Fair Enough? Negotiating Ethics in Turkish Football By Yağmur Nuhrat B.A., Boğaziçi University, 2006 M.A., Brown University, 2008 A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Anthropology at Brown University Providence, Rhode Island May 2013 © 2013 by Yağmur Nuhrat This dissertation by Yağmur Nuhrat is accepted in its present form by the Department of Anthropology as satisfying the dissertation requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Date______________ _____________________________________ Matthew Gutmann, Advisor Recommended to the Graduate Council Date______________ _____________________________________ Paja Faudree, Reader Date______________ _____________________________________ Marcy Brink-Danan, Reader Date______________ _____________________________________ Ayşe Parla, Reader Approved by the Graduate Council Date______________ _____________________________________ Peter Weber, Dean of the Graduate School iii CURRICULUM VITAE Yağmur Nuhrat Department of Anthropology Brown University, Box 1921 Providence, RI 02912 [email protected] EDUCATION 2013 PhD, Brown University, Department of Anthropology Dissertation: Fair Enough? Negotiating Ethics in Turkish Football Chair: Matthew Gutmann 2008 MA, Brown University, Department of Anthropology Thesis: Unsettling Claims of Migrant Visibilities: Receiving Migration in Istanbul Chair: Marcy Brink-Danan 2006 BA, (High Honors), Boğaziçi University, Department of Sociology 2001-2002 Koç University, Department of Sociology 2001 Üsküdar American Academy FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS and HONORS 2010 - 2011 Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, MERC (Middle East Research Competition) 2011 Graduate School Summer Grant for Field Research, Brown Univ. 2010 Graduate School Summer Grant for Pre-Dissertation Research, Brown U. 2007 Graduate School Summer Grant for MA Field Research, Brown U 2006-2013 Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship, Brown Univ. 2006 Third rank at the sociology department of Boğaziçi Uni. at graduation. 2001-2002 Vehbi Koç Scholar in recognition of academic excellence at Koç Uni. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Sep 2010 – Sep 2011 Dissertation research in Istanbul, Turkey: Ethnographic Study on Fair Play and fairness through Turkish football. Summer 2010 Pre-Dissertation research in Istanbul, Turkey: Preliminary Research on football and sports in Turkey, media analysis and ethnography. Jan – Aug 2009 Researcher at SAM, Research and Consulting, Istanbul: Desk researcher, data coder and analyst, questionnaire and interview guide designer, in-depth interviewer, focus group moderator, transcriber, translator, report writer: Veiling and Women’s Veiling Fashions in Turkey; Research for Turkish Social Security Institution on services provided for the elderly and the disabled; iv Public Political Opinion Polling; Research for the Turkish Football Federation; Perception Analysis for a Turkish daily. Summer 2007 MA Thesis Research, Istanbul, Turkey: Ethnographic Study on the Reception and Perception of Migration in Istanbul. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Instructor, BITS Master Summer School Communication & PR at Istanbul Bilgi Uni. Summer 2012 Communication and Sports Ethics Teaching Assistant, Brown University, Department of Anthropology Spring 2012 Sounds and Symbols, Intro to Linguistic Anthro, Prof. Becky Schulthies Fall 2011 Culture and Health, Prof. Rochelle Rosen Spring 2010 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Prof. Rebecca Warne Peters Fall 2009 Language and Power, Prof. Paja Faudree Spring 2008 Violence and the Media, Prof. Kay Warren Fall 2007 Culture and Human Behavior, Prof. Marida Hollos WORK EXPERIENCE Jan - Aug 2009 SAM Research and Consulting Inc, Istanbul, Turkey Feb - May 2006 AIESEC Development Traineeship sponsored by UNDP, Poland. Sep 2005 Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly, Istanbul, Turkey 2003 - 2005 Intern at SAM Research and Consulting Inc, Istanbul, Turkey ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIPS 2011 - Member, MESA (Middle East Studies Association) 2010 - Member, AAA (American Anthropological Association) 2010 - Member, SUNTA (Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology) 2008 - Member, MESEA (The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas) CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS June 2013 (accepted) “Women’s Fandom, Swearing and Fair Play: Feminization of Fairness through Football in Turkey,” FREE (Football Research in an Enlarged Europe) Conference, University of Copenhagen. March 2013 “Fair Play versus Swearing? Studying Turkish Football Chants,” Global Project on Fan Communities and Fandom Conference, Inter- Disciplinary.net, Oxford University, England. v Sept 2012 “Embodying fairness: Insights into the Institution and Personhood of Refereeing in Turkish Football,” IAPS, Uni of Porto, Portugal (Funded by the Office of Intnl. Affairs Travel Fund, Brown Uni). June 2012 Panel Chair and Presenter: Mediated Tropes of Turkishness in Football, MESEA Blanquerna School of Communication, Ramon Llull Uni, Barcelona, Spain. Dec 2011 Fairness in the love and war of football in Turkey, MESA (Middle East Studies Association), Washington DC. Nov 2011 Affect and Negotiations of Fairness Through Football Fandom In Turkey, annual AAA (American Anthropological Association), Montreal, QC, Canada. (Funded by the Office of Intnl. Affairs Travel Fund, Brown). Sep 2011 Legitimizing the Worth of the Unreal, IAPS (The International Association for the Philosophy of Sport), The College at Brockport, SUNY, Rochester, NY. (Funded by the Graduate School Conference Travel Fund, Brown). April 2011 The making of "home vs. away" through football fandom in Istanbul, SIEF (Societé Internationale d´Ethnologie et de Folklore), Uni. Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. (Funded by the Grad School Conference Travel Fund, Brown). June 2010 Panel chair and presenter - Going to the game: Conceptualizing “home” through football in Turkey, MESEA, The Uni of Pécs, Hungary. May 2010 Being of Istanbul: A city with an idealized population and its migrants, MEHAT (Middle East History and Theory) Conference, Uni of Chicago, IL. (Funded by the Graduate School Conference Travel Fund, Brown). April 2010 Body as Practice, Body as Process, Mundane Agencies for Normal Bodies: Veiling in Turkey, “The Body as Site and Sign: A Multidisciplinary Conference on the Body,” Brown University. Feb 2010 Visible In-migrants and “Disappearing” Foreigners: Reception and Perception of Migration in Istanbul, Johns Hopkins University Department of Anthropology Graduate Students Conference “Invisibilities,” JHU, Baltimore, MD. June 2008 Localized Homelands: Internal Migration as Aberration, MESEA (The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas), Leiden Uni, Netherlands. vi INVITED LECTURES April 2013 “Fair Enough? Negotiating Ethics in Turkish Football,” invite by the Society for Humanities and Social Sciences at Işık University, Istanbul Mar 2012 “Language and Nationalism: The Case of Turkey,” guest lecturer, Sounds and Symbols: Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology, Brown U. Feb 2012 “Deictics and Indexicality, Pronomial Shifters,” guest lecturer, Sounds and Symbols: Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology, Brown U. Oct 2011 “Embodied Subjectivity and Fandom: Implications for Medical Anthropology,” guest lecturer, Culture and Health, Brown U. April 2010 “Reading Sidney Mintz’s Sweetness and Power: Background on Marxist Theory,” guest lecturer, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Brown U. PUBLICATIONS 2013 “Playing by the Book(s): The Unwritten Rules of Football in Turkey,” Fair Play: Revista de Filosofía,Ética y Derecho del Deporte, 1(1): 89-112. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Forthcoming “The Violence Law and the Governmentalization of Football in Turkey,” in The Governmentalized Nation, Contemporary Issues in Turkey, Erol, M., Terzioğlu, A, Özbay, C. and Turem, Z. U. eds., Routledge. Forthcoming “Reinserting race as a relevant social category in Turkey through football” with Marcie Patton, Donna Lee Bowen, and Becky Schulthies in Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East, 3rd edition, Bowen, D.L., Early, E., Schulthies, B., eds., Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ESSAYS Mar 2013 “Duygu Söylemleri, Futbol Aşkı ve Cinsiyet,” (“Discourses on Emotions, Football Love and Gender”) Hayatım Futbol, v. 72, March 6, 2013. June 2012 “Making Fairness in Turkish Football,” Anthropology News: Special Issue on Olympics. Mar 2012 “Haydi Hanımlar Hep Bir Ağızdan: Portakal Soyulur mu? Tadına Doyulur mu?” (“Women’s Swearing in Turkish football: Oppression, Humor or Resistance?”) Hayatım Futbol, v. 23, March 6, 2012. Jan 2012 “Kadın Taraftar Olamaz mı?” (“Can Women not be Fans?”), Bianet/Biamag News Portal, January 28, 2012. vii PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Brown U.: Certificate III, Professional Development Seminar, 2011-2012. Certificate I, Sheridan Teaching Seminar, 2006-2007. ACADEMIC SERVICE Graduate Student Liaison to the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning, Brown University, 2011-2012 LANGUAGES and COMPUTER COMPETENCES Turkish (native), English (fluent) Spanish (intermediate) MS Office, SPSS viii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I have met some extraordinary people in the years of conducting research and writing this dissertation. They, along with life-long friends, have not only been sources of support for me academically but also providers of invaluable inspiration as friends. It would be impossible for me to thank all of them here; I am humbled to have the opportunity to express my gratitude for