Day: November 25, 2019

The Politics of Life and Death at Istanbul’s Food Banks (Asst. Prof. Dr. Candan Türkkan, Özyeğin University, Department of Gastronomy and Culinary Arts), Wednesday, 4 December 2019, 19:00, Orient-Institut Istanbul

Through an analysis of two state-created and state-managed databases that assess the applicants’ eligibility, I will explore how the two fundamental components of biopolitics – ‘making live’ and ‘letting die’ – are interlaced in Istanbul’s food banks. After a discussion of what food banks are and how they got to Istanbul, I will introduce the […]