Mangal Media Podcast

In today's episode I will be reading my own article *How Acupuncture Cured my Anthropology*. In this article I discuss my fieldwork at an acupuncture clinic in Istanbul between 2014-2016 and how it has opened the door for me to reconsider my relationship with the academic discipline of anthropology.

Bugünkü konuğum Zeynep Beler ile yeni yazısı hakkında konuşuyoruz. Yazının başlığı *İstanbulda İstanbulu Özlemek: Netflix'in Bir Başkadır'ı Hakkında Düşünceler*. Yazar Kasım 2020 de Netflix'de yayına giren diziyi incelerken pandemi sürecinde hissettiği İstanbul hasretini ve sinematik kurguda temsil sorununu inceliyor.

In today's episode, I will be joined by Anna Gvelesiani to discuss her new article: Mothers, Daughters and Language. As a Georgian immigrant in Germany, the author explores her relationship with her language in parallel with her relationship to her mother. The article also deals with questions of assimilation and cultural identity.

Bugünkü konuklarım İlker Hepkaner ve Sezgin İnceel ile periferide nostalji serimize yazmış oldukları The First Pop Song I Remember, Hatırladığım İlk Pop Şarkısı adlı yazılarını konuşacağız. Yazarlar bu çalışamalarında 90'lar Türkçe pop müziğinden nasıl etkilendiklerini ve bu dönemin hayatlarına nasıl yön vermiş olduğunu anlatıyorlar.

In today's episode I will be reading my own article: Snakes and ladders. This article is the introduction to our ongoing Nostalgia in the periphery series. This is a series of articles we launched at the start of the decade to investigate whether it could be possible to construct a collective peripheral memory. Every article in the series questions the relationship between identity and memory and what it means to feel nostalgic in the peripheral world. We are also very much interested in hearing from our readers about their own experiences nostalgia.

In today's episode we will be joined by one of our regular contributors Robin Asbury, to talk about her recent article *Where are the Ati in the Ati-Atihan?* In this article, Robin introduces a yearly festival in the Aklan province of the Philippines called Ati-Atihan. The article interrogates the tradition of blackface involved in the celebration of the festival and sets it against multiple backdrops of global histories of anti-blackness.

Bugünkü bölümümüzde Pınar Üzeltüzenci ile yazmış olduğu *Colonial Gaze Spotted Alive and Well* adlı yazı hakkında konuşacağız. Yazı, Odunpazarı Modern Müze'nin yayınlamış olduğu *OMM'u Yapan İnsanlar* adlı fotoğraf kitabı üzerine. Yazar, bu kitap özelinden sömürgecilik ve fotoğrafçılık tarihini inceliyor.

In today's episode we will be joined by Banah al Ghadbanah to talk about her recent article: Bellydancing, Activism and the Politics of Pleasure. The article explores the importance of self-care and pleasure within the activist environment. The author particularly focuses on her personal experiences as someone with friends and family who were activists in the Syrian Revolution and who was both an observer and participant in some senses. In the light of these experiences, al Ghadbanah discusses what it means to claim spaces of pleasure during a political struggle.

In today's episode we will be joined by Sharanya Deepak to talk about her article: Delhi's Kebabs: The Taste of Memory. In this article Sharanya explores the modesty of kebabs and sets it against the backdrop of Delhi's narrative of itself. In doing so she pulls the centre-periphery relationship that defines her native city.

In today's episode we will be joined by Adnan Mahmutovic to discuss his recent article: Black Moses Matters. In this article, Adnan investigates the location of Bosnians within the contemporary racial hierarchy. Key to his investigation is the assertion that Moses was black. Today, we will talk about the writing process that went into the essay and discuss the importance of a writer's relationship with their audience.