)colonial violence. Nev…
Traveling the Soil of Worlds
This essay works on the role of trauma and forgetting in the subjective formations of the world-traveler and la nueva mestiza . I investigate how forgetting affects the resistant capacities of these figures. I argue throughout that the memory of the world-traveler is an opaque memory, which is unintelligible for the hegemonic demands of transparency, and which forms the silt upon which the resistant possibilities of the world-traveler rest. The f…
Absent Death
Absent DeathNecropolitics and Technologies of Mourning Ege Selin Islekel There are many ways of dying. —Michel Foucault, The Punitive Society In Siirt, a town in eastern Turkey, there is a trash disposal area called Newala Qesaba, the "River of Butchers." Around 1988, the families of more than eighty people were notified that the remains of their children were there. There was a brief investigation, which ended when the journalist covering the is…
Gender in Necropolitics
This article focuses on gender in the theoretical framework of necropolitics. To this end, I first articulate the role of gender in Mbembe's own account, and then explicate necropolitics as a conceptual tool that accounts for the overwhelming presence of death in contemporary politics. Gender is an undertheorized element of Mbembe's account of necropolitics; as it takes a secondary role while accounting for racial and (post)colonial violence. Nev…
Genealogies of Nothing
This article investigates the political impact of collective story-telling practices in the enforced disappearances from a Foucauldian perspective. I utilize two main theoretical frameworks: on the one hand, that of necropolitics, a kind of power that works on the management of death. On the other hand, that of genealogy as a type of history that mobilizes subjugated knowledges. The first part situates these stories within the framework of geneal…
Traveling the Soil of Worlds
This essay works on the role of trauma and forgetting in the subjective formations of the world-traveler and la nueva mestiza . I investigate how forgetting affects the resistant capacities of these figures. I argue throughout that the memory of the world-traveler is an opaque memory, which is unintelligible for the hegemonic demands of transparency, and which forms the silt upon which the resistant possibilities of the world-traveler rest. The f…
Absent Death
Absent DeathNecropolitics and Technologies of Mourning Ege Selin Islekel There are many ways of dying. —Michel Foucault, The Punitive Society In Siirt, a town in eastern Turkey, there is a trash disposal area called Newala Qesaba, the "River of Butchers." Around 1988, the families of more than eighty people were notified that the remains of their children were there. There was a brief investigation, which ended when the journalist covering the is…
Traveling the Soil of Worlds
This essay works on the role of trauma and forgetting in the subjective formations of the world-traveler and la nueva mestiza . I investigate how forgetting affects the resistant capacities of these figures. I argue throughout that the memory of the world-traveler is an opaque memory, which is unintelligible for the hegemonic demands of transparency, and which forms the silt upon which the resistant possibilities of the world-traveler rest. The f…
The Biopolitics of Punishment
Gender in Necropolitics
This article focuses on gender in the theoretical framework of necropolitics. To this end, I first articulate the role of gender in Mbembe's own account, and then explicate necropolitics as a conceptual tool that accounts for the overwhelming presence of death in contemporary politics. Gender is an undertheorized element of Mbembe's account of necropolitics; as it takes a secondary role while accounting for racial and (post)colonial violence. Nev…
Genealogies of Nothing
This article investigates the political impact of collective story-telling practices in the enforced disappearances from a Foucauldian perspective. I utilize two main theoretical frameworks: on the one hand, that of necropolitics, a kind of power that works on the management of death. On the other hand, that of genealogy as a type of history that mobilizes subjugated knowledges. The first part situates these stories within the framework of geneal…
Subaltern Silence
Special Section
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