Authors

Bülent Küçük

 

Bülent Küçük is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boğaziçi University. He received his PhD from Humboldt University-Berlin. His primary research interests include theories of democracy and the public sphere, as well as studies of racism and multicultural citizenship. He is currently working on different modalities of  anti-Semitism in Turkey.

ARTICLES BY Bülent Küçük

  • Between Two Rationalities: The Possibility of an Alternative Politics in Turkey

    Between Two Rationalities: The Possibility of an Alternative Politics in Turkey

    How can the results of the recent municipal elections in Turkey be understood amidst the constantly changing political landscape: graft scandals, revolting judicial decisions, changing political alliances, and an ever-increasing polarization? It can be argued that only preliminary lessons can be..

  • Iki rasyonalite arasinda alternatif siyasetin imkani

    Iki rasyonalite arasinda alternatif siyasetin imkani

    İki rasyonalite arasında alternatif siyasetin imkanı

    Mütemadiyen değişen siyasi gündem, yolsuzluk skandalları, pes dedirten yargı kararları, değişen siyasi ittifaklar, gittikçe kutuplaşan paralel toplumsal hayat(lar) bağlamı ..

  • Ismail Besikci and the Reality of Kurdistan

    Ismail Besikci and the Reality of Kurdistan

    Boğaziçi University’s decision to honor sociologist İsmail Beşikçi with an honorary doctorate is doubtless a very important symbolic gesture. Beşikçi is a scholar who has devoted his life to researching the Kurdish question, for which he has paid a very heavy price, and a testament to academic f..

  • Besikci ve Kurdistan’in gercekligi

    Besikci ve Kurdistan’in gercekligi

    Beşikçi ve Kürdistan’ın gerçekliği

    Ömrünü Kürt sorununu araştırmaya adamış, bunun için çok ağır bedeller ödemiş, akademik ifade özgürlüğünün abidesi sosyolog İsmail Beşikçi’yi Boğaziçi Üniversitesi`nin Fahri Doktora unvanı ile onurlandırması çok önemli sembolik bir tavırdı kuşkusuz...

  • What Is a Democratization Package Good For?

    What Is a Democratization Package Good For?

    Since at least the summer of 2009, we have been faced with a periodically interrupted negotiation process between the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP) government and the Kurdish Liberation Movement, to find a political and constitutional solution to end the thirty-year-old war. Most recently, in..