Omer Tekdemir
Biographic Data
| ID | 4104469 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Omer Tekdemir |
| GIVEN NAMES | Omer |
| FAMILY NAME | Tekdemir |
| SIGNATURE | TEKDEMIR O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3187-3328 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The political economy of global unrest: A double reading of Polanyi and Gramsci on populism
Right-Wing Populism and Turkey’s Post-Hegemonic Populist Moment
Populism, as a mode of political logic, always has been a significant factor within Turkey’s political landscape, and it strongly is associated with right-wing political parties. The AKP’s conservative democratic populism and neo-right-wing mission arose as a sui generis governmental orientation out of the organic crisis of the Kemalist regime by articulating the collective political passion and the common affects it engenders in the populace. Th…
Constituting the Political Economy of the Kurds
Left-wing populism within horizontal and vertical politics: The case of Kurdish-led radical democracy in agonistic pluralism
In the post-political period, the Kurdish-led Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has offered a radical democratic political project by adopting a left-leaning populism to challenge the political establishment (elites) through the construction of a new concept of ‘the People’ (underdog) in a new political grammar. This article outlines the feasibility of applying Laclau’s populist discursive in analysing the notion of radical democracy, which is conc…
Jaffer Sheyholislami (2011). Kurdish Identity, Discourse, and New Media
The social construction of ‘many Kurdishnesses: Mapping sub-identities of ‘EU-ising’ Kurdish politics
Political identity is a central issue in Kurdish rights’ demands in Turkey. However, Kurdish political identity is not formed in a homogeneous context and has become a ground for a hegemonic struggle between internal groups such as Kurdish leftist/secularists, Kurdish Islamist/conservatives and Kurdish pragmatist/opportunists (‘white Kurds’). The study critically analyses the scope of mainstream Kurdishness and its different sub-identities as the…
The reappearance of Kurdish Muslims in Turkey: The articulation of religious identity in a national narrative
The Kurdish Muslim has been formed through a binary code combining attachment to the Islamic international Ummah with Kurdish local tribal (eshiri) values while Kurdish Islamic agents have been reinvigorated by an Islamic identity articulated within a Kurdish national mobilization. This inner counter-hegemonic articulation within a new antagonism has redrawn Kurdish political frontiers and Kurdish common sense. This article analyses the structure…
Peace Profile: Academics for Peace in Turkey
In 2012, a group of academics in Turkey launched an initiative called the Academics for Peace (AfP). Its foundation coincided with a hunger strike announced by Kurdish prisoners to call attention to a range of unresolved issues surrounding the Turkish–Kurdish conflict in Turkey. The group’s first petition—signed in 2012 by around 300 academics from 50 different universities—marked the beginning of a series of interventions by academics to promote…
Constructing a social space for Alevi political identity: Religion, antagonism and collective passion
This paper analyses the construction of an Alevi political identity in terms of cultural, social and religious values at a time when the role of religion is increasing in the political life of Turkey. It indicates the emergence of a new form of conflict and hegemonic articulation between Sunnism and Alevism that offers an alternative means of conflict resolution by the Alevi political agents within a radical pluralism and agonistic democracy. It …
Legal Pluralism in Action: Dispute Resolution and the Kurdish Peace Committee
Legal Pluralism in Action: Dispute Resolution and the Kurdish Peace Committee." British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 44(3), pp. 468–469
Questioning the ‘immortal state’: The Gezi protests and the short-lived human security moment in Turkey
This article has three interrelated objectives: firstly, it challenges monolithic depictions of the 2013 Gezi protests and conceptualizes the so-called ‘Spirit of Gezi’ as a highly influential—albeit temporary—power in the politics of Turkey. Secondly, it traces the success of the HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party) in the 7 June 2015 parliamentary election back to Gezi while acknowledging the roots of the party within the Kurdish political movement.…
Conflict and reconciliation between Turks and Kurds: The HDP as an agonistic actor
This paper proposes an alternative form of conflict resolution to analyze ethnic conflict and Kurdish dissent in the polarized and divided society of Turkey. It does so by employing Mouffe’s concept of agonism and radical democracy, in conjunction with Laclau’s model of populism. Through an analysis of the role of the Kurdish-led, left-leaning populist party, the People’s Democratic Party (HDP), and its approach to Turkish-Kurdish reconciliation,…
Constructing a social space for Alevi political identity: Religion, antagonism and collective passion
This paper analyses the construction of an Alevi political identity in terms of cultural, social and religious values at a time when the role of religion is increasing in the political life of Turkey. It indicates the emergence of a new form of conflict and hegemonic articulation between Sunnism and Alevism that offers an alternative means of conflict resolution by the Alevi political agents within a radical pluralism and agonistic democracy. It …
Questioning the ‘immortal state’: The Gezi protests and the short-lived human security moment in Turkey
This article has three interrelated objectives: firstly, it challenges monolithic depictions of the 2013 Gezi protests and conceptualizes the so-called ‘Spirit of Gezi’ as a highly influential—albeit temporary—power in the politics of Turkey. Secondly, it traces the success of the HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party) in the 7 June 2015 parliamentary election back to Gezi while acknowledging the roots of the party within the Kurdish political movement.…
The reappearance of Kurdish Muslims in Turkey: The articulation of religious identity in a national narrative
The Kurdish Muslim has been formed through a binary code combining attachment to the Islamic international Ummah with Kurdish local tribal (eshiri) values while Kurdish Islamic agents have been reinvigorated by an Islamic identity articulated within a Kurdish national mobilization. This inner counter-hegemonic articulation within a new antagonism has redrawn Kurdish political frontiers and Kurdish common sense. This article analyses the structure…
Peace Profile: Academics for Peace in Turkey
In 2012, a group of academics in Turkey launched an initiative called the Academics for Peace (AfP). Its foundation coincided with a hunger strike announced by Kurdish prisoners to call attention to a range of unresolved issues surrounding the Turkish–Kurdish conflict in Turkey. The group’s first petition—signed in 2012 by around 300 academics from 50 different universities—marked the beginning of a series of interventions by academics to promote…
The political economy of global unrest: A double reading of Polanyi and Gramsci on populism
The social construction of ‘many Kurdishnesses: Mapping sub-identities of ‘EU-ising’ Kurdish politics
Political identity is a central issue in Kurdish rights’ demands in Turkey. However, Kurdish political identity is not formed in a homogeneous context and has become a ground for a hegemonic struggle between internal groups such as Kurdish leftist/secularists, Kurdish Islamist/conservatives and Kurdish pragmatist/opportunists (‘white Kurds’). The study critically analyses the scope of mainstream Kurdishness and its different sub-identities as the…
Conflict and reconciliation between Turks and Kurds: The HDP as an agonistic actor
This paper proposes an alternative form of conflict resolution to analyze ethnic conflict and Kurdish dissent in the polarized and divided society of Turkey. It does so by employing Mouffe’s concept of agonism and radical democracy, in conjunction with Laclau’s model of populism. Through an analysis of the role of the Kurdish-led, left-leaning populist party, the People’s Democratic Party (HDP), and its approach to Turkish-Kurdish reconciliation,…
Constructing a social space for Alevi political identity: Religion, antagonism and collective passion
This paper analyses the construction of an Alevi political identity in terms of cultural, social and religious values at a time when the role of religion is increasing in the political life of Turkey. It indicates the emergence of a new form of conflict and hegemonic articulation between Sunnism and Alevism that offers an alternative means of conflict resolution by the Alevi political agents within a radical pluralism and agonistic democracy. It …
Legal Pluralism in Action: Dispute Resolution and the Kurdish Peace Committee
Legal Pluralism in Action: Dispute Resolution and the Kurdish Peace Committee." British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 44(3), pp. 468–469
Questioning the ‘immortal state’: The Gezi protests and the short-lived human security moment in Turkey
This article has three interrelated objectives: firstly, it challenges monolithic depictions of the 2013 Gezi protests and conceptualizes the so-called ‘Spirit of Gezi’ as a highly influential—albeit temporary—power in the politics of Turkey. Secondly, it traces the success of the HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party) in the 7 June 2015 parliamentary election back to Gezi while acknowledging the roots of the party within the Kurdish political movement.…
The reappearance of Kurdish Muslims in Turkey: The articulation of religious identity in a national narrative
The Kurdish Muslim has been formed through a binary code combining attachment to the Islamic international Ummah with Kurdish local tribal (eshiri) values while Kurdish Islamic agents have been reinvigorated by an Islamic identity articulated within a Kurdish national mobilization. This inner counter-hegemonic articulation within a new antagonism has redrawn Kurdish political frontiers and Kurdish common sense. This article analyses the structure…
Peace Profile: Academics for Peace in Turkey
In 2012, a group of academics in Turkey launched an initiative called the Academics for Peace (AfP). Its foundation coincided with a hunger strike announced by Kurdish prisoners to call attention to a range of unresolved issues surrounding the Turkish–Kurdish conflict in Turkey. The group’s first petition—signed in 2012 by around 300 academics from 50 different universities—marked the beginning of a series of interventions by academics to promote…
Left-wing populism within horizontal and vertical politics: The case of Kurdish-led radical democracy in agonistic pluralism
In the post-political period, the Kurdish-led Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has offered a radical democratic political project by adopting a left-leaning populism to challenge the political establishment (elites) through the construction of a new concept of ‘the People’ (underdog) in a new political grammar. This article outlines the feasibility of applying Laclau’s populist discursive in analysing the notion of radical democracy, which is conc…
Jaffer Sheyholislami (2011). Kurdish Identity, Discourse, and New Media
The social construction of ‘many Kurdishnesses: Mapping sub-identities of ‘EU-ising’ Kurdish politics
Political identity is a central issue in Kurdish rights’ demands in Turkey. However, Kurdish political identity is not formed in a homogeneous context and has become a ground for a hegemonic struggle between internal groups such as Kurdish leftist/secularists, Kurdish Islamist/conservatives and Kurdish pragmatist/opportunists (‘white Kurds’). The study critically analyses the scope of mainstream Kurdishness and its different sub-identities as the…
Constituting the Political Economy of the Kurds
Right-Wing Populism and Turkey’s Post-Hegemonic Populist Moment
Populism, as a mode of political logic, always has been a significant factor within Turkey’s political landscape, and it strongly is associated with right-wing political parties. The AKP’s conservative democratic populism and neo-right-wing mission arose as a sui generis governmental orientation out of the organic crisis of the Kemalist regime by articulating the collective political passion and the common affects it engenders in the populace. Th…
The political economy of global unrest: A double reading of Polanyi and Gramsci on populism
Political science (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Democracy (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)