Ilgın Yörükoğlu
Biographic Data
| ID | 6908895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ilgın Yörükoğlu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ilgın |
| FAMILY NAME | Yörükoğlu |
| SIGNATURE | YÖRÜKOĞLU I |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Whiteness as an Act of Belonging
Turks, along with other people of the Middle East, retain a claim to being “Caucasian”. Technically white, Turks do not fit neatly into Western racial categories especially after 9/11, and with the increasing normalization of racist discourses in Western politics, their assumed religious and geographical identities categorise “secular” Turks along with their Muslim “others” and, crucially, suggest a “non-white” status. In this context, for Turks …
One Has to Belong, Somehow”
I am in Zeynep’s apartment in Shoeneberg, Berlin. A mother of three young boys, Zeynep has not had an easy life: She attempted suicide in her teens and suffered years of domestic violence. In recent years, however, her relationship with her parents has improved. Almost in tears, she says that she forgives her family. She accepts them as they are. 1 Forgiveness appears as a way to claim belonging to her family without discarding her other identifi…
 One Has to Belong, Somehowâ
Whiteness as an Act of Belonging
Turks, along with other people of the Middle East, retain a claim to being “Caucasian”. Technically white, Turks do not fit neatly into Western racial categories especially after 9/11, and with the increasing normalization of racist discourses in Western politics, their assumed religious and geographical identities categorise “secular” Turks along with their Muslim “others” and, crucially, suggest a “non-white” status. In this context, for Turks …
One Has to Belong, Somehow”
I am in Zeynep’s apartment in Shoeneberg, Berlin. A mother of three young boys, Zeynep has not had an easy life: She attempted suicide in her teens and suffered years of domestic violence. In recent years, however, her relationship with her parents has improved. Almost in tears, she says that she forgives her family. She accepts them as they are. 1 Forgiveness appears as a way to claim belonging to her family without discarding her other identifi…
 One Has to Belong, Somehowâ
Whiteness as an Act of Belonging
Turks, along with other people of the Middle East, retain a claim to being “Caucasian”. Technically white, Turks do not fit neatly into Western racial categories especially after 9/11, and with the increasing normalization of racist discourses in Western politics, their assumed religious and geographical identities categorise “secular” Turks along with their Muslim “others” and, crucially, suggest a “non-white” status. In this context, for Turks …
Anthropology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Cartography (1 work) · Citizenship (1 work) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work)