Zafer Yılmaz
Biographic Data
| ID | 6677116 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zafer Yılmaz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zafer |
| FAMILY NAME | Yılmaz |
| SIGNATURE | YILMAZ Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chair of General Sociology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5839-5381 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The new politics of the social and authoritarianism in the Near East
While authoritarian regime building and consolidation in the Near East have often been accompanied by resistance from gender and youth movements, mainstream accounts tend to overlook the constitutive relationship between authoritarian governance and oppositional mobilisation. Moving beyond institutional approaches that focus on democratic backsliding and political repression, this article and the special issue examine the emergence of the social …
The Dispositif of Academic Humanitarianism
This article argues that academic humanitarianism, characterized by an expanding infrastructure of scholar protection programs, networks, and expertise, has crystallized into an emergent dispositif. Building on a Foucauldian understanding of the dispositif as a heterogeneous ensemble of institutions, discourses, administrative techniques, and moral commitments, it shows how scholar protection in Europe operates at the intersection of humanitarian…
The impact of Kahramanmaraş (2023) earthquakes
Erdoğan’s presidential regime and strategic legalism
President Erdoğan and the AKP government initiated a comprehensive restoration process immediately after the failed coup in mid-July 2016. In fact, the country has been experiencing a very comprehensive and violent regime transformation since this time. I assert that recent political developments paved the way for institutionalization of a ‘plebiscitary presidential regime’ that depends on a particular combination of supreme power of the leader, …
Turkey’s deepening authoritarianism and the fall of electoral democracy
Turkey has been experiencing a violent and comprehensive regime transformation following the 15 July 2016 failed coup. Emergency policies, new judicial repression strategies and intensifying crackd
The genesis of the ‘Exceptional’ Republic
Almost half of the political life has been experienced under the state of emergency and state of siege policies in the Turkish Republic. In spite of such a striking number and continuity in the deployment of legal emergency powers, there are just a few legal and political studies examining the reasons for such permanency in governing practices. To fill this gap, this paper aims to discuss one of the most important sources of the ‘permanent’ polit…
The AKP and the spirit of the ‘new’ Turkey
A strong sense of victimhood, a discourse of social suffering, and complementary bodily performances, which mobilize rancor, resentfulness, and revengefulness, are fundamental elements of Turkish-Islamist ideology. This article discusses the political dynamics and implications of such assertions of victimhood in the Turkish context. To underscore these dynamics, it analyses the role of the logic of pain in the subject formation of Turkish-Islamis…
Strengthening the Family” Policies in Turkey
Even if protecting the traditional family structure has been a permanent feature of political debates in Turkey, the family has become the target of public policies immediately after the Justice and Development Party came to power. The new pro-family social policy agenda of the party does not simply aim to protect the family as it is officially claimed, but endeavors to transform it in line with neo-conservative principles. This article attempts …
The AKP and the spirit of the ‘new’ Turkey
A strong sense of victimhood, a discourse of social suffering, and complementary bodily performances, which mobilize rancor, resentfulness, and revengefulness, are fundamental elements of Turkish-Islamist ideology. This article discusses the political dynamics and implications of such assertions of victimhood in the Turkish context. To underscore these dynamics, it analyses the role of the logic of pain in the subject formation of Turkish-Islamis…
Turkey’s deepening authoritarianism and the fall of electoral democracy
Turkey has been experiencing a violent and comprehensive regime transformation following the 15 July 2016 failed coup. Emergency policies, new judicial repression strategies and intensifying crackd
Strengthening the Family” Policies in Turkey
Even if protecting the traditional family structure has been a permanent feature of political debates in Turkey, the family has become the target of public policies immediately after the Justice and Development Party came to power. The new pro-family social policy agenda of the party does not simply aim to protect the family as it is officially claimed, but endeavors to transform it in line with neo-conservative principles. This article attempts …
The genesis of the ‘Exceptional’ Republic
Almost half of the political life has been experienced under the state of emergency and state of siege policies in the Turkish Republic. In spite of such a striking number and continuity in the deployment of legal emergency powers, there are just a few legal and political studies examining the reasons for such permanency in governing practices. To fill this gap, this paper aims to discuss one of the most important sources of the ‘permanent’ polit…
Strengthening the Family” Policies in Turkey
Even if protecting the traditional family structure has been a permanent feature of political debates in Turkey, the family has become the target of public policies immediately after the Justice and Development Party came to power. The new pro-family social policy agenda of the party does not simply aim to protect the family as it is officially claimed, but endeavors to transform it in line with neo-conservative principles. This article attempts …
The AKP and the spirit of the ‘new’ Turkey
A strong sense of victimhood, a discourse of social suffering, and complementary bodily performances, which mobilize rancor, resentfulness, and revengefulness, are fundamental elements of Turkish-Islamist ideology. This article discusses the political dynamics and implications of such assertions of victimhood in the Turkish context. To underscore these dynamics, it analyses the role of the logic of pain in the subject formation of Turkish-Islamis…
Turkey’s deepening authoritarianism and the fall of electoral democracy
Turkey has been experiencing a violent and comprehensive regime transformation following the 15 July 2016 failed coup. Emergency policies, new judicial repression strategies and intensifying crackd
The genesis of the ‘Exceptional’ Republic
Almost half of the political life has been experienced under the state of emergency and state of siege policies in the Turkish Republic. In spite of such a striking number and continuity in the deployment of legal emergency powers, there are just a few legal and political studies examining the reasons for such permanency in governing practices. To fill this gap, this paper aims to discuss one of the most important sources of the ‘permanent’ polit…
Erdoğan’s presidential regime and strategic legalism
President Erdoğan and the AKP government initiated a comprehensive restoration process immediately after the failed coup in mid-July 2016. In fact, the country has been experiencing a very comprehensive and violent regime transformation since this time. I assert that recent political developments paved the way for institutionalization of a ‘plebiscitary presidential regime’ that depends on a particular combination of supreme power of the leader, …
The impact of Kahramanmaraş (2023) earthquakes
The new politics of the social and authoritarianism in the Near East
While authoritarian regime building and consolidation in the Near East have often been accompanied by resistance from gender and youth movements, mainstream accounts tend to overlook the constitutive relationship between authoritarian governance and oppositional mobilisation. Moving beyond institutional approaches that focus on democratic backsliding and political repression, this article and the special issue examine the emergence of the social …
The Dispositif of Academic Humanitarianism
This article argues that academic humanitarianism, characterized by an expanding infrastructure of scholar protection programs, networks, and expertise, has crystallized into an emergent dispositif. Building on a Foucauldian understanding of the dispositif as a heterogeneous ensemble of institutions, discourses, administrative techniques, and moral commitments, it shows how scholar protection in Europe operates at the intersection of humanitarian…
Politics (7 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Democracy (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Authoritarianism (3 works) · Hegemony (2 works)