Britta Ohm is an associated researcher at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern, Switzerland. She has been conducting fieldwork on the changing media landscapes in India and in Turkey since the 1990s, first as a documentary filmmaker and employee of German public television. Currently, she is finishing a book on post-Gujarat Indian television and working on a project on negotiations between the secular and the Islamic on Turkish television.
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Published in: HomeA public for democracy: overcoming mediated segregation in Turkey
In this context, “Gezi”, as a synonym for all the places in Turkey where protests and citizen forums have sprung up,...
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Published in: openIndiaPublic against Democracy: the case of the Gujarat Pogrom 2002
The pogrom was not only publicly visible for the local population – as had always been the case with earlier...