Authors

Birgan Gokmenoglu, Derya Özkaya, and Evren Savcı

Birgan Gokmenoglu is Lecturer in Sociology at Birmingham City University. She is a political ethnographer who works on transformative grassroots politics, theories and experiments of democracy, social justice, environmental politics, and time and temporality. She holds a PhD in Political Sociology from the London School of Economics (LSE). Her work has been published in academic journals such as The British Journal of Sociology and Social Movement Studies

Derya Özkaya is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Southeast European Studies (CSEES) at the University of Graz. Her academic research interests are primarily centered on the politics of affect and collective emotions, social and political change through protest and grassroots organizations in particular, urban movements, collective memory, political ethnography, and contemporary politics of Turkey. She received her Ph.D. in Political Sciences from the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin and her Master’s degree in Cultural Studies at Sabanci University, Istanbul. Currently, she is working on her first monograph that critically analyses the political promises and limitations of collectivization, politicization, and mobilization of emotions and affects in mass mobilization and protest movements during and in the aftermath of Turkey’s Gezi uprisings of 2013 building on extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted in two cities in 2016 and 2017.
 

Evren Savcı is Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. Her first book Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam (2021, DUP) analyzes sexual politics under contemporary Turkey’s AKP regime with an eye to the travel and translation of sexual political vocabulary. Her second book project, tentatively entitled Monogamy and Its Discontents, turns to the political economy of monogamy. In it, she discusses the establishment of it as a central tenet of civilized sexual morality, and attends to the current neoliberal incorporation of its alternatives and restoration of it distributive logic. Savcı’s work on the intersections of language, knowledge, sexual politics, neoliberalism, and religion has appeared in Journal of Marriage and the Family, Ethnography, Sexualities, Political Power and Social Theory, Theory & Event, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, GLQ, and New Perspectives on Turkey, and in several edited collections.

ARTICLES BY Birgan Gokmenoglu, Derya Özkaya, and Evren Savcı