Politics of Stigmatization and Human Insecurities in Hybrid Regimes: Actors, Mechanisms, and Responses was organized by Sultan Tepe, University of Illinois, Chicago, and Bilge Yabanci, Northwestern University and Ca' Foscari University of Venice. The workshop strives to address questions such as when, why, and how stigmas are produced and deployed politically. What are the critical areas where insecurities shape individuals' or communities' political and social experiences? What technologies, discourses, or mechanisms contribute to human insecurity? How can stigmas or human insecurities pave the way for new forms of marginalization, resistance, and democratic responses?
kaçak: forms of informality and commodity in modern turkey was a virtual symposium of ethnography connecting global scholars to co-present a panel on informality, with each panelist tracking a single commodity, showing the many forms kaçak [conventionally translated into English as the equivalent of “smuggled good,”]takes in the hands of concrete social actors under historically specific material conditions.