Notes on Contributors
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karabekir akkoyunlu is a lecturer in international development and Middle East politics at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo, Brazil. His latest publication is "Brazil's Stealth Military Intervention" (Journal of Politics in Latin America). He has a forthcoming book on regime guardianship in Iran and Turkey (2022).
utku balaban is a visiting associate professor at Amherst College's Anthropology and Sociology Department. In addition to his books on industrialization and social policy, his articles on urban politics are published in journals such as Urban Studies and Environment and Planning A. Balaban's current work relates late urbanization and industrialization to Islamism in Turkey.
evren balta is a professor of international relations at Özyeğin University in Istanbul.
banu bargu is an associate professor of the history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research is situated at the intersections of political theory, anthropology, history of social movements, and critical philosophy. Her books include Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons and Turkey's Necropolitical Laboratory: Democracy, Violence, and Resistance.
nazan bedirhanoğlu is a postdoctoral fellow at Wellesley College and a New University in Exile fellow.
pinar bedirhanoğlu is an associate professor in the department of international relations at Middle East Technical University, Turkey. Coeditor of Turkey's New State in the Making: Transformations in Legality, Economy and Coercion (2020), she works on Marxist state theory, neoliberal state and security transformations, financialization, political economy of corruption, and neoliberal anticorruption policies.
aysen candas is a political scientist. Before she resigned, she was a faculty member at Bogazici University's department of political science and international relations. She is a Peace Academic and among the founders of various civil society-based initiatives that defend the rule of law, gender equality, and minorities' rights.
ece göztepe is a professor and dean at the Bilkent University Faculty of Law (Ankara). Her research interests and works include the state-of-emergency regime in Turkey, and the state theory and legal history of the Weimar Republic. Her publications include "The Permanency of the State of Emergency in Turkey: The Rise of a Constituent Power or a New Quality of the State?" Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft (April 2018).
ayşe kadioğlu is a professor of political science at Sabancı University, Istanbul. In addition to authored/co-edited books, she has published articles in Middle East Journal, Middle Eastern Studies, International Migration, Muslim World, Citizenship Studies, Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies, Middle East Law and Governance, and Philosophy & Social Criticism.
bertil emrah oder is a professor of constitutional law and dean at Koç University Law School.
kerem öktem is a faculty member in the department of linguistics and comparative cultural studies at Foscari University, Venice.
soli özel is a senior lecturer at Kadir Has University in Istanbul.
hakan sandal-wilson recently completed his PhD on Kurdish LGBTI+ activism in modern Turkey at the Centre for Gender Studies, University of Cambridge. Being active in LGBTI+ rights activism, his research interests include gender and sexuality studies, critical theory, and political sociology.
berna turam, director of the International Affairs Program and professor of sociology at Northeastern University, is a political sociologist and ethnographer. Her publications include the authored volumes Between Islam and the State: The Politics of Engagement, and Gaining Freedoms: Claiming Space in Istanbul and Berlin. Currently, Turam is researching refugee receiving and hosting cities.
