Serial Imaginaries: Gender, Young Audiences and the Negotiation of Diversity in the European Mediascape

This issue of Mediascapes Journal, titled GEMINI-SCAPES. Detecting the Interplay between Serial Dramas, Gender Issues and European Young Audiences and edited by Marica Spalletta, Louise Brix Jacobsen and Valentina Re, investigates the interplay between gender, seriality and youth in the contemporary mediascape. Originating from the final conference of the European project GEMINI (CERV-2022-GE), it brings together eighteen contributions by forty scholars from Italian, European and US universit...

DEBATES, BALANCES Y DESAFÍOS DE LA HISTORIOGRAFÍA MAPUCHE EN EL CHILE RECIENTE

12 September 4 am: Mapping Turkey’s 1980 Military Coup

The military rule that was inaugurated by the coup d’état of 12 September 1980 plays a key role in the history of modern Turkey. With this seizure of power, the third since the foundation of the republic, the military promoted a set of reforms that radically reshaped the political system, the institutions, and society. Even though elections were held three years later, the regime left an enduring legacy that remains hard to come to terms with. At the same time, studies on the military er...

Satire as Activism in Contemporary Turkey: Trajectories, Achievements, Current Challenges

The Gezi Park protests that sparked in Turkey in summer 2013 were characterized by a strong presence of satire. Not only did satirical magazines extensively cover the mobilization, the satirical element was also on the foreground in the physical and virtual spaces of the protests, produced and circulated by protestors themselves. Such practice contributed significantly to the expression ‘extraordinary intelligence’ (orantısız zeka) through which protestors came to be defined. Drawing on ...