Serkan Yolaçan
Biographic Data
| ID | 72521 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Serkan Yolaçan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Serkan |
| FAMILY NAME | Yolaçan |
| SIGNATURE | YOLAÇAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4648-2952 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Text, time, and travel
As the concept of postsocialism faces increased scrutiny, there is a call to expand its spatiotemporal scope beyond socialist contexts in order to reclaim its analytical capacity. In Azerbaijan, the quiet resurgence of tezkirahs - biographical anthologies rooted in both the Islamic and Soviet traditions - presents an opportunity to explore how former Soviet citizens can bridge different histories, countries, and cultural traditions to nurture an …
A Seven-Headed Public
What does empire look like from spaces where multiple imperial projects converge? Through analysis of Molla Nasraddin, a pioneering satirical magazine from the early twentieth-century Caucasus, I reveal local engagements with empire that defy traditional binaries of center versus periphery, indigenous versus foreign, and resistance versus accommodation. While critical scholarship has powerfully demonstrated how imperial power shapes local life-fr…
Time as Method
Iron fist or nimble fingers
Populist strongman rulers of our times have two contradictory portraits. They appear messianic saviours committed to rooting out corrupt politicians and kindling a moral rejuvenation. They also appear pragmatists unafraid to get their hands dirty in the rough and tumble of politics and commerce. How do strongmen carry these two faces without having to resolve their glaring contradictions? I locate the roots of Janus-faced strongmen in their partn…
Strongmen and informal diplomats
This article investigates how populists at home and maverick dealmakers abroad, strongman leaders are increasingly side-lining official career diplomats by using informal diplomats drawn from transnational networks of diasporas, religious communities, and trade. Flagging this partnership as the key to understanding the changing twenty-first century international order, we follow how informal diplomats provide strongmen much-needed flexibility and…
Azeri networks through thick and thin
This article makes a case for the geographical concept of West Asia and develops a specific proposal for its usage: an intervention to open up the closed box of the Middle East to post-Soviet Eurasia in the north and to the rest of Asia in the east. It advances this transregional perspective from the viewpoint of an old imperial frontier, Transcaucasia, and its erstwhile Azeri diaspora. By drawing on archival material, oral histories, contemporan…
Azeri networks through thick and thin
This article makes a case for the geographical concept of West Asia and develops a specific proposal for its usage: an intervention to open up the closed box of the Middle East to post-Soviet Eurasia in the north and to the rest of Asia in the east. It advances this transregional perspective from the viewpoint of an old imperial frontier, Transcaucasia, and its erstwhile Azeri diaspora. By drawing on archival material, oral histories, contemporan…
Text, time, and travel
As the concept of postsocialism faces increased scrutiny, there is a call to expand its spatiotemporal scope beyond socialist contexts in order to reclaim its analytical capacity. In Azerbaijan, the quiet resurgence of tezkirahs - biographical anthologies rooted in both the Islamic and Soviet traditions - presents an opportunity to explore how former Soviet citizens can bridge different histories, countries, and cultural traditions to nurture an …
Time as Method
Azeri networks through thick and thin
This article makes a case for the geographical concept of West Asia and develops a specific proposal for its usage: an intervention to open up the closed box of the Middle East to post-Soviet Eurasia in the north and to the rest of Asia in the east. It advances this transregional perspective from the viewpoint of an old imperial frontier, Transcaucasia, and its erstwhile Azeri diaspora. By drawing on archival material, oral histories, contemporan…
Iron fist or nimble fingers
Populist strongman rulers of our times have two contradictory portraits. They appear messianic saviours committed to rooting out corrupt politicians and kindling a moral rejuvenation. They also appear pragmatists unafraid to get their hands dirty in the rough and tumble of politics and commerce. How do strongmen carry these two faces without having to resolve their glaring contradictions? I locate the roots of Janus-faced strongmen in their partn…
Strongmen and informal diplomats
This article investigates how populists at home and maverick dealmakers abroad, strongman leaders are increasingly side-lining official career diplomats by using informal diplomats drawn from transnational networks of diasporas, religious communities, and trade. Flagging this partnership as the key to understanding the changing twenty-first century international order, we follow how informal diplomats provide strongmen much-needed flexibility and…
Time as Method
Text, time, and travel
As the concept of postsocialism faces increased scrutiny, there is a call to expand its spatiotemporal scope beyond socialist contexts in order to reclaim its analytical capacity. In Azerbaijan, the quiet resurgence of tezkirahs - biographical anthologies rooted in both the Islamic and Soviet traditions - presents an opportunity to explore how former Soviet citizens can bridge different histories, countries, and cultural traditions to nurture an …
A Seven-Headed Public
What does empire look like from spaces where multiple imperial projects converge? Through analysis of Molla Nasraddin, a pioneering satirical magazine from the early twentieth-century Caucasus, I reveal local engagements with empire that defy traditional binaries of center versus periphery, indigenous versus foreign, and resistance versus accommodation. While critical scholarship has powerfully demonstrated how imperial power shapes local life-fr…
Political science (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · General partnership (2 works)