Nazan Üstündağ: Societycide (07 April 2023, Session II)
Channel: Network for an Alternative Quest
Date: 2023-05-26

Session II: The Multicide Regime 
2.1 Nazan Üstündağ: Societycide 

We are living in a world of catastrophes, wars, epidemics and destruction that dismantle social relations. However, it is not only through such seemingly extraordinary events that the social is eroded. Regulation and control; forced dispossession and extraction economies, commodification of cultures and security measures all come together to undo the social and replace it with state relations. The talk will dwell in the ways in which the social and the state oppose each other and how it is only by the erosion of state that social relations can be reconstituted and repaired. 

Nazan Üstündağ worked as an Assistant Professor at Boğaziçi University, Department of Sociology between 2005 and 2018. Currently, she is a fellowship in the Gerda Henkel Foundation Patrimonies program. Nazan Üstündağ’s work concerns feminist political theory, political imaginaries, gendered subjectivities and state violence in Kurdistan.

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