A conversation on British-values from the perspective of British-Turkish youth (DOMUS Seminar)

DOMUS Seminar Series 2023 - 2024

With Speaker Asli Kandemir, Research Fellow, University of Birmingham

Join Domus to hear Asli tell the story of the narrated subjectivities of British-Turks, with a special focus on British-Turkish youth. The talk uses vignette research methodology to uncover how Britishness, British values, and community cohesion are un-made and re-made in the pursuit of racial equality. 

Biography

Asli Kandemir is a Research Fellow on the Leverhulme Trust-funded project: “‘Free’ expression at School? The Making of Youth Engagements with Race and Faith” at the University of Birmingham.

Before coming to Birmingham, she worked as a Teaching Fellow in Sociology and Education at Keele University, and completed her PhD in Sociology at Liverpool Hope University. Aslı’s research focuses on challenging multiple inequalities in communities, education, and young people’s lives. She has a number of internationally peer-reviewed publications and opinion pieces on symbolic border(-making), ‘race’ and racism in (education) policy-making, and qualitative research methods as well as mentoring.

Aslı is currently writing her first book on tolerance, power, and community cohesion, exploring how the value of tolerance is instrumentalised through education policy and political discourse to govern ethnic communities and youth and reinstate cultural hierarchy in Britain.

This event is open to general public, staffs and students. Registration is essential to receive the online link if you are attending via ZOOM.

Please note, the online link opens at 17.00 to allow time for introductions and networking, the talk will commence at 17.30.