Soon after my arrival in Turkey in January 2008 for a year's research stay, the country was
abuzz about a group of twenty high school students from the city of Kirşehir in central …

Ottoman claims to universality–embodied in Ottoman imperialism, Ottoman Islam, and
Ottoman cosmopolitanism–were undermined and ultimately shattered by the encounter with …

This book questions the'role model'status of the Turkish Republic with respect to the
advancement of female agency in a secular context by using the study of women with …

This article focuses on recent contemporary art of Gulf Futurism and Arab Futurism with a
specific geographical focus on the Near and Middle East. Still only occasionally addressed …

Drawing on the thought of Durkheim, this volume focuses on societal changes at the
symbolic level to develop a new conceptualisation of the emergence of postsecular …

Urban theory traditionally links modernity to the city, to the historical emergence of certain
forms of subjectivity and the rise of important developments in culture, arts and architecture …

This article examines the growing interest in questions of memory, trauma, and justice in
Turkey, with a special focus on the notion of “coming to terms with the past.” Through an …

Drawing on the insights of the field of political ecology, this chapter suggests that the Gezi
protests represent “the sudden but perhaps expected eruption of an urban grassroots …

Turkish outward foreign direct investments (FDIs) have increased considerably over the last
two decades. While the bulk of them were invested in Western European countries …

This article examines 64 autobiographical narratives written by erstwhile political prisoners
who were forced to cohabitate with their adversaries in post-1980 coup military prisons of …