Elif M Babül
Biographic Data
| ID | 148249 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elif M Babül |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elif M |
| FAMILY NAME | Babül |
| SIGNATURE | BABÜL E M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Holyoke College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7553-0992 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rethinking Scott in an era of post-developmental restorationist state formation
Compulsory guesthood, social cohesion, and the politics of hospitality in Turkey
This article explores hospitality as a key rhetorical framework for refugee management in Turkey by focusing on how host-guest relations are mobilized to represent, interpret, and problematize the current state of affairs regarding Syrian refugees, as well as to formulate policies. It analyses the transformation of hospitality rhetoric, the notion of 'compulsory guesthood', and the most recent social cohesion initiatives. I argue that host-guest …
Legal Occupations
Radical once more
This paper focuses on the ambivalent effects of the sudden human rights activism inflation and civil society development in Turkey between 2007 and 2011 – a period of provisional liberalisation of the socio‐political sphere that was accompanied by the professionalisation of the bureaucratic realm. I argue that contrary to the recent critical literature on such rights, which contends that liberalisation and bureaucratisation of human rights rhetor…
The paradox of protection
Human rights are among the most-cited criteria for Turkey's accession to the European Union. Focusing on how women's and children's rights figure in governmental reform programs, I explore the institutionalization of rights-bearing subjects in the Turkish official realm. Portrayals of women and children as innocent, depoliticized victims in need of protection and care are meant to persuade state officials to prosecute domestic violence, honor kil…
Training Bureaucrats, Practicing for Europe
This article explores the reconfiguration of the bureaucratic field and the recalibration of the terms of hierarchy and distinction that go into establishing bureaucratic authority and governmental legitimacy in Turkey—a process prompted by the country's pending accession to the European Union (EU). Accession to the EU hinges on a substantive reorganization of the governmental field in Turkey according to European standards of good governance tha…
Claiming a Place Through Memories of Belonging
The establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923 marks the official construction of a new community and new forms of belonging that were expected to replace the communities and forms of belonging characteristic of the Ottoman Empire. The convention signed at the end of the First World War on January 30, 1923, concerning “the compulsory exchange of Turkish nationals of the Greek Orthodox Religion established in Turkish territory, and of Greek nat…
The Anthropology of Global Productions
The paradox of protection
Human rights are among the most-cited criteria for Turkey's accession to the European Union. Focusing on how women's and children's rights figure in governmental reform programs, I explore the institutionalization of rights-bearing subjects in the Turkish official realm. Portrayals of women and children as innocent, depoliticized victims in need of protection and care are meant to persuade state officials to prosecute domestic violence, honor kil…
Training Bureaucrats, Practicing for Europe
This article explores the reconfiguration of the bureaucratic field and the recalibration of the terms of hierarchy and distinction that go into establishing bureaucratic authority and governmental legitimacy in Turkey—a process prompted by the country's pending accession to the European Union (EU). Accession to the EU hinges on a substantive reorganization of the governmental field in Turkey according to European standards of good governance tha…
Compulsory guesthood, social cohesion, and the politics of hospitality in Turkey
This article explores hospitality as a key rhetorical framework for refugee management in Turkey by focusing on how host-guest relations are mobilized to represent, interpret, and problematize the current state of affairs regarding Syrian refugees, as well as to formulate policies. It analyses the transformation of hospitality rhetoric, the notion of 'compulsory guesthood', and the most recent social cohesion initiatives. I argue that host-guest …
Claiming a Place Through Memories of Belonging
The establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923 marks the official construction of a new community and new forms of belonging that were expected to replace the communities and forms of belonging characteristic of the Ottoman Empire. The convention signed at the end of the First World War on January 30, 1923, concerning “the compulsory exchange of Turkish nationals of the Greek Orthodox Religion established in Turkish territory, and of Greek nat…
The Anthropology of Global Productions
Training Bureaucrats, Practicing for Europe
This article explores the reconfiguration of the bureaucratic field and the recalibration of the terms of hierarchy and distinction that go into establishing bureaucratic authority and governmental legitimacy in Turkey—a process prompted by the country's pending accession to the European Union (EU). Accession to the EU hinges on a substantive reorganization of the governmental field in Turkey according to European standards of good governance tha…
The paradox of protection
Human rights are among the most-cited criteria for Turkey's accession to the European Union. Focusing on how women's and children's rights figure in governmental reform programs, I explore the institutionalization of rights-bearing subjects in the Turkish official realm. Portrayals of women and children as innocent, depoliticized victims in need of protection and care are meant to persuade state officials to prosecute domestic violence, honor kil…
Radical once more
This paper focuses on the ambivalent effects of the sudden human rights activism inflation and civil society development in Turkey between 2007 and 2011 – a period of provisional liberalisation of the socio‐political sphere that was accompanied by the professionalisation of the bureaucratic realm. I argue that contrary to the recent critical literature on such rights, which contends that liberalisation and bureaucratisation of human rights rhetor…
Legal Occupations
Compulsory guesthood, social cohesion, and the politics of hospitality in Turkey
This article explores hospitality as a key rhetorical framework for refugee management in Turkey by focusing on how host-guest relations are mobilized to represent, interpret, and problematize the current state of affairs regarding Syrian refugees, as well as to formulate policies. It analyses the transformation of hospitality rhetoric, the notion of 'compulsory guesthood', and the most recent social cohesion initiatives. I argue that host-guest …
Rethinking Scott in an era of post-developmental restorationist state formation
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Bureaucracy (2 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (2 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (2 works) · Human rights (2 works)