Abstract
In ‘Performing Academia in Public Space in Turkey’, Özgül Akıncı writes about embodying a state of crisis in Turkey through contemplating on her own involvement in a series of, what she calls, public performances. When 1128 academics, researchers and doctoral students signed a petition in 2016, protesting the surge of violence and calling for peace, they were met with outstanding consequences. This paper reflects on some performative moments that occurred at the border zone of some sort, one is between the inside and outside of the prison, the other is between national borders. The act of solidarity among petitioners, which she reads as political performance, showed itself repeatedly on the margins of waiting, being marked as an insider or an outsider.
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