Ali Riza Taskale
The Post-Political City: Four Social Regimes, Four Affects, and Radical Politics Today
Supervisors: Dr Eric Olund, Dr Jessica Dubow
Current Research
The project theorises the depoliticised conditions of the late capitalist city that have been widely observed in critical literature. It will explore how governmental rationalities of urban life have been thoroughly infested by an ordering that has been termed ‘post-political’. It will do so by offering a novel topological analysis that will make the following critical interventions:
- An exploration of how the much-discussed social regimes of sovereignty, discipline and control relate to each other in the production of urban governmental assemblages
- An analysis of the affective logic each regime entails and how they inter-relate
- A proposal for a fourth regime, ‘terror’, and a theorization of its associated affect, ‘spite’
- An analysis of what new forms of radical politics can take place in post-political cities
Research interests
Social and Political Theory
Political Philosophy
Post-structuralism
Urbanism
Education
PhD – Geography (Human Geography), The University of Sheffield, 2009–present
Master of Arts (with Distinction) – Sociology - Lancaster University, UK – Awarded: October 2008
Master of Science – Sociology - Hacettepe University, Turkey – Awarded: July 2006
Awards
2009-2012: The University of Sheffield Studentship
2007-2008: British Chevening Scholarship, Lancaster University, Department of Sociology (funded by Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK)
2004: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Summer University: State Fellowship (Turkish Ministry of National Education) to attend the program on Greek language and culture
Publications
Chapters in Books
- Taskale, A.R. (2010). 'Clash of Nihilisms,' in, Fear, Horror and Terror 2008, Mikko Canini (ed), Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, pp. 79-103.
- Taskale, A.R. (2009). 'Clash of Nihilisms, in E-Book, Inter-Disciplinary Press, Oxford.
Online PDF version - Taskale, A.R. and Akyuz, C. (2008). 'Stranger: A Beautiful Congregation', in New York and Chewing Gum, Sinasi Yalcin (ed.), Istanbul: Artes (with Cemal Akyuz)
Peer Reviewed Articles
- Taskale, A.R. (2011). 'Margins of Nihilism/Nihilisms of Margin: Social Theory Facing Nihilism,' Theory, Culture and Society, vol. 28 (2): 152-161.
- Taskale, A.R. (2008). 'Distant,' Journal for Cultural Research, vol. 12(3): 281-294.
doi:10.1080/14797580802522168
Conference Presentations
2011
4 February: 'The Militarization of "Everyday" City: Geography Facing the Cam', Crime and the City Symposium, Sheffield Centre for Criminological Research, University of Sheffield.
6-7 January: 'The Post-Political City: Four Social Regimes, Four Affects, and Radical Politics Today', Why does political geography matter?, CFP: RGS-IBG political geography workshop,6-7 January 2011, Newcastle University, UK2010
17-19 June: 'Nihilism, Post-Politics and the Indispensability of Revolution', Waiting for the Political Moment, Utrecht & Rotterdam
4 April: 'Urban Jungle: Camp(ing) as a Post-Political Strategy', FSS Postgraduate Research Student Conference, The Interdisciplinary Centre for Social Sciences (ICOSS) Postgraduate Conference, University of Sheffield2009
29 April-1 May: 'Biopolitics and (the War Against) Terror', Ege University 12th International Cultural Studies Symposium, Izmir, Turkey2008
3-6 September: 'The Politics of Terror', 2nd Global Conference: Fear Horror and Terror, University of Oxford, UK
6-9 July: 'The Sociology of Boredom: Is There Hope?', II Lancaster University Summer Conference, Lancaster, UK
12-13 June: 'The Politics of Boredom', 9th Essex conference in Critical Political Theory, University Of Essex, UK
Contact Details
Address: The University of Sheffield, Department of Geography, Winter Street, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 114 222 7973
Fax: +44 (0) 114 222 7907
Email: a.taskale@sheffield.ac.uk