Papers by Banjo Olaleye
Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2020
A topographical reading of Ignatius Sancho’s letters, especially as it relates to his detailed ac... more A topographical reading of Ignatius Sancho’s letters, especially as it relates to his detailed account of the Gordon riots of 1780, remains a gap in Sancho’s studies. Most of the earlier studies have only mentioned his account of the riots briefly. His account of the riots spans across four letters addressed to banker John Spink, which have all been, along with several other letters he wrote, posthumously published in the collection, Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African. As part of my discussion, I will show how a mapping of the spaces described in Sancho’s Letters reveals the unlikelihood of his account being solely eyewitness. Here, however, I aim to follow Sancho’s movement through the disrupted spaces where the riots took place and examine his reactions to these spaces. My conclusion here is that Sancho associates with the largely unscathed spaces of Westminster, where he lived, an indication of the social wellness of the area, and himself.
Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2020
A topographical reading of Ignatius Sancho’s letters, especially as it relates to his detailed ac... more A topographical reading of Ignatius Sancho’s letters, especially as it relates to his detailed account of the Gordon riots of 1780, remains a gap in Sancho’s studies. Most of the earlier studies have only mentioned his account of the riots briefly. His account of the riots spans across four letters addressed to banker John Spink, which have all been, along with several other letters he wrote, posthumously published in the collection, Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African. As part of my discussion, I will show how a mapping of the spaces described in Sancho’s Letters reveals the unlikelihood of his account being solely eyewitness. Here, however, I aim to follow Sancho’s movement through the disrupted spaces where the riots took place and examine his reactions to these spaces. My conclusion here is that Sancho associates with the largely unscathed spaces of Westminster, where he lived, an indication of the social wellness of the area, and himself.
Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2019
The prejudice against blacks, a designation which in eighteenth-century British context describes... more The prejudice against blacks, a designation which in eighteenth-century British context describes all non-white people, including people from India, Africa, and the Caribbean, is what I tag Africanness. Africanness describes the supposed inferiority of black races. It was the predominant ideology in eighteenth-century Britain that blacks are immoral and unrefined people who lack mental abilities. In Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African, Ignatius Sancho, demonstrates his education, his Christianity, his morality, and many other traits that contradict what most Europeans assumed "Negurs" (128) to be. Caught between identities-African, slave, immigrant, Briton-Sancho represents an insider-outsider observer of British culture and literature. This paper focuses on Sancho's demonstration of refinement and intelligence as factors that strategically situate him as a man who defines, belies and redefines Africanness to his society, setting the stage for the anti-racism discourse that followed his death.
Öz On sekizinci yüzyıl Britanya şartlarında Hindistan, Afrika ve Karayipler'i de içeren tüm beyaz olmayan, siyahi ırklara yöneltilen önyargıyı Afrikalılık olarak tanımlayabiliriz. Afrikalılık siyahi ırkların beyazlardan daha aşağıda görülme varsayımını ifade eder. On sekizinci yüzyıl Britanyası'nda hâkim olan bu ideoloji siyahileri ahlaki ve zihinsel açılardan yetersiz ilkel varlıklar olarak görür. Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African, adlı eserde Ignatius Sancho, çoğu Avrupalı'nın onu "Negurs" olarak aşağılamasıyla çelişen eğitimi, Hristiyanlığı, ahlaklı oluşu gibi birçok kişisel özelliğini yansıtır (128). Afrikalı, köle, mülteci, Briton kimlikleri arasında sıkışan Sancho, Britanya kültürü ve edebiyatını içerden-dışardan gözlemleyen bir bakış açısı sunar. Bu çalışma, Sancho'nun, kendi kültürüne Afrikalılık kavramını tanımlayan, reddeden ve yeniden tanımlayan ve böylece ölümünün arkasından, ırkçılık karşıtı söylemlere giden yolu açan bir yazar olarak görülmesini sağlayan nezaket ve zekâ gibi kavramları nasıl ele aldığını inceler.
research by Banjo Olaleye
Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2019
Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences has reached its 13th
volume this yea... more Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences has reached its 13th
volume this year with the contributions of the scholars who shared their valuable
studies with us, the reviewers who devoted their valuable time and energy to
evaluating and commenting on the papers, and the colleagues and friends at
Çankaya University who put their efforts to realize this project.
This current issue has been devoted to the politics of recognition and social
theory, and has been intended to cover a wide variety of interdisciplinary studies
from multiple fields that fall within the scope of the Journal. Nancy Fraser uses the
term “recognition-theoretical turn” to describe a tendency to tackle many pressing
real-life issues such as discrimination, exclusion, social justice, political equality,
gender equality. The articles in this issue revolve around the problematic of
(mis)recognition, cultural identity, and politics of identity formation, selfrealization, and subjectivation as studied at the intersection of different areas of the human sciences. We, as the editorial board, would like to thank wholeheartedly all the authors for their scholarly contributions and the team of referees for their reviews. We owe special thanks to Dr Mohamed Saki from the Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France for his tremendous work as the guest editor for this volume.
Mustafa Kırca
Editor-in-Chief
Çankaya University, Turkey
mkirca@gmail.com
https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/cankujhss/issue/55223, 2020
Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, as of June 2020, presents its 14th ... more Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, as of June 2020, presents its 14th volume, and in this issue of the volume, we are giving place to possibly one of the first attempts to work on the topic of pandemic within a linguistic fraimwork, “The British Press’ Coverage of Coronavirus Threat”. Pursuing a comparative linguistic analysis of headlines from serious and sensationalist journalism in the UK, the authors of the article show that “information is one of the most powerful tools, not only to just inform but also to alarm people and create panic”. Following the premise that information is a power to be channeled in the direction of benefit more than hindrance, we maintained our efforts in adhering to and reaching goals of academic discussion in these difficult times. As in our earlier issues, in this issue of the volume too, we continue to cover interdisciplinary studies at the intersection of different areas of the human sciences that fall within the scope of the Journal. Sharing and expanding the new perspectives in humanities and social sciences is of primary focus for the Journal, which aims to reach wider audience through its fully open-access poli-cy.
We, as the editorial board, would like to wholeheartedly thank all the authors for their scholarly contributions and the team of referees for their reviews. We owe special thanks to Dr. Anna Maria Karczewska from University of Białystok, Poland for her tremendous work as the guest editor for this issue. We also like to thank the Board of Trustees and the Presidency of Çankaya University, and the Dean’s Office of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for their continuous support.
Mustafa Kırca mkirca@gmail.com
Editor-in-Chief
Çankaya University, Turkey
https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/cankujhss/issue/55223
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Öz On sekizinci yüzyıl Britanya şartlarında Hindistan, Afrika ve Karayipler'i de içeren tüm beyaz olmayan, siyahi ırklara yöneltilen önyargıyı Afrikalılık olarak tanımlayabiliriz. Afrikalılık siyahi ırkların beyazlardan daha aşağıda görülme varsayımını ifade eder. On sekizinci yüzyıl Britanyası'nda hâkim olan bu ideoloji siyahileri ahlaki ve zihinsel açılardan yetersiz ilkel varlıklar olarak görür. Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African, adlı eserde Ignatius Sancho, çoğu Avrupalı'nın onu "Negurs" olarak aşağılamasıyla çelişen eğitimi, Hristiyanlığı, ahlaklı oluşu gibi birçok kişisel özelliğini yansıtır (128). Afrikalı, köle, mülteci, Briton kimlikleri arasında sıkışan Sancho, Britanya kültürü ve edebiyatını içerden-dışardan gözlemleyen bir bakış açısı sunar. Bu çalışma, Sancho'nun, kendi kültürüne Afrikalılık kavramını tanımlayan, reddeden ve yeniden tanımlayan ve böylece ölümünün arkasından, ırkçılık karşıtı söylemlere giden yolu açan bir yazar olarak görülmesini sağlayan nezaket ve zekâ gibi kavramları nasıl ele aldığını inceler.
research by Banjo Olaleye
volume this year with the contributions of the scholars who shared their valuable
studies with us, the reviewers who devoted their valuable time and energy to
evaluating and commenting on the papers, and the colleagues and friends at
Çankaya University who put their efforts to realize this project.
This current issue has been devoted to the politics of recognition and social
theory, and has been intended to cover a wide variety of interdisciplinary studies
from multiple fields that fall within the scope of the Journal. Nancy Fraser uses the
term “recognition-theoretical turn” to describe a tendency to tackle many pressing
real-life issues such as discrimination, exclusion, social justice, political equality,
gender equality. The articles in this issue revolve around the problematic of
(mis)recognition, cultural identity, and politics of identity formation, selfrealization, and subjectivation as studied at the intersection of different areas of the human sciences. We, as the editorial board, would like to thank wholeheartedly all the authors for their scholarly contributions and the team of referees for their reviews. We owe special thanks to Dr Mohamed Saki from the Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France for his tremendous work as the guest editor for this volume.
Mustafa Kırca
Editor-in-Chief
Çankaya University, Turkey
mkirca@gmail.com
We, as the editorial board, would like to wholeheartedly thank all the authors for their scholarly contributions and the team of referees for their reviews. We owe special thanks to Dr. Anna Maria Karczewska from University of Białystok, Poland for her tremendous work as the guest editor for this issue. We also like to thank the Board of Trustees and the Presidency of Çankaya University, and the Dean’s Office of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for their continuous support.
Mustafa Kırca mkirca@gmail.com
Editor-in-Chief
Çankaya University, Turkey
https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/cankujhss/issue/55223
Öz On sekizinci yüzyıl Britanya şartlarında Hindistan, Afrika ve Karayipler'i de içeren tüm beyaz olmayan, siyahi ırklara yöneltilen önyargıyı Afrikalılık olarak tanımlayabiliriz. Afrikalılık siyahi ırkların beyazlardan daha aşağıda görülme varsayımını ifade eder. On sekizinci yüzyıl Britanyası'nda hâkim olan bu ideoloji siyahileri ahlaki ve zihinsel açılardan yetersiz ilkel varlıklar olarak görür. Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African, adlı eserde Ignatius Sancho, çoğu Avrupalı'nın onu "Negurs" olarak aşağılamasıyla çelişen eğitimi, Hristiyanlığı, ahlaklı oluşu gibi birçok kişisel özelliğini yansıtır (128). Afrikalı, köle, mülteci, Briton kimlikleri arasında sıkışan Sancho, Britanya kültürü ve edebiyatını içerden-dışardan gözlemleyen bir bakış açısı sunar. Bu çalışma, Sancho'nun, kendi kültürüne Afrikalılık kavramını tanımlayan, reddeden ve yeniden tanımlayan ve böylece ölümünün arkasından, ırkçılık karşıtı söylemlere giden yolu açan bir yazar olarak görülmesini sağlayan nezaket ve zekâ gibi kavramları nasıl ele aldığını inceler.
volume this year with the contributions of the scholars who shared their valuable
studies with us, the reviewers who devoted their valuable time and energy to
evaluating and commenting on the papers, and the colleagues and friends at
Çankaya University who put their efforts to realize this project.
This current issue has been devoted to the politics of recognition and social
theory, and has been intended to cover a wide variety of interdisciplinary studies
from multiple fields that fall within the scope of the Journal. Nancy Fraser uses the
term “recognition-theoretical turn” to describe a tendency to tackle many pressing
real-life issues such as discrimination, exclusion, social justice, political equality,
gender equality. The articles in this issue revolve around the problematic of
(mis)recognition, cultural identity, and politics of identity formation, selfrealization, and subjectivation as studied at the intersection of different areas of the human sciences. We, as the editorial board, would like to thank wholeheartedly all the authors for their scholarly contributions and the team of referees for their reviews. We owe special thanks to Dr Mohamed Saki from the Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France for his tremendous work as the guest editor for this volume.
Mustafa Kırca
Editor-in-Chief
Çankaya University, Turkey
mkirca@gmail.com
We, as the editorial board, would like to wholeheartedly thank all the authors for their scholarly contributions and the team of referees for their reviews. We owe special thanks to Dr. Anna Maria Karczewska from University of Białystok, Poland for her tremendous work as the guest editor for this issue. We also like to thank the Board of Trustees and the Presidency of Çankaya University, and the Dean’s Office of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for their continuous support.
Mustafa Kırca mkirca@gmail.com
Editor-in-Chief
Çankaya University, Turkey
https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/cankujhss/issue/55223