Dr. Danielle V. Schoon presents Staging Romani Belonging in Turkey: Between Nationalism and Globalism. Co-sponsored by the Departments of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC) and Dance, Ethnomusicology Program.
The promise of globalization was the free flow of commodities, ideas and people as well as greater forms of freedom and equality for societies across the world. Open economies and open societies would extend social and economic relations across national borders, phasing out and replacing cultural and political divides with interdependence based on our common humanity. Cultural identity has become doubly inscribed in the context of globalization (Comaroff and Comaroff, 2009), as both the conscious construction of selfhood—signaling a vibrant civil society that is the marker of a true and functioning democracy—and also a commodified, marketable object to be consumed—signaling a vibrant and free market. On the other hand, globalization seems to threaten to overcome local culture, which must be salvaged and preserved if it is to survive.
