Work experience:

2024: Founder and co-coordinator of Waves: Critical Practices of  Thinking, Research, and Arts, Istanbul.

1999-2023 Full-time faculty at Sociology Department, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul.

Education: 

PhD Sociology, 2000, Goldsmiths College, University of London.

MA  Communications, 1994, Centre for Communication and Information Studies, University of Westminster, London.

BA Sociology, 1980, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul.

Research interests:

History and Affects, Occidentalism, Social Memory, Archives, Monuments, Aesthetics and Politics

Publications (selected)

Books:

Occidentalism in Turkey: Questions of Modernity and National Identity in Turkish Radio Broadcasting, London:I.B.Tauris, 2010.

The person you have called cannot be reached at the moment: Representations of Life Styles in Turkey, 1980-2005 (with Zafer Yenal) Ottoman Bank Archives and Research Centre, 2006.

Hikayemi Dinler misin? Tanıklıklarla Türkiye’de İnsan Hakları ve Sivil Toplum (Would You Listen to My Story: Human Rights and Civil Society in Turkey through Testimonies, with Zafer Yenal), Tarih Vakfı Yayınları, Istanbul, 2004. 

Journal Articles: 

“Between East and West: Mythic History and Monuments in Turkey”, Contemporanea, 4, 2021. 

“The Power Drive and the Time of Feminine Politics” Feministiqa 1, 2018.

“Monsters That Remember: Tracing the story of the Workers’ Monument in Tophane, Istanbul” New Perspectives on Turkey, no.45: 9-47, 2011.

-“Occidentalism and Registers of Truth: Politics of Archives in Turkey”, Special Issue on Social Memory, eds. Meltem Ahıska, Biray Kırlı, New Perspectives on Turkey, 34: 9-29, Spring 2006. 

“Occidentalism: The Historical Fantasy of the Modern”, The South Atlantic

Quarterly (vol. 102, nos. 2 / 3: 351-379; special double issue: Relocating the Fault Lines: Turkey beyond the East-West Divide, Spring/Summer 2003.

Book Chapters: 

“Virtual Geography and Thresholds of Memory: Remembering the Gezi Event” in The Affective Dynamics of Mass Protests: Midān Moments and Political Transformation in Egypt and Turkey, eds. Bilgin Ayata, Cilja Harders, London: Routledge, 2024. 

“Memory as Encounter: The Saturday Mothers in Turkey” in Women Mobilizing Memory, eds. Ayşe Gül Altınay, María José Contreras, Marianne Hirsch, Jean Howard, Banu Karaca, and Alisa Solomon, Columbia University Press, 2019.

“Violence against Women in Turkey: Vulnerability, Sexuality, and Eros” in Vulnerability in Resistance, eds. Judith Butler, Zeynep Gambetti, Leticia Sabbay, Duke University Press, 2016.

“Thinking About the Eruptions and Thresholds of Memory in Turkey Through the Imperial Complex”, A Journey of Ideas Across-In Dialogue with Edward Said, ed. Adania Shibli, Haus der Kulturen der Wert, Berlin, 2014 (on-line publication).

“Counter-movement, Space, and Politics: How the Saturday Mothers of Turkey Make the Enforced Disappearances Visible” Landscapes of Erasure, eds. Pamela Colombo, Estela Schindel, Palgrave, 2014. 

Literary Publications:

Havalandırma, Metis, 2002 (a book of poems)

Anda, Everest, 2008 (a book of literary texts and drawings, with Sahir Erdinç)

Yad, Metis, 2020 (a book of poems)