Zeynep Gülru Göker
Biographic Data
| ID | 4121256 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zeynep Gülru Göker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zeynep Gülru |
| FAMILY NAME | Göker |
| SIGNATURE | GÖKER Z G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sabancı Üniversitesi |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4324-7292 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Between Coping, Co-optation, and Resistance: Strategies of (En)Countering Anti-gender Challenges in Local Governance in the Context of Democratic Backsliding
The article explores the strategies employed by gender equality proponents in local governance in Turkey, who confront numerous obstacles to their work in a context of anti-gender politics and democratic backsliding. An analysis of interviews with gender experts, their key allies, and municipal and city council members in fourteen municipalities in seven cities reveals that gender experts flexibly use operational, knowledge, and engagement strate…
Collective resilience and resistance in hybrid times: Gender struggles in Germany, Turkey and Sweden
In activist circles, the concept of resilience seems to have captured the spotlight once enjoyed by resistance. Instead of treating resilience as antithetical to resistance, and a discursive neoliberal vehicle that seeks individual solutions to collective problems, this article demonstrates its relationality to resistance in the context of online/offline struggles of feminist and LGBTI + activists challenged by mobilizations against gender and se…
The quest for gender equality in universities at the crossroads of neoliberal and anti-gender pressures: The case of Turkey
In Turkey, the quest for gender equality in universities takes place under increasing anti-gender, authoritarian and neoliberal pressures. Based on interviews with academic change agents, this article explores gender equality efforts in different universities presented in the form of typology: project-led, collective and individual-led change. It suggests that change processes are context-bound, yet they face similar challenges in securing inclus…
Women’s dialogic encounters: Agonistic listening and emotions in multiple-identity conflicts
Using data collected from a dialogue meeting in Turkey of 19 women participants with different ideological orientations, ethnicities and sects, as well as 10 in-depth follow-up interviews, this article explores the dynamics of listening and emotions in dialogue in multiple-identity conflicts. Considering listening as an important component of agonistic peace, the article aims to understand the conditions that help or hinder listening and one’s pe…
Demokrasi̇yi̇ Uygulayarak Öğrenme: Müzakere, Katilim Ve Toplumsal Ci̇nsi̇yet
Günümüzde müzakereci demokrasiye ilgi gerek kuram gerek uygulama düzeyinde artmıştır. Çeşitli boyut ve ölçekte vatandaş katılımı ve müzakereleri tasarlanmakta ve uygulanmakta, bu süreçler ampirik araştırmalara tabi tutulmaktadır. Normatif temelleri sabit kalmakla birlikte, müzakereci demokrasi kendisine yöneltilen eleştirileri ciddiye alarak gelişmiş ve disiplinlerarası çalışmalara yön vermiştir. Ancak siyaset felsefesi içerisinde müzakereci demo…
Women's perceptions on peace and justice: The case of the Kurdish issue in Turkey
Dialogue in polarized societies: Women’s Encounters With Multiple Others
Based on the analysis of a meeting with nineteen women from civil society with diverse backgrounds, invited to discuss what has gone wrong in Turkey’s Kurdish peace process and what women can do for peace in a highly polarized atmosphere, this article explores women’s dialogue in a conflict situation. With insights from deliberative and agonistic perspectives, the article shows that in a multiple-identity conflict, topical shifts in dialogue are …
Elif M. Babül. Bureaucratic Intimacies: Translating Human Rights in Turkey
The American passport in Turkey: National citizenship in the age of transnationalism
The American Passport in Turkey is described by the authors as a study of U.S. citizenship outside the borders of the United States. With insights from citizenship and migration studies and debates
Memories, stories and deliberation: Digital sisterhood on feminist websites in Turkey
Based on content analysis and in-depth interviews with the editors of 5Harfliler, Catlak Zemin and Recel-blog, popular pro-feminist women’s websites in Turkey, this article shows that these websites constitute important projects in feminist memory work in two ways: (1) explicitly, by commemorating women in history, the gains of the women’s movement in Turkey, and by archiving misogynist policies and gender unequal legislation; (2) implicitly, in …
Whither feminist alliance? Secular feminists and Islamist women in Turkey
The women’s movement has become increasingly entangled with the “secularism versus Islamism” debate in today’s Turkey. While secular feminists believe that escalating authoritarianism and Islamic revivalism threaten gender equality and the gains of the women’s rights movement, Islamist women contest the “western/secular” ideal of gender equality on account of its being antithetical to the Islamic canon. The mutual marginalization by feminists and…
Going large scale: The Polling Conference process for participatory constitution making in Turkey
This paper narrates the story of large-scale, nation-wide intervention for participatory constitution making in Turkey. The process of democratic involvement in the making of Turkey’s new Constitution has been an action research engagement since 2007 for the authors of this paper. In due process, a deliberative democracy-inspired large-scale conferencing, i.e., the Polling Conference [ Tarama Konferansı], was designed. Ordinary, unaffiliated citi…
Whither feminist alliance? Secular feminists and Islamist women in Turkey
The women’s movement has become increasingly entangled with the “secularism versus Islamism” debate in today’s Turkey. While secular feminists believe that escalating authoritarianism and Islamic revivalism threaten gender equality and the gains of the women’s rights movement, Islamist women contest the “western/secular” ideal of gender equality on account of its being antithetical to the Islamic canon. The mutual marginalization by feminists and…
Memories, stories and deliberation: Digital sisterhood on feminist websites in Turkey
Based on content analysis and in-depth interviews with the editors of 5Harfliler, Catlak Zemin and Recel-blog, popular pro-feminist women’s websites in Turkey, this article shows that these websites constitute important projects in feminist memory work in two ways: (1) explicitly, by commemorating women in history, the gains of the women’s movement in Turkey, and by archiving misogynist policies and gender unequal legislation; (2) implicitly, in …
Collective resilience and resistance in hybrid times: Gender struggles in Germany, Turkey and Sweden
In activist circles, the concept of resilience seems to have captured the spotlight once enjoyed by resistance. Instead of treating resilience as antithetical to resistance, and a discursive neoliberal vehicle that seeks individual solutions to collective problems, this article demonstrates its relationality to resistance in the context of online/offline struggles of feminist and LGBTI + activists challenged by mobilizations against gender and se…
Dialogue in polarized societies: Women’s Encounters With Multiple Others
Based on the analysis of a meeting with nineteen women from civil society with diverse backgrounds, invited to discuss what has gone wrong in Turkey’s Kurdish peace process and what women can do for peace in a highly polarized atmosphere, this article explores women’s dialogue in a conflict situation. With insights from deliberative and agonistic perspectives, the article shows that in a multiple-identity conflict, topical shifts in dialogue are …
Going large scale: The Polling Conference process for participatory constitution making in Turkey
This paper narrates the story of large-scale, nation-wide intervention for participatory constitution making in Turkey. The process of democratic involvement in the making of Turkey’s new Constitution has been an action research engagement since 2007 for the authors of this paper. In due process, a deliberative democracy-inspired large-scale conferencing, i.e., the Polling Conference [ Tarama Konferansı], was designed. Ordinary, unaffiliated citi…
Women’s dialogic encounters: Agonistic listening and emotions in multiple-identity conflicts
Using data collected from a dialogue meeting in Turkey of 19 women participants with different ideological orientations, ethnicities and sects, as well as 10 in-depth follow-up interviews, this article explores the dynamics of listening and emotions in dialogue in multiple-identity conflicts. Considering listening as an important component of agonistic peace, the article aims to understand the conditions that help or hinder listening and one’s pe…
The quest for gender equality in universities at the crossroads of neoliberal and anti-gender pressures: The case of Turkey
In Turkey, the quest for gender equality in universities takes place under increasing anti-gender, authoritarian and neoliberal pressures. Based on interviews with academic change agents, this article explores gender equality efforts in different universities presented in the form of typology: project-led, collective and individual-led change. It suggests that change processes are context-bound, yet they face similar challenges in securing inclus…
Going large scale: The Polling Conference process for participatory constitution making in Turkey
This paper narrates the story of large-scale, nation-wide intervention for participatory constitution making in Turkey. The process of democratic involvement in the making of Turkey’s new Constitution has been an action research engagement since 2007 for the authors of this paper. In due process, a deliberative democracy-inspired large-scale conferencing, i.e., the Polling Conference [ Tarama Konferansı], was designed. Ordinary, unaffiliated citi…
Whither feminist alliance? Secular feminists and Islamist women in Turkey
The women’s movement has become increasingly entangled with the “secularism versus Islamism” debate in today’s Turkey. While secular feminists believe that escalating authoritarianism and Islamic revivalism threaten gender equality and the gains of the women’s rights movement, Islamist women contest the “western/secular” ideal of gender equality on account of its being antithetical to the Islamic canon. The mutual marginalization by feminists and…
Memories, stories and deliberation: Digital sisterhood on feminist websites in Turkey
Based on content analysis and in-depth interviews with the editors of 5Harfliler, Catlak Zemin and Recel-blog, popular pro-feminist women’s websites in Turkey, this article shows that these websites constitute important projects in feminist memory work in two ways: (1) explicitly, by commemorating women in history, the gains of the women’s movement in Turkey, and by archiving misogynist policies and gender unequal legislation; (2) implicitly, in …
Elif M. Babül. Bureaucratic Intimacies: Translating Human Rights in Turkey
The American passport in Turkey: National citizenship in the age of transnationalism
The American Passport in Turkey is described by the authors as a study of U.S. citizenship outside the borders of the United States. With insights from citizenship and migration studies and debates
Demokrasi̇yi̇ Uygulayarak Öğrenme: Müzakere, Katilim Ve Toplumsal Ci̇nsi̇yet
Günümüzde müzakereci demokrasiye ilgi gerek kuram gerek uygulama düzeyinde artmıştır. Çeşitli boyut ve ölçekte vatandaş katılımı ve müzakereleri tasarlanmakta ve uygulanmakta, bu süreçler ampirik araştırmalara tabi tutulmaktadır. Normatif temelleri sabit kalmakla birlikte, müzakereci demokrasi kendisine yöneltilen eleştirileri ciddiye alarak gelişmiş ve disiplinlerarası çalışmalara yön vermiştir. Ancak siyaset felsefesi içerisinde müzakereci demo…
Women's perceptions on peace and justice: The case of the Kurdish issue in Turkey
Dialogue in polarized societies: Women’s Encounters With Multiple Others
Based on the analysis of a meeting with nineteen women from civil society with diverse backgrounds, invited to discuss what has gone wrong in Turkey’s Kurdish peace process and what women can do for peace in a highly polarized atmosphere, this article explores women’s dialogue in a conflict situation. With insights from deliberative and agonistic perspectives, the article shows that in a multiple-identity conflict, topical shifts in dialogue are …
The quest for gender equality in universities at the crossroads of neoliberal and anti-gender pressures: The case of Turkey
In Turkey, the quest for gender equality in universities takes place under increasing anti-gender, authoritarian and neoliberal pressures. Based on interviews with academic change agents, this article explores gender equality efforts in different universities presented in the form of typology: project-led, collective and individual-led change. It suggests that change processes are context-bound, yet they face similar challenges in securing inclus…
Women’s dialogic encounters: Agonistic listening and emotions in multiple-identity conflicts
Using data collected from a dialogue meeting in Turkey of 19 women participants with different ideological orientations, ethnicities and sects, as well as 10 in-depth follow-up interviews, this article explores the dynamics of listening and emotions in dialogue in multiple-identity conflicts. Considering listening as an important component of agonistic peace, the article aims to understand the conditions that help or hinder listening and one’s pe…
Collective resilience and resistance in hybrid times: Gender struggles in Germany, Turkey and Sweden
In activist circles, the concept of resilience seems to have captured the spotlight once enjoyed by resistance. Instead of treating resilience as antithetical to resistance, and a discursive neoliberal vehicle that seeks individual solutions to collective problems, this article demonstrates its relationality to resistance in the context of online/offline struggles of feminist and LGBTI + activists challenged by mobilizations against gender and se…
Between Coping, Co-optation, and Resistance: Strategies of (En)Countering Anti-gender Challenges in Local Governance in the Context of Democratic Backsliding
The article explores the strategies employed by gender equality proponents in local governance in Turkey, who confront numerous obstacles to their work in a context of anti-gender politics and democratic backsliding. An analysis of interviews with gender experts, their key allies, and municipal and city council members in fourteen municipalities in seven cities reveals that gender experts flexibly use operational, knowledge, and engagement strate…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (9 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Context (archaeology (5 works)