Rahime Süleymanoğlu‐kürüm
Biographic Data
| ID | 4382116 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rahime Süleymanoğlu‐kürüm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rahime |
| FAMILY NAME | Süleymanoğlu‐kürüm |
| SIGNATURE | KÜRÜM R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bahçeşehir University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3735-5625 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Navigating masculinities
This article theorises masculinities as affective performances, which are shaped through the emotional labour of male academics. We explore how seemingly homogeneous masculinities fracture within Turkish academia, a numerically feminising yet male-dominated field shaped by neoliberal structuring and political polarisation. Drawing on 53 interviews with male academics and nine focus groups with 54 university students across four major Turkish citi…
Feminist epistemic justice
This introduction develops feminist epistemic justice as a framework for analysing the European Union (EU) as an epistemic order, one that does not simply regulate political life but actively constitutes the terms on which knowledge becomes legible, determines whose experience counts as evidence, and renders certain forms of harm structurally invisible. Defined here as the critical and constructive project of transforming the structural, colonial…
Academic Elite Circulation and Reconfiguration of Modernization
A feminist decolonial challenge to European Union’s gender governance
This paper critically examines the European Union’s (EU) gender equality policies through a decolonial feminist lens, focusing on how epistemic hierarchies are reproduced within the gender equality discourse of the European Parliament (EP), which presents itself as a progressive actor and moral authority on gender equality. Drawing on existing critiques of the EU’s instrumental and neoliberal approaches to gender, the paper analyses 42 texts adop…
Scalar entrapment and the multiscalar geographies of refugee (im)mobility
This article examines how refugee spatiality is governed and experienced through scalar entrapment, which we define as the recursive immobilisation of refugees through intersecting global, national, and urban regimes. Drawing on extensive fieldwork with Syrian refugees in Istanbul, we demonstrate how international containment agreements, national asylum laws, and local bordering practices co-produce spatial injustice. Using a mutiscalar and relat…
Feminising diplomatic work
While the growing representation of women in diplomacy is often celebrated, scholarship on occupational feminisation warns that feminisation can trigger a devaluation of professional work. This article focuses on two conditions identified as inhibitors of such devaluation – the overall status of the occupation and the value accorded to female labour within the occupation – and traces how these two conditions have varied over time and interacted w…
Encounters at the Edge
Policymakers often assume that interactions between host society members and immigrants will promote integration. However, scholars caution against such assumptions, considering both contact theory's optimism and group threat theory's concerns. In the present study, we examine a series of hypotheses pertaining to intergroup contact and group threat theories, utilising data collected from Istanbul, Türkiye. Ordered logistic regression models are e…
Invisible pasts, erased futures
The ongoing influx of refugees and undocumented migrants has catalysed a more profound discourse on discrimination, stigmatisation, and social exclusion. Existing scholarship often delineates these challenges, yet it frequently characterises refugees as passive victims rather than active agents in shaping their own lives. This paper seeks to bridge this conceptual void through the lens of epistemic erasure – the systemic devaluation and exclusion…
Neoliberal transformation through circulation of economic elites in times of critical junctures
While it is well-established that exogenous shocks can trigger policy changes, political elites have often been depicted as the initiators of this process. This paper adopts an elite sociology perspective, extending beyond the exclusive focus on political elites, to uncover the pathway through which critical junctures foster policy changes. It employs a case study of the economic crises in Turkey spanning from 1999 to 2001 as an illustrative exam…
The politics of co-production and inclusive deliberation in participatory research
This research engages in a methodological analysis of a participatory art project employing PhotoVoice with refugee and local community youths across two distinct sites: Istanbul and Johannesburg. The project aimed to facilitate inclusive deliberations among the youth, thereby promoting capacity building, reconciliation, and peacebuilding initiatives. Our focus is grounded in the concept of co-production as a practice and principle of inclusive d…
Capturing Women's Standpoint in EU–Turkey Studies
Starting from the ‘gender problem’ in European studies, we scrutinize the gendered knowledge production patterns in a least likely case to be gendered, EU–Turkey studies, due to the overrepresentation of women in the field and its feminine image. We utilize feminist standpoint theory and apply research synthesis and citation analysis techniques to two original datasets comprising 300 articles in 26 Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) journals, p…
Alternative modernities and epistemic struggles for recognition in Turkish media
The concept of modernity and its association with the West and secularism is being challenged with the rise of religious movements in the age of globalisation. This provides a fertile ground for alternative modernities, disconnected from the West and secularism, to surface. This paper provides a theoretical explanation for the emergence of alternative modernities by drawing on insights from epistemic injustice and recognition theory, through an a…
Political participation of refugee and host community youths
The political participation of youth is growing in importance with the proliferation of youth parliaments, councils, and online campaigning. Yet, these sites are not accessible to all youth, especially those from minority, or refugee communities. Activism by these types of youth is often denounced or reduced to dehumanising narratives of their experiences. This paper aims to explore alternative spaces for and political participation of refugees t…
From Female Masculinity to Hegemonic Femininity
This article analyses the gender performances of Turkish women diplomats through in-depth interviews. Building on Morison and MacLeod’s performance-performativity approach, we highlight the need to take into account the different meanings and significance of gender performances under different political and social conditions. We find that a shift and the diversification of gender performances are under way among Turkish women diplomats, from fema…
In Search of Epistemic Justice in the EU’s Periphery
As relations between the European Union (EU) and Turkey have progressed, so has the body of literature on the relationship – to the extent that we can now identify ‘EU–Turkey studies’ as a boutique sub-discipline of EU studies. This article provides a systematic mapping of the evolution of EU–Turkey studies from 1996 to 2020 in order to explore the degree of epistemic diversity featured in the discipline as an indicator of epistemic (in)justice. …
The Sociology of Diplomats and Foreign Policy Sector
This paper studies the sociology of elites and the role of cliques on the foreign policy-making process through an exploratory case study of Turkish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. It identifies elite sociology as the independent variable triggering a policy-making process in the Turkish Ministry for Foreign Affairs in line with organisational process or governmental politic approaches. It shows that until the 1980s, the Turkish Ministry for Foreig…
Brand Turkey
Since the 2000s, Turkish policymakers and private sector interests have combined representations of Turkey as both Western and Eastern with a branding approach to identity in foreign policy, trade and investment promotion, and cultural sector activities. This article analyses how the commodification of its liminal identity as a dual identity allowed Turkey to invoke different aspects of its identity in the West and the East in ways that catered t…
Deliberations in the Turkish parliament
Parliamentarians find themselves engaged in political struggle through the medium of language and constrained by their own rhetoric. These parliamentary debates reveal political perceptions. The external perceptions about the European Union emerge as a relatively understudied topic in political science. This brings forth the following question; how is the European Union and its foreign policy perceived externally? This paper focuses on one partic…
European Foreign and Security Policy in the Making
This article critically reviews and analyses the books listed below. The works reviewed provide an overview of the state of the art in the academic literature on the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CSFP). Bearing their original contributions in mind, the themes standing out in the review do not dramatically depart from the ones that have repeatedly been placed under the microscope of scholars. This article argues that the EU is still an …
Brand Turkey
Since the 2000s, Turkish policymakers and private sector interests have combined representations of Turkey as both Western and Eastern with a branding approach to identity in foreign policy, trade and investment promotion, and cultural sector activities. This article analyses how the commodification of its liminal identity as a dual identity allowed Turkey to invoke different aspects of its identity in the West and the East in ways that catered t…
The Sociology of Diplomats and Foreign Policy Sector
This paper studies the sociology of elites and the role of cliques on the foreign policy-making process through an exploratory case study of Turkish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. It identifies elite sociology as the independent variable triggering a policy-making process in the Turkish Ministry for Foreign Affairs in line with organisational process or governmental politic approaches. It shows that until the 1980s, the Turkish Ministry for Foreig…
Political participation of refugee and host community youths
The political participation of youth is growing in importance with the proliferation of youth parliaments, councils, and online campaigning. Yet, these sites are not accessible to all youth, especially those from minority, or refugee communities. Activism by these types of youth is often denounced or reduced to dehumanising narratives of their experiences. This paper aims to explore alternative spaces for and political participation of refugees t…
Encounters at the Edge
Policymakers often assume that interactions between host society members and immigrants will promote integration. However, scholars caution against such assumptions, considering both contact theory's optimism and group threat theory's concerns. In the present study, we examine a series of hypotheses pertaining to intergroup contact and group threat theories, utilising data collected from Istanbul, Türkiye. Ordered logistic regression models are e…
Invisible pasts, erased futures
The ongoing influx of refugees and undocumented migrants has catalysed a more profound discourse on discrimination, stigmatisation, and social exclusion. Existing scholarship often delineates these challenges, yet it frequently characterises refugees as passive victims rather than active agents in shaping their own lives. This paper seeks to bridge this conceptual void through the lens of epistemic erasure – the systemic devaluation and exclusion…
Capturing Women's Standpoint in EU–Turkey Studies
Starting from the ‘gender problem’ in European studies, we scrutinize the gendered knowledge production patterns in a least likely case to be gendered, EU–Turkey studies, due to the overrepresentation of women in the field and its feminine image. We utilize feminist standpoint theory and apply research synthesis and citation analysis techniques to two original datasets comprising 300 articles in 26 Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) journals, p…
From Female Masculinity to Hegemonic Femininity
This article analyses the gender performances of Turkish women diplomats through in-depth interviews. Building on Morison and MacLeod’s performance-performativity approach, we highlight the need to take into account the different meanings and significance of gender performances under different political and social conditions. We find that a shift and the diversification of gender performances are under way among Turkish women diplomats, from fema…
In Search of Epistemic Justice in the EU’s Periphery
As relations between the European Union (EU) and Turkey have progressed, so has the body of literature on the relationship – to the extent that we can now identify ‘EU–Turkey studies’ as a boutique sub-discipline of EU studies. This article provides a systematic mapping of the evolution of EU–Turkey studies from 1996 to 2020 in order to explore the degree of epistemic diversity featured in the discipline as an indicator of epistemic (in)justice. …
Alternative modernities and epistemic struggles for recognition in Turkish media
The concept of modernity and its association with the West and secularism is being challenged with the rise of religious movements in the age of globalisation. This provides a fertile ground for alternative modernities, disconnected from the West and secularism, to surface. This paper provides a theoretical explanation for the emergence of alternative modernities by drawing on insights from epistemic injustice and recognition theory, through an a…
Deliberations in the Turkish parliament
Parliamentarians find themselves engaged in political struggle through the medium of language and constrained by their own rhetoric. These parliamentary debates reveal political perceptions. The external perceptions about the European Union emerge as a relatively understudied topic in political science. This brings forth the following question; how is the European Union and its foreign policy perceived externally? This paper focuses on one partic…
European Foreign and Security Policy in the Making
This article critically reviews and analyses the books listed below. The works reviewed provide an overview of the state of the art in the academic literature on the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CSFP). Bearing their original contributions in mind, the themes standing out in the review do not dramatically depart from the ones that have repeatedly been placed under the microscope of scholars. This article argues that the EU is still an …
Deliberations in the Turkish parliament
Parliamentarians find themselves engaged in political struggle through the medium of language and constrained by their own rhetoric. These parliamentary debates reveal political perceptions. The external perceptions about the European Union emerge as a relatively understudied topic in political science. This brings forth the following question; how is the European Union and its foreign policy perceived externally? This paper focuses on one partic…
Brand Turkey
Since the 2000s, Turkish policymakers and private sector interests have combined representations of Turkey as both Western and Eastern with a branding approach to identity in foreign policy, trade and investment promotion, and cultural sector activities. This article analyses how the commodification of its liminal identity as a dual identity allowed Turkey to invoke different aspects of its identity in the West and the East in ways that catered t…
The Sociology of Diplomats and Foreign Policy Sector
This paper studies the sociology of elites and the role of cliques on the foreign policy-making process through an exploratory case study of Turkish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. It identifies elite sociology as the independent variable triggering a policy-making process in the Turkish Ministry for Foreign Affairs in line with organisational process or governmental politic approaches. It shows that until the 1980s, the Turkish Ministry for Foreig…
From Female Masculinity to Hegemonic Femininity
This article analyses the gender performances of Turkish women diplomats through in-depth interviews. Building on Morison and MacLeod’s performance-performativity approach, we highlight the need to take into account the different meanings and significance of gender performances under different political and social conditions. We find that a shift and the diversification of gender performances are under way among Turkish women diplomats, from fema…
In Search of Epistemic Justice in the EU’s Periphery
As relations between the European Union (EU) and Turkey have progressed, so has the body of literature on the relationship – to the extent that we can now identify ‘EU–Turkey studies’ as a boutique sub-discipline of EU studies. This article provides a systematic mapping of the evolution of EU–Turkey studies from 1996 to 2020 in order to explore the degree of epistemic diversity featured in the discipline as an indicator of epistemic (in)justice. …
Alternative modernities and epistemic struggles for recognition in Turkish media
The concept of modernity and its association with the West and secularism is being challenged with the rise of religious movements in the age of globalisation. This provides a fertile ground for alternative modernities, disconnected from the West and secularism, to surface. This paper provides a theoretical explanation for the emergence of alternative modernities by drawing on insights from epistemic injustice and recognition theory, through an a…
Political participation of refugee and host community youths
The political participation of youth is growing in importance with the proliferation of youth parliaments, councils, and online campaigning. Yet, these sites are not accessible to all youth, especially those from minority, or refugee communities. Activism by these types of youth is often denounced or reduced to dehumanising narratives of their experiences. This paper aims to explore alternative spaces for and political participation of refugees t…
Neoliberal transformation through circulation of economic elites in times of critical junctures
While it is well-established that exogenous shocks can trigger policy changes, political elites have often been depicted as the initiators of this process. This paper adopts an elite sociology perspective, extending beyond the exclusive focus on political elites, to uncover the pathway through which critical junctures foster policy changes. It employs a case study of the economic crises in Turkey spanning from 1999 to 2001 as an illustrative exam…
The politics of co-production and inclusive deliberation in participatory research
This research engages in a methodological analysis of a participatory art project employing PhotoVoice with refugee and local community youths across two distinct sites: Istanbul and Johannesburg. The project aimed to facilitate inclusive deliberations among the youth, thereby promoting capacity building, reconciliation, and peacebuilding initiatives. Our focus is grounded in the concept of co-production as a practice and principle of inclusive d…
Capturing Women's Standpoint in EU–Turkey Studies
Starting from the ‘gender problem’ in European studies, we scrutinize the gendered knowledge production patterns in a least likely case to be gendered, EU–Turkey studies, due to the overrepresentation of women in the field and its feminine image. We utilize feminist standpoint theory and apply research synthesis and citation analysis techniques to two original datasets comprising 300 articles in 26 Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) journals, p…
Encounters at the Edge
Policymakers often assume that interactions between host society members and immigrants will promote integration. However, scholars caution against such assumptions, considering both contact theory's optimism and group threat theory's concerns. In the present study, we examine a series of hypotheses pertaining to intergroup contact and group threat theories, utilising data collected from Istanbul, Türkiye. Ordered logistic regression models are e…
Invisible pasts, erased futures
The ongoing influx of refugees and undocumented migrants has catalysed a more profound discourse on discrimination, stigmatisation, and social exclusion. Existing scholarship often delineates these challenges, yet it frequently characterises refugees as passive victims rather than active agents in shaping their own lives. This paper seeks to bridge this conceptual void through the lens of epistemic erasure – the systemic devaluation and exclusion…
Navigating masculinities
This article theorises masculinities as affective performances, which are shaped through the emotional labour of male academics. We explore how seemingly homogeneous masculinities fracture within Turkish academia, a numerically feminising yet male-dominated field shaped by neoliberal structuring and political polarisation. Drawing on 53 interviews with male academics and nine focus groups with 54 university students across four major Turkish citi…
Feminist epistemic justice
This introduction develops feminist epistemic justice as a framework for analysing the European Union (EU) as an epistemic order, one that does not simply regulate political life but actively constitutes the terms on which knowledge becomes legible, determines whose experience counts as evidence, and renders certain forms of harm structurally invisible. Defined here as the critical and constructive project of transforming the structural, colonial…
Academic Elite Circulation and Reconfiguration of Modernization
A feminist decolonial challenge to European Union’s gender governance
This paper critically examines the European Union’s (EU) gender equality policies through a decolonial feminist lens, focusing on how epistemic hierarchies are reproduced within the gender equality discourse of the European Parliament (EP), which presents itself as a progressive actor and moral authority on gender equality. Drawing on existing critiques of the EU’s instrumental and neoliberal approaches to gender, the paper analyses 42 texts adop…
Scalar entrapment and the multiscalar geographies of refugee (im)mobility
This article examines how refugee spatiality is governed and experienced through scalar entrapment, which we define as the recursive immobilisation of refugees through intersecting global, national, and urban regimes. Drawing on extensive fieldwork with Syrian refugees in Istanbul, we demonstrate how international containment agreements, national asylum laws, and local bordering practices co-produce spatial injustice. Using a mutiscalar and relat…
Feminising diplomatic work
While the growing representation of women in diplomacy is often celebrated, scholarship on occupational feminisation warns that feminisation can trigger a devaluation of professional work. This article focuses on two conditions identified as inhibitors of such devaluation – the overall status of the occupation and the value accorded to female labour within the occupation – and traces how these two conditions have varied over time and interacted w…
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