Hülya Adak
Biographic Data
| ID | 1056842 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hülya Adak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hülya |
| FAMILY NAME | Adak |
| SIGNATURE | ADAK H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sabancı Üniversitesi |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2535-6057 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rugiatu Neneh Turay “If my brothers are allowed to play, I will also play football, ride bicycles, and climb trees . . .”
Rugiatu Neneh Turay, a feminist from Sierra Leone, recounts how personal experiences of female genital mutilation (FGM) have shaped grassroots organising. Rugiatu’s work has been acclaimed internationally. She is the recipient of three international human rights awards, including The Alice Salomon Award (2010), The Theodor Haecker Prize (2020) and the International Hrant Dink Award (2024)
Aesthetic interventions to gender-based violence and sexual violence
Our Special Issue “Aesthetic Interventions to Gender-Based Violence and Sexual Violence” comes out at a time of electoral gains for the far-right, autocratic appeal, normalisation of illiberal policies, genocides, and fascist takeover across a wide range of countries all over the world. In these sociopolitical processes, gender-based violence, and sexual violence have often been weaponised to demonise certain ethnic-racial groups. Those same poli…
Special issue
On land, memory, and masculinity
This article offers a critical reading of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Ahlat Ağacı (The Wild Pear Tree) through an exploration and critique of the mythmaking and monumentalization surrounding the Gallipoli Battle and the multiple ways in which Ceylan’s film unsettles the foundational myths of the last century in Turkey. Ceylan’s scenes and characters are constructed in such a way that the male characters and particularly Sinan (the main character) refuse …
Imagining Gender+ Justice amid the Pandemic
Imagining Gender+ Justice amid the PandemicThe Year in Turkey Hülya Adak (bio) From mid-2019 to six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, publications on life writing by women and (sexual) minorities proliferated in Turkey. The anti-gender propensities of the right-populist Justice and Development Party (AKP) became starkly evident during the early phases of the pandemic amid skyrocketing cases of violence against women and sexual minorities. Three …
The Legacy of André Nikolaievitch Mandelstam (1869-1949) and the Early History of Human Rights
With the exception of a few academic articles written in the past decade, the legacy and significance of Andre N. Mandelstam's works remain unexplored. An analysis of his magnanimous book, Le Sort de L'Empire Ottoman (1917), La Societe des Nations et Les Puissances devant le problem armenien (1926) and Der internationale Schutz der Menschenrechte und die New Yorker Erklarung des Instituts fur Volkerrecht (1931) could lead to a deeper understandin…
From l’Écriture Féminine to Queer Subjectivities
This essay examines three works by women writers, Sevgi Soysal, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, and Perihan Mağden, who experiment with feminine writing (l’écriture féminine) in Turkish literature and explore the intersectionality of race, gender, sexuality, and the possibilities of narrating queer sexualities. A brief biography of the individual writer is followed by a discussion of the works in question, that is, Tante Rosa (Aunt Rosa, 1968), Das Leben is…
Gendering denial narratives of the decade of terror (1975–85)
In this article, I analyse the gendered and ethnicized nature of denial writing by women writers during the decade of terror (1975–85). The 1970s and 1980s can be characterized by two coup d’états (1971 and 1980) and a series of assassinations of Turkish diplomats by the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) and the Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide (JCOAG), which resulted in the proliferation of denialist narratives…
Guest editors' introduction
Suffragettes of the Empire, Daughters of the Republic
This paper explores modes of autobiographical writing by female authors in the early republican period. Women's autobiographies draw a strict distinction between the narration of the private and the public self, as they promote the narration of the undomestic, professional self at the expense of the private. Ironically, even if the autobiographers in question were politically active in suffrage, women's autobiographies either do not represent the…
National Myths and Self-Na(rra)tions
Research Article| July 01 2003 National Myths and Self-Na(rra)tions: Mustafa Kemal's Nutukand Halide Edib's Memoirs and The Turkish Ordeal Hülya Adak Hülya Adak Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2003) 102 (2-3): 509–527. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-102-2-3-509 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Hülya Adak; National Myths and Self…
National Myths and Self-Na(rra)tions
Research Article| July 01 2003 National Myths and Self-Na(rra)tions: Mustafa Kemal's Nutukand Halide Edib's Memoirs and The Turkish Ordeal Hülya Adak Hülya Adak Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2003) 102 (2-3): 509–527. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-102-2-3-509 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Hülya Adak; National Myths and Self…
Gendering denial narratives of the decade of terror (1975–85)
In this article, I analyse the gendered and ethnicized nature of denial writing by women writers during the decade of terror (1975–85). The 1970s and 1980s can be characterized by two coup d’états (1971 and 1980) and a series of assassinations of Turkish diplomats by the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) and the Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide (JCOAG), which resulted in the proliferation of denialist narratives…
Guest editors' introduction
Suffragettes of the Empire, Daughters of the Republic
This paper explores modes of autobiographical writing by female authors in the early republican period. Women's autobiographies draw a strict distinction between the narration of the private and the public self, as they promote the narration of the undomestic, professional self at the expense of the private. Ironically, even if the autobiographers in question were politically active in suffrage, women's autobiographies either do not represent the…
National Myths and Self-Na(rra)tions
Research Article| July 01 2003 National Myths and Self-Na(rra)tions: Mustafa Kemal's Nutukand Halide Edib's Memoirs and The Turkish Ordeal Hülya Adak Hülya Adak Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2003) 102 (2-3): 509–527. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-102-2-3-509 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Hülya Adak; National Myths and Self…
Suffragettes of the Empire, Daughters of the Republic
This paper explores modes of autobiographical writing by female authors in the early republican period. Women's autobiographies draw a strict distinction between the narration of the private and the public self, as they promote the narration of the undomestic, professional self at the expense of the private. Ironically, even if the autobiographers in question were politically active in suffrage, women's autobiographies either do not represent the…
Guest editors' introduction
Gendering denial narratives of the decade of terror (1975–85)
In this article, I analyse the gendered and ethnicized nature of denial writing by women writers during the decade of terror (1975–85). The 1970s and 1980s can be characterized by two coup d’états (1971 and 1980) and a series of assassinations of Turkish diplomats by the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) and the Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide (JCOAG), which resulted in the proliferation of denialist narratives…
From l’Écriture Féminine to Queer Subjectivities
This essay examines three works by women writers, Sevgi Soysal, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, and Perihan Mağden, who experiment with feminine writing (l’écriture féminine) in Turkish literature and explore the intersectionality of race, gender, sexuality, and the possibilities of narrating queer sexualities. A brief biography of the individual writer is followed by a discussion of the works in question, that is, Tante Rosa (Aunt Rosa, 1968), Das Leben is…
The Legacy of André Nikolaievitch Mandelstam (1869-1949) and the Early History of Human Rights
With the exception of a few academic articles written in the past decade, the legacy and significance of Andre N. Mandelstam's works remain unexplored. An analysis of his magnanimous book, Le Sort de L'Empire Ottoman (1917), La Societe des Nations et Les Puissances devant le problem armenien (1926) and Der internationale Schutz der Menschenrechte und die New Yorker Erklarung des Instituts fur Volkerrecht (1931) could lead to a deeper understandin…
Imagining Gender+ Justice amid the Pandemic
Imagining Gender+ Justice amid the PandemicThe Year in Turkey Hülya Adak (bio) From mid-2019 to six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, publications on life writing by women and (sexual) minorities proliferated in Turkey. The anti-gender propensities of the right-populist Justice and Development Party (AKP) became starkly evident during the early phases of the pandemic amid skyrocketing cases of violence against women and sexual minorities. Three …
On land, memory, and masculinity
This article offers a critical reading of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Ahlat Ağacı (The Wild Pear Tree) through an exploration and critique of the mythmaking and monumentalization surrounding the Gallipoli Battle and the multiple ways in which Ceylan’s film unsettles the foundational myths of the last century in Turkey. Ceylan’s scenes and characters are constructed in such a way that the male characters and particularly Sinan (the main character) refuse …
Special issue
Rugiatu Neneh Turay “If my brothers are allowed to play, I will also play football, ride bicycles, and climb trees . . .”
Rugiatu Neneh Turay, a feminist from Sierra Leone, recounts how personal experiences of female genital mutilation (FGM) have shaped grassroots organising. Rugiatu’s work has been acclaimed internationally. She is the recipient of three international human rights awards, including The Alice Salomon Award (2010), The Theodor Haecker Prize (2020) and the International Hrant Dink Award (2024)
Aesthetic interventions to gender-based violence and sexual violence
Our Special Issue “Aesthetic Interventions to Gender-Based Violence and Sexual Violence” comes out at a time of electoral gains for the far-right, autocratic appeal, normalisation of illiberal policies, genocides, and fascist takeover across a wide range of countries all over the world. In these sociopolitical processes, gender-based violence, and sexual violence have often been weaponised to demonise certain ethnic-racial groups. Those same poli…
History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works)