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Perception, petroleum, and power: Mythmaking in oil-scarce Turkey and Jordan
(Elsevier, 2020)
Oil has been a cardinal driver of economic growth and national development in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. States that produce oil in globally exportable quantities tend to be more powerful than those that do ...
Activist communication design on social media: The case of online solidarity against forced Islamic lifestyle
(Sage Publications, 2021)
This article explores the relationship between connective and collective group identity through the example of “You Won’t Walk Alone,” a social media platform of solidarity for women suffering from the pressures of Islamic ...
“The Public Immoralist”: Discourses of Queer Subjectification in Contemporary Turkey
(University of Southern California, 2020)
This study examines the forms of queer subjectification that have been molded through regular acts of gender- and sexuality-based violence against LGBTQ+ citizens as encouraged by the dominant religious and secular discourses ...
Theatre and Solidarity among the Transnational Alevi Community: Memory, trauma and political economy
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023-05-12)
The Alevi religious minority makes up the largest religious minority in Turkey, and their history of persecution dates back before the Republic of Turkey. The inception of the Republic of Turkey as a secular nation-state ...
Hidden Archives, Closeted Desires, Postponed Utopias: Queer ultra-nationalism in Turkish opera
(2022-10-03)
How do queer intellectuals produce dramatic texts for utopian archival projects? How do (once) hidden theatre practices exist in a complicated relationship with the claims about covert or clandestine performances in the ...
Large-Scale Collaborative Research Projects in Theatre and Performance Studies: Resources, Politics, and Ethics in the Margins of Europe during the COVID-19 Pandemic
(The University of Kansas, Department of Theatre and Dance, 2021-09)
Staging National Abjection: Theatre and Politics in Turkey and Its Diasporas is a research
project funded by the European Research Council’s Starting Grants program. Building on
the initial insights of the project, the ...