Ihsan Yilmaz
Biographic Data
| ID | 571695 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ihsan Yilmaz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ihsan |
| FAMILY NAME | Yilmaz |
| SIGNATURE | YILMAZ I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8409-3045 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 76 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 400 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 75 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Populism after prohibition: Islamist mobilisation and informal religious law in Indonesia
The Islamic Defenders Front (Front Pembela Islam, FPI) was officially banned by the Indonesian government in 2020, its organisational networks dissolved and its activities formally criminalised. Yet in the 2024 elections, FPI leaders and sympathisers continued to shape political discourse and mobilisation. This paper asks: How do populist movements rooted in religious identity reconstruct legitimacy after exclusion from formal politics? Using the…
The emotional logic of populist communication: A systematic review
This article systematically reviews recent empirical research on the role of emotions in populist politics. Following PRISMA guidelines, we review 51 peer-reviewed studies published between 2017 and 2024 across political science, psychology, communication, and sociology. We examine how populism is conceptualised, how emotions are measured, and what evidence exists regarding their role in populist mobilisation. We distinguish between two main stra…
Populism in the age of social media: A systematic review of recent digital populism research
Digital platforms have become central infrastructures of contemporary populism, shaping how actors communicate, mobilise supporters and contest democratic norms. This article offers a systematic, cross-disciplinary review of empirical research on digital populism published between 2015 and early 2025. Analysing 188 studies from political communication, media studies and political science, we map how platform affordances structure populist communi…
Eagles and Grey Wolves: A cross‐cultural analysis of populist adjacent far‐right groups
This article examines the narrative strategies and identity constructions of two far‐right groups, the League of the South (United States) and the Grey Wolves (Turkey), through a cross‐cultural lens. Gathering textual data from the respective groups' websites and using reflexive thematic analysis, we identify and compare five overarching themes, revealing both shared and unique dynamics shaped by each group's socio‐political context and proximity…
Social media, conspiracy theories, and authoritarianism: Between bread and geopolitics in Egypt
Social media, conspiracy theories, and authoritarianism: between bread and geopolitics in Egypt
Disruptive Signification in a Hybrid Media Ecology: Civilisational Populism in Pakistan, Turkey and Indonesia
This paper employs the ontic/ontological distinction to explore the relationship between religion and populism in Pakistan, Turkey, and Indonesia within a hybrid media ecology. Building on recent discussions of nationalism and populism, the study investigates civilizational populism through the lens of the ontic/ontological distinction, which separates the ‘content’ and ‘form’ of populism. This framework is critical for understanding how populist…
The Double-Edged Sword: Political Engagement on Social Media and Its Impact on Democracy Support in Authoritarian Regimes
Utilizing data from the Arab Barometer surveys, this study distinguishes between social media and the internet’s general use and their usage for political purposes, examining whether political engagement—obtaining political information and expressing political opinions—on these platforms bolsters or undermines democracy in authoritarian contexts. Initially, political engagement on social media and the internet was positively linked with support f…
Diffusion of digital authoritarian practices in China’s neighbourhood: The cases of Iran and Pakistan
Authoritarian diffusion and sharp power through TV dramas: Resonance of Turkey’s ‘Resurrection: Ertuğrul’ in Pakistan
The web of Big Lies: State-sponsored disinformation in Iran
The 2022 'Women, Life, Freedom' protests in Iran have led to the escalation of state-sponsored online disinformation campaigns. This paper aims to examine how, amidst a growing legitimacy crisis, the Iranian regime has employed a 'Big Lie' to shatter hopes for change by discrediting influential dissidents and hindering the formation of an effective opposition movement. Three target groups have borne the brunt of this strategy: celebrities, politi…
Muslim Legal Pluralism in the West: Transnationalism, Political Participation, Citizenship and Shari’a
Revisiting Women's Piety Movements in the Indonesian Context
The current Islamic studies literature focusing on women’s expression in Indonesia remains understudied. It still presents a scholarly challenge for current Islamic studies to address the issue of ideal expressed space for women. This mainly includes women’s positions and roles in society and their concerns about public issues. Addressing this puzzle, this paper aims to analyse how Islam affirmatively can address women’s expression as individuals…
Reevaluating Approaches to Religious Moderation at the Grassroots Level: The Role of Muslim Youth in Advancing Interfaith Dialogue
This paper examines the potential role of Muslim youth as alternative partners in fostering religious moderation at the grassroots level. It identifies two central issues in current religious moderation policies in Indonesia: (1) an overemphasis on programs aimed at security and deradicalization, which overshadow initiatives that encourage harmonious inter- and intra-religious relationships, and (2) a predominantly top-down approach that limits g…
Contestations of Internet Governance and Digital Authoritarianism in Pakistan
The existing literature on Internet governance offers important insights on the relationship between state and society in China and the West. It is important to explore this relationship in the developing world. This study focuses on Pakistan, exploring the role of relevant legal frameworks, political authorities, and institutional structures in relation to monitoring and regulating telephone traffic, legal compliance, and consumer interests. By …
Populism, Authoritarianism and Necropolitics: Instrumentalization of Martyrdom Narratives in AKP’s Turkey
This book examines how Turkey’s ruling party, the AKP, produces and employs necropolitical narratives in order to perpetuate its authoritarian rule.
Islam in the Anglosphere: Perspectives of Young Muslims in Australia, the UK and the USA
This book analyses the lived reality of Muslims from their own perspectives, using interviews with 122 young Muslims in Australia, the UK & the USA
Religions and the Global Rise of Civilizational Populism
Emotions and resistance in diaspora: The case of Australia’s Kurds from Turkey
This paper examines the emotional motives behind the reproduction and maintenance of Kurdishness as a transnational social identity among Kurds from Turkey residing in Melbourne, Australia. Drawing from 15 face-to-face, in-depth interviews with members of the Kurdish diaspora, we argue that the collective victimhood experienced by Kurds in response to repressive assimilationist state policies and crackdowns on political rights and activities in T…
Manufacturing the Ummah: Turkey’s transnational populism and construction of the people globally
Inspired by the concept of ‘transnational populism’ this paper investigates the efforts of a religious populist regime to narratively construct ‘the transnational people’ and ‘the transnational leader’ in diasporic spaces that Sunni Muslim minorities occupy. The paper aims to show how Turkey’s ruling party is constructing an Islamist civilisational populist narrative fortified with emotions and how it is disseminating it. We show that Turkey’s cu…
Civilizational Populism in Democratic Nation-States
This book examines civilizational populism in democratic nation-states and explores this in a wide variety of religious, political, and geographic contexts
Islam in the Anglosphere: Perspectives of Young Muslims in Australia, the UK and USA
Authoritarianism and Necropolitics: Instrumentalization of Martyrdom Narratives in AKP's Turkey
Transnational securitization and violence: The discursive mechanism behind the pro-AKP diaspora’s repression of the dissident diaspora groups in the West
Authoritarian regimes do not only target and oppress their opponents at home, they also try to repress dissident diaspora members abroad. The literature on transnational (extraterritorial) repression has shown that authoritarian regimes normally use transnational organs of the state such as intelligence services as part of their usual transnational repression activities. However, since they do not have sovereignty in the countries, their transnat…
Religious Necropolitical Propaganda in Educational Materials for Children
Even though Turkey's ruling party's (Justice and Development Party, the AKP) nation-building and desired citizen creation policies have been studied, its use of necropolitical narratives and propaganda in education has not been investigated. This paper addresses this gap by examining how the Turkish state ruled by the AKP has propagated its religious necropolitical narrative through the national curriculum and Directorate of Religious Affairs (Di…
Muslim Secularism by Conduct: Attitudes of Young Australian Muslims to Legal Pluralism andSharia
This article examines young Muslim Australians’ attitudes toward implementing Sharia in Australia using 64 semi-structured interviews conducted in Melbourne and Geelong, Australia. We found that although the attitudes can be grouped under the main typologies of Legal Pluralist and Muslim Secularist, there were a variety of responses within each category. While Legal Pluralist A wants Sharia to be officially implemented for Muslims in Australia, L…
The AKP after 15 years: Emergence of Erdoganism in Turkey
In recent years, several observers of Turkey have recognised a novel development in Turkish politics: the rise of Erdoganism. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s personality and style have come to embody the Turkish nation, the state and its economic, social and political institutions. But what is Erdoganism? What are its main attributes? Is it a mere ideology or the name of the emerging political regime in Turkey? While commentators have provided s…
Creating the Desired Citizen: Ideology, State and Islam in Turkey
For decades after the declaration of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, the Turkish state promoted the idea of a desired citizen. The Kemalist state treated these citizens as superior, with full rights; but the 'others', those outside this desired citizenship, were either tolerated or considered undesirable citizens. And this caused the marginalization of ethnic and religious minorities, religious Muslims and leftists alike. In this book, Ihsan Yilm…
How an Islamist party managed to legitimate its authoritarianization in the eyes of the secularist opposition: The case of Turkey
Since at least 2011, Turkey has undergone a dual process of democratic backsliding amid the emergence of a new, authoritarian regime under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. An interesting component of this process of authoritarian turn has been the lack of serious opposition on the part of the opposition parties CHP and IYIP parties to the growing political repression, curtailment of civil liberties and growing consolidation of power in the…
Use of past collective traumas, fear and conspiracy theories for securitization of the opposition and authoritarianisation: The Turkish case
Several studies have analysed different aspects of Turkey's authoritarianisation under the AKP rule. However, there is still a gap in this literature with regards to the role of instrumentalization of narratives and discursive strategies in this authoritarian turn which has been successfully engineered by the AKP. This article addresses this gap and shows how securitizing narratives based on fear, trauma, nostalgia, ontological insecurity, grieva…
State, Law, Civil Society and Islam in Contemporary Turkey
The rise of transactionalism in international relations: Evidence from Turkey’s relations with the European Union
This paper's main objective is to explain the concept of transactionalist foreign policy in detail and to demonstrate how it applies to a real-world case in Turkish foreign policy towards the EU under the AKP rule. We define transactionalism as a foreign policy approach that favours bilateral to multilateral relations, focuses on short-term wins rather than longer-term strategic foresight, adheres to a zero-sum worldview where all gains are relat…
Civilizational Populism: Definition, Literature, Theory, and Practice
The purpose of this article is to clarify the concept of 'civilizational populism' and work towards a concise but operational definition. To do this, the article examines how populists across the world, and in a variety of different religious, geographic, and political contexts, incorporate and instrumentalize notions of 'civilization' into their discourses. The article observes that although a number of scholars have described a civilization tur…
Authoritarian resilience through securitization: An Islamist populist party’s co-optation of a secularist far-right party
This article tackles the puzzle of how Turkey's ruling Islamist populist Justice and Development Party (AKP) was able to co-opt the secularist far-right Nationalist Action Party (MHP) and to ensure the MHP's support in creating an authoritarian regime, despite their previous antagonistic relations and ideological opposition. We investigate this puzzle through the combination of authoritarian resilience/stability theory and securitization theory. …
Populism, violence and authoritarian stability: Necropolitics in Turkey
The literature on populism overwhelmingly deals with the factors behind the rise of populism: the supply factors, and the economic and political crises. However, there is a lack of engagement in the literature on the construction of populist narratives and especially on the relations between populist narratives and violence. This paper addresses these gaps. Based on an empirically rich case study of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (…
Exploring Religions in Relation to Populism: A Tour around the World
This paper explores the emerging scholarship investigating the relationship between religion(s) and populism. It systematically reviews the various aspects of the phenomenon going beyond the Western world and discusses how religion and populism interact in various contexts around the globe. It looks at Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and Christianity and how in different regions and cultural contexts, they merge with populism and surface as t…
Religion in Creating Populist Appeal: Islamist Populism and Civilizationism in the Friday Sermons of Turkey's Diyanet
Drawing on the extant literature on populism, we aim to flesh out how populists in power utilize religion and related state resources in setting up aggressive, multidimensional religious populist "us" versus "them" binaries. We focus on Turkey as our case and argue that by instrumentalizing the Diyanet (Turkey's Presidency of Religious Affairs), the authoritarian Islamists in power have been able to consolidate manufactured populist dichotomies v…
Religious and Pro-Violence Populism in Indonesia: The Rise and Fall of a Far-Right Islamist Civilisationist Movement
The first quarter of the twenty-first century has witnessed the rise of populism around the world. While it is widespread it manifests in its own unique ways in each society, nation, and region. Religious populism, once rarely discussed, has come to take a more prominent role in the politics of a diverse range of societies and countries, as religious discourse is increasingly used by mainstream and peripheral populist actors alike. This paper exa…
English language learning barriers of Afghan refugee women in Australia
This study explores the critical barriers to English language learning for Afghan refugee women in Australia. Using data from 23 individual interviews and five focus group discussions, these show that although the participants received formal support from the Australian Government, the majority still struggled to learn English effectively. A thematic analysis of the interview responses revealed that the major barriers to English acquisition were …
Liminality and racial hazing of Muslim migrants: Media framing of Albanians in Shepparton, Australia, 1930-1955
This article is a historical empirical study of the Albanian Muslim migrant community of Shepparton. Through analysing newspaper reports, the authors discuss how these migrants were portrayed as liminal between their first arrival and acceptance as Australians a generation later. This is characteristic of a practice which the authors term "migrant hazing", where a migrant group is demonized as a threat to the society during the liminal phase. Mig…
Transnational securitization and violence: The discursive mechanism behind the pro-AKP diaspora’s repression of the dissident diaspora groups in the West
Authoritarian regimes do not only target and oppress their opponents at home, they also try to repress dissident diaspora members abroad. The literature on transnational (extraterritorial) repression has shown that authoritarian regimes normally use transnational organs of the state such as intelligence services as part of their usual transnational repression activities. However, since they do not have sovereignty in the countries, their transnat…
The AKP’s de-securitization and re-securitization of a minority community: The Alevi opening and closing
This article evaluates the Turkish state’s relations with the Alevi community through a securitization theory framework. It first examines the issue in its historical context, comparing Kemalist and more recent policies, and highlights that despite the ideological differences between the previous governments and the current AKP government, for Alevis much has remained the same. It then turns to the securitization of the Alevis by successive regim…
Securitisation via functional actors and authoritarian resilience: Collapse of the Kurdish peace process in Turkey
By combining two separate strands of research, the comparative authoritarianism literature and securitisation theory, this article examines the question of why the Kurdish peace process in Turkey failed. By analysing the Turkish government's treatment of the pro-Kurdish opposition, the article argues for a novel conceptual proposition on a securitisation mechanism of authoritarian resilience in electoral politics. It argues that the incumbents at…
The challenge of post-modern legality and Muslim legal pluralism in England
This paper endeavours to show that one can speak of legal pluralism in the English context. Muslim law in Britain exists both on an official level, where recognition is given by the legal system, and on an unofficial level where the official legal system refuses its recognition. Unofficial Muslim law has been applied in non-dispute situations of everyday lives of Muslims. Marriages and divorces are arranged according to the rules of Muslim law an…
Islamist Populist Nation-Building: Gradual, Ad Hoc Islamisation of the Secular Education System in Turkey
The founders of the secular Turkish Republic, the Kemalists used secular nationalist education to build a secular Turkish nation and to create their own version of modern pro-Western secular Turkish citizens. This paper argues that Turkey's current ruling party, the AKP (Justice and Development Party) has been using the same system of education to create its own desired citizens with Islamist Populist ideals. This has been done without changing t…
Religious Populisms in the Asia Pacific
Most of the literature on religion's relationship with populism is Eurocentric and has so far focused on European populist party discourses and, to a degree, on the United States, in particular, on the Christian identity populism of the Tea Party and the Trump movement within the Republican Party. However, across the Asia-Pacific region, religion has become an important component of populist discourses. It has been instrumentalised by populists i…
Pro-Violence Sermons of a Secular State: Turkey's Diyanet on Islamist Militarism, Jihadism and Glorification of Martyrdom
The literature on martyrdom has not, so far, systematically analysed a constitutionally secular state's extensive use of religion in propagating martyrdom narratives by using state-controlled religious institutions. This paper addresses this gap in martyrdom literature. In addition, even though some studies have analysed how martyrdom narratives have been used for political purposes in Turkey for mythmaking and building a collective memory, a rel…
Law as Chameleon: The Question of Incorporation of Muslim Personal Law into the English Law
2001). Law as Chameleon: The Question of Incorporation of Muslim Personal Law into the English Law. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs: Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 297-308
Muslim Law in Britain: Reflections in the Socio-legal Sphere and Differential Legal Treatment
2000). Muslim Law in Britain: Reflections in the Socio-legal Sphere and Differential Legal Treatment. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 353-360
Authoritarianism and necropolitical creation of martyr icons by Kemalists and Erdoganists in Turkey
One of the most widely used and influential ways of creating foundational myths for authoritarian legitimation is to construct a necropolitical narrative around the significance of dying for the nation, homeland, state and the leader, i.e. martyrdom. Mbembe’s concept ‘necropolitics’ (the right of the sovereign to determine who shall live and who shall die) has been expanded to include the pollical instrumentalization of martyrdom narratives. Howe…
Authoritarianism, Democracy, Islamic Movements and Contestations of Islamic Religious Ideas in Indonesia
Since independence, Islamic civil society groups and intellectuals have played a vital role in Indonesian politics. This paper seeks to chart the contestation of Islamic religious ideas in Indonesian politics and society throughout the 20th Century, from the declaration of independence in 1945 up until 2001. This paper discusses the social and political influence of, and relationships between, three major Indonesian Islamic intellectual streams: …
Muslim Law in Britain: Reflections in the Socio-legal Sphere and Differential Legal Treatment
2000). Muslim Law in Britain: Reflections in the Socio-legal Sphere and Differential Legal Treatment. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 353-360
Law as Chameleon: The Question of Incorporation of Muslim Personal Law into the English Law
2001). Law as Chameleon: The Question of Incorporation of Muslim Personal Law into the English Law. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs: Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 297-308
The challenge of post-modern legality and Muslim legal pluralism in England
This paper endeavours to show that one can speak of legal pluralism in the English context. Muslim law in Britain exists both on an official level, where recognition is given by the legal system, and on an unofficial level where the official legal system refuses its recognition. Unofficial Muslim law has been applied in non-dispute situations of everyday lives of Muslims. Marriages and divorces are arranged according to the rules of Muslim law an…
Non-recognition of Post-modern Turkish Socio-legal Reality and the Predicament of Women
After the transplantation of the Swiss Civil Code, Turks have had three alternatives: avoidance reaction, to follow the secular state law or a combination of the requirements of Muslim law and secular law. This article argues that they followed the third option by developing a new hybrid rule system that amalgamates the rules of unofficial Muslim law and of official Turkish law. The consequences for women are not promising if the State does not c…
Marriage solemnization among Turks in Britain: The emergence of a hybrid Anglo‐Muslim Turkish law
This study explains the development of a hybrid form of marriage solemnization practiced among Anglo-Turkish Muslims in London. In doing so it traces the background of most Turks who have lived under, or are aware of, a legal system in Turkey, which has been transformed by attempts at secularization within a Muslim social context. Thus, Turkish Muslims have already had some historical experiences of combining an officially secular legal system wi…
State, Law, Civil Society and Islam in Contemporary Turkey
The Varied Performance of Hizb ut-Tahrir: Success in Britain and Uzbekistan and Stalemate in Egypt and Turkey
This paper studies the Muslim youth experience in Britain and Uzbekistan vis-avis their vulnerability to extremist ideologies with a specific focus on the Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT), contrasting these two cases with the Turkish and Egyptian cases, which were resilient to HT. We endeavour to analyse why, while in an autocratic country such as Egypt, the HT has had limited influence on the hearts and minds of the Muslim youth, it has been more influential…
Diversity, Legal Pluralism and Peaceful Co-Existence in the Ottoman Centuries
Pakistan Federal Shariat Court's Collective Ijtihād on Gender Equality, Women's Rights and the Right to Family Life
This article argues on the basis of recent case law that the judges of the Pakistan Federal Shariat Court (FSC) have asserted their right to ijtihād and have indeed engaged in collective ijtihād. While in some areas, such as freedom of religion, Islamic law has been interpreted rigidly in a non-human-rights-friendly fashion in Pakistan, in some other areas, the flexibility and pluralism of Islamic law has been used to improve gender equality, wom…
Muslim Laws, Politics and Society in Modern Nation States
Drawing on theories of legal pluralism, this book tests whether and to what extent claims of the modern nation-state laws to exclusive dominance over other spheres are tenable, and reassesses the operation of law in society. Incorporating a combination of legal theory, post-modern critique and socio-legal analysis of three current jurisdictions in which Muslims play an important role, the volume identifies Muslims' current socio-legal situation a…
The AKP after 15 years: Emergence of Erdoganism in Turkey
In recent years, several observers of Turkey have recognised a novel development in Turkish politics: the rise of Erdoganism. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s personality and style have come to embody the Turkish nation, the state and its economic, social and political institutions. But what is Erdoganism? What are its main attributes? Is it a mere ideology or the name of the emerging political regime in Turkey? While commentators have provided s…
The AKP’s de-securitization and re-securitization of a minority community: The Alevi opening and closing
This article evaluates the Turkish state’s relations with the Alevi community through a securitization theory framework. It first examines the issue in its historical context, comparing Kemalist and more recent policies, and highlights that despite the ideological differences between the previous governments and the current AKP government, for Alevis much has remained the same. It then turns to the securitization of the Alevis by successive regim…
The rise of transactionalism in international relations: Evidence from Turkey’s relations with the European Union
This paper's main objective is to explain the concept of transactionalist foreign policy in detail and to demonstrate how it applies to a real-world case in Turkish foreign policy towards the EU under the AKP rule. We define transactionalism as a foreign policy approach that favours bilateral to multilateral relations, focuses on short-term wins rather than longer-term strategic foresight, adheres to a zero-sum worldview where all gains are relat…
Liminality and racial hazing of Muslim migrants: Media framing of Albanians in Shepparton, Australia, 1930-1955
This article is a historical empirical study of the Albanian Muslim migrant community of Shepparton. Through analysing newspaper reports, the authors discuss how these migrants were portrayed as liminal between their first arrival and acceptance as Australians a generation later. This is characteristic of a practice which the authors term "migrant hazing", where a migrant group is demonized as a threat to the society during the liminal phase. Mig…
Muslims, Sacred Texts, and Laws in the Modern World
Instrumentalizing Islam in a ‘Secular’ State: Turkey’s Diyanet and Interfaith Dialogue
This paper analyses how interfaith dialogue was interpreted by the Turkish state’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) over several administrations. Mirroring changes in attitude within the state, the Diyanet began promoting interfaith dialogue in mid-1990s. The Islamist-inspired AKP administration continued this stance after its election in 2002. However, as the AKP leadership adopted a more authoritarian and anti-western tone after 2011,…
English language learning barriers of Afghan refugee women in Australia
This study explores the critical barriers to English language learning for Afghan refugee women in Australia. Using data from 23 individual interviews and five focus group discussions, these show that although the participants received formal support from the Australian Government, the majority still struggled to learn English effectively. A thematic analysis of the interview responses revealed that the major barriers to English acquisition were …
How an Islamist party managed to legitimate its authoritarianization in the eyes of the secularist opposition: The case of Turkey
Since at least 2011, Turkey has undergone a dual process of democratic backsliding amid the emergence of a new, authoritarian regime under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. An interesting component of this process of authoritarian turn has been the lack of serious opposition on the part of the opposition parties CHP and IYIP parties to the growing political repression, curtailment of civil liberties and growing consolidation of power in the…
Young Muslim Australians’ experiences of intergroup contact and its implications for intercultural relations
Literature on intergroup contact shows that in the absence of the required structural conditions, contact is not necessarily always a positive experience and that when it is negative, it can lead to heightened conflict and increased prejudice toward outgroups. Therefore, this article examines intergroup contact between Muslims and non-Muslims. Specifically, we examine the experiences of intergroup contact involving young Muslims in Australia and …
A Systematic Literature Review of Populism, Religion and Emotions
This paper examines the existing literature on the relationship between religion and populism, and is intended as a starting point for further examination of the relationships between populism, religion, and emotions. This paper systematically reviews the various aspects of the populist phenomenon. After a discussion on different definitions of populism, this paper looks at how the literature discusses the causes of populism, mainly socio-economi…
Authoritarianism and necropolitical creation of martyr icons by Kemalists and Erdoganists in Turkey
One of the most widely used and influential ways of creating foundational myths for authoritarian legitimation is to construct a necropolitical narrative around the significance of dying for the nation, homeland, state and the leader, i.e. martyrdom. Mbembe’s concept ‘necropolitics’ (the right of the sovereign to determine who shall live and who shall die) has been expanded to include the pollical instrumentalization of martyrdom narratives. Howe…
Islamists and the incremental Islamisation of Pakistan: The case of women’s rights
Focusing on women's rights, this paper provides a critical socio-legal analysis of Muslim legal pluralism in Pakistan and compares the role and differences of opinions of the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) and the Federal Shariat Court (FSC) that were established to Islamise Pakistani society. The paper explains why these two constitutional bodies frequently contradict each other in their understanding of Islamic law by analysing legislation, …
Bonding Social Capital, Afghan Refugees, and Early Access to Employment
This IMR Research Note examines the impact of the level of bonding social capital on access to employment among newly arrived Afghan refugees in Victoria (Australia). Based on a mixed-methods analysis of biographical interviews with 80 Afghan refugees, it examines their use of social capital, year by year, during the first three years after their arrival. Our analysis shows that higher levels of bonding social capital are associated with greater …
Populism, violence and authoritarian stability: Necropolitics in Turkey
The literature on populism overwhelmingly deals with the factors behind the rise of populism: the supply factors, and the economic and political crises. However, there is a lack of engagement in the literature on the construction of populist narratives and especially on the relations between populist narratives and violence. This paper addresses these gaps. Based on an empirically rich case study of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (…
Authoritarian resilience through securitization: An Islamist populist party’s co-optation of a secularist far-right party
This article tackles the puzzle of how Turkey's ruling Islamist populist Justice and Development Party (AKP) was able to co-opt the secularist far-right Nationalist Action Party (MHP) and to ensure the MHP's support in creating an authoritarian regime, despite their previous antagonistic relations and ideological opposition. We investigate this puzzle through the combination of authoritarian resilience/stability theory and securitization theory. …
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