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  • 1.
    Baser, Bahar
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS). Coventry University, UK .
    Diasporas and Homeland Conflicts: A Comparative Perspective2015Book (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    As violent conflicts become increasingly intra-state rather than inter-state, international migration has rendered them increasingly transnational, as protagonists from each side find themselves in new countries of residence. In spite of leaving their homeland, the grievances and grudges that existed between them are not forgotten and can be passed to the next generation.

    This book explores the extension of homeland conflicts into transnational space amongst diaspora groups, with particular attention to the interactions between second-generation migrants. Comparative in approach, Diasporas and Homeland Conflicts focuses on the tensions that exist between Kurdish and Turkish populations in Sweden and Germany, examining the effects of hostland policies and politics on the construction, shaping or elimination of homeland conflicts.

    Drawing on extensive interview material with members of diasporic communities, this book sheds fresh light on the influences exercised on conflict dynamics by state policies on migrant incorporation and multiculturalism, as well as structures of migrant organizations. As such, it will be of interest to scholars of sociology, political science and international studies with interests in migration and diaspora, integration and transnational conflict.

  • 2.
    Baser, Bahar
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Gezi Spirit in the Diaspora Diffusion of Turkish Politics to Europe2015In: Everywhere Taksim: Sowing the Seeds for a New Turkey at Gezi / [ed] Isabel David, Kumru Toktamis, Amsterdam University Press, 2015, p. 251-266Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 3. Baser, Bahar
    et al.
    Levin, Paul T.Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Migration from Turkey to Sweden: Integration, Belonging and Transnational Community2017Collection (editor) (Refereed)
  • 4.
    Bezci, Egemen
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Interregnum in Turkey-EU Relations2017In: Turkeyscope, Vol. 1, no 7, p. 2-3Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
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  • 5.
    Bezci, Egemen
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Trajectory for Kurds2018Collection (editor) (Refereed)
  • 6.
    Bezci, Egemen B.
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Biri Bizi Gözetlemiş: Ikinci Dünya Savaşı Türkiye´sinde İngiliz İstihbaratı2017In: Toplumsal Tarih, ISSN 1300-7025, p. 26-31Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
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  • 7.
    Bezci, Egemen
    et al.
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Borroz, Nicholas
    The CIA and a Turkish Coup2016Other (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 8.
    Blumi, Isa
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Adam Moore, Peacebuilding in Practice: Local Experience in Two Bosnian Towns2016In: International Journal of Turkish Studies, ISSN 0272-7919, Vol. 22, no 1/2, p. 222-226Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 9.
    Blumi, Isa
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Alan Mikhail, Under Osman’s Tree: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History2017In: ChoiceReviews, ISSN 0009-4978, Vol. 54, no 12, p. 212-213Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 10.
    Blumi, Isa
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Albanian Slide: The Roots to NATO's Pending Lost Balkan Enterprise2019In: Insight Turkey, ISSN 1302-177X, Vol. 21, no 2, p. 149-170Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Since the end of the 1990s, Albanians in North Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Serbia have submitted to a regime of political and economic austerity in return for access to the European Union. The heavy costs, from economic decline, deadly pollution, and political corruption have translated into years of frustrations. These frustrations have exposed a political failure that extends from the region to the United States and Brussels. The resulting political turmoil will soon turn violent as the global economic downturn puts strains on Albanians sliding further away from their untrustworthy EU/U.S. allies. These afflicted relations may also highlight enduring tensions within the larger NATO alliance as American unilateralism continues to strain the divergent interests of key European partners.

  • 11.
    Blumi, Isa
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Battles of Nostalgic Proportion: The Transformations of Islam-as-Historical-Force in the Ideological Matrix of a Self-Affirming ‘West’2016In: Althusser and Theology: Religion, Politics, and Philosophy / [ed] Agon Hamza, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2016, p. 182-197Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 12.
    Blumi, Isa
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Catapulted: Youth Migration and the Making of a Skilled Albanian Diaspora (by Burcu Akan Ellis)2016In: Balkanistica, ISSN 0360-2206, Vol. 29, no 2, p. 297-300Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 13.
    Blumi, Isa
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us About the World2018Book (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Since March 2015, a Saudi-led international coalition of forces—supported by Britain and the United States—has waged devastating war in Yemen. Largely ignored by the world’s media, the resulting humanitarian disaster and full-scale famine threatens millions. Destroying Yemen offers the first in-depth historical account of the transnational origins of this war, placing it in the illuminating context of Yemen’s relationship with major powers since the Cold War. Bringing new sources and a deep understanding to bear on Yemen’s profound, unwitting implication in international affairs, this explosive book ultimately tells an even larger story of today’s political economy of global capitalism, development, and the war on terror as disparate actors intersect in Arabia.

  • 14.
    Blumi, Isa
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Edin Hajdrapašić, Whose Bosnia?: Nationalism and Political Imagination in the Balkans, 1840-19142016In: International Journal of Turkish Studies, ISSN 0272-7919, Vol. 22, no 1/2, p. 213-217Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 15.
    Blumi, Isa
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Europe’s Balkan Muslims: A New History By Nathalie Clayer and Xavier Bougarel, translated by Andrew Kirby2018In: Journal of Islamic Studies, ISSN 0955-2340, E-ISSN 1471-6917, Vol. 29, no 2, p. 289-291Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 16.
    Blumi, Isa
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Gewalt und Koexistenz: Muslime und Christen im spätosmanischen Kosovo (1870–1913). By Eva Anne Frantz2017In: Hungarian Historical Review, ISSN 2063-8647, Vol. 6, no 1, p. 240-242Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 17.
    Blumi, Isa
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Gingeras, Ryan. Fall of the Sultanate: the Great War and the End of the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1922. Oxford 20162017In: ChoiceReviews, ISSN 0009-4978, Vol. 54, no 5, p. 765-765Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 18.
    Blumi, Isa
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Heather J. Sharkey, A History of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East2017In: ChoiceReviews, ISSN 0009-4978, Vol. 55, no 2, p. 145-146Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 19.
    Blumi, Isa
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Max Bergholz, Violence as a Generative Force: Identity, Nationalism, and Memory in a Balkan Community2017In: ChoiceReviews, ISSN 0009-4978, Vol. 54, no 10, p. 234-235Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 20.
    Blumi, Isa
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Michael Provence, The Last Generation of the Making of the Modern Middle East, Cambridge University Press, 20172017In: ChoiceReviews, ISSN 0009-4978, Vol. 55, no 7Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 21.
    Blumi, Isa
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Mohammad Hashim Kamali, The Middle Path of Moderation in Islam: The Qur’anic Principle of Wasatiyyah2015In: ChoiceReviews, ISSN 0009-4978, Vol. 53, no 3, p. 210-210Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 22.
    Blumi, Isa
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Peter Adamson, Philosophy in the Islamic World: A Very Short Introduction2016In: ChoiceReviews, ISSN 0009-4978, Vol. 53, no 8, p. 1232-1232Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 23.
    Blumi, Isa
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Reorientating European Imperialism: How Ottomanism Went Global2016In: Die Welt des Islams, ISSN 0043-2539, E-ISSN 1570-0607, Vol. 56, no 3-4, p. 290-316Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Scholars have long studied Western imperialism through the prism of pre-World War I literature and journalism. Characterizing this literature as Orientalist has become programmatic and predictable. The sometimes rigid analysis of this literature often misses, however, the contested dynamics within. This is especially the case with analyses of Ottoman contributions to the rise of a Western colonialist ethos – orientalism, imperialism, and racism – reflecting the political, structural, and economic changes that directly impacted the world. Essentially, colonial pretensions – servicing the ambitions of European imperialism at the expense of peoples in the ‘Orient’ – were articulated at a time when patriotic Ottomans, among others, were pushing back against colonialism. This article explores the possibility that such a response, usefully framed as Ottomanism, contributed regularly to the way peoples interacted in the larger context of a contentious exchange between rival imperialist projects. What is different here is that some articulations of Ottomanism were proactive rather than reactive. In turn, some of the Orientalism that has become synonymous with studies about the relationship between Europe, the Americas, and the peoples “East of the Urals” may have been a response to these Ottomanist gestures.

  • 24.
    Blumi, Isa
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Roger Hardy, The Poisoned Well: Empire and its Legacy in the Middle East2017In: ChoiceReviews, ISSN 0009-4978, Vol. 54, no 9, p. 132-133Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 25.
    Blumi, Isa
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Stephan Conermann (Hrsg.): Everything is on the Move. The Mamluk Empire as a Node in (Trans-) Regional Networks (= Mamluk Studies, vol. 7), Bonn 20142016In: Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung, ISSN 0940-3566, no 2, p. 103-105Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 26.
    Blumi, Isa
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    The Transformation of Islam in Kosovo and its Impact on Albanian Politics2015In: Religion in the Post-Yugoslav Context / [ed] Branislav Radeljić, Martina Topić, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015, p. 173-196Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 27.
    Blumi, Isa
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Veremis, Thanos. A modern history of the Balkans: nationalism and identity in Southeast Europe2018In: ChoiceReviews, ISSN 0009-4978, Vol. 55, no 10, p. 1252-1252Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 28.
    Blumi, Isa
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    [What You Should Read] What is Happening in Yemen2017In: Maydan, no 15 novemberArticle in journal (Other academic)
  • 29.
    Borsuk, Imren
    et al.
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Eroglu, Ensari
    Displacement and asset transformation from inner-city squatter settlement into peripheral mass housing2020In: European Urban and Regional Studies, ISSN 0969-7764, E-ISSN 1461-7145, Vol. 27, no 2, p. 142-155Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    While slum clearance projects in the Global South have displaced a large number of urban poor from the inner city to peripheral areas, peripheral mass housing estates have been developed as a spatial fix to improve the livelihood of the urban poor through slum development projects. Shifting the focus of displacement and poverty studies on changing assets and social experiences of displacement, this study makes an empirical contribution to the literature with a case study from Turkey. It demonstrates that mass housing projects that increase the importance of market-based processes and financial assets at the expense of intangible assets (household relations and social capital) make the urban poor more vulnerable to displacement pressure and external shocks. Using the example of a mass housing project in Turkey designed for the relocation of a highly concentrated Kurdish migrant squatter settlement, this research demonstrates that slum development projects can cause different types of displacement, divesting residents of opportunities to accumulate assets and reconstruct a sense of place. The research demonstrates that the dissolution of intangible assets and the exclusion of social spaces that are important to relocated residents in the mass housing estate bring about community displacement in the case of Kurdish residents. Also, relocated squatters feel pressured by the ongoing and daily experiences of displacement-notably everyday, symbolic and temporal displacement-as the spatial design of the mass housing unfamiliar with the livelihood of squatter dwellers constrains their opportunities to appropriate neighbourhood space in everyday life and enact a sense of place.

  • 30.
    Borsuk, Imren
    et al.
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS). Forum Transregionale Studien, Germany.
    Levin, Paul T.
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Social coexistence and violence during Turkey's authoritarian transition2021In: Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, ISSN 1468-3857, E-ISSN 1743-9639, Vol. 21, no 2, p. 175-187Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The recent authoritarian turn and democratic backsliding around the world have raised concerns over increased instability and violent conflicts. Turkey is a striking example of this authoritarian turn with the transition from a multiparty democracy to a competitive authoritarian regime. With seven in-depth case studies from Turkey, this special issue sheds light upon the changing dynamics of violence and social coexistence in countries that experience democratic decline from a transdisciplinary perspective. In this introductory article, we briefly trace the authoritarian transition and societal fault lines in Turkey, discuss the case studies presented in this special issue, and draw out our contribution to the literature.

  • 31. Ciddi, Sinan
    et al.
    Levin, Paul T.
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Interdisciplinarity and Comparison in Turkish Studies2014In: Turkish Studies, ISSN 1468-3849, E-ISSN 1743-9663, Vol. 15, no 4, p. 557-570Article in journal (Other academic)
  • 32.
    D'Orsi, Lorenzo
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Moral Thresholds of Outrage: The March for Hrant Dink and New Ways of Mobilization in Turkey2018In: Conflict and society: Advances in research, ISSN 2164-4543, E-ISSN 2164-4551, Vol. 4, no 1, p. 40-57Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This article analyses the social construction of moral outrage, interpreting it as both an extemporaneous feeling and an enduring process, objectified in narratives and rituals and permeating public spaces as well as the intimate sphere of social actors’ lives. Based on ethnography carried out in Istanbul, this contribution focuses on the assassination of the Turkish Armenian journalist Hrant Dink in 2007. This provoked a moral shock and led to an annual commemoration in which thousands of people—distant in political, religious, ethnic positions—gather around a shared feeling of outrage. The article retraces the narratives of innocence and the moral frames that make Dink’s public figure different from other victims of state violence, thus enabling a moral and emotional identification of a large audience. Outrage over Dink’s murder has become a creative, mobilizing force that fosters new relationships between national history and subjectivity, and de-reifies essentialized social boundaries and identity claims.

  • 33.
    D'Orsi, Lorenzo
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Temporary street shrine for imagining a different world: the march for Hrant Dink2018Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    Based on an ethnographic investigation carried out in Istanbul, this contribution analyses the annual commemoration for the Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, who was killed in 2007. It sheds light on the role of a temporary street shrine in creating a moral community that crosses previous political, ethnic and religious belongings, and shows the sacred and the ritual as central categories for understanding the formation process of political participation in Turkey. According to many, state apparatus was behind the murder of a journalist who challenged the Turkish state official history. His death provoked an unexpected  “moral shock”, whereby thousands of people - antithetic for political, religious, ethnic positions - coagulate around a shared feeling of outrage and give life to an annual march that stops in the place where Dink was assassinated. Turkish memory field is highly politicized: despite the changes from a secularized to a pro-Islamic state narrative, official state history continues to be a repressive tool against minorities; the latter give life to counter-memories that ask for themselves the monopoly of suffering. Unlike other Turkish counter-hegemonic memories, Dink commemoration stands as mobilizing force able to re-write the relationship between public emotions and political protests, allowing to differently encapsulate a memory at margin.

    This paper retraces the narratives of vulnerability and innocence that have made appear Dink figure different from other victims of state violence, and enabled the identification of a large audience. Though may appear spontaneous, street sanctuary of Dink reveals a rich symbolic grammar, through which protesters break their identity boundaries and search for alternative connections with the “others”. Sounds, colours, memorabilia, ritualized actions, all concur to a mise-en-scène of mourning that (re)produce feeling of sorrow and moral indignation. My contribution shows how the sacred and the rite, here-in understood in Durkheimian terms of extra-ordinary spaces/times, do not merely “express” nor simply “reflect” collective values and social ties, but generate them. The sacred in Dink march creates an alternative moral order, draws a line between justice and injustice and transforms a street corner into a space of contestation, where participants express criticism of the state and society, bring forth a community of memory and remind themselves that ‘a different world’ is possible.

  • 34.
    D'orsi, Lorenzo
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Touching history and making community: The memory of the 1980 Turkish military coup in the 12 September Museum of Shame2019In: History and Anthropology, ISSN 0275-7206, E-ISSN 1477-2612, Vol. 30, no 5, p. 644-667Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This contribution draws on ethnography conducted in Istanbul to analyse the Museum of Shame, an amateur exhibition dedicated to the memory of leftist militants who were victims of state violence following the 1980–1983 military coup in Turkey. This museification is the work of a group of ex-revolutionaries and can be considered a cultural practice that challenges statist historiography and creates a mnemonic community. By exhibiting the possessions of murdered militants, it inscribes their personal experiences into collective frames and fosters intergenerational transmission. Its temporality reflects the ethos of the revolutionary fighter, turning mourning into a political statement. However, though this museum practice allows the community to become an agent of history, it is unable to encompass the varying experiences of ex-militants. Its aestheticization of violence and its moral injunctions limit the extent of social solidarity and advance essentialisms that contribute to the construction of marginality from the inside.

  • 35.
    D'Orsi, Lorenzo
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    When silence talks: The moral landscape of leftist painful memories in Turkey2018In: , 2018Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    Drawing on an ethnography carried out in Istanbul, this talk examines the experience of silence in Turkish former revolutionaries’ families, the main victims of the 1980-1983 military coup, and challenges the universal model of traumatic silence, which overshadows local conceptualizations of the self. In Turkey, the 1980 coup was a political, cultural and generational watershed that dismantled leftist organizations through incarcerations and tortures. For leftist movements and families, the 1980 coup is the biographical and political tragedy upon which a mnemonic community is built. They are still in a counter-hegemonic position compared to official historiography, but have built a “strong memory” codified through the figure of revolutionary martyrdom.

    Within leftist families, silence and secrecy are common, even when past is told. On the one hand, silence is the consequence of the painful experiences lived by former militants; on the other hand, it cannot be reduced to the pre-cultural mechanism of unspeakable trauma. Domestic silence and secrecy should be understood in relation to the present and not to the past: they do not prevent emotional interactions but are a practical knowledge through which parents teach to second generations to perform a specific self in a still repressive public space. Moreover, silence over personal issues stands also in relation to a morality of “not saying”: it is part of a poetics of the self that is bound to the ethos of revolutionary fighter, whereby “telling is almost like crying”.

    This talk also focuses on generational gap, and shows how second generations often re-read their parents’ silence according to global memory frames, interpreting it as a “traumatic” element. For new generations, the language of trauma is a familiar cultural idiom which also allows them to extend social solidarity and partly break their marginality in an over-politicized memory field.

  • 36.
    D'Orsi, Lorenzo
    et al.
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Dei, Fabio
    What is a rite? Émile Durkheim, a hundred years later2018In: Open Information Science, E-ISSN 2451-1781, Vol. 2, no 1, p. 115-126Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This paper is focused on the anthropological concept of ritual, starting from Emile Durkheim's approach in Les formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse (1912). We discuss three different aspects of the Durkheimian perspective on religion and rituals: a) the sacred/profane dichotomy; b) the concept of collective representations - which establishes a substantial continuity between religious and scientific thought; c) a ‟practical” and performative interpretation of rites as the basis of social bond. During the twentieth century, these aspects have influenced different and sometimes opposing theoretical approaches (including ‟symbolist” and ‟neo-intellectualist” theories and Victor Turner's ‟anthropology of experience”). We briefly review each of them, arguing for the importance of reconsidering them into a unitary perspective, centred on religious phenomena as basically moral experiences and as the language of social relations. In the conclusions, we will show how such unitary approach helps us understand the transformations as well as the continuities of rituality in the individualized and secularized societies of what we call nowadays the Western world.

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  • 37.
    Ekal, Berna
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Collaboration gone awry: The formation of women’s shelters as public institutions in Turkey2019In: Mediterranean Politics, ISSN 1362-9395, E-ISSN 1743-9418, Vol. 24, no 3, p. 320-337Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    In terms of women’s shelters, Turkey sets a unique example due to the fact that the shelters are mainly established and run by public actors, whereas in other countries these institutions are mainly run by NGOs while funded by public authorities. By looking at the relation between the feminist movement and the public authorities from 1990s onwards, this paper argues that in the case of the public women’s shelters, the engagement of non-public actors in the policy making processes did not result in the retreat, but in the perpetuation of the state’s presence.

  • 38.
    Eldén, Åsa
    et al.
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Levin, Paul T.
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Swedish Aid in the Era of Shrinking Space – the Case of Turkey2018Report (Refereed)
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  • 39. Furuseth, Sissel
    et al.
    Gjelsvik, Anne
    Gürata, Ahmet
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS). University of Agder, Norway.
    Hennig, Reinhard
    Leyda, Julia
    Ritson, Katie
    Climate Change in Literature, Television and Film from Norway2020In: Ecozona, ISSN 2171-9594, E-ISSN 2171-9594, Vol. 11, no 2, p. 8-16Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Environmental and climatic change has become a frequent motif in contemporary Norwegian literature, television and film, and Norway has the worldwide first organization of writers committed to climate action (The Norwegian Writers’ Climate Campaign, founded in 2013). In this article, we argue that Norwegian climate change fiction and related works draw on elements that relate to specific national and/or Nordic cultural, societal and historical aspects, and that these elements give these works their distinct identity. We focus on four such aspects: (1) references to Norwegian petroculture (since the Norwegian economy is largely based on the export of fossil fuels); (2) an (imagined) intimate connection between Norwegianness and nature, and thus of what often is seen as a typical element of Norwegian national identity; (3) notions of “Nordicity”, and (4) an atmosphere of gloom and melancholia in many of the works (which often has been ascribed to Nordic landscapes, and usually is characteristic for the genre of Nordic noir).

  • 40.
    Gürata, Ahmet
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Hayallerin Direnişi2020In: Müstakil Eylem: Uyku Üzerine 28 Kalem Darbesi / [ed] Tarhan Gürhan, Istanbul: Kara Karga Yayınları , 2020, p. 134-143Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 41.
    Gürata, Ahmet
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Imitation of Life: Cross-cultural Reception and Remakes in Turkish Cinema2021 (ed. First)Book (Other academic)
  • 42.
    Gürata, Ahmet
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Popüler Sinemada Tarih ve Kimlik2021In: Ne Mutlu Eşitim Diyene: Milliyetçilik Tartışmaları, Istanbul: Kiraathane , 2021, p. 386-397Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 43.
    Gürata, Ahmet
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Sinema ve Jest2021In: Ulus Baker'i okumak (2015-2019) / [ed] Onur Eylül Kara, Istanbul: İletişim Yayınları , 2021, p. 305-312Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 44.
    Gürata, Ahmet
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Sönmeyen İmajlar2020In: İmajlarla Düşünmek, Eskişehir: Yort , 2020, p. 6-13Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 45.
    Hadeel, Haider
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Heder ur ett kvinnligt perspektiv: En kvalitativ studie med fokus på fem kvinnor med rötter från Mellanöstern i Sverige.2017Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
    Abstract [sv]

    Heder är viktig i många samhällen, men vad den har för betydelse och hur viktig den är skiljer sig mellan olika samhällen. Genom min studie belyser jag hur heder kan skilja sig mellan fem kvinnor med bakgrund från Mellanöstern, i förhållande till svenska samhället. Genom att lyfta fram kvinnornas berättelser och upplevelser i relation till könsroller och hedersdiskurser som råder både inom kvinnornas egna familjer samt i samhället. För att kunna presentera kvinnors upplevelser och uppfattningar använde jag mig av kvalitativa intervjuer där kvinnorna fick berätta om sina egna familjer och de olika sociala och kulturella normerna som familjen följer och som i sin tur påverkar deras uppfattningar om heder och kvinnans sociala position båda i familjen och i samhället i övrigt. Dessutom använde jag mig av tre teorier som är socialkonstruktivistiska perspektiv, intersektionella perspektiv och genussystem för att de ska hjälpa mig i analysen av kvinnornas uppfattningar och upplevelser. 

    Studiens resultat har visat att heder har en stor betydelse i kvinnornas liv, men de har olika syn på heder. Utifrån kvinnors position och könsroll i familjen har resultaten även visat skillnader mellan båda könen i familjen hos vissa informanter beroende på familjens påverkan av de olika kulturella och sociala normer som de har fått med sig från hemlandet och som i sin tur förstärker ojämlikheten mellan könen och mansdominansen i familjen. Dessutom att en misslyckad integration har lett till ökad svårighet att acceptera de nya normerna som finns i svenska samhället och ökat kontrollen över kvinnorna i familjen, vilket kan vara möjliga faktorer för hedersvåld och hedersproblematiken i Sverige.

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  • 46.
    Korkmaz, Seren Selvin
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    (Re)construction of Turkish National Identity in Urban Space: Transformation of Istanbul's Panorama under JDP Rule2019In: Nation-Building and Turkish Modernization: Islam, Islamism, and Nationalism in Turkey / [ed] Rasim Özgür Dönmez, Ali Yaman, Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2019, p. 233-254Chapter in book (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    This article explores the transformation of Turkey’s national and state identity under Justice and Development Party (JDP) rule in a spatial perspective by focusing on the counter hegemonic war on İstanbul’s panorama. (Re)construction of urban space have been used as means of transforming the ideologies into a concrete form and consolidating the symbolic power of the state in the everyday life. Urban space is not a static but dynamic “lieux de memoire” (the sites of memory) which reproduces the past, constructs the “new” and reflects state-society relations.  The new Republic of 1923 used space-politics to create a Westernized, modern and secular nation-state by detaching the urban space from the traces of Ottoman past. (Re)naming and (re)construction by using specific symbols and modern architecture was operated by Kemalists not only to consolidate the new state identity but also to transform the society. However, counter hegemonic attacks towards Kemalist policies which lays behind the two main political cleavages, modernists vs. traditionalists and Islamists vs. seculars, has existed throughout the Republican history. Beginning from 1980s, rising with the identity politics in 1990s Islamic politics has consolidated its power under the rule of JDP since 2002. While the hegemony of Kemalist secularism has been strongly weakened; the visibility of Islamists in the society and public life has increased in JDP era and a new form of state identity is created with the support of mass media, architectural designs, Islamic arts as well as discursive practices. Istanbul, with its symbolic, geographic and economic significance, would be a compatible field to explain the transformation of Turkey’s national and state identity in the urban space. As a capital of Ottoman Empire and the biggest metropolitan city of Turkey, İstanbul has been the center of hegemonic wars on urban space; each political group who hold the power has tried to redesign İstanbul throughout the Republican history. JDP revitalized the İstanbul’s symbolic power by attributing it as a “de facto” capital of Turkey. İstanbul’s transformation in the last decade such as construction of Panorama 1453 Museum as a reviving the Conquest of Istanbul, the boom in the mosque construction and Çamlıca Mosque Project, using Ottoman symbols in the public buildings and landscaping; and renaming the Boğaziçi Bridge as “July 15 Martyrs Bridge” are some crucial samples of ideological using of space politics. All in all, this article argues that JDP redefined the national and state identity as well as citizenship and used urban space as a means of consolidating its ideology. The article explains how Islamism, neo-Ottomanism and latest increasing Turkish nationalism are combined in the state identity and serve as the main pillars of nation building process under JDP rule. 

  • 47.
    Levin, Paul T.
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    What's Driving Turkey's Foreign Policy?2019In: Texas National Security Review, p. 35-51Article in journal (Other academic)
  • 48.
    Levin, Paul T.
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Who Lost Turkey? The Consequences of Writing an Exclusionary European History2018In: History and Belonging: Representations of the Past in Contemporary European Politics / [ed] Stefan Berger, Caner Tekin, New York: Berghahn Books, 2018Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 49.
    Levin, Paul T.
    et al.
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Başer, Bahar
    The 50th Anniversary of the Beginning of Migration from Turkey to Sweden: Lessons Concerning Integration, Cohesion, and Inclusion2017In: Migration from Turkey to Sweden: Integration, Belonging and Transnational Community / [ed] Bahar Baser; Paul T. Levin, London: I.B. Tauris, 2017, p. 1-31Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 50.
    Levin, Paul T.
    et al.
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).
    Ciddi, SinanGeorgetown University, Institute of Turkish Studies.
    Turkish Studies from an Interdisciplinary Perspective2014Collection (editor) (Refereed)
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