Barış Büyükokutan
Biographic Data
| ID | 304187 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barış Büyükokutan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barış |
| FAMILY NAME | Büyükokutan |
| SIGNATURE | BÜYÜKOKUTAN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Koç University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0187-3957 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Turkish knowledge trap
We examine how populist politicians in power produce mass resentment of cultural capital-rich counterelites by comparing three battles in Turkey’s culture war. Investigating how these battles unfolded on Twitter and on a very large online forum, we demonstrate that the production of resentment may require the tacit collaboration of the same counterelites that populists demonize. One way for populists to trap counterelites into participation, we f…
The racial formation not taken
Uneven and combined consecration
More than Subversion
Democratic Problem-Solving
Elitist by Default? Interaction Dynamics and the Inclusiveness of Secularization in Turkish Literary Milieus
Nonwestern secularization has the reputation of an elitist project, but poetry milieus in 20th-century Turkey experienced secularization in a relatively inclusive manner. Using comparative-historical, network, and statistical methods, this article compares poetry milieus to novelistic milieus, whose secularization closely resembles the Turkish/Islamic stereotype. This exercise identifies a previously unnoticed role that interaction dynamics play …
In pursuit of non-Western deep secularities
This article traces Charles Taylor’s “secularity three” outside the West, finding that it was present among poets but not among novelists in twentieth-century Turkey. It explains this contrast between these two very similar groups by using network analysis, highlighting the greater availability, in poetry networks, of nonpious gatekeepers to aspiring pious actors, following an initial long period of religious conflict. In order to benefit from as…
Bourdieu and Historical Analysis
Toward a Theory of Cultural Appropriation
Culture and politics have a close relationship, but how exactly does the cultural become the political? This article builds a theoretical framework for this question by examining Vietnam-era U.S. poets' politicization of Buddhism at the expense of more effective or more easily controllable discursive resources. I find, first, that outcomes depend on whether would-be appropriators and legitimate owners of the appropriated resource can strike a mut…
Toward a Theory of Cultural Appropriation
Culture and politics have a close relationship, but how exactly does the cultural become the political? This article builds a theoretical framework for this question by examining Vietnam-era U.S. poets' politicization of Buddhism at the expense of more effective or more easily controllable discursive resources. I find, first, that outcomes depend on whether would-be appropriators and legitimate owners of the appropriated resource can strike a mut…
Elitist by Default? Interaction Dynamics and the Inclusiveness of Secularization in Turkish Literary Milieus
Nonwestern secularization has the reputation of an elitist project, but poetry milieus in 20th-century Turkey experienced secularization in a relatively inclusive manner. Using comparative-historical, network, and statistical methods, this article compares poetry milieus to novelistic milieus, whose secularization closely resembles the Turkish/Islamic stereotype. This exercise identifies a previously unnoticed role that interaction dynamics play …
Uneven and combined consecration
More than Subversion
Toward a Theory of Cultural Appropriation
Culture and politics have a close relationship, but how exactly does the cultural become the political? This article builds a theoretical framework for this question by examining Vietnam-era U.S. poets' politicization of Buddhism at the expense of more effective or more easily controllable discursive resources. I find, first, that outcomes depend on whether would-be appropriators and legitimate owners of the appropriated resource can strike a mut…
Bourdieu and Historical Analysis
In pursuit of non-Western deep secularities
This article traces Charles Taylor’s “secularity three” outside the West, finding that it was present among poets but not among novelists in twentieth-century Turkey. It explains this contrast between these two very similar groups by using network analysis, highlighting the greater availability, in poetry networks, of nonpious gatekeepers to aspiring pious actors, following an initial long period of religious conflict. In order to benefit from as…
More than Subversion
Democratic Problem-Solving
Elitist by Default? Interaction Dynamics and the Inclusiveness of Secularization in Turkish Literary Milieus
Nonwestern secularization has the reputation of an elitist project, but poetry milieus in 20th-century Turkey experienced secularization in a relatively inclusive manner. Using comparative-historical, network, and statistical methods, this article compares poetry milieus to novelistic milieus, whose secularization closely resembles the Turkish/Islamic stereotype. This exercise identifies a previously unnoticed role that interaction dynamics play …
The racial formation not taken
Uneven and combined consecration
The Turkish knowledge trap
We examine how populist politicians in power produce mass resentment of cultural capital-rich counterelites by comparing three battles in Turkey’s culture war. Investigating how these battles unfolded on Twitter and on a very large online forum, we demonstrate that the production of resentment may require the tacit collaboration of the same counterelites that populists demonize. One way for populists to trap counterelites into participation, we f…
Philosophy (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works)