Funda Gencoglu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3043207 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Funda Gencoglu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Funda |
| FAMILY NAME | Gencoglu |
| SIGNATURE | GENCOGLU F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Başkent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8211-8624 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The weak link in the chain: The (surprisingly) loose ties between migrant women and women’s organizations in Turkey
This article examines the fragmented solidarities between women’s organizations and Syrian migrant women in Turkey, focusing on İstanbul, Gaziantep, and İzmir, the cities with the highest concentrations of Syrian migrants. Drawing on semi-structured interviews conducted with representatives from 25 women’s organizations, the study investigates why feminist solidarity has remained elusive despite the shared gendered vulnerabilities of migrant wome…
Dissident women’s organizations as a counter-hegemonic actor in Turkey
Could the Turkish women’s movement, which has a strong reaction mechanism, be a constituent actor of counter-hegemony? The main reasons behind this question are the women’s movement’s deep-rooted history and its openness to combine theory with practice/action. When looked from the Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclau’s perspective of radical democracy theory, the women’s movement appears to have a considerable potential of deciphering the existing h…
Once there was and once there wasn’t: The tale of intellectuals and the state in Turkey
This article presents a taxonomy of various conceptions of the intellectual and then analyses the changing official discourse on intellectuals in Turkey with reference to this taxonomy. The taxonomy developed here is an original contribution to the existing literature on intellectuals. It distinguishes six conceptions of the intellectual: (i) as the gadfly and the gift of god, (ii) as the philosopher, (iii) as parrhesiastes, (iv) as the activist,…
Göçmen Kadının Öznelliği Tartışması Üzerine
Özellikle feminist bir bakışla kadın araştırmacılar tarafından gerçekleştirilen çalışmalarda hem kadın göçmenlerin deneyimlerinin özgünlüğünden söz etmenin kaçınılmazlığı ve vazgeçilmezliği hem de bunun ‘ötekileştirme’ tuzağına düşmeden yapılması konusunda azami dikkat gösterme çabası vurgulanmaktadır. Bu nedenle, bu yaklaşımla yapılan çalışmalarda özne, öznellik ve göçmen kadının özne olma hali gibi kavramlara dair tartışmalar son yıllarda gider…
Heroes, villains and celebritisation of politics: Hegemony, populism and anti-intellectualism in Turkey
This article analyses the rising tides of celebrity politics in Turkey by contextualising it within the changing dynamics of Turkish politics during the last decade. More specifically, it tries to understand the fault lines of celebritisation of politics with reference to the installation and re-installation of the neoliberal conservative hegemony. Celebrity politics in Turkey has acquired a unique character within a political environment where t…
On the construction of identities: An autoethnography from Turkey
In this article I analyze, on the basis of my personal experience, the discontents of contemporary Turkish politics; more specifically, neoliberal conservative hegemony, and its three manifestations: stability of instability; a religio-conservative gender regime; and anti-intellectualism. I illustrate how these manifestations are intertwined in the process of identity construction: how an individual’s identity as a citizen, as a woman, as an acad…
The student movement in Turkey: A case study of the relationship between (re)politicization and democratization
One particularly striking aspect of the global waves of social movements is the increasing politicization of youth, including students. Taking this as its starting point, this article discusses what the politicization of youth could mean for democracy and democratization in Turkey. This is important because, especially since 2011, Turkish politics has been dominated by debates concerning authoritarianization. Focusing on the largest student organ…
Gezi Park protests in Turkey: From ‘enough is enough’ to counter-hegemony
This study aims at a critical analysis of the Gezi Park protests of 2013. Without denying the importance of understanding their ‘before and after,’ it tries to understand what happened ‘during’ the Gezi protests. It argues that the practice of Gezi can be understood via the theory of radical democracy, whose core concepts and premises are particularly appropriate for making sense of what happened during Gezi protests. Drawing on those concepts th…
Radical social democracy: A concept that has much to say to social democrats in Turkey
This article aims to link theory and practice by connecting the experience of social democracy in Turkey with the theory of radical democracy and thereby elaborate on the notion of ‘radical social democracy’ in the sense Chantal Mouffe used the term. Parallel to the repeated electoral successes of the governing Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi – AKP), the academic literature has become increasingly AKP-centred and, concom…
Paid military service at the intersection of militarism, nationalism, capitalism, and (hetero)patriarchy: Escaping Without Leaving 'Manhood
The variety of the political standpoints of governments that have initiated exempted military service for several times in Turkey is a sign of a general agreement on its legitimacy. However, Turkey is a country where conscientious objection is almost a taboo. I try to decipher the assumptions behind what is (il)legitimate, and their manifestations in the sociopolitical life from a gender perspective informed by the feminist theory. I argue that w…
Social Media and the Kurdish Issue in Turkey: Hate Speech, Free Speech and Human Security
Parallel to two intertwined processes of the politicization of ethnicity, religion and sexuality on the one hand, and the rise of the internet, on the other hand, hate speech has become one of the most topical issues of political debates. Academic interest on this topic has so far focused largely on the questions of (im)possibility of defining hate speech, on the hate speech/free speech dichotomy, and, thus on the possible ways of dealing with th…
The Romani Opening in Turkey: Antidiscrimination
This study is a critical analysis of the Romani Opening in Turkey that was initiated by the government in the late 2009 as a project aiming to end discrimination against Roma in Turkey. Although this is a very important move considering the long-lasting ignorance of the problems of Roma in Turkey, there are important problems related with the presentation of the project and discussions revolving around it. As an outcome of these problems this pro…
Women's Movement in Turkey at a Crossroads: From Women's Rights Advocacy to Feminism
The article analyses the current state of the women's movement in Turkey with recourse to its potential to offer an alternative political vision. The article is built on semi-structured interviews with the representatives of six women's rights organizations. The interviews addressed the conceptualization of politics, democracy, civil society and the state in the movement. We argue that the movement is currently at a crossroads. The article aims a…
Women's Movement in Turkey at a Crossroads: From Women's Rights Advocacy to Feminism
The article analyses the current state of the women's movement in Turkey with recourse to its potential to offer an alternative political vision. The article is built on semi-structured interviews with the representatives of six women's rights organizations. The interviews addressed the conceptualization of politics, democracy, civil society and the state in the movement. We argue that the movement is currently at a crossroads. The article aims a…
Gezi Park protests in Turkey: From ‘enough is enough’ to counter-hegemony
This study aims at a critical analysis of the Gezi Park protests of 2013. Without denying the importance of understanding their ‘before and after,’ it tries to understand what happened ‘during’ the Gezi protests. It argues that the practice of Gezi can be understood via the theory of radical democracy, whose core concepts and premises are particularly appropriate for making sense of what happened during Gezi protests. Drawing on those concepts th…
Social Media and the Kurdish Issue in Turkey: Hate Speech, Free Speech and Human Security
Parallel to two intertwined processes of the politicization of ethnicity, religion and sexuality on the one hand, and the rise of the internet, on the other hand, hate speech has become one of the most topical issues of political debates. Academic interest on this topic has so far focused largely on the questions of (im)possibility of defining hate speech, on the hate speech/free speech dichotomy, and, thus on the possible ways of dealing with th…
The Romani Opening in Turkey: Antidiscrimination
This study is a critical analysis of the Romani Opening in Turkey that was initiated by the government in the late 2009 as a project aiming to end discrimination against Roma in Turkey. Although this is a very important move considering the long-lasting ignorance of the problems of Roma in Turkey, there are important problems related with the presentation of the project and discussions revolving around it. As an outcome of these problems this pro…
Dissident women’s organizations as a counter-hegemonic actor in Turkey
Could the Turkish women’s movement, which has a strong reaction mechanism, be a constituent actor of counter-hegemony? The main reasons behind this question are the women’s movement’s deep-rooted history and its openness to combine theory with practice/action. When looked from the Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclau’s perspective of radical democracy theory, the women’s movement appears to have a considerable potential of deciphering the existing h…
Heroes, villains and celebritisation of politics: Hegemony, populism and anti-intellectualism in Turkey
This article analyses the rising tides of celebrity politics in Turkey by contextualising it within the changing dynamics of Turkish politics during the last decade. More specifically, it tries to understand the fault lines of celebritisation of politics with reference to the installation and re-installation of the neoliberal conservative hegemony. Celebrity politics in Turkey has acquired a unique character within a political environment where t…
The student movement in Turkey: A case study of the relationship between (re)politicization and democratization
One particularly striking aspect of the global waves of social movements is the increasing politicization of youth, including students. Taking this as its starting point, this article discusses what the politicization of youth could mean for democracy and democratization in Turkey. This is important because, especially since 2011, Turkish politics has been dominated by debates concerning authoritarianization. Focusing on the largest student organ…
Radical social democracy: A concept that has much to say to social democrats in Turkey
This article aims to link theory and practice by connecting the experience of social democracy in Turkey with the theory of radical democracy and thereby elaborate on the notion of ‘radical social democracy’ in the sense Chantal Mouffe used the term. Parallel to the repeated electoral successes of the governing Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi – AKP), the academic literature has become increasingly AKP-centred and, concom…
On the construction of identities: An autoethnography from Turkey
In this article I analyze, on the basis of my personal experience, the discontents of contemporary Turkish politics; more specifically, neoliberal conservative hegemony, and its three manifestations: stability of instability; a religio-conservative gender regime; and anti-intellectualism. I illustrate how these manifestations are intertwined in the process of identity construction: how an individual’s identity as a citizen, as a woman, as an acad…
Paid military service at the intersection of militarism, nationalism, capitalism, and (hetero)patriarchy: Escaping Without Leaving 'Manhood
The variety of the political standpoints of governments that have initiated exempted military service for several times in Turkey is a sign of a general agreement on its legitimacy. However, Turkey is a country where conscientious objection is almost a taboo. I try to decipher the assumptions behind what is (il)legitimate, and their manifestations in the sociopolitical life from a gender perspective informed by the feminist theory. I argue that w…
Women's Movement in Turkey at a Crossroads: From Women's Rights Advocacy to Feminism
The article analyses the current state of the women's movement in Turkey with recourse to its potential to offer an alternative political vision. The article is built on semi-structured interviews with the representatives of six women's rights organizations. The interviews addressed the conceptualization of politics, democracy, civil society and the state in the movement. We argue that the movement is currently at a crossroads. The article aims a…
The Romani Opening in Turkey: Antidiscrimination
This study is a critical analysis of the Romani Opening in Turkey that was initiated by the government in the late 2009 as a project aiming to end discrimination against Roma in Turkey. Although this is a very important move considering the long-lasting ignorance of the problems of Roma in Turkey, there are important problems related with the presentation of the project and discussions revolving around it. As an outcome of these problems this pro…
Social Media and the Kurdish Issue in Turkey: Hate Speech, Free Speech and Human Security
Parallel to two intertwined processes of the politicization of ethnicity, religion and sexuality on the one hand, and the rise of the internet, on the other hand, hate speech has become one of the most topical issues of political debates. Academic interest on this topic has so far focused largely on the questions of (im)possibility of defining hate speech, on the hate speech/free speech dichotomy, and, thus on the possible ways of dealing with th…
Gezi Park protests in Turkey: From ‘enough is enough’ to counter-hegemony
This study aims at a critical analysis of the Gezi Park protests of 2013. Without denying the importance of understanding their ‘before and after,’ it tries to understand what happened ‘during’ the Gezi protests. It argues that the practice of Gezi can be understood via the theory of radical democracy, whose core concepts and premises are particularly appropriate for making sense of what happened during Gezi protests. Drawing on those concepts th…
Radical social democracy: A concept that has much to say to social democrats in Turkey
This article aims to link theory and practice by connecting the experience of social democracy in Turkey with the theory of radical democracy and thereby elaborate on the notion of ‘radical social democracy’ in the sense Chantal Mouffe used the term. Parallel to the repeated electoral successes of the governing Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi – AKP), the academic literature has become increasingly AKP-centred and, concom…
Paid military service at the intersection of militarism, nationalism, capitalism, and (hetero)patriarchy: Escaping Without Leaving 'Manhood
The variety of the political standpoints of governments that have initiated exempted military service for several times in Turkey is a sign of a general agreement on its legitimacy. However, Turkey is a country where conscientious objection is almost a taboo. I try to decipher the assumptions behind what is (il)legitimate, and their manifestations in the sociopolitical life from a gender perspective informed by the feminist theory. I argue that w…
The student movement in Turkey: A case study of the relationship between (re)politicization and democratization
One particularly striking aspect of the global waves of social movements is the increasing politicization of youth, including students. Taking this as its starting point, this article discusses what the politicization of youth could mean for democracy and democratization in Turkey. This is important because, especially since 2011, Turkish politics has been dominated by debates concerning authoritarianization. Focusing on the largest student organ…
On the construction of identities: An autoethnography from Turkey
In this article I analyze, on the basis of my personal experience, the discontents of contemporary Turkish politics; more specifically, neoliberal conservative hegemony, and its three manifestations: stability of instability; a religio-conservative gender regime; and anti-intellectualism. I illustrate how these manifestations are intertwined in the process of identity construction: how an individual’s identity as a citizen, as a woman, as an acad…
Heroes, villains and celebritisation of politics: Hegemony, populism and anti-intellectualism in Turkey
This article analyses the rising tides of celebrity politics in Turkey by contextualising it within the changing dynamics of Turkish politics during the last decade. More specifically, it tries to understand the fault lines of celebritisation of politics with reference to the installation and re-installation of the neoliberal conservative hegemony. Celebrity politics in Turkey has acquired a unique character within a political environment where t…
Göçmen Kadının Öznelliği Tartışması Üzerine
Özellikle feminist bir bakışla kadın araştırmacılar tarafından gerçekleştirilen çalışmalarda hem kadın göçmenlerin deneyimlerinin özgünlüğünden söz etmenin kaçınılmazlığı ve vazgeçilmezliği hem de bunun ‘ötekileştirme’ tuzağına düşmeden yapılması konusunda azami dikkat gösterme çabası vurgulanmaktadır. Bu nedenle, bu yaklaşımla yapılan çalışmalarda özne, öznellik ve göçmen kadının özne olma hali gibi kavramlara dair tartışmalar son yıllarda gider…
Dissident women’s organizations as a counter-hegemonic actor in Turkey
Could the Turkish women’s movement, which has a strong reaction mechanism, be a constituent actor of counter-hegemony? The main reasons behind this question are the women’s movement’s deep-rooted history and its openness to combine theory with practice/action. When looked from the Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclau’s perspective of radical democracy theory, the women’s movement appears to have a considerable potential of deciphering the existing h…
Once there was and once there wasn’t: The tale of intellectuals and the state in Turkey
This article presents a taxonomy of various conceptions of the intellectual and then analyses the changing official discourse on intellectuals in Turkey with reference to this taxonomy. The taxonomy developed here is an original contribution to the existing literature on intellectuals. It distinguishes six conceptions of the intellectual: (i) as the gadfly and the gift of god, (ii) as the philosopher, (iii) as parrhesiastes, (iv) as the activist,…
The weak link in the chain: The (surprisingly) loose ties between migrant women and women’s organizations in Turkey
This article examines the fragmented solidarities between women’s organizations and Syrian migrant women in Turkey, focusing on İstanbul, Gaziantep, and İzmir, the cities with the highest concentrations of Syrian migrants. Drawing on semi-structured interviews conducted with representatives from 25 women’s organizations, the study investigates why feminist solidarity has remained elusive despite the shared gendered vulnerabilities of migrant wome…
Political science (12 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Hegemony (8 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Democracy (5 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (5 works)