Nilay Özok-Gündoğan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1665131 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nilay Özok-Gündoğan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nilay |
| FAMILY NAME | Özok-Gündoğan |
| SIGNATURE | ÖZOK-GÜNDOĞAN N |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Decolonial Turn in Kurdish Studies: An Introduction
This special-issue introduction highlights the burgeoning movement toward decolonizing Kurdish studies, outlining its challenges and opportunities within the academic landscape. Central to the authors' discussion is the concept of the coloniality of power, which offers a framework for understanding the enduring oppression faced by Kurds within the context of ongoing colonial domination in the Middle East. The introduction delves into themes of hi…
Extractive Colonialism and State Making in Early Modern Ottoman Kurdistan
This article explores the overlooked dimension of Ottoman colonialism through an analysis of resource extraction in the Keban and Ergani mines during the early modern era. Situated in the Kurdistan province, these mines played a pivotal role in furnishing essential minerals for the Ottoman state's fiscal and military exigencies. Departing from conventional narratives, which often emphasize discursive practices or focus solely on settler coloniali…
The Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empire: Loyalty, Autonomy and Privilege
Studies the making and unmaking of the Ottoman Empire's Kurdish nobilityChallenges a long-standing spatial-geographical bias in Ottoman-Middle East history by bringing Kurdish and Armenian histories back into the Ottoman imperial framework Presents the first study to use the framework of hereditary nobility to examine Kurdish elite formation and its decline in the Ottoman EmpireDemonstrates the complex social, economic and political background to…
The Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empire: Loyalty, Autonomy and Privilege
This book explores the rise and decline of the Kurdish nobility in the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, focusing on a prominent noble family based in the Palu emirate—a fortified town on the eastern frontier of the empire. It offers a comprehensive analysis of hereditary nobility in Kurdistan, particularly within the context of the Tanzimat era's centralization policies in the mid-nineteenth century. The book delves …
Counting the Population and the Wealth in an “Unruly” Land: Census Making as a Social Process in Ottoman Kurdistan, 1830–50
This article examines the earliest modern Ottoman censuses in Kurdistan in the mid-nineteenth century from a social history perspective. Echoing the efforts of its contemporaries, the Ottoman state set out to conduct its first modern population census in 1830. This early census reflected the state’s aims for standardization and centralization, yet it was conducted “successfully” only in provinces geographically close to the capital. In Kurdistan,…
The Archive as a “Collective Project”
The history of the archive is the history of the state. Or so say conventional approaches to the archives. Until recently, the archive has been seen solely as a site, or rather a repository, of modern state power and governmentality, and a crucial medium for the making and preservation of national memory in the late 19th century. There is a truth to this state-centric perspective: the archive was conceived as a place where governments keep their …
Ruling the Periphery, Governing the Land
Özok-Gündoğan’s article examines the Ottoman state’s policy toward the hereditary yurtluk-ocaklik lands under the control of the Kurdish emirs in the mid-nineteenth century. Within the Tanzimat context, the Ottoman state set out to abolish this particular landownership pattern in Kurdistan and establish a rationalized tax system in the area. The article demonstrates the complex interplay of economic motives, spatio-geographic reasoning, and cultu…
Social Development” as a Governmental Strategy in the Southeastern Anatolia Project
This paper examines the “social development” practices carried out within the framework of the Southeast Anatolia Project (Güneydoğu Anadolu Projesior GAP) in Turkey in the 1990s. In its initial phase, GAP was a state-run regional development project in southeast Anatolia which consisted of massive infrastructural investments. But beginning in the late 1980s, and especially in the 1990s, the scope of GAP expanded to include a set of social projec…
Social Development” as a Governmental Strategy in the Southeastern Anatolia Project
This paper examines the “social development” practices carried out within the framework of the Southeast Anatolia Project (Güneydoğu Anadolu Projesior GAP) in Turkey in the 1990s. In its initial phase, GAP was a state-run regional development project in southeast Anatolia which consisted of massive infrastructural investments. But beginning in the late 1980s, and especially in the 1990s, the scope of GAP expanded to include a set of social projec…
Ruling the Periphery, Governing the Land
Özok-Gündoğan’s article examines the Ottoman state’s policy toward the hereditary yurtluk-ocaklik lands under the control of the Kurdish emirs in the mid-nineteenth century. Within the Tanzimat context, the Ottoman state set out to abolish this particular landownership pattern in Kurdistan and establish a rationalized tax system in the area. The article demonstrates the complex interplay of economic motives, spatio-geographic reasoning, and cultu…
The Decolonial Turn in Kurdish Studies: An Introduction
This special-issue introduction highlights the burgeoning movement toward decolonizing Kurdish studies, outlining its challenges and opportunities within the academic landscape. Central to the authors' discussion is the concept of the coloniality of power, which offers a framework for understanding the enduring oppression faced by Kurds within the context of ongoing colonial domination in the Middle East. The introduction delves into themes of hi…
The Archive as a “Collective Project”
The history of the archive is the history of the state. Or so say conventional approaches to the archives. Until recently, the archive has been seen solely as a site, or rather a repository, of modern state power and governmentality, and a crucial medium for the making and preservation of national memory in the late 19th century. There is a truth to this state-centric perspective: the archive was conceived as a place where governments keep their …
Social Development” as a Governmental Strategy in the Southeastern Anatolia Project
This paper examines the “social development” practices carried out within the framework of the Southeast Anatolia Project (Güneydoğu Anadolu Projesior GAP) in Turkey in the 1990s. In its initial phase, GAP was a state-run regional development project in southeast Anatolia which consisted of massive infrastructural investments. But beginning in the late 1980s, and especially in the 1990s, the scope of GAP expanded to include a set of social projec…
Ruling the Periphery, Governing the Land
Özok-Gündoğan’s article examines the Ottoman state’s policy toward the hereditary yurtluk-ocaklik lands under the control of the Kurdish emirs in the mid-nineteenth century. Within the Tanzimat context, the Ottoman state set out to abolish this particular landownership pattern in Kurdistan and establish a rationalized tax system in the area. The article demonstrates the complex interplay of economic motives, spatio-geographic reasoning, and cultu…
The Archive as a “Collective Project”
The history of the archive is the history of the state. Or so say conventional approaches to the archives. Until recently, the archive has been seen solely as a site, or rather a repository, of modern state power and governmentality, and a crucial medium for the making and preservation of national memory in the late 19th century. There is a truth to this state-centric perspective: the archive was conceived as a place where governments keep their …
Counting the Population and the Wealth in an “Unruly” Land: Census Making as a Social Process in Ottoman Kurdistan, 1830–50
This article examines the earliest modern Ottoman censuses in Kurdistan in the mid-nineteenth century from a social history perspective. Echoing the efforts of its contemporaries, the Ottoman state set out to conduct its first modern population census in 1830. This early census reflected the state’s aims for standardization and centralization, yet it was conducted “successfully” only in provinces geographically close to the capital. In Kurdistan,…
The Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empire: Loyalty, Autonomy and Privilege
This book explores the rise and decline of the Kurdish nobility in the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, focusing on a prominent noble family based in the Palu emirate—a fortified town on the eastern frontier of the empire. It offers a comprehensive analysis of hereditary nobility in Kurdistan, particularly within the context of the Tanzimat era's centralization policies in the mid-nineteenth century. The book delves …
The Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empire: Loyalty, Autonomy and Privilege
Studies the making and unmaking of the Ottoman Empire's Kurdish nobilityChallenges a long-standing spatial-geographical bias in Ottoman-Middle East history by bringing Kurdish and Armenian histories back into the Ottoman imperial framework Presents the first study to use the framework of hereditary nobility to examine Kurdish elite formation and its decline in the Ottoman EmpireDemonstrates the complex social, economic and political background to…
The Decolonial Turn in Kurdish Studies: An Introduction
This special-issue introduction highlights the burgeoning movement toward decolonizing Kurdish studies, outlining its challenges and opportunities within the academic landscape. Central to the authors' discussion is the concept of the coloniality of power, which offers a framework for understanding the enduring oppression faced by Kurds within the context of ongoing colonial domination in the Middle East. The introduction delves into themes of hi…
Extractive Colonialism and State Making in Early Modern Ottoman Kurdistan
This article explores the overlooked dimension of Ottoman colonialism through an analysis of resource extraction in the Keban and Ergani mines during the early modern era. Situated in the Kurdistan province, these mines played a pivotal role in furnishing essential minerals for the Ottoman state's fiscal and military exigencies. Departing from conventional narratives, which often emphasize discursive practices or focus solely on settler coloniali…
Political science (8 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Islamic Studies and History (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Economics (3 works)