Hayriye ERBAŞ, 21.01.2017 The World We Live In: Lies, Faults and Facts

Today we live in such a world of multi-variables and complex relationships that it is getting harder to comprehend and understand. In particular, “the power of discourse”, which has an increasing effect by the rapidly developing technology, is even more important in interpreting the reality people experience. Although there are various discourses available, “the dominant discourse” both shapes and describes us the world we live in. The main purpose of this speech is to discuss “the globalization discourse” and to reveal the faults, delusions of its arguments by relating them with the facts we experience. In doing this – especially keeping science-power relations in mind-, the standing point is the fact that discourse is nothing more than lie based fiction or utopia that only one meaning and conceptualization of globalization. And this conceptualization is produced in accordance with power relations which have interest in shaping the world.

In this respect, I will first talk about different and conflicting conceptualizations of globalization and discuss which conceptualization is dominant while trying to respond how and why this specific conceptualization arose by taking its historical and social background into consideration. Then, in the world which is shaped according to globalization discourse where social problems increased and existing problems deepened; I will reveal the lies, faults and delusions of the discourse, its processes and consequences which actualized in the opposite direction of the promised “little cozy world”. Finally, there will be an attempt to propose some solutions for the problems of the process.

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Artum DINC, 05.11.2012

The Likelihood of a Space of Existence for Everyone and Every Segment

Today’s people are born into a world of reality full of various problems. People in many territories of the world are exposed to violence, oppression, and discrimination due to both their different cultural, ethnical, and religious identities also class and gender statuses.

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Artum DINC, 07.07.2014

The Egalitarian Uprising of the Turks in Iran - May 2006

In May 12, 2006 a comic strip story was published in a weekly magazine of Iran News Paper which is belong to The Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA). “What should we do in order to prevent the activity of cockroaches for transforming us to cockroaches?” was the title of the above mentioned story. In the narration, a boy asks to a cockroach in Persian and the cockroach replies to the child in Turkish. “How can it be possible to be rid of the cockroaches” is described in the course of story. It was evaluated by millions of Turks in Iran as an insulting and exclusion act against them. Despite the heavy costs of the uprising in Iran, however in various villages, towns and cities they condemned and objected to the perpetrators of the issue and wanted to be punished them.

Bulletin

Artum DINC, 11.02.2014

PERSIANIST IRANISM: Persianization Policies in Multi-ethnic Iran

In this issue of bulletin 14 news, 9 analyses, 5 articles, and 2 books are presented, which related with Persianization policies against non-Persian ethnic groups in nowadays Iran.

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Under current conditions in Iran, which of the following options will seem to be much feasible in regard with non-Persian ethnic groups? You can choose more than one option as well.

The Persianization politics will be successful, and the whole population of Iran will be Persianized.
The Persianization politics will be unsuccessful, and cultural rights of ethnics will be legally protected.
According to the ethnical structure, federal administrative units will be formed.
According to the ethnical structure, independent governments will be formed.

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