Focus: Listening out for the Voiceless

Focus: Listening out for the Voiceless

Efe Levent is an icon of Shida Park, the heart of the student area in Taipei and a place of unexpected encounters and events near the eRenlai headquarters. This tall, long-haired, metal-head student of anthropology hails from Ankara originally and while finishing his PhD at Jiao Tung Normal University in Hsinchu, he has also been contributing...

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Focus: Listening out for the Voiceless

One of the great advantages of looking at 2011 from Taiwan is that writing an article reviewing the year of the rabbit is still a legitimate endeavour in the month of February. Although, it has to be said, even in the less fortunate parts of the world, where New Year is celebrated only once, 2011 will resist being shelved away as ‘soo last...

Read more: The Year of the Voiceless

Focus: Listening out for the Voiceless

This is a two part documentary about how cultural understanding is forged on a day to day basis between models of civilisation that were considered to be fundamentaly incompatible. The aim is to make a case for ending caricaturised notions of 'the other' rooted voicelessness and disenfranchisement.

Read more: The Rift and the Bridge

Focus: Listening out for the Voiceless

Two examples to think about disenfranchisement’s relation to the space

The objective of this article is to displace the interpretation of disenfranchisement as « deprivation of rights » from the strict legal perspective in which it is most of the time included. The space of the Law, or as it is usually called, the “state of right”...

Read more: Punishment Park and Wall Street

Focus: Listening out for the Voiceless

Despite their status as French citizens, Roma (or Roms) from France, living upon French territory since the fifteenth century, are still subject to special treatments from state authorities. These treatments, converted in institutional practices, are contrary to the equalitarian Republican spirit. They pose both a political (by inventing...

Read more: The Roma People in France : Between State of Rights and State Racism

Focus: Listening out for the Voiceless

A reader's response to Efe's Levent article: The Year of the Voiceless

Where to start? After reading Efe’s article entitled ‘The Year of the Voiceless’ I felt compelled to respond. I must first congratulate Efe on the Guardian-esque style of his penmanship, it must not be easy to appear both sanctimonious and completely unconstructive in...

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Focus: Listening out for the Voiceless

The ambition of these lines is humble. They propose a return to Sade. Simply this! What a pretentious project one might say! Since Sade cannot be, let us say for over a quarter century, considered as a disenfranchised person. This is, essentially, the daring side of our project: to show that despite all the “noise” and because of this din...

Read more: Back to Sade: The Voiceless Model!