Birgan Gokmenoglu
Biographic Data
| ID | 333344 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Birgan Gokmenoglu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Birgan |
| FAMILY NAME | Gokmenoglu |
| SIGNATURE | GOKMENOGLU B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birmingham City University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5839-3351 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Political and transformative uses of time
Taking time as a political relation and politics as a temporal one, our focus in this Special Issue is on contemporary case studies from a variety of geographical and political contexts. Using a wide range of methodological and theoretical approaches from across the social sciences, we use a temporal lens to study structures of power and inequality. Attentive to uncertainty, indeterminacy, and contingency, the contributions to this issue are espe…
Hope and time work in dystopian contexts
This article examines the temporal underpinnings of hope as a key element of political action under dystopian circumstances. It is based on a comparative study of the authors' long-term ethnographic studies: First, an ethnography of the activists for national independence of the Scottish National Party following the 2016 Brexit referendum and second, the anti-authoritarian activists of the local 'no' assemblies in Istanbul around the 2017 constit…
Politics of anticipation
This article engages with the question of coordinating action during transitional and politically volatile times, in high-stakes situations. More specifically, I look at a local assembly that was established to campaign for the ‘no’ vote against regime change in the 2017 constitutional referendum in Turkey, and how it disintegrated at a time when coordinated action was perceived as the only viable strategy by the participants. Based on participan…
Against the clock
Temporality in the social sciences
Time and temporality are common themes in the social sciences and sociology. The sociological literature on time remains solipsistically empirical, while theoretical elaborations are focused on modernity, capitalism, and technology, through notions of speed and acceleration. Although existing studies on time are imbued with political issues and processes, as the subfield that studies relations of power and politics, political sociology has yet to…
Temporality in the social sciences
Time and temporality are common themes in the social sciences and sociology. The sociological literature on time remains solipsistically empirical, while theoretical elaborations are focused on modernity, capitalism, and technology, through notions of speed and acceleration. Although existing studies on time are imbued with political issues and processes, as the subfield that studies relations of power and politics, political sociology has yet to…
Hope and time work in dystopian contexts
This article examines the temporal underpinnings of hope as a key element of political action under dystopian circumstances. It is based on a comparative study of the authors' long-term ethnographic studies: First, an ethnography of the activists for national independence of the Scottish National Party following the 2016 Brexit referendum and second, the anti-authoritarian activists of the local 'no' assemblies in Istanbul around the 2017 constit…
Politics of anticipation
This article engages with the question of coordinating action during transitional and politically volatile times, in high-stakes situations. More specifically, I look at a local assembly that was established to campaign for the ‘no’ vote against regime change in the 2017 constitutional referendum in Turkey, and how it disintegrated at a time when coordinated action was perceived as the only viable strategy by the participants. Based on participan…
Against the clock
Temporality in the social sciences
Time and temporality are common themes in the social sciences and sociology. The sociological literature on time remains solipsistically empirical, while theoretical elaborations are focused on modernity, capitalism, and technology, through notions of speed and acceleration. Although existing studies on time are imbued with political issues and processes, as the subfield that studies relations of power and politics, political sociology has yet to…
Politics of anticipation
This article engages with the question of coordinating action during transitional and politically volatile times, in high-stakes situations. More specifically, I look at a local assembly that was established to campaign for the ‘no’ vote against regime change in the 2017 constitutional referendum in Turkey, and how it disintegrated at a time when coordinated action was perceived as the only viable strategy by the participants. Based on participan…
Political and transformative uses of time
Taking time as a political relation and politics as a temporal one, our focus in this Special Issue is on contemporary case studies from a variety of geographical and political contexts. Using a wide range of methodological and theoretical approaches from across the social sciences, we use a temporal lens to study structures of power and inequality. Attentive to uncertainty, indeterminacy, and contingency, the contributions to this issue are espe…
Hope and time work in dystopian contexts
This article examines the temporal underpinnings of hope as a key element of political action under dystopian circumstances. It is based on a comparative study of the authors' long-term ethnographic studies: First, an ethnography of the activists for national independence of the Scottish National Party following the 2016 Brexit referendum and second, the anti-authoritarian activists of the local 'no' assemblies in Istanbul around the 2017 constit…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Temporality (3 works) · Collective action (2 works) · Foucault, Power, and Ethics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)