Başak Akkan
Biographic Data
| ID | 184291 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Başak Akkan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Başak |
| FAMILY NAME | Akkan |
| SIGNATURE | AKKAN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bogaziçi University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5680-3553 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
New Perspectives on Turkey roundtable on Ayşe Buğra’s book: Social Policy in Capitalist History: Perspectives on Poverty, Work and Society (Edward Elgar Publishing 2024)
We are happy to publish a roundtable debate based on the discussions carried out at the webinar organized by our journal to discuss Ayşe Buğra’s latest book, Social Policy in Capitalist History: Perspectives on Poverty, Work and Society . Buğra’s important contribution to the field of social policy is critically evaluated by Guy Standing, Andrew Fischer, and Tuba Ağartan. Social policy is an important field for New Perspectives on Turkey , one in…
Gendered familialism in a Mediterranean context: Women’s labor market participation and early childhood education and care in Turkey
This article explores the relationship between women’s labor market participation and early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Turkey within a broader Mediterranean context. Since the 1990s, there have been significant changes in the familialist models in the Mediterranean region driven by women’s increased labor market participation and the expansion of ECEC services. The transformations in the region have unveiled a significant link between…
Education and “Categorical Inequalities’’: Manifestation of Segregation in Six Country Contexts in Europe
This article deals with the educational arrangements and the multiple inequalities that they reproduce from a comparative perspective. Drawing on a qualitative study conducted in six countries (Austria, Hungary, Netherlands, Portugal, Turkey, and the UK) as part of a multinational research project concerning justice in Europe, the article explores the mechanisms through which education sustains and reproduces “categorical inequalities.” Although …
Representative justice in the European normative framework and tensions with the national political discourses
Political discourses in Europe operate at the supranational, national and local level, with supranational institutions providing a normative framework for the policy making at lower governance level. However, the actual appeal of the legal, political and normative frameworks offered by supranational European institutions remains unclear. For example, while ‘justice’ is deemed constitutive of European values and ideals of democracy, and European i…
An egalitarian politics of care: Young Female Carers and the Intersectional Inequalities of Gender, Class and Age
Feminist literature on care has extensively addressed inequalities that cut across the social categories of gender, class and ethnicity in relation to care work. One category that has received less attention in theories of caregiving so far is age. Built on the feminist literature of care and taking young (female) carers as its subject matter, this article tackles age as a third social category of intersectional inequalities along with class and …
Care as an inequality-creating phenomenon: An intersectional analysis of the care practices of young female carers in Istanbul
This article explores care as an inequality-creating phenomenon pertaining to the position of young female carers. Engaging the normative theory of Nancy Fraser on ‘participatory parity’ as a framework for equality, an intersectional analysis of childcare practices of young female carers reveals inequalities that cut across class and gender, and given the focus on young carers, age is incorporated as a third social category. The experiences of si…
Work and family reconciliation in Turkey: Young women as a vulnerable group in the labour market
Women are considered one of the most vulnerable groups in Turkey in terms of their labour market participation. This article explores the changing features of work and family reconciliation; the possible effects of newly introduced labour market policies on flexibility, and childcare arrangements. The vulnerability of women – young women in particular – in the labour market manifests itself in two areas: access to the labour market and staying in…
How Do Children Contextualize Their Well-Being? Methodological Insights from a Neighborhood Based Qualitative Study in Istanbul
Contested Agency of Young Carers Within Generational Order: Older Daughters and Sibling Care in Istanbul
The Romanization of poverty: Spatial stigmatization of Roma neighborhoods in Turkey
This article aims to reveal the multidimensional aspects of social exclusion of Roma in Turkey, which manifests itself in the stigmatized space of Roma neighborhood. In our analysis, we do not depict ‘Roma’ distinctively as an ethnic category but as a ‘low status’ in the society that is embedded in the stigmatized places. We argue that those from a Roma neighborhood hold a common “stigmatized spatial identity”, regardless of their ethnicity, whic…
The Politics of Care in Turkey: Sacred Familialism in a Changing Political Context
This article deals with the politics of care and the changing features of familialism in Turkey under the rule of the Justice and Development Party (AKP). While sacred familialism, which is built on the role of women as devoted care providers and blessed mothers, is evident in the AKP’s gender politics, care has received more public recognition through targeted policies than in any other period of the modern Republic. A combination of conflicting…
Contextualizing subjective well-being of children in different domains: Does higher safety provide higher subjective well-being for child citizens
The Politics of Care in Turkey: Sacred Familialism in a Changing Political Context
This article deals with the politics of care and the changing features of familialism in Turkey under the rule of the Justice and Development Party (AKP). While sacred familialism, which is built on the role of women as devoted care providers and blessed mothers, is evident in the AKP’s gender politics, care has received more public recognition through targeted policies than in any other period of the modern Republic. A combination of conflicting…
Gendered familialism in a Mediterranean context: Women’s labor market participation and early childhood education and care in Turkey
This article explores the relationship between women’s labor market participation and early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Turkey within a broader Mediterranean context. Since the 1990s, there have been significant changes in the familialist models in the Mediterranean region driven by women’s increased labor market participation and the expansion of ECEC services. The transformations in the region have unveiled a significant link between…
Education and “Categorical Inequalities’’: Manifestation of Segregation in Six Country Contexts in Europe
This article deals with the educational arrangements and the multiple inequalities that they reproduce from a comparative perspective. Drawing on a qualitative study conducted in six countries (Austria, Hungary, Netherlands, Portugal, Turkey, and the UK) as part of a multinational research project concerning justice in Europe, the article explores the mechanisms through which education sustains and reproduces “categorical inequalities.” Although …
How Do Children Contextualize Their Well-Being? Methodological Insights from a Neighborhood Based Qualitative Study in Istanbul
Contextualizing subjective well-being of children in different domains: Does higher safety provide higher subjective well-being for child citizens
An egalitarian politics of care: Young Female Carers and the Intersectional Inequalities of Gender, Class and Age
Feminist literature on care has extensively addressed inequalities that cut across the social categories of gender, class and ethnicity in relation to care work. One category that has received less attention in theories of caregiving so far is age. Built on the feminist literature of care and taking young (female) carers as its subject matter, this article tackles age as a third social category of intersectional inequalities along with class and …
Care as an inequality-creating phenomenon: An intersectional analysis of the care practices of young female carers in Istanbul
This article explores care as an inequality-creating phenomenon pertaining to the position of young female carers. Engaging the normative theory of Nancy Fraser on ‘participatory parity’ as a framework for equality, an intersectional analysis of childcare practices of young female carers reveals inequalities that cut across class and gender, and given the focus on young carers, age is incorporated as a third social category. The experiences of si…
The Romanization of poverty: Spatial stigmatization of Roma neighborhoods in Turkey
This article aims to reveal the multidimensional aspects of social exclusion of Roma in Turkey, which manifests itself in the stigmatized space of Roma neighborhood. In our analysis, we do not depict ‘Roma’ distinctively as an ethnic category but as a ‘low status’ in the society that is embedded in the stigmatized places. We argue that those from a Roma neighborhood hold a common “stigmatized spatial identity”, regardless of their ethnicity, whic…
The Romanization of poverty: Spatial stigmatization of Roma neighborhoods in Turkey
This article aims to reveal the multidimensional aspects of social exclusion of Roma in Turkey, which manifests itself in the stigmatized space of Roma neighborhood. In our analysis, we do not depict ‘Roma’ distinctively as an ethnic category but as a ‘low status’ in the society that is embedded in the stigmatized places. We argue that those from a Roma neighborhood hold a common “stigmatized spatial identity”, regardless of their ethnicity, whic…
The Politics of Care in Turkey: Sacred Familialism in a Changing Political Context
This article deals with the politics of care and the changing features of familialism in Turkey under the rule of the Justice and Development Party (AKP). While sacred familialism, which is built on the role of women as devoted care providers and blessed mothers, is evident in the AKP’s gender politics, care has received more public recognition through targeted policies than in any other period of the modern Republic. A combination of conflicting…
Contextualizing subjective well-being of children in different domains: Does higher safety provide higher subjective well-being for child citizens
Work and family reconciliation in Turkey: Young women as a vulnerable group in the labour market
Women are considered one of the most vulnerable groups in Turkey in terms of their labour market participation. This article explores the changing features of work and family reconciliation; the possible effects of newly introduced labour market policies on flexibility, and childcare arrangements. The vulnerability of women – young women in particular – in the labour market manifests itself in two areas: access to the labour market and staying in…
How Do Children Contextualize Their Well-Being? Methodological Insights from a Neighborhood Based Qualitative Study in Istanbul
Contested Agency of Young Carers Within Generational Order: Older Daughters and Sibling Care in Istanbul
Care as an inequality-creating phenomenon: An intersectional analysis of the care practices of young female carers in Istanbul
This article explores care as an inequality-creating phenomenon pertaining to the position of young female carers. Engaging the normative theory of Nancy Fraser on ‘participatory parity’ as a framework for equality, an intersectional analysis of childcare practices of young female carers reveals inequalities that cut across class and gender, and given the focus on young carers, age is incorporated as a third social category. The experiences of si…
Representative justice in the European normative framework and tensions with the national political discourses
Political discourses in Europe operate at the supranational, national and local level, with supranational institutions providing a normative framework for the policy making at lower governance level. However, the actual appeal of the legal, political and normative frameworks offered by supranational European institutions remains unclear. For example, while ‘justice’ is deemed constitutive of European values and ideals of democracy, and European i…
An egalitarian politics of care: Young Female Carers and the Intersectional Inequalities of Gender, Class and Age
Feminist literature on care has extensively addressed inequalities that cut across the social categories of gender, class and ethnicity in relation to care work. One category that has received less attention in theories of caregiving so far is age. Built on the feminist literature of care and taking young (female) carers as its subject matter, this article tackles age as a third social category of intersectional inequalities along with class and …
Education and “Categorical Inequalities’’: Manifestation of Segregation in Six Country Contexts in Europe
This article deals with the educational arrangements and the multiple inequalities that they reproduce from a comparative perspective. Drawing on a qualitative study conducted in six countries (Austria, Hungary, Netherlands, Portugal, Turkey, and the UK) as part of a multinational research project concerning justice in Europe, the article explores the mechanisms through which education sustains and reproduces “categorical inequalities.” Although …
Gendered familialism in a Mediterranean context: Women’s labor market participation and early childhood education and care in Turkey
This article explores the relationship between women’s labor market participation and early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Turkey within a broader Mediterranean context. Since the 1990s, there have been significant changes in the familialist models in the Mediterranean region driven by women’s increased labor market participation and the expansion of ECEC services. The transformations in the region have unveiled a significant link between…
New Perspectives on Turkey roundtable on Ayşe Buğra’s book: Social Policy in Capitalist History: Perspectives on Poverty, Work and Society (Edward Elgar Publishing 2024)
We are happy to publish a roundtable debate based on the discussions carried out at the webinar organized by our journal to discuss Ayşe Buğra’s latest book, Social Policy in Capitalist History: Perspectives on Poverty, Work and Society . Buğra’s important contribution to the field of social policy is critically evaluated by Guy Standing, Andrew Fischer, and Tuba Ağartan. Social policy is an important field for New Perspectives on Turkey , one in…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Economics (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (5 works) · Context (archaeology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Inequality (4 works)