Uygar Baspehlivan
Biographic Data
| ID | 308786 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Uygar Baspehlivan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Uygar |
| FAMILY NAME | Baspehlivan |
| SIGNATURE | BASPEHLIVAN U |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2261-8130 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Forum
This forum critically examines humour’s rising significance in International Relations (IR). It blends interdisciplinary insights to explore how humour shapes political realities, mediates conflict and engages audiences in a mediatised era. Four key themes emerge: humour’s impact on political identities and ontological security, evident, for instance, in the Danish Cartoon Crisis and far-right memes; its strategic deployment in digital diplomacy …
Ordinary affects of global reactionary politics
Emotions and affect have long been a topic of interest to those studying the global circulations of reactionary, far-right and/or fascist politics and political sensibilities. Studies that focus on how political parties, organisations, institutions and media bodies articulate these politics by mobilising emotions such as fear, anxiety and resentment are plenty. However, there is still too little attention paid to the ways in which micro, banal an…
Theorising the memescape
Despite the increasing centrality of Internet memes for everyday political circulations and practices, their emergent implications as low-cultural artefacts of global politics have received little theoretical attention. In this article, I develop a critical theory of memes to provide a conceptual apparatus to understand the global political implications and possibilities of this pop-cultural phenomenon. I argue that, in order to attend to the eme…
Disciplinary Seriousness in International Relations
International Relations is a discipline that takes itself seriously. What functions does this posture of seriousness serve? What is at stake in its maintenance and reproduction? And what ways of knowing, understanding, and performing politics are marginalized as a result? This article addresses these questions, drawing on feminist theory in order to show how the discipline’s performances of seriousness have served to exclude particular ways of be…
Cucktales
This article makes a critical contribution to the study of digital reactionary movements by tracing the resonant circulation of 'the cuck' memes across various levels of racialized and gendered subjectivity. It argues that the cuck meme resonates through composing an affective narrative of deferred and stolen enjoyment at the intersection of personal, social, and international politics. It follows the meme's digital movements across pornographic …
Repeat after me
“Children are our future”. This is the dominant understanding of childhood we have today. The child, is an investment in the future. The investment that will yield the nation, the economy and the world with the continuity that it wants and requires. The future is secured by the child. This investment, however, is never secure. In fact, the investment in the child is often also a cause of debilitating insecurity. The child is feared, worried about…
Theorising the memescape
Despite the increasing centrality of Internet memes for everyday political circulations and practices, their emergent implications as low-cultural artefacts of global politics have received little theoretical attention. In this article, I develop a critical theory of memes to provide a conceptual apparatus to understand the global political implications and possibilities of this pop-cultural phenomenon. I argue that, in order to attend to the eme…
Disciplinary Seriousness in International Relations
International Relations is a discipline that takes itself seriously. What functions does this posture of seriousness serve? What is at stake in its maintenance and reproduction? And what ways of knowing, understanding, and performing politics are marginalized as a result? This article addresses these questions, drawing on feminist theory in order to show how the discipline’s performances of seriousness have served to exclude particular ways of be…
Cucktales
This article makes a critical contribution to the study of digital reactionary movements by tracing the resonant circulation of 'the cuck' memes across various levels of racialized and gendered subjectivity. It argues that the cuck meme resonates through composing an affective narrative of deferred and stolen enjoyment at the intersection of personal, social, and international politics. It follows the meme's digital movements across pornographic …
Repeat after me
“Children are our future”. This is the dominant understanding of childhood we have today. The child, is an investment in the future. The investment that will yield the nation, the economy and the world with the continuity that it wants and requires. The future is secured by the child. This investment, however, is never secure. In fact, the investment in the child is often also a cause of debilitating insecurity. The child is feared, worried about…
Repeat after me
“Children are our future”. This is the dominant understanding of childhood we have today. The child, is an investment in the future. The investment that will yield the nation, the economy and the world with the continuity that it wants and requires. The future is secured by the child. This investment, however, is never secure. In fact, the investment in the child is often also a cause of debilitating insecurity. The child is feared, worried about…
Theorising the memescape
Despite the increasing centrality of Internet memes for everyday political circulations and practices, their emergent implications as low-cultural artefacts of global politics have received little theoretical attention. In this article, I develop a critical theory of memes to provide a conceptual apparatus to understand the global political implications and possibilities of this pop-cultural phenomenon. I argue that, in order to attend to the eme…
Disciplinary Seriousness in International Relations
International Relations is a discipline that takes itself seriously. What functions does this posture of seriousness serve? What is at stake in its maintenance and reproduction? And what ways of knowing, understanding, and performing politics are marginalized as a result? This article addresses these questions, drawing on feminist theory in order to show how the discipline’s performances of seriousness have served to exclude particular ways of be…
Cucktales
This article makes a critical contribution to the study of digital reactionary movements by tracing the resonant circulation of 'the cuck' memes across various levels of racialized and gendered subjectivity. It argues that the cuck meme resonates through composing an affective narrative of deferred and stolen enjoyment at the intersection of personal, social, and international politics. It follows the meme's digital movements across pornographic …
Ordinary affects of global reactionary politics
Emotions and affect have long been a topic of interest to those studying the global circulations of reactionary, far-right and/or fascist politics and political sensibilities. Studies that focus on how political parties, organisations, institutions and media bodies articulate these politics by mobilising emotions such as fear, anxiety and resentment are plenty. However, there is still too little attention paid to the ways in which micro, banal an…
Forum
This forum critically examines humour’s rising significance in International Relations (IR). It blends interdisciplinary insights to explore how humour shapes political realities, mediates conflict and engages audiences in a mediatised era. Four key themes emerge: humour’s impact on political identities and ontological security, evident, for instance, in the Danish Cartoon Crisis and far-right memes; its strategic deployment in digital diplomacy …
Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Digital Games and Media (2 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (2 works) · Global Security and Public Health (2 works) · Humor Studies and Applications (2 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (2 works) · Law (2 works)