Rethinking Minimum Guarantees after the Pandemic:The Invisible Violence of Neoliberal Rationality

This essay suggests that the pandemic brings unprecedented economic and social challenges while simultaneously opening the door for the renegotiation of minimum guarantees that human rights discourses conceptualise. The particular conditions of the pandemic have the potential to crystallise slow and structured forms of violence, and widen our imagination of the possibilities for human rights discourses. This is especially the case because neoliberal rationality doesn’t have the hegemony over social movements and human rights imagination, as it may have done in the 90s

Politics of Neutrality, Human Rights and Armed Struggles: The Turkey Example

This chapter focuses on an NGO from Turkey, Insan Haklari Dernegi, to follow how changing discourses of human rights are being translated, adopted, and debated by human rights activists. This brings into focus the political nature of adoption of Amnesty International’s (AI) changes in its mandate after the Yokohama meeting. The history of activists plays a role in the adoption of a dominant discourse of human rights, leading to changes in human rights meanings. Consequently, debates over the adoption of AI’s line indicate the depoliticizing effect of dominant discourses and a local resistance to it. These debates show how consideration of structural problems is being converted into bodily violence of victims, which leads to ethicization of the political this chapter supports

Rethinking political violence, memory and law. Introduction

This article introduces the critical analysis of the links between political violence, law and memory that is discussed in the collection of articles that follows. The collection challenge common assumptions about political violence, unveil the processes, practices and discourses through which the Sovereign’s violence is legitimized and the demos’ violence is delegitimized, and let emerge the dynamic links between violence and law

Ethico-Aesthetic Regime of Human Rights: Limits of representation

Abstract This chapter aims to offer a perspective for the structure of moral economy in the neoliberal times. To this aim, the chapter looks at “human rights cinema” and starts with an observation; lack of definition and clear boundaries, allows “human rights movies” to crystallise a particular ethico-aesthetic regime that is characteristic to neoliberal era that peaks with fall of the Soviets. In this era, number of human rights films focus on the limits of human rights discourses to address issues of race, class, gender, or colonialism and actively question the inadequacy of rights language, while not being able to propose an alternative. An overlapping set of films identifies a past trauma as the source of a traumatic event that leads to different forms of abuse, and is not able to propose a closure but only victimhood. A third set of representation of human rights abuse aims to warn us about future possibility of the past Evil, which is ready to reoccur if we are not in constant alert and keep the current consensus intact. The Evil is simultaneously a threat to the entirety of the society and an individual misfortune, and life and Evil are in an antagonistic relation rather than an entangled one. These tropes demonstrate the ethico-aesthetical regime of neoliberal era, and conditions of visibility

Stories from the 'Roads' of Empire

Tracing narratives of catastrophe, displacement, renewal, and contestation associated with empire. Migration narratives are often told by those who have not experienced them. How do we reclaim the lived complexities of our stories when they are told on our behalf by institutions? Join us for an exhibition with artworks and reflections by BLKBRD Collective, Dana Olarescu, Ozan Kamiloglu, Henry Redwood, and Elian Weizman responding to the stories of 17 Londoners

A comparison of three methods producing grafted vines

The effects of three different methods and two media for obtaining grafted vines were studied by using King's Ruby grapevine cultivar and 5 BB, 41 B, 110 R and 1103 P rootstocks. The methods used were rooting the stocks before grafting, rooting the stocks after grafting, holding the grafted cuttings in water after grafting and rooting. After grafting, all grafts were kept in a callusing room at 27+1 °C and 80 % relative humidity for 23 days. Based upon percentage graft take and the percentage of first-class vines obtained, the second method was best ( 93 % graft take 84 % fist class vines). Among rootstocks, 41 B produced the highest percentage (63 %) of grafted vines, whereas 41 B, 1103 P, and 5 BB gave the highest percentages of first-class vines (48, 45, and 44 %, respectively). Rooting media did not affect response

Research on determination of callus formation capacity in different grape rootstocks and cultivars

Callus formation was observed in the cuttings of 8 cultivars and 19 rootstocks following cutting, dipping in paraffin and placing into a water tank. The shortest time from planting to the beginning and maximum callus formation and the highest callus formation rate were observed (80 % in the 19th day, 100 % in the 24th day, respectively) in Harmony rootstock. The lowest maximum callus formation rate (36.7 %) was obtained in the 33 rd day in 8 B rootstock. The highest callus formation (4.0) was observed in King's Ruby cultivar and Harmony rootstock and the lowest callus formation (1.1) was observed in 8 B rootstock

Rooting characteristics of several grape cultivars and rootstocks

Shoot development and rooting characteristics of cuttings of 8 grape cultivars and 22 rootstocks rooted over bottom heated are reported. Rooting rate of cuttings was between 80 % and 100 % in all cultivars and rootstocks except 41 B and 420 A. Lowest response was obtained with 41 B, 8 B, 420 A, 140 Ruggeri, 110 R and 99 R rootstocks. Shoot development was best in Harmony, 5 BB, Rupestris du Lot and 1616 C rootstocks