UMUT OZKIRIMLI E-Mail: [email protected]; [email protected]
CURRICULUM VITAE January 2019
Education BA, Political Science and International Relations, Bogazici University, 1994
MSc, International Relations, The London School of Economics, 1995 Thesis title: “Inventing the nation? The modernist approach to nationalism with particular reference to Turkish nationalism”
PhD, International Relations, Istanbul University, 1999 Thesis title: “Theories of nationalism: A critical overview” (published as Theories of Nationalism: A Critical Introduction in 2000)
Appointed as Assistant Professor, Istanbul Bilgi University, 1999 Assessment of publications, decision by the University Board
Appointed as Associate Professor, Istanbul Bilgi University, 2005 Assessment of publications and oral examination by a committee of external experts appointed by the national Higher Education Council
Appointed as Professor, 2010 Assessment of publications by a committee of external experts appointed by the national Higher Education Council
Languages: Turkish (native); English (excellent); French (excellent); Swedish (intermediate); Spanish (beginner, taking courses)
Professional experience University Lecturer, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University From 1 March 2017 (permanent)
Researcher, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University From 1 December 2017 to 28 February 2017
University Lecturer, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University From 1 December 2013 to 30 November 2016
Guest Professor, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University From 1 December 2011 to 30 November 2013
Professor, Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University 2010-2011
Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University 2005-2010 2
Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University 1999-2005
Teaching Assistant, Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University 1996-1999
Research Assistant, Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV) 1995-1996
Visiting Positions (Research and Teaching) Visiting Senior Fellow, IBEI (Intitut d’Estudis Internacionals), Barcelona From September 2019 to September 2020
Visiting Fellow, Barcelona Center for International Studies (CIDOB), Barcelona From September 2018 to September 2020
Visiting Fellow, LSEE - Research on South East Europe, London School of Economics From September 2018 to September 2019
Guest Researcher, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM), Vienna From November 2018 to January 2019
Visiting Professor, Middle East Center (MEC), London School of Economics From May 2016 to June 2018
Visiting Professor, Center for Advanced International Theory (CAIT), University of Sussex From May 2016 to January 2018
Honorary Professor in Europe, Nationalism and Globalization at the Center for Modern European Studies (CEMES), University of Copenhagen From June 2011 to present
Senior Fellow, Istanbul Policy Center, Sabancı University From April 2012 to present
Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, Department of Political and Social Sciences, The European University Institute, Florence (Research) From January 2011 to July 2011
Visiting Professor, Department of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cyprus, Nicosia (Teaching) From October 2010 to November 2010
Visiting Professor, Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University (Research) From April 2010 to June 2010
Senior Visiting Fellow, LSEE (Research on South East Europe), The European Institute, The London School of Economics (Research, recurrent visits) From September 2009 to December 2011 3
Senior Visiting Fellow, The Hellenic Observatory, The European Institute, The London School of Economics (Research) From March 2009 to July 2009
Visiting Professor, Department of History, Bogazici University, Istanbul (Teaching) From September 2008 to January 2009
Bilgi/LSE Fellow, The European Institute, The London School of Economics (Research) From September 2001 to September 2002
Administrative positions Director, Turkish-Greek Studies (Research and Teaching Unit), Istanbul Bilgi University 2005-2011
PhD Programme Coordinator, Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University 2008-2011
Masters Programme Coordinator, Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University 2007-2010
Vice Head of Department, Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University 2000-2001
Positions as editor, peer review Book Series Editor, “New Perspectives in Nationalism Studies” (with Daphne Halikiopoulou), Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan (to be launched in September January 2020)
Book Series Editor ,“Islam and Nationalism” (with Spyros A. Sofos), Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2011-2018, http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14837)
Member of the International Advisory Board of SSCI journal Nations and Nationalism
Member of the International Editorial Advisory Board of SSCI journal Third World Quarterly
Editor for the special issue on “Academic Freedom in Turkey... and Beyond”, Globalizations, with contributions by Judith Butler, Jonathan R. Cole, Deniz Kandiyoti and Nilufer Gole, 2017 (online open access; print issue December 2017)
Peer review for Nations and Nationalism; Ethnicities; Ethnic and Racial Studies; Nationalism and Ethnic Politics; Nationalities Papers; National Identities; Current Sociology; Millennium: The Journal of International Studies; Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans; Theoria; Turkish Studies; New Perspectives on Turkey; Public Culture; Religion, State and Society; International Spectator; American Ethnologist; Political Geography
4 Reader of manuscripts for Palgrave Macmillan; Cambridge University Press; Lexington Books; Wiley Blackwell; Hurst & Co; Leiden Brill; Routledge; Pluto Press
Persons who have completed a doctoral degree or postdoctoral fellowship under my supervision Cemil Boyraz, Istanbul Bilgi University, 2012 (doctoral degree) Thesis title: “Class and nationalism in the age of global capitalism: Post-1980 privatization process in Turkey”
Yavuz Tuyloglu, Istanbul Bilgi University, 2005 - (doctoral degree) Thesis title: “The political geography of Turkish nationalism”
Salim Cevik, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University, (doctoral fellow), from 1 September 2011 to 31 August 2012 Thesis title: “Subverting the secular-religious dichotomy: Religious exclusion and nation- building in Turkey and Pakistan”
Zelal Basak Kizilkan, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University (postdoctoral fellow), from 1 February 2015 to 31 August 2015 Project title: “Norms versus interest? Turkey's foreign policy in the aftermath of the Arab Spring”
Salim Cevik, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University (postdoctoral fellow) , from 1 September 2016 to 31 August 2017 Project title: “The evolution of Turkish nationalism and the changing nature of the Kurdish problem”
Contact with wider society MEDIA
Regular appearances in national and international media on issues related to Turkey, the Kurds, nationalism and populism. Third most quoted expert at CMES in 2016 (with 302 quotes).
Opinion pieces in The Guardian “I was a natural cosmopolitan. Sweden, and the far right, changed all that”, The Guardian, 23 January 2019. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/23/cosmopolitan- sweden-far-right-refuge-europe
5 “There is hope for democracy in Turkey – but it needs help”, The Guardian, 24 July 2019. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/24/hope-democracy-turkey-istanbul- mayoral-election
Opinion pieces in Sydsvenskan “Demonstranterna har gjort tydligt att demokrati i en avskalad form inte fungerar” (with Andrea Karlsson), Sydsvenskan, 20 June 2013. “Tala om modeller: Vi borde fokusera mindre på vilken erfarenhet som kan överföras och mer på processer” (with Spyros A. Sofos), Sydsvenskan, 26 April 2013. “Turkiet och EU – likgiltighet och främlingskap” (with Leif Stenberg), Sydsvenskan, 15 January, 2013.
Regular contributor to Ahval News which publishes my op-eds in English, Turkish and Arabic simultaneously (affiliated with al Arab Weekly and Middle East Online) https://ahvalnews.com/umut-ozkirimli-0
Regular contributions to opendemocracy https://www.opendemocracy.net/author/umut-ozkirimli
Regular contributions to Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/umut-ozkirimli
Regular contributions to Turkish news portal Diken http://www.diken.com.tr/author/umuto/
Regular contributions to Turkish news portal T24 http://t24.com.tr/yazarlar/umut-ozkirimli
CONSULTANCY (Selected)
Swedish Migration Agency (Migrationsverket) On Turkish politics, Turkish and Kurdish asylum seekers
House of Lords International Relations Committee Evidence session No. 9, 11 January 2017. Conclusions summarized in the Second Report of Session 2016-17, “The Middle East: Time for New Realism” (includes several quotes by me) https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201617/ldselect/ldintrel/159/159.pdf
SOCIAL MEDIA
All my accounts are partly public.
Twitter: @UOzkirimli (30.849 followers as of 5 February 2019) Facebook: umutozkirimli (4970 followers as of 5 February 2019)
Academic experience RESEARCH PROJECTS 6 Project coordinator for international research network on “Nation and State in the Middle East”. Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University; Middle East Center, London School of Economics; Middle East and North Africa Center at Sussex (MENACS), Sussex University. From June 2016 to 2018
Vetenskapsrådet Large Conference Grant, “In Search of a Model for the Middle East: A Comparative Study of the Turkish and Nordic Experiences” - På spaning efter en modell för Mellanöstern: en jämförande studie av Turkiska och Nordiska erfarenheter From September 2013 to October 2014 (Project coordinator)
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond Research Initiation Grant, “In Search of a Model for the Middle East: A Comparative Study of the Turkish and Nordic Experiences” - På spaning efter en modell för Mellanöstern: en jämförande studie av Turkiska och Nordiska erfarenheter) From June 2013 to June 2014 (Project coordinator)
Pufendorf Institute Grant on “Hydrosolidarity”, Lund University From September 2012 to May 2013 (Participating researcher)
CONFERENCES, PUBLIC LECTURES/SEMINARS (Selected, 2008-2017)
Panel discussion, “Securitization of identities and regional conflicts in the Middle East”, Aula Mediterrània (IBEI-IEMED), Barcelona, 2 April 2019
Panel discussion, Times Higher Education Research Excellence Summit, “New Europe 2018”, Palacký University, Olomouc, 24-26 April 2018
Panel discussion, first meeting of PublicDemos, International Study Group on New Forms of Public Agency, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 24 February 2017
Public lecture, “Fokus Mellanöstern: Drömmen om det osmanska imperiet”, co-organized by CMES (Lund University), and Re:Orient, Medelhavsmuseeet, Stockholm, 11 October 2016
Panel discussion, “The End of Strategic Depth in Turkey?”, Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen, 3 October 2016
Keynote speaker, “Academic Freedom and the Turkish Turmoil”, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki in cooperation with Scholars at Risk (SAR), 25 August 2016
Panel discussion, first meeting of the international research network on “Nation and State in the Middle East”, London School of Economics, 8 June 2016
Panel discussion, “Migrants: Communities, Borders, Memories, Conflicts”, XIII Conference of the Italian Society for Middle Eastern Studies (SeSaMO), University of Catania, 17 -19 March 2016
7 Panel discussion, “Writing the History of Nationalism”, Institute for Social Movements, Bochum, 18-20 February 2016
Public lecture, “A Rude Awakening: Turkey, the Kurds and the Islamic State”, co - organized by CMES (Lund University), and Re:Orient, Medelhavsmuseeet, Stockholm, 22 September 2015
Keynote Speaker, “(Un)Making the Nation”, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, 10 September 2015
Public lecture, “Quo Vadis Turkey?”, co-organized by CMES (Lund University), Södertörns University and Re:Orient, Medelhavsmuseeet, Stockholm, 3 February 2015
Public lecture, “The Last of the Mohicans? Kobani and the Kurdish Struggle for Independence”, UF Linköping University, 22 January 2015
Panel discussion, “Political Order in Changing Societies Revisited – Thailand and Turkey Compared”, Department of Government, London School of Economics, 22-23 May 2014
Public lecture, “A Sense of Belonging: Multiculturalism and National Citizenship in the Contemporary World” (with Tariq Modood), Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen, 5 December 2013
Keynote speaker, International Conference, “Governing Diversity: The Kurds in a New Middle East”, Iraq Institute of Strategic Studies, Beirut, 28-30 November 2013
Panel discussion, “Gezi-Istanbul: Un Tournant?”, Groupe de Travail sur la Turquie contemporaine (with Nilüfer Göle), CERI-Sciences Po, Paris, 26 November 2013
Panel Discussion, “Security, Civil Society and the State in Turkey”, UF University of Gothenburg, 21 October 2013
Public seminar, “‘And People’s Concerns Were Genuine; Why Didn’t We Listen More?’ Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Recognition in Europe”, Center for Ethnicity and Citizenship Seminar Series, University of Bristol, 7 February 2013
Public seminar, “‘And People’s Concerns Were Genuine; Why Didn’t We Listen More?’ Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Recognition in Europe”, Sociology Seminar Series, The University of Edinburgh, 6 February 2013
ASEN public seminar, “‘And People’s Concerns Were Genuine; Why Didn’t We Listen More?’ Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Recognition in Europe”, ASEN Seminar Series in conjunction with the Department of Government, London School of Economics, 4 February 2013
PhD course and public lecture, “A Road to Nowhere? Nationalism and Multiculturalism in a Diverse World”, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen, 13-14 December 2012
Keynote speaker, International Conference, “Implications of the Eurozone Crisis for Perceptions, Politics and Policies of Migration”, Institute for European History and Public Spheres, Vienna and Department of Global Political Studies and Malmö Institute for 8 Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM), Malmö University, 29-30 September 2012
Panel discussion, “EU and Turkish Perspectives towards Reform”, Olof Palme Center- Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foudation (TESEV), CMES, Olof Palme International Center, Stockholm, 14 November 2012
Panel discussion, “A Political Giant Reborn? Turkey’s Foreign Policy in the Wake of the Arab Spring”, The Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm, 8 November 2012
RESET (Dialogues on Civilizations) Istanbul Seminars (chair and discussant to a panel with Craig Calhoun and Avishai Margalit), “The Promises of Democracy in Troubled Times”, Istanbul Bilgi University, 19-24 May 2012
Public seminar, Globalectures, Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società, Corso di Laurea in Scienze Internazionali, University of Turin, 12 April 2012
Panel discussion, “Nations and Nationalism Revisited” (with Miroslav Hroch and Montserrat Guibernau), Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute, Florence, 12 March 2012
Panel discussion, “The Turkish Phenomenon – The Development of the Society”, The Italian Center for Peace in the Middle East (CIPMO), Milano, 10 October 2011
Jean Blondel Seminars in Political Science, Center for the Study of Political Change, CIRCAP, University of Siena, 17 May 2011
Fernand Braudel Fellows Seminar, Department of Political and Social Sciences, T he European University Insitute, Florence, 15 March 2011
Conference in honour of HRH Princess Marie of Denmark and her Delegation, “National Minorities and Inter-Governmental Cooperation”, The European University Insitute, Florence, 2 February 2011
Panel discussion, “The Uses of History and the Politics of Memory in the Muslim World”, The Danish Institute in Damascus, 14-17 October 2010 International Conference – Saison de la Turquie, “Turkey between Nationalism and Globalization”, CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), CERI – Sciences Po, Paris, 25-27 March 2010
Public Seminar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, 24 November 2009
Public Seminar, Middle East Institute, Columbia University, 20 November 2009
International Conference, “Islamism and Nationalism: Competing, Converging or Overlapping Ideologies?”, CIDOB Foundation, Barcelona, 4-5 June 2009
Panel discussion, First World Social Science Forum (WSSF), “One Planet – Worlds Apart”, International Social Science Council, Bergen, Norway, 10-12 May 2009
9 Keynote speaker, International Conference, “Nationalism and Human Rights”, The Human Rights Research Committee of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) and Human Rights Law Research Center, Istanbul Bilgi University, 27-29 June 2008
EXTERNAL EXAMINER
External examiner in doctoral defence, Muhterem Merve Tunc, University of Reading, Department of Politics and International Relations, 2019
Appointed expert for promotion to Associate Professorship (Docenturansökan), Dr Isa Blumi, Faculty of Humanities, Stockholm University, 2017.
Opponent in final seminar (opponent vid slutseminarium), Andreas Johansson, Department of History of Religions, Lund University, 2014 Thesis title: “Pragmatic Muslim Politics – The Case of Sri Lanka Muslim Congress”
External examiner in doctoral defence, Bilge Azgin, University of Manchester, Department of Politics, 2012 Thesis title: “The Uneasy Democratization of Turkey’s Laic Ethnocracy”
Opponent in doctoral defence (opponent vid disputation), Nesrin Ucarlar, Department of Political Science, Lund University, 2009. Thesis title: “Between Majority Power and Minority Resistance: Kurdish Linguistic Rights in Turkey”
External examiner in doctoral defence, Sanem Sahin, Faculty of Arts, Media and Design, University of Westminster, 2008 Thesis title: “The Discursive Construction of National Identity by the Newspapers in North Cyprus”
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
One-day conference, “Europe of Extremes: Nationalism, Populism and the Crisis of Democracy”. Speakers – Daphne Halikiopoulou, Lars Trägårdh and Umut Özkırımlı. CIDOB, Barcelona, 20 May 2019.
Two-day conference (co-organized with Spyros A. Sofos and Andrea Karlsson), “In Search of a Model for the Middle East: A Comparative Study of the Turkish and Nordic Experiences”. Speakers – Lars Trägårdh, Henrik Berggren, Michelle Pace, Per Molander, Soli Ozel, Serhat Guvenc, Fuat Keyman, Sami Zubaida, Deniz Kandiyoti, Amr Shalakany, Cengiz Candar, Jacob Erle; Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University, 16-17 April 2015
Modern Turkey Seminar Series (co-organized with Andrea Karlsson). Speakers – Dror Zeevi, Ayhan Kaya, Soli Özel, Cengiz Candar, Brigitte Suter, Erika Larsson, Daniella Kuzmanovic, Ayhan Aktar, Ruth Mandel, Andrea Karlsson, Anne Ross Solberg, Marlies Casier, Åsa Elden, Deniz Kandiyoti, Sami Zubaida, Reina Lewis, Matthew Goldman and Selin Cagatay. Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University. From October 2011 to May 2013 10
Public Lecture. Speaker – Nira Yuval-Davis. Center for Middle Eastern Studies, co- organized with Gender Studies and the Department of Sociology, Lund University, 16 May 2012
One-day Workshop (co-organized with Andrea Karlsson), “Of Models and Beacons: Sweden, Turkey and the Middle East”, in collaboration with Istanbul Policy Center, Sabancı University. Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University, 3-4 November 2011
One-day Conference, “Turkey’s Kurdish Question in the Age of Globalization”. Speakers – Sahin Alpay, Ingmar Karlsson and Fuat Keyman. Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University, 31 May 2010
One-day Conference, “Turkey, Greece and EU: Domestic Parameters, External Variables”. Speakers – Thanos Veremis, Panagiotis Ioakimides, Kevin Featherstone, Spyros Economides. Istanbul Bilgi University, 1 June 2006
Panel series on “Turkey, Greece and the EU: The Aftermath of 3rd October”. Speakers – with Loukas Tsoukalis, Theodore Couloumbis, Kemal Kirisci, Ahmet Evin, Ayhan Kaya and Sule Kut. Istanbul Bilgi University, November and December 2005.
Public lecture. Speaker – Will Kymlicka, “Western Models of Minority Rights: Can They be Internationalized?”. Istanbul Bilgi University, 7 November 2003
Public lecture. Speaker – Kemal Dervis (then Turkish Economy Minister), “Some Thoughts on the End and the New Beginning of History: An Economist’s Perspective”. London School of Economics, 29 May 2002
Modern Turkish Studies Seminar series. Speakers – Deniz Kandiyoti, Ayhan Aktar, Soli Özel, Olga Demetriou, Mehmet Ugur. The European Institute, The London School of Economics. From November to May 2002
International Conference, “Nationalism in the 21 st Century”. Speakers – John A. Hall, John Hutchinson, Craig Calhoun, Nira Yuval-Davis, Partha Chatterjee. Istanbul Bilgi University, 10 May 2001
OTHER – INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS (Initiated/established by me)
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University and Istanbul Policy Center, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University and The Middle East and North Africa Center at Sussex (MENACS), Sussex University, UK
Teaching experience
COURSES TAUGHT
Undergraduate
11 Introduction to Political Science (Istanbul Bilgi University) Political Science I-II (Istanbul Bilgi University) Nationalism and International Relations (Istanbul Bilgi University) Research Management* (Istanbul Bilgi University) Multiculturalism and its Discontents* (Istanbul Bilgi University) Globalization and the Nation-State* (Istanbul Bilgi University) The Politics of Identity and Nationalism in Turkey* (Istanbul Bilgi University)
Nationalism and International Relations* (Bogazici University)
Democracy and Democratization (Blanquerna – Universitat Ramon Llul) Introduction to Political Science (Blanquerna – Universitat Ramon Llul)
Masters
Nationalism and International Relations (Istanbul Bilgi University) Nationalism in Greece and Turkey (Istanbul Bilgi University)
Discourses and Debates on the Middle East (Lund University) Multiculturalism and Minority Rights in the Middle East (Lund University) Key Theories in Middle Eastern Studies (Lund University) Democracy and Democratization in the Middle East (Lund University)
Islam and Politics (IBEI, Barcelona) Nationalism and Democracy (IBEI, Barcelona)
PhD Seminar
From Nationalism to Multiculturalism and Cosmopolitanism (Istanbul Bilgi University) 10-12 weeks per semester (3 hours each), interactive seminars with 5-10 students.
FORMAL PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING
Completed Lund University, CED – Centre for Educational Development’s Pedagogy classes, “Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: An Introduction” and “Doctoral Supervision – Introduction”
TEACHING AWARDS, PRIZES
Commendation by the European Political Science Network in the category of “Innovative Teaching” for the MA module on Turkish-Greek Relations I taught with Harry Tzimitras, 2007
INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
PhD seminars and workshops at the University of Copenhagen, University of Edinburgh, Malmö University, European University Institute, Florence
EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT WORK 12
Almost all courses I taught at undergraduate, masters and doctoral levels have been developed by me (the only exception being the MA module on Turkish-Greek Relations I co-developed with my colleague Harry Tzimitras).
Teaching material
Theories of Nationalism: A Critical Introduction, Palgrave Macmillan – first edition 2000; second edition 2010; third edition 2017) Recommended text (primary or secondary reading) in over 100 courses on ethnicity and nationalism in 30 countries. Translated into Turkish, Greek, Arabic, Persian, Albanian.
Contemporary Debates on Nationalism: A Critical Engagement, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Recommended text (primary or secondary reading) in several courses on ethnicity and nationalism. Translated into Turkish, Chinese.
Educational management
Director, Turkish-Greek Studies (Research and Teaching Unit), Istanbul Bilgi University 2005-2011
PhD Programme Coordinator, Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University 2008-2011
Masters Programme Coordinator, Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University 2007-2010
Fundraising related to education
Masters scholarship for a Turkish student from private donors in Turkey (100.000 SEK), awarded to Melek Kucukuzun, 2014-15
Postdoctoral Scholarship on Contemporary Turkey Studies from a private donor in Sweden (100.000 SEK), awarded to Zelal Basak Kizilkan, 2015
Publications
BOOK SERIES
Series Editor, “New Perspectives in Nationalism Studies” (with Daphne Halikiopoulou), Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan (to be launched in September 2019)
Series Editor for “Islam and Nationalism” (with Spyros A. Sofos), Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. From 2011 to present. (See https://www.palgrave.com/us/series/14837)
Books Published (as part of the series on “Islam and Nationalism”)
13 Nadia Marzouki and Olivier Roy (eds), Religious Conversions and Nationalism in the Mediterranean World, 2013. Spyros A. Sofos and Roza Tsagarousianou, Islam in Europe: Muslim Public Spaces and Civic Networks, 2013. E. Fuat Keyman and Sebnem Gumuscu, Democracy, Identity and Foreign Policy in Turkey: Hegemony through Transformation, 2014. Arolda Elbasani and Olivier Roy (eds), The Revival of Islam in the Balkans: From Identity to Religiosity, 2015. Elisabeth Ozdalga and Daniella Kuzmanovic (eds), Novel and Nation in the Islam World: Literary Contributions and National Identities, 2015. Ferran, Izquierdo Brichs, John Etherington, John and Laura Feliu-Martínez, Laura (eds), Political Islam in a Time of Revolt, 2017. Catharina Raudvere (ed.), Contested Memories and the Demands of the Past: History Cultures in the Modern Muslim World, 2017.
Books
White is the New Black. Nationalism, Populism and the Left. Cambridge: Polity. Manuscript to be submitted in June 2020; expected publication 2021.
#MeToo: Who? Human Rights and Wrongs of Sex (with Julie Wark). Bristol University Press. Manuscript to be submitted in December 2019; expected publication 2020.
Models Unveiled: Sweden and Turkey as Local Instantiations of a Global Crisis (with Lars Trägårdh and Henrik Berggren), London: Hurst & Co. Manuscript to be submitted in November 2019; expected publication 2020.
Theories of Nationalism: A Critical Introduction, 3rd revised and extended edition, Basingstoke and New York; Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
The Making of Turkey’s Protest Movement: #occupygezi, edited volume, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Pivot, 2014.
Theories of Nationalism: A Critical Introduction, 2nd revised and extended edition, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. (Reviewed in Nations and Nationalism; translated into Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Greek and Albanian.)
Nationalism in the Troubled Triangle: Cyprus, Greece and Turkey (with Ayhan Aktar and Niyazi Kızılyürek), edited volume, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. (Reviewed in New Perspectives on Turkey, Revue Française de Sciences Politique, Ethnic and Racial Studies; translated into Turkish).
Tormented by History: Nationalism in Greece and Turkey (with Spyros A. Sofos), London: Hurst & Co and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. (Reviewed in Nations and Nationalism, Southeastern Europe, Digest of Middle East Studies, Middle East Journal, Monthly Review, Journal of World History, The Journal of Modern History, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Historein, Turkish Studies, Insight Turkey, Journal of Levantine Studies, The Bridge ; translated into Greek and Turkish; Macedonian in progress.)
14 Milliyetçilik ve Türkiye-Avrupa Birligi Iliskileri [Nationalism and Turkey-European Union Relations – in Turkish], Istanbul: TESEV Publications, 2008.
Contemporary Debates on Nationalism: A Critical Engagement, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. (Reviewed in Nations and Nationalism, National Identities, International Sociology, Nationalities Papers, Patterns of Prejudice: translated into Turkish and Chinese.)
Nationalism and its Futures, edited volume, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. (Reviewed in Nations and Nationalism, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Capital and Class; translated into Turkish.)
Theories of Nationalism: A Critical Introduction, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. (Reviewed in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Nations and Nationalism, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Nationalities Papers, Geopolitics, Capital and Class, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, The Global Review of Ethnopolitics, Terrorism and Political Violence, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Theoria).
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
Editor, special issue on “Academic Freedom in Turkey… and Beyond”, Globalizations, published online May 2017 (print issue December 2017).
“How to Liquidate a People? Academic Freedom in Turkey and Beyond”, Globalizations, https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2017.1325171.
Other contributors:
Judith Butler, “Academic Freedom and the Critical Task of the University”, Globalizations, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2017.1325168.
Jonathan R. Cole, “Academic Freedom as an Indicator of a Liberal Democracy”, Globalizations, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2017.1325169.
Deniz Kandiyoti and Zuhre Emanet, “Education as Battleground: The Capture of Minds in Turkey”, Globalizations, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2017.1325170.
“The Nile and the Grand Ethiopian Renaisance Dam – Hydrosolidarity versus Nationalism” (with Dalia Abdelhady, Karin Aggestam, Dan-Erik Andersson, Olof Beckman, Ronny Berndtsson, Karin Broberg Palmgren, Kaveh Madani, Kenneth M. Persson and Petter Pilesjö), Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education (University Council on Water Resources), July 2015.
“Gezi and the Kurds in Turkey: Reflections on the Future of the Peace Process”, Orient (Deutsches Orient-Institut), 1, 2014, 35-9.
“Multiculturalism, Recognition and the ‘Kurdish Question’ in Turkey: The Outline of a Normative Framework”, Democratization, 21 (6), 2014, 1055-1073.
15 “Vigilance and Apprehension: Multiculturalism, Democracy and the ‘Kurdish Question’ in Turkey”, Middle East Critique, 22 (1), 2013, 1-18.
“Passionately Internationalist: Fred Halliday and Nationalism Studies”, Nations and Nationalism, 19 (1), 2013, 1-5.
“‘And People’s Concerns Were Genuine: Why Didn’t We Listen More?’ Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Recognition in Europe”, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 20 (3), 2012, 307-20.
“From Pater Familias to Homo Nationalis: Understanding Nationalism in Turkey” (with Pinar Uyan-Semerci), Ethnicities, 11 (1), 2011, 59-79.
“The Double Life of John Hutchinson or Bringing Ethnosymbolism and Postmodernism Together”, Nations and Nationalism, 14 (1), 2008, 4-9.
“The ‘Perennial’ Question: Nations in Antiquity or the Antique Shop of History?”, Nations and Nationalism, 13 (3), 2007, 523-37. The most read article on Blackwell Synergy, based on the number of full text downloads in 2009 (statistics have not been made available by the publisher after 2009).
“The Nation as an Artichoke: A Critique of Ethnosymbolist Interpretations of Nationalism”, Nations and Nationalism, 9 (3), 2003, 339-55. The fifteenth top cited article in the last 4 years, based on the number of full text downloads, as of June 2009 (statistics have not been made available by the publisher after 2009).
“Reproducing the Nation: ‘Banal Nationalism’ in the Turkish Press” (with Arus Yumul), Media, Culture & Society, 22 (6), 2000, 787-804.
Book chapters
“Nationalism”, in Sandy Maisel (editor-in-chief), Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
“Reading Gezi Protests as a ‘Moment’: A Collective Frame Approach” (with Spyros A. Sofos), Understanding Southern Social Movements, in Simin Fadaee (ed.), London: Routledge, 2017.
Cosmopolitanism” and “Nationalism, Transcendence of”, in John Stone, Rutledge M. Dennis, Polly S. Rizova, Anthony D. Smith (eds), The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. DOI: 10.1002/9781118663202.wberen220 and DOI: 10.1002/9781118663202.wberen221.
“The ‘Kurdish Question’ Revisited: Modernity, Nationalism and Citizenship in Turkey” (with E. Fuat Keyman), in Fevzi Bilgin and Ali Sarıhan (eds), Understanding Turkey’s Kurdish Question, Lanham: Lexington Books, 2013.
“The Topography of Nationalism in Turkey: Actors, Discourses and the Struggle for Hegemony”, in Riva Kastoryano (ed.), Turkey between Nationalism and Globalization, London: Routledge, 2013. 16
“The Changing Nature of Nationalism in Turkey”, in Ayse Kadioglu and E. Fuat Keyman (eds), Symbiotic Antagonisms in Turkey: Sources, Discourses and Changing Nature of Turkish, Kurdish and Islamic Nationalisms, Utah: University of Utah Press, 2011.
“Introduction” (with Ayhan Aktar and Niyazi Kizilyurek), in Ayhan Aktar, Niyazi Kizilyurek and Umut Ozkirimli(eds), The Troubled Triangle: Nationalism in Cyprus, Greece and Turkey, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
“Memory, History and the Past in Greece and Turkey” (with Spyros A. Sofos), in Ayhan Aktar, Niyazi Kizilyurek and Umut Ozkirimli (eds), The Troubled Triangle: Nationalism in Cyprus, Greece and Turkey, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
“Colonizing the Past: History and Memory in Greece and Turkey” (with Spyros A. Sofos), in François Gemenne and Susana Carvalho (eds), Nations and Their Pasts, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
“Contested Geographies: Greece, Turkey and the Territorial Imagination” (with Spyros A. Sofos), in Othon Anastasakis, Kalypso Nicolaïdis and Kerem Oktem (eds), Under the Long Shadow of Europe: Greeks and Turks in the Era of Post-Nationalism, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2009.
“Fransa ve Almanya’da Vatandaslik ve Ulusallik” [Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany] (with Ayhan Kaya), in Rogers Brubaker, Fransa ve Almanya’da Vatandaslik ve Ulusallik, Ankara: Dost Yayinlari, 2008.
“Türkiye’de Gayriresmi ve Populer Milliyetcilik” [Popular Nationalism in Turkey – in Turkish], in Tanil Bora (ed.), Milliyetcilik, Istanbul: Iletisim Yayinlari, 2002.
“Milliyetciligin Farkedilmeyen Yuzu” [The Hidden Face of Nationalism – in Turkish] (with Arus Yumul), Varlik, 1076, May 1997, 6-11.
Reports, popular science articles
“The Greek Anti-Racism Bill and Turkey” (with Spyros A. Sofos), CritCom (Reviews & Critical Commentary: A Forum for Research and Commentary on Europe), Council for European Studies, Columbia University, 2015.
“Gezi and the Kurds in Turkey: Reflections on the Future of the Peace Process”, Orient (Deutsches Orient-Institut), 1, 2014, 35-9.
“Turkiye-Avrupa Birligi Iliskileri ve Milliyetcilik” [Turkey-EU Relations and Nationalism – in Turkish], Kriter, March 2008.
“El Modelo Reacio: Nacionalismo, Religión y la Vocación Europea de Turquía”, Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals, 75, Octubre-Noviembre 2006, 41-9.