Begüm Adalet
Biographic Data
| ID | 378253 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Begüm Adalet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Begüm |
| FAMILY NAME | Adalet |
| SIGNATURE | ADALET B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0910-1548 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
An Insurgent Mood: Lorraine Hansberry on the Politics of Home
This article takes as its starting point a 1961 conversation between James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry, where the latter first posed the question that would recur in Baldwin's writings in the following years: "Is it necessary to integrate oneself into a burning house?" Although the phrase is often associated with Baldwin, who mostly used it as a metaphor for the racist nation, most famously in The Fire Next Time (1963), this article shows how …
An Empire of Development: American Political Thought in Transnational Perspective
This article offers a reconceptualization of US empire by foregrounding a central concept of its theory and practice: development, an ideology and attendant set of material practices that purport to uplift a defined population through political, economic, and social interventions. Because developmental ideology promises benefits and allocates specific roles to different groups, it has worked as a racializing technology, not only defining and assi…
Introduction: Toward a Radical International Thought
Bringing together political theorists of empire with critical scholars of international relations who have interrogated the methodological nationalism (indeed the fetish of the nation-state) of their disciplines, this special issue examines the multifaceted dimensions (including political, ideological, and psycho-affective) of a radical international thought. Going beyond articulations of anti-colonial struggle at the national level, the issue ch…
W. E. B. Du Bois and transnational cosmopolitanism: A conversation
Infrastructures of Decolonization: Scales of Worldmaking in the Writings of Frantz Fanon
Political theorists are increasingly drawn to the recovery of anticolonial thinkers as global figures. Frantz Fanon is largely excluded from these discussions because of his presumed commitment to the nation-state and its territorialist assumptions. This essay claims, by contrast, that Fanon’s writings reveal an alternative way of thinking about worldmaking, less as a question of political and economic institution-building spearheaded by leaders …
Erupting Out of the “Zone of Non-Being: The Cunning of Solidarity
Critical remarks on Geo Maher's Anticolonial Eruptions (2022
Agricultural infrastructures: Land, race, and statecraft in Turkey
This article argues that biopolitical infrastructures have been central features of Turkey's ongoing colonization of Kurdish territories and populations and that the Green Revolution, despite its promise of progress and abundance, needs to be understood as part of this history of racialized state-making. In doing so, it joins recent literature that uncovers the local roots of the Green Revolution in domestic politics and land struggles in the glo…
Transnational Constructions of Social Scientific Personae during the Cold War: The Case of Comparative Politics
A li E rken . America and the Making of Modern Turkey: Science, Culture and Political Alliances
Ali Erken’s America and the Making of Modern Turkey: Science, Culture and Political Alliances is an important and timely addition to the growing literature on Turkish-American relations that goes beyond diplomatic history. Drawing on the records of the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations, which became active in Turkey in 1923 and the 1950s respectively, Erken compellingly demonstrates U.S. foundations’ role in shaping knowledge production and expert…
Response to Calvert W. Jones’s review of Hotels and Highways: The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey
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Tensions, Terrors, Tenderness
This article assesses James Baldwin’s status as a symbol of third world solidarity by situating his nonfiction writings in the context of his travels to France, Turkey, Israel, and West Africa, as well as the Cold War institutions and ideologies that shaped the contours of his internationalism. Adalet suggests a reading of Baldwin as a comparative thinker who increasingly abandoned an imperial framework of comparison in favor of a more fluid appr…
Questions of Modernization: Coding Speech, Regulating Attitude in Survey Research
Foucauldian analyses and studies in the sociology of knowledge have provided vibrant accounts of the effects and lives of knowledge practices, yet they have been less attuned to their unexpected consequences upon reception in disparate settings. This article examines the employment of survey methodology as a means to enact modernization theory in non-Western areas during the early phases of the Cold War. An examination of the original questionnai…
Infrastructures of Decolonization: Scales of Worldmaking in the Writings of Frantz Fanon
Political theorists are increasingly drawn to the recovery of anticolonial thinkers as global figures. Frantz Fanon is largely excluded from these discussions because of his presumed commitment to the nation-state and its territorialist assumptions. This essay claims, by contrast, that Fanon’s writings reveal an alternative way of thinking about worldmaking, less as a question of political and economic institution-building spearheaded by leaders …
Agricultural infrastructures: Land, race, and statecraft in Turkey
This article argues that biopolitical infrastructures have been central features of Turkey's ongoing colonization of Kurdish territories and populations and that the Green Revolution, despite its promise of progress and abundance, needs to be understood as part of this history of racialized state-making. In doing so, it joins recent literature that uncovers the local roots of the Green Revolution in domestic politics and land struggles in the glo…
An Insurgent Mood: Lorraine Hansberry on the Politics of Home
This article takes as its starting point a 1961 conversation between James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry, where the latter first posed the question that would recur in Baldwin's writings in the following years: "Is it necessary to integrate oneself into a burning house?" Although the phrase is often associated with Baldwin, who mostly used it as a metaphor for the racist nation, most famously in The Fire Next Time (1963), this article shows how …
An Empire of Development: American Political Thought in Transnational Perspective
This article offers a reconceptualization of US empire by foregrounding a central concept of its theory and practice: development, an ideology and attendant set of material practices that purport to uplift a defined population through political, economic, and social interventions. Because developmental ideology promises benefits and allocates specific roles to different groups, it has worked as a racializing technology, not only defining and assi…
Tensions, Terrors, Tenderness
This article assesses James Baldwin’s status as a symbol of third world solidarity by situating his nonfiction writings in the context of his travels to France, Turkey, Israel, and West Africa, as well as the Cold War institutions and ideologies that shaped the contours of his internationalism. Adalet suggests a reading of Baldwin as a comparative thinker who increasingly abandoned an imperial framework of comparison in favor of a more fluid appr…
Questions of Modernization: Coding Speech, Regulating Attitude in Survey Research
Foucauldian analyses and studies in the sociology of knowledge have provided vibrant accounts of the effects and lives of knowledge practices, yet they have been less attuned to their unexpected consequences upon reception in disparate settings. This article examines the employment of survey methodology as a means to enact modernization theory in non-Western areas during the early phases of the Cold War. An examination of the original questionnai…
Questions of Modernization: Coding Speech, Regulating Attitude in Survey Research
Foucauldian analyses and studies in the sociology of knowledge have provided vibrant accounts of the effects and lives of knowledge practices, yet they have been less attuned to their unexpected consequences upon reception in disparate settings. This article examines the employment of survey methodology as a means to enact modernization theory in non-Western areas during the early phases of the Cold War. An examination of the original questionnai…
Tensions, Terrors, Tenderness
This article assesses James Baldwin’s status as a symbol of third world solidarity by situating his nonfiction writings in the context of his travels to France, Turkey, Israel, and West Africa, as well as the Cold War institutions and ideologies that shaped the contours of his internationalism. Adalet suggests a reading of Baldwin as a comparative thinker who increasingly abandoned an imperial framework of comparison in favor of a more fluid appr…
Response to Calvert W. Jones’s review of Hotels and Highways: The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A li E rken . America and the Making of Modern Turkey: Science, Culture and Political Alliances
Ali Erken’s America and the Making of Modern Turkey: Science, Culture and Political Alliances is an important and timely addition to the growing literature on Turkish-American relations that goes beyond diplomatic history. Drawing on the records of the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations, which became active in Turkey in 1923 and the 1950s respectively, Erken compellingly demonstrates U.S. foundations’ role in shaping knowledge production and expert…
Transnational Constructions of Social Scientific Personae during the Cold War: The Case of Comparative Politics
Infrastructures of Decolonization: Scales of Worldmaking in the Writings of Frantz Fanon
Political theorists are increasingly drawn to the recovery of anticolonial thinkers as global figures. Frantz Fanon is largely excluded from these discussions because of his presumed commitment to the nation-state and its territorialist assumptions. This essay claims, by contrast, that Fanon’s writings reveal an alternative way of thinking about worldmaking, less as a question of political and economic institution-building spearheaded by leaders …
Erupting Out of the “Zone of Non-Being: The Cunning of Solidarity
Critical remarks on Geo Maher's Anticolonial Eruptions (2022
Agricultural infrastructures: Land, race, and statecraft in Turkey
This article argues that biopolitical infrastructures have been central features of Turkey's ongoing colonization of Kurdish territories and populations and that the Green Revolution, despite its promise of progress and abundance, needs to be understood as part of this history of racialized state-making. In doing so, it joins recent literature that uncovers the local roots of the Green Revolution in domestic politics and land struggles in the glo…
W. E. B. Du Bois and transnational cosmopolitanism: A conversation
Introduction: Toward a Radical International Thought
Bringing together political theorists of empire with critical scholars of international relations who have interrogated the methodological nationalism (indeed the fetish of the nation-state) of their disciplines, this special issue examines the multifaceted dimensions (including political, ideological, and psycho-affective) of a radical international thought. Going beyond articulations of anti-colonial struggle at the national level, the issue ch…
An Insurgent Mood: Lorraine Hansberry on the Politics of Home
This article takes as its starting point a 1961 conversation between James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry, where the latter first posed the question that would recur in Baldwin's writings in the following years: "Is it necessary to integrate oneself into a burning house?" Although the phrase is often associated with Baldwin, who mostly used it as a metaphor for the racist nation, most famously in The Fire Next Time (1963), this article shows how …
An Empire of Development: American Political Thought in Transnational Perspective
This article offers a reconceptualization of US empire by foregrounding a central concept of its theory and practice: development, an ideology and attendant set of material practices that purport to uplift a defined population through political, economic, and social interventions. Because developmental ideology promises benefits and allocates specific roles to different groups, it has worked as a racializing technology, not only defining and assi…
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