Emine Fişek's research while affiliated with Bogazici University and other places
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Publications (10)
Scholars of human rights often note the paradoxical premise of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948): “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights,” yet these rights require implementation and monitoring in order to exist. Furthermore, although human rights discourses are premised on a universally recognizable, abstrac...
An insightful account of the role of theatre in the uprisings of May ’68. Bredeson’s book argues that the theatre of May ’68 was a microcosm of politically engaged French theatre from 1959 to 1971. It offers significant case studies for artists and scholars interested in activist theatre.
Where interculturalism in European theater and performance is concerned, the Théâter du Soleil occupies a central position. Indeed, hit productions like the Kabuki-inspired Les Shakespeares (1981–1984) and the Kathakali Les Atrides (1990–1992) cycles were central to “the interculture wars” of the 1980s. This chapter focuses on a smaller scale Théât...
The 2011 French blockbuster film Intouchables is based on a true story and depicts the friendship between Parisian Philippe, a white millionaire who is quadriplegic, and his carer Driss, a black man from the city’s banlieues. Whereas the film’s American reception focused on race and criticised the stereotypes imposed on the performing black body, F...
In the context of increasingly restrictive immigration policies and robust immigrant rights movements, early twenty-first century France witnessed theatre performances featuring the narratives of undocumented immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers. These performances joined a broader non-governmental turn to the documentation of migrant narratives...
This article focuses on Arna's Children, a 2004 documentary about the children's activities and theatre group founded in 1989 by Israeli activist Arna Mer Khamis in the Jenin Refugee Camp of the occupied West Bank. While the documentary provides an in-depth look at how theatrical practices can prove restorative in the face of destruction, my discus...
This essay highlights the work of Paris-based Arab-French theatre troupes Al Assifa and La Kahina in order to address a number of dynamics that structured 1970s theatre activism concerning questions of immigration in France. Founded by a group of North African and French laborers, Al Assifa performed sketches on immigrant workers' experiences in Fr...
If the theatre is one of France’s most evocative cultural spaces, and theatrical performance and attendance the centrepiece of cultural policy-making in the twentieth century, how exactly are the politics of the stage negotiated at everyday levels? Where and when do policy discourses enter the lived experience of theatre practitioners? Given the sp...
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... Film is the most comprehensive medium and the most representative portrait of culture with authentic interactions from everyday language spoken by native speakers. There are several previous studies with different topics and approaches to Intouchables such as constructing a negative portrait of womanhood (Schrambach, 2013), competing transnationalisms in contemporary French cinema (Michael, 2014), and the legacy of French colonialism plays in aesthetic representations of race and gender in contemporary France (Fişek, 2018). Meanwhile, several studies about Monsieur Lazhar that can be mentioned include an aspect of forms of address and cultural understanding (Tarte, 2014), a picture of an ideal immigrant in the neoliberal Québécois imagination (Labidi, 2015), and an exploration of politics, pain, and power in Monsieur Lazhar (Gürses, 2020). ...
