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Hasan Bülent Kahraman
(Ph.D. from Bilkent University) is assistant professor at Sabanci University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and coordinator of Visual Arts and Visual Communications Design. His main research areas are social theory, visual culture, ideology and sociology of knowledge, and Turkish social thought. His most recent publications include Turkey Between Modernity and Postmodernity and Facts and Realities in Art and Beyond.
Eurozine Articles
Turkey and Europe: Neighbours from afar
After a surge of popularity for concepts such as fluidity, migration, and fragmentation, polarity has returned to the stage of international politics, bringing with it renewed interest in neighbourhood. Associating neighbourhood with friendship, Hasan Bülent Kahraman looks at Maurice Blanchot's theory of the "infinite distance" inherent in friendship. Turkey can and should, he argues, use this distance as a parameter in order to establish a productive relationship with the EU and the West. [more]
Translating the translation
Critical trends are shaping the field of translation studies. [more]