Hayal Akarsu
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 84155 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Hayal Akarsu |
| PRENOMES | Hayal |
| SOBRENOME | Akarsu |
| ASSINATURA | AKARSU H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Crown Center for Middle East Studies Brandeis University 415 South Street, MS 010 Waltham MA 02454‐9110 |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7273-0067 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 4 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Struggles for academic freedom (part 1)
In the first of two interviews on the issue of academic freedom, the editors of American Ethnologist interviewed Hayal Akarsu, president of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, and Heath Cabot, president of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology, about the restrictions faced by scholars and students in Europe and beyond. In a wide-ranging discussion, Akarsu and Cabot consider historical cycles of repression, surveilla…
"We're tired of this Weber guy!"-Force experts, police reforms, and the violence of standardization
Since the mid-2000s, the use-of-force continuum-a global standard for providing law enforcement with guidelines on the proportionate use of force-has been central in Turkish police training and reporting practices. Liberal police accountability tools, like the use-of-force continuum, rely on standardization to prevent police violence. Yet these techniques still result in maimed bodies and psyches and police impunity. Rather than taking the standa…
Citizen forces
In the last 15 years the Turkish National Police have invested heavily in "community policing," espousing the belief that a strong police-public relationship will curtail authoritarian policing and police violence. Yet this reform has intensified popular desires for more policing and fostered a new type of citizen-police subject, what I call citizen forces. The purportedly liberal tool of community policing turned the previously despised figure o…
Proportioning violence
In spite of years of efforts in Turkey to reform the police, including an increase in budget allocations for ‘democratic policing training’, ‘capacity building programmes’ and ‘non‐lethal technologies and tools’, police violence persists. How might we conceptualize the relationship between the upsurge of police violence and such investments? In this article, the author suggests that instead of taking ‘reform’ or ‘transformation’ discourses at fac…
Citizen forces
In the last 15 years the Turkish National Police have invested heavily in "community policing," espousing the belief that a strong police-public relationship will curtail authoritarian policing and police violence. Yet this reform has intensified popular desires for more policing and fostered a new type of citizen-police subject, what I call citizen forces. The purportedly liberal tool of community policing turned the previously despised figure o…
"We're tired of this Weber guy!"-Force experts, police reforms, and the violence of standardization
Since the mid-2000s, the use-of-force continuum-a global standard for providing law enforcement with guidelines on the proportionate use of force-has been central in Turkish police training and reporting practices. Liberal police accountability tools, like the use-of-force continuum, rely on standardization to prevent police violence. Yet these techniques still result in maimed bodies and psyches and police impunity. Rather than taking the standa…
Proportioning violence
In spite of years of efforts in Turkey to reform the police, including an increase in budget allocations for ‘democratic policing training’, ‘capacity building programmes’ and ‘non‐lethal technologies and tools’, police violence persists. How might we conceptualize the relationship between the upsurge of police violence and such investments? In this article, the author suggests that instead of taking ‘reform’ or ‘transformation’ discourses at fac…
Proportioning violence
In spite of years of efforts in Turkey to reform the police, including an increase in budget allocations for ‘democratic policing training’, ‘capacity building programmes’ and ‘non‐lethal technologies and tools’, police violence persists. How might we conceptualize the relationship between the upsurge of police violence and such investments? In this article, the author suggests that instead of taking ‘reform’ or ‘transformation’ discourses at fac…
Citizen forces
In the last 15 years the Turkish National Police have invested heavily in "community policing," espousing the belief that a strong police-public relationship will curtail authoritarian policing and police violence. Yet this reform has intensified popular desires for more policing and fostered a new type of citizen-police subject, what I call citizen forces. The purportedly liberal tool of community policing turned the previously despised figure o…
Struggles for academic freedom (part 1)
In the first of two interviews on the issue of academic freedom, the editors of American Ethnologist interviewed Hayal Akarsu, president of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, and Heath Cabot, president of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology, about the restrictions faced by scholars and students in Europe and beyond. In a wide-ranging discussion, Akarsu and Cabot consider historical cycles of repression, surveilla…
"We're tired of this Weber guy!"-Force experts, police reforms, and the violence of standardization
Since the mid-2000s, the use-of-force continuum-a global standard for providing law enforcement with guidelines on the proportionate use of force-has been central in Turkish police training and reporting practices. Liberal police accountability tools, like the use-of-force continuum, rely on standardization to prevent police violence. Yet these techniques still result in maimed bodies and psyches and police impunity. Rather than taking the standa…
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