Dilek Karal
Dr Dilek Karal is a sociologist /project coordinator. Karal worked among different immigrant groups in Turkey and in Ethiopia as a researcher and a humanitarian worker. Karal received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey, where she developed interests in social theory, migration studies, women studies, Turkish studies, sociology of nationalism and ethnicity.
Karal authored Ethico-political Governmentality of Immigration and Asylum: The Case of Ethiopia in 2018 published by Palgrave Macmillan. Karal is also the author of two printed reports titled Violence against Women in Turkey (2012) and Women in Turkish Politics (2011).
Address: Netherlands
Karal authored Ethico-political Governmentality of Immigration and Asylum: The Case of Ethiopia in 2018 published by Palgrave Macmillan. Karal is also the author of two printed reports titled Violence against Women in Turkey (2012) and Women in Turkish Politics (2011).
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-Ecclesiastes-
The last American combat troops withdraw from Iraq three weeks ago on December 17, 2011 after eight years of war. Even for the supporters of the war,the reasons as to why the U.S. went into Iraq became vague over the years. The long years of war with a missing victor reminds of Jean Baudrillard’s long debated article titled “The Gulf War Will Not Take Place” which was published just before the attack by American and British forces on Baghdad in the 1991 Gulf War. Although the expectation of war was clear and the direct statements of leaders were alarming, at time Baudrillard highlighted that modern war does not mean a heroic combat as one thinks, but that it is certainly created by a thirst for power in the world fed by the means of hyperreal images intentionally produced by the media. Now, I believe, it is time to ask“Did the Iraq War Take Place?” To what extent was it the very same war that the U.S. presented to world?
-Ecclesiastes-
The last American combat troops withdraw from Iraq three weeks ago on December 17, 2011 after eight years of war. Even for the supporters of the war,the reasons as to why the U.S. went into Iraq became vague over the years. The long years of war with a missing victor reminds of Jean Baudrillard’s long debated article titled “The Gulf War Will Not Take Place” which was published just before the attack by American and British forces on Baghdad in the 1991 Gulf War. Although the expectation of war was clear and the direct statements of leaders were alarming, at time Baudrillard highlighted that modern war does not mean a heroic combat as one thinks, but that it is certainly created by a thirst for power in the world fed by the means of hyperreal images intentionally produced by the media. Now, I believe, it is time to ask“Did the Iraq War Take Place?” To what extent was it the very same war that the U.S. presented to world?