New Translation: Özgür Sevgi Göral on the Politics of Shame and Remembrance

We are excited to publish the newly translated article by Özgür Sevgi Göral “The Submerged, the Faithful, the Fighters, the Perpetrators, the Careless and the Layers of Shame”. Özgür Sevgi Göral is an associated researcher at the Centre d’études turques, ottomanes, balkaniques et centrasiatiques (CETOBAC) in Paris. Her research focuses on critical theory, the politics of remembrance, Kurdish Studies and social movements, with an emphasis on contemporary Turkey. She is also one of the founders of the Truth Justice Memory Center (Hafıza Merkezi), an Istanbul-based NGO that documents and seeks to counter systemic human rights violations in Turkey (https://hakikatadalethafiza.org/en/). Her dissertation, Enforced Disappearances in Turkey. Loss, Politics and Memory-Making at the Margin, is forthcoming with Brill, and her current research project at CETOBAC is titled “Alone but Not Lonely: Subjectivities, Agency, and Activism of Displaced Kurdish LGBTQI+ Communities”. Her article, originally published in 2023, explores the nexus of systemic violence and shame, examines its role in the politics of remembrance, and reflects on its implications for the prospects of liberation.