Fatma Muge Gocek
Biographic Data
| ID | 88135 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fatma Muge Gocek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fatma Muge |
| FAMILY NAME | Gocek |
| SIGNATURE | GOCEK F M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6727-045X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 808 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 11 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The critical intersectionality of elites, nonelites, and power in social transformations
African Vernacular Archives of Senior Women as Foundation Stones of Global Critical Sociology
This article contributes to global sociology through the construction of African sociological vocabularies from Nguni vernacular terms in Southern Africa. We employ Toyin Falola's concept of 'ritual archives' to argue that the social practices of senior African women teach and promote the sociological imagination for a global sociology that moves beyond the confines set by the 'founding fathers' of the discipline. We combine the women's status in…
Why Now? Thoughts on the Du Boisian Revolution
In this editorial collection, five sociologists share their opinions on why there has been a recent proliferation of scholarship on Du Bois, and summarize their own position in relation to this intellectual area. Ranging from reflections on how they “discovered” Du Bois's works, through to assessments of American sociology's reception of Du Bois's scholarship, the idea of this brief piece is to provide an insight into some of the potential drivin…
American Ideas of Equality: A Social History, 1750-2020
The I.B. Tauris Handbook of Sociology and the Middle East
What we understand by the ‘Middle East’ has changed over time and across space. While scholars agree that the geographical ‘core’ of the Middle East is the Arabian Peninsula, the boundaries are less clear. How far back in time should we go to define the Middle East? How far south and east should we move on the African continent? And how do we deal with the minority religions in the region, and those who migrate to the West? Across this handbook’s…
Cultural Violence and the Destruction of Human Communities: New Theoretical Perspectives
Bourgeoisie
The bourgeoisie originated as a social group in European cities from the eleventh century on, referring specifically to those male burghers who earned their living through artisanal work, trade, and commerce. With the advent of the industrial and ideological revolutions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this group assumed sociological significance as a social class, namely as a group of people that shared a common material location in s…
The 2007 Assassination of Hrant Dink through the Lenses of History, Memory and Emotions
Dilemmas of Inclusion: Muslims in European Politics
This is a very thoroughly researched book that, the author states, emerged out of two contradictory observations she made about contemporary Western European politics: not only was ethnic politics still prevalent in Europe, but modern, progressive parties often pursued voters with such premodern ties. Since this political contradiction became most prevalent in contemporary Europe within the context of Islam, the author decided to empirically appr…
The British Empire and the Armenian Genocide: Humanitarianism and Imperial Politics from Gladstone to Churchill
Citizenship, Belonging, and Nation-States in the Twenty-First Century
A Society of Young Women: Opportunities of Place, Power, and Reform in Saudi Arabia
It is extremely challenging to study women in Muslim societies due to the manner in which forces of patriarchy and Orientalism often intersect, leading to the frequent portrayal of women as inherently obedient, docile, and oppressed. Undertaking such a study becomes even more insurmountable in the case of the country considered most radical in terms of its gender relations, namely Saudi Arabia. Yet in this book, the French sociologist Amelie Le R…
Doğan Gürpınar. Ottoman/Turkish Visions of the Nation, 1860–1950
Journal Article Doğan Gürpınar. Ottoman/Turkish Visions of the Nation, 1860–1950. Get access Doğan Gürpınar. Ottoman/Turkish Visions of the Nation, 1860–1950. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. vii, 301. $95.00. Fatma Müge Göçek Fatma Müge Göçek University of Michigan [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 120, Issue 1, February 2015, Page 363, https://d…
Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present, and Collective Violence against the Armenians, 1789-2009
To this day, the Turkish state officially denies that what happened to the Armenians in 1915 was genocide, while the Western scholarly community is almost in full agreement that what happened to the forcefully deported Armenian subjects of the Ottoman Empire in 1915 was genocide, in which approximately 800,000 to 1.5 million Armenians perished. This book studies why denial of collective violence persists in Turkish state and society.
Imperial Denial of Origins of Violence, 1789–1907
The 1893–96 massacres constitute the collective violence committed against the Armenians during this stage. The chapter traces the initial formation of the imperial denial of the origins of this collective violence as the Ottoman state argued the violence was not domestic but was externally instigated by foreign powers. Such denial of origins, the chapter argues, emerges through the interaction of the Ottoman structure of difference with imperial…
Parameters of a Postcolonial Sociology of the Ottoman Empire
The traditional postcolonial focus on the modern and the European, and pre-modern and non-European empires has marginalized the study of empires like the Ottoman Empire whose temporal reign traversed the modern and pre-modern eras, and its geographical land mass covered parts of Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Asia Minor, the Arabian Peninsula, and North Africa. Here, I first place the three postcolonial corollaries of the prioritization of contempo…
The Armenian Genocide: A Complete History, by Raymond Kévorkian
Journal Article The Armenian Genocide: A Complete History, by Raymond Kévorkian Get access The Armenian Genocide: A Complete History, by Raymond Kévorkian (New York: I.B. Tauris, 2011; pp. 1,029. £45). Fatma Müge Göçek, Fatma Müge Göçek University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Dzovinar Derderian Dzovinar Derderian University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Search for other works by this aut…
Postcoloniality, the Ottoman Past, and the Middle East Present
During the last decade, the postcolonial approach has become influential in the humanities and the social sciences. Tracing its own historical origin to interaction with Western European modernity, it focuses on contemporary power inequality, which it intends to eliminate by demonstrating the connection between power and knowledge. Hence, this approach not only puts the present in conversation with the past but also poses power inequality as the …
The Transformation of Turkey: Redefining State and Society from the Ottoman Empire to the Modern Era
In 1923, the Modern Turkish Republic rose from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire, proclaiming a new era in the Middle East. However, many of the contemporary issues affecting Turkish state and society today have their roots not only in the in the history of the republic, but in the historical and political memory of the state's imperial history. Here Fatma Muge Gocek draws on Turkey's Ottoman heritage and history to explore current issues of ethnic…
A question of genocide: Armenians and Turks at the end of the Ottoman Empire
"One hundred years after the deportations and mass murder of Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, and other peoples in the final years of the Ottoman Empire, the history of the Armenian genocide is a victim of historical distortion, state-sponsored falsification, and deep divisions between Armenians and Turks. Working together for the first time, Turkish, Armenian, and other scholars present here a compelling reconstruction of what happened and why. Thi…
Pensée 2: Assessment of the Field
What has changed in the field of Middle East studies over the last five years, especially when perceived from the vantage point of the United States? Certainly a lot, due mostly to the reverberations of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the ensuing haphazard U.S. adventure first into Afghanistan and then Iraq in apparent search for the culprits, accompanied by a strong underlying interest in gaining access to oil and other natural resources, as well…
Through a Glass Darkly: Consequences of a Politicized Past in Contemporary Turkey
The resolution of the three major political problems faced by the contemporary Turkish nation-state— namely, the massacres of the Armenians in the past, the treatment of the Kurds at present, and the contested partition of the island of Cyprus—has become increasingly urgent as these problems have started to impede Turkey's chances of joining the European Union and also of becoming more democratic. Yet, since the Turkish nation-state commences its…
The Poetics of Ghosts: Social Reproduction in the Archive of the Nation
Shamed States
Mutant Messages
The Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism
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Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present, and Collective Violence against the Armenians, 1789-2009
To this day, the Turkish state officially denies that what happened to the Armenians in 1915 was genocide, while the Western scholarly community is almost in full agreement that what happened to the forcefully deported Armenian subjects of the Ottoman Empire in 1915 was genocide, in which approximately 800,000 to 1.5 million Armenians perished. This book studies why denial of collective violence persists in Turkish state and society.
Postcoloniality, the Ottoman Past, and the Middle East Present
During the last decade, the postcolonial approach has become influential in the humanities and the social sciences. Tracing its own historical origin to interaction with Western European modernity, it focuses on contemporary power inequality, which it intends to eliminate by demonstrating the connection between power and knowledge. Hence, this approach not only puts the present in conversation with the past but also poses power inequality as the …
Ethnic Segmentation, Western Education, and Political Outcomes: Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Society
Ethnic Segmentation, Western Education, and Political Outcomes: Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Society, Poetics Today, Vol. 14, No. 3, Cultural Processes in Muslim and Arab Societies: Modern Period I (Autumn, 1993), pp. 507-538
Through a Glass Darkly: Consequences of a Politicized Past in Contemporary Turkey
The resolution of the three major political problems faced by the contemporary Turkish nation-state— namely, the massacres of the Armenians in the past, the treatment of the Kurds at present, and the contested partition of the island of Cyprus—has become increasingly urgent as these problems have started to impede Turkey's chances of joining the European Union and also of becoming more democratic. Yet, since the Turkish nation-state commences its…
To veil or not to veil: The contested location of gender in contemporary Turkey
This article focuses on the April 1999 ‘headscarf incident’ at the Turkish national assembly when two newly elected headscarved deputies had to be sworn in: while one unveiled for the ceremony to obey the rule on wearing ‘modern’ attire and was sworn in, the other remained veiled, claiming it was her religious responsibility and civil right to do so, only to be protested by the social democrats for politicizing religion, thus having to leave with…
Whither Historical Sociology
Why Now? Thoughts on the Du Boisian Revolution
In this editorial collection, five sociologists share their opinions on why there has been a recent proliferation of scholarship on Du Bois, and summarize their own position in relation to this intellectual area. Ranging from reflections on how they “discovered” Du Bois's works, through to assessments of American sociology's reception of Du Bois's scholarship, the idea of this brief piece is to provide an insight into some of the potential drivin…
African Vernacular Archives of Senior Women as Foundation Stones of Global Critical Sociology
This article contributes to global sociology through the construction of African sociological vocabularies from Nguni vernacular terms in Southern Africa. We employ Toyin Falola's concept of 'ritual archives' to argue that the social practices of senior African women teach and promote the sociological imagination for a global sociology that moves beyond the confines set by the 'founding fathers' of the discipline. We combine the women's status in…
East Encounters West: France and the Ottoman Empire in the Eighteenth Century
East Encounters West: France and the Ottoman Empire in the Eighteenth Century
Daniel Goffman, İzmir and the Levantine World, 1550–1650 (Seattle: (University of Washington Press, 1990). Pp. 236
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Palestinian Identities and Preferences: Israel's and Jerusalem's Arabs
Ethnic Segmentation, Western Education, and Political Outcomes: Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Society
Ethnic Segmentation, Western Education, and Political Outcomes: Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Society, Poetics Today, Vol. 14, No. 3, Cultural Processes in Muslim and Arab Societies: Modern Period I (Autumn, 1993), pp. 507-538
Whither Historical Sociology
Rise of the Bourgeoisie, Demise of Empire: Ottoman Westernization and Social Change
The book examines the process of Westernization and social change during the 18th and 19th centuries in the Ottoman Empire. Using empirical analysis of archival documents and historical chronicles, the book questions the prevailing scholarly interpretation that Westernization leads to social change. Rather, it argues that social change precedes and contributes to the process of Westernization.
Balkan Worlds: The First and Last Europe
Encompassing the period from the Neolithic era to the troubled present, this book studies the peoples, societies and cultures of the area situated between the Adriatic Sea in the west and the Black Sea in the east, between the Alpine region and Danube basin in the north and the Aegean Sea in the south. This is not a conventional of the Balkans. Drawing upon archaeology, anthropology, economics, psychology and linguistics as well as history, the a…
Social Boundaries of Ottoman Women’s Experience in Eighteenth-Century Galata Court Records
Women in the Ottoman Empire: Middle Eastern Women in the Early Modern Era
This collection of articles by 14 Middle East historians is a pathbreaking work in the history of Middle Eastern women prior to the contemporary era. The collection seeks to begin the task of reconstructing the history of (Muslim) women's experience in the middle centuries of the Ottoman era, between the mid-seventeenth century and the early nineteenth, prior to hegemonic European involvement in the region and prior to the "modernizing reforms' i…
Rise of the Bourgeoisie, Demise of Empire: Ottoman Westernization and Social Change
Political cartoons in the Middle East
The imagery of political cartoons in the Middle East can provide an insight into how Middle Eastern societies think. By combining the indigenous comic tradition of shadow plays with the imported western print form, and by drawing on both visual and verbal narratives, Middle Eastern political cartoons free the imagination, challenge the intellect, and resist state domination. The essays in this collection focus on the multiple cultural spaces that…
The Young Turks in Opposition
To veil or not to veil: The contested location of gender in contemporary Turkey
This article focuses on the April 1999 ‘headscarf incident’ at the Turkish national assembly when two newly elected headscarved deputies had to be sworn in: while one unveiled for the ceremony to obey the rule on wearing ‘modern’ attire and was sworn in, the other remained veiled, claiming it was her religious responsibility and civil right to do so, only to be protested by the social democrats for politicizing religion, thus having to leave with…
Islam and Gender
The Poetics of Ghosts: Social Reproduction in the Archive of the Nation
Shamed States
Mutant Messages
Index
Sex Rites, Civil Rights
The Truest Belief Is Compulsion
The Vulva Thieves (Atna Nylkna): Modal Ethics and the Colonial Archive
Social constructions of nationalism in the Middle East
Histories of the Modern Middle East: New Directions
Reflecting cutting-edge scholarship and covering more than two centuries of change, this seminal collection represents key trends in the historiography of the modern Middle East. The authors each combine a methodological theme with concrete, original research, relating theoretical issues to the actual writing of history. Their topics range from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to globalization, from well-established historical figures to new acto…
On Charles Issawi and His Last Book
It is with great sadness that I review this wonderful work because its author, Charles Issawi, is no longer with us; this was the final book he published before he died. The nine articles that comprise the volume were all written during the last two decades of his life. Even though many were published in various journals and edited volumes, as collected together here, they reveal the depth and breadth of knowledge of this most distinguished schol…
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