Zelal Özdemir

Biographic Data

ID3081587
NAMEZelal Özdemir
GIVEN NAMESZelal
FAMILY NAMEÖzdemir
SIGNATUREÖZDEMIR Z
AFFILIATIONSMiddle East Technical University
ORCID0000-0002-6839-8903
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Epistemic Extraction Zones in Migration Studies: Rethinking Over‐Research and Research Fatigue Among Syrian Refugees in Turkey

    Open AccessZelal ÖzdemirARTICLESociology Compass2025References: 7

    This paper explores the phenomenon of over‐research among Syrian refugees in Turkey, highlighting how sustained and repetitive research attention has created research saturation zones that shape both refugee experiences and knowledge production. Drawing on unstructured conversations with six Syrian refugees in Ankara, the study examines how research fatigue manifests not only as reluctance to participate but also as strategic responses through wh…

  • Tracing the International Dimensions of Iranian Nationalism: The Era of Mohammad Reza Shah

    Zelal ÖzdemirARTICLEIran and the Caucasus2021

    This study explores the reconstruction of Iranian national identity during the Mohammad Reza Shah era (1953 to 1979). Drawing on materials collected from the memoirs and statements of the Shah and the key actors of the era and using Historical Sociology in International Relations as its theoretical backbone, it aims to unravel the constitutive role of the international on the formation of Iranian state nationalism. It argues that in order to unde…

  • Converging/Diverging Frames: A Case of Islamist Women’s CSOs in Turkey

    Open AccessZelal Özdemir, Asuman Özgür Keysan et al.ARTICLEfe dergi feminist ele2020

    This study examines the case of two Islamist women's CSOs, AKDER and the BKP, whose agency transformed under the combined impact of the removal of the headscarf ban and the increasing authoritarian gender climate in Turkey. Based on data garnered from interviews conducted in 2012 and 2018, it seeks to understand the frames of gender, gender equality, motherhood and work-life balance that are conceptualised by these two CSOs through the employment…

  • Civil society and state relations in Turkey: Opposing trajectories of two Islamist women’s civil society organizations

    Asuman Özgür Keysan, Zelal ÖzdemirARTICLEAsian Journal of Women s Studies2020Cited by: 4References: 14

    The Islamic women's civil society organizations (CSOs) in Turkey entered a new phase with the lifting of the headscarf ban, which had long been the focus of Islamic women’s activism against authoritarian gender policies in the country. Based on research conducted in 2012 and 2018 on two Islamist women’s CSOs that have been active here during the last two decades, AKDER (Women’s Rights Organization against Discrimination) and BKP (Capital City Wom…

  • Dynamics of exclusion and everyday bordering through Schengen visas

    Open AccessZelal Özdemir, Ayşe Güneş Ayata et al.ARTICLEPolitical Geography2018Cited by: 4References: 20

  • Comparing International Dimensions of Revolutionary Situations: The cases of Egypt 2011 and Turkey 2013

    Derya Göçer Akder, Zelal ÖzdemirARTICLEJournal of Contemporary Central…2015References: 13

    This paper will look at the lessons we can draw from recent uprisings in the Middle East with regard to the theories of revolutions. Within the wider theoretical debate of the causes, processes and outcomes of revolutions the paper will focus on the international political dimensions of the revolutionary situations as distinct from the revolutionary outcomes. The article will disentangle and conceptualize the international politics surrounding th…