Doğu Durgun
Biographic Data
| ID | 2393874 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Doğu Durgun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Doğu |
| FAMILY NAME | Durgun |
| SIGNATURE | DURGUN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sabancı Üniversitesi |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Tactical engagements: Queer anti-war politics between rights and refusal
Queer and liberal approaches to equality, peace, and justice are often conceived as distinct ethico-political positionings that engender mutually exclusive claims, tactics, and actions. This article argues that this distinction reflects a Western framework that emerges in a context where LGBTI+ individuals have acquired rights. In geotemporal settings where these rights have yet to be recognized, these positionings become entangled in the formati…
Reformism versus radicalism: Conscientious objection to military service in Israel and Turkey
The literature on social movements gives a great deal of importance to framing strategies and political opportunity structure to explain success and failure of movements. Under favourable political contexts, movements with reformist claims and discourses are expected to mobilize wider constituencies and in doing so to succeed in creating change. Drawing on a comparative analysis of conscientious objections in Israel and Turkey, I argue that this …
Beyond silence and voice: Gender, sexuality and antimilitarism in Turkey and Israel
Turkey and Israel project two distinct military regimes which construct gender and sexuality in specific ways as part of their respective security agendas. Despite the differences, however, both entitle women and LGBTQs to certain exemptions from the military service, and in doing so silence their antimilitarist activism. Women and LGBTQs counter this process through their acts of conscientious objection, through which they claim a voice in matte…
Home is Where You Make it? Gender and Ahmet Davutoğlu's Strategic Vision in the Middle East
The Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) policymakers have aimed to position Turkey as the leader of the Middle East by assessing its soft power since they came to power. Drawing on Strategic Depth of Ahmet Davutoğlu, Prime Minister of Turkey, this article attempts to offer a critical constructivist, postcolonial and feminist analysis of Turkey’s recent foreign policy discourse in the region by showing how the myth of leadership is constitutive,…
Reformism versus radicalism: Conscientious objection to military service in Israel and Turkey
The literature on social movements gives a great deal of importance to framing strategies and political opportunity structure to explain success and failure of movements. Under favourable political contexts, movements with reformist claims and discourses are expected to mobilize wider constituencies and in doing so to succeed in creating change. Drawing on a comparative analysis of conscientious objections in Israel and Turkey, I argue that this …
Beyond silence and voice: Gender, sexuality and antimilitarism in Turkey and Israel
Turkey and Israel project two distinct military regimes which construct gender and sexuality in specific ways as part of their respective security agendas. Despite the differences, however, both entitle women and LGBTQs to certain exemptions from the military service, and in doing so silence their antimilitarist activism. Women and LGBTQs counter this process through their acts of conscientious objection, through which they claim a voice in matte…
Home is Where You Make it? Gender and Ahmet Davutoğlu's Strategic Vision in the Middle East
The Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) policymakers have aimed to position Turkey as the leader of the Middle East by assessing its soft power since they came to power. Drawing on Strategic Depth of Ahmet Davutoğlu, Prime Minister of Turkey, this article attempts to offer a critical constructivist, postcolonial and feminist analysis of Turkey’s recent foreign policy discourse in the region by showing how the myth of leadership is constitutive,…
Home is Where You Make it? Gender and Ahmet Davutoğlu's Strategic Vision in the Middle East
The Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) policymakers have aimed to position Turkey as the leader of the Middle East by assessing its soft power since they came to power. Drawing on Strategic Depth of Ahmet Davutoğlu, Prime Minister of Turkey, this article attempts to offer a critical constructivist, postcolonial and feminist analysis of Turkey’s recent foreign policy discourse in the region by showing how the myth of leadership is constitutive,…
Beyond silence and voice: Gender, sexuality and antimilitarism in Turkey and Israel
Turkey and Israel project two distinct military regimes which construct gender and sexuality in specific ways as part of their respective security agendas. Despite the differences, however, both entitle women and LGBTQs to certain exemptions from the military service, and in doing so silence their antimilitarist activism. Women and LGBTQs counter this process through their acts of conscientious objection, through which they claim a voice in matte…
Reformism versus radicalism: Conscientious objection to military service in Israel and Turkey
The literature on social movements gives a great deal of importance to framing strategies and political opportunity structure to explain success and failure of movements. Under favourable political contexts, movements with reformist claims and discourses are expected to mobilize wider constituencies and in doing so to succeed in creating change. Drawing on a comparative analysis of conscientious objections in Israel and Turkey, I argue that this …
Tactical engagements: Queer anti-war politics between rights and refusal
Queer and liberal approaches to equality, peace, and justice are often conceived as distinct ethico-political positionings that engender mutually exclusive claims, tactics, and actions. This article argues that this distinction reflects a Western framework that emerges in a context where LGBTI+ individuals have acquired rights. In geotemporal settings where these rights have yet to be recognized, these positionings become entangled in the formati…
Politics (4 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (3 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Militarism (2 works) · Acquiescence (1 works)