Independent Republic of Culture

FOCUS (Editor: Serhan Ada, Associate Editor: Katja Praznik):Between Precarity and Resilience: Is An Independent Republic of Culture Possible? –Serhan Ada • Independence or Competition? Art Workers in Slovenia – Katja Praznik • Unpacking Conflictual Consensus in Berlin’s Cultural Policy-making – Friederike Landau • BFAMFAPhD: On the Cultural Value Debate and Artists Report Back – Caroline Woolard • Art in the Age of Social Activism – Sohrab Mahdavi • The Independent Creative Sector in Palestine Today – Fatin Farhat • Morocco: Culture, Politics, and Other Little Dreams – Dounia Benslimane • A Storm is Blowing from Saadiyat Island – MTL Collective • A Detailed Analysis of the Private/Independent Theatre Scene in Istanbul – Yeşim Tonga Uriarte • The Guantanamo Bay Museum: Between Precarity and Resiliency – Ian Alan Paul • ArtLeaks: Possibilities of Struggle for Labor Rights and Emancipation in the Art Filed – Vladan Jeremić, Corina L. Apostol

OPEN SPACE (Editor: Ferhat Özgür): The Panache of Artivism within the Imperial Narrative of the Middle East – Khaled Ramadan, Dorian Batycka • Contentious Memory: Cinema and the Spanish Dictatorial Past – Rebeca Maseda Garcia • Art Writing in Post-Critical Era – Marcus Graf • An Analysis on the Normalization of Discrimination: The Merchant of Venice – Emre Zeytinoğlu

REVIEWS (Editor: Asu Aksoy): The Culture White Paper – Christopher Gordon • An Evaluation of the UNESCO Monitoring Report “Re-Shaping Cultural Policies” – Funda Lena • Tearing Down Bridges – Turkey’s Withdrawal from Creative Europe – L’Internationale • Filling the Vacuum in Turkish Art History: Armenians in Ottoman Art History at the End of the 19th and the Beginning of the 20th Centuries – E. Osman Erden • An Orphaned Orphanage in Tuzla: Camp Armen – Özlem Karakuş • The National Roma Strategy Plan is Inadequate but Necessary – Hacer Foggo • Toto and his Sisters: This is our Neighbourhood – Derya Nüket Özer • An Assessment of the Cinema Services Sector Report – Evrim Töre • Weakening of the Legislation Regarding Archaeological Conservation Sites for Development Projects – Yiğit Ozar

YAZARLAR: Serhan Ada, Katja Praznik, Friederike Landau, Caroline Woolard, Sohrab Mahdavi, Fatin Farhat, Dounia Benslimane, MTL Collective, Yeşim Tonga Uriarte, Ian Alan Paul, Vladan Jeremic, Corina L. Apostol, Khaled Ram, Dorian Batycka, Rebeca Maseda Garcia, Marcus Graf, Emre Zeytinoğlu, Christopher Gordon, Funda Lena, L’Internationale, E. Osman Erden, Özlem Karakuş, Hacer Foggo, Derya Nüket Özer, Evrim Töre, Yiğit Ozar

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