This article examines the instrumentalization of women's rights and the transformation of the
gender rights regime in the context of democratic backsliding in Turkey. I show how the …

Over the past two decades, constructivist International Relations (IR) scholars have
produced substantial knowledge on the diffusion and adoption of global norms …

Mainstream academic and policy literature emphasizes the nexus between an active and
vibrant civil society sector and greater political accountability. As a result, support for civil …

A long and ongoing challenge for social justice movements has been how to address
difference. Traditional strategies have often emphasized universalizing messages and …

Over the past few decades there has been a great deal of interest in the academic literature
on the relationship between civil society organizations (CSOs) and the state, and the impact …

Feminist scholars have documented with reference to multiple empirical contexts that
feminist claims within nationalist movements are often side‐lined, constructed as …

Following Joan Scott's proposition, expressed in the epigraph, to question the underlying
epistemes and analytic schemes of our historical narratives of women's pasts, this chapter …

“Honor”-based violence (HBV) is increasingly recognized as form of violence against
women and girls, but is neither fully conceptualized nor integrated into risk management …

Populist and nationalist movements have long histories and ideologically may appear as left-
wing or right-wing. Feminist scholars have explored the gender dynamics of conservative …

The Islamist Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, henceforth AKP)
came to power in 2002 with the promise of consolidating democracy and strengthening civil …