Nazlı Konya
Biographic Data
| ID | 4375923 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nazlı Konya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nazlı |
| FAMILY NAME | Konya |
| SIGNATURE | KONYA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colby College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3795-6909 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Universities as Laboratories of Democratic Action
Amid global assaults on higher education, this reflection analyzes a video performance created by Boğaziçi University (Istanbul, Turkey) students during widespread protests against President Erdoğan’s appointment of a loyalist as rector in 2021. Although it disputes the appointment and the subsequent crackdown on campus protest, the performance more directly responds to the punitive and vilifying reaction of the university administration and the …
Prison abolition
Prison abolition and political theoryCriminalization, militarized policing, and imprisonment are at the heart of the Trump regime.In line with the 2024 campaign promise to conduct the largest deportation program in U.S. history, undocumented immigrants have been the first and most vulnerable targets of attack.Immigration detention is at an all-time high due to escalating arrests by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and th…
Joyful Warriors”
This article investigates right-wing parental activism in terms of its structure of feeling—proactive victimhood and pride in collective agency—manifested in contemporary political experience in the United States. Thinking with and beyond scholars of public emotions, including Raymond Williams, Sara Ahmed, and Lauren Berlant, it argues that the affective economy of the parents’ movement, emerging at the intersections of from-below mobilizations a…
Roundtable on Kaan Ağartan’s Gezi
Making a People
This article investigates a surplus quality that a “politics out of doors” embodies. It argues that forms of mass appearance and protest manifest an aesthetic and affective making of a people—a people that enjoys its togetherness through visualized, vocalized, and performative expressions of its presence. Generating and generated by a collective desire, this figure of a people exceeds “the people” understood as a legally authorizing and legitimat…
Breaking billboards
Making a People
This article investigates a surplus quality that a “politics out of doors” embodies. It argues that forms of mass appearance and protest manifest an aesthetic and affective making of a people—a people that enjoys its togetherness through visualized, vocalized, and performative expressions of its presence. Generating and generated by a collective desire, this figure of a people exceeds “the people” understood as a legally authorizing and legitimat…
Breaking billboards
Making a People
This article investigates a surplus quality that a “politics out of doors” embodies. It argues that forms of mass appearance and protest manifest an aesthetic and affective making of a people—a people that enjoys its togetherness through visualized, vocalized, and performative expressions of its presence. Generating and generated by a collective desire, this figure of a people exceeds “the people” understood as a legally authorizing and legitimat…
Breaking billboards
Joyful Warriors”
This article investigates right-wing parental activism in terms of its structure of feeling—proactive victimhood and pride in collective agency—manifested in contemporary political experience in the United States. Thinking with and beyond scholars of public emotions, including Raymond Williams, Sara Ahmed, and Lauren Berlant, it argues that the affective economy of the parents’ movement, emerging at the intersections of from-below mobilizations a…
Roundtable on Kaan Ağartan’s Gezi
Universities as Laboratories of Democratic Action
Amid global assaults on higher education, this reflection analyzes a video performance created by Boğaziçi University (Istanbul, Turkey) students during widespread protests against President Erdoğan’s appointment of a loyalist as rector in 2021. Although it disputes the appointment and the subsequent crackdown on campus protest, the performance more directly responds to the punitive and vilifying reaction of the university administration and the …
Prison abolition
Prison abolition and political theoryCriminalization, militarized policing, and imprisonment are at the heart of the Trump regime.In line with the 2024 campaign promise to conduct the largest deportation program in U.S. history, undocumented immigrants have been the first and most vulnerable targets of attack.Immigration detention is at an all-time high due to escalating arrests by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and th…
Politics (5 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Conversation (2 works) · Democracy (2 works) · Media studies (2 works)