Aybike Mergen
Biographic Data
| ID | 8955513 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aybike Mergen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aybike |
| FAMILY NAME | Mergen |
| SIGNATURE | MERGEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Özyeğin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4081-0476 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The legitimation trap
Postcolonial states can organize dispossession through institutions that remain procedurally regular, legally authoritative, and indispensable to citizens’ claims. This article theorizes the legitimation trap as a contingent configuration in which procedural propriety certifies a substantively unjust order and narrows the terms in which that order can be contested. The trap mediates property, extraction, and racialised accumulation; it does not r…
The Algorithmic Leviathan or the Digital Agora? Mechanisms of Enclosure and Pathways to Rights-Based Governance of Digital Commons
Technology corporations increasingly deploy commons language while maintaining extractive ownership structures. We develop the charity-rights framework to explain how enclosure becomes normalized under progressive rhetoric. Drawing on moral economy perspectives, commons theory, and corporate social responsibility critique, the framework distinguishes charity logic (benefits as discretionary corporate benevolence) from rights-based governance (enf…
Red Pill Leadership Behaviours and Discourse Ethics
Red Pill ideology, an online ecosystem that frames men as victims of feminist progress, has moved well beyond fringe forums to shape leadership norms in corporate and political arenas. Scholars have charted its spread across the manosphere, yet we know little about how these narratives crystallise into day-to-day leadership behaviours that undermine workplace ethics and equity. This study conceptualises Red Pill leadership behaviours as a distinc…
Toxic experts in longevity business
In this paper, we introduce and theorize the concept of toxic experts as individuals who, by virtue of their perceived or actual expertise, systematically engage in behaviors characterized by professional and intellectual vices. Despite maintaining an appearance of legitimacy, toxic experts exploit public trust by disseminating unsubstantiated, misleading, or harmful claims for personal and commercial gain. Drawing on a multidisciplinary framewor…
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The legitimation trap
Postcolonial states can organize dispossession through institutions that remain procedurally regular, legally authoritative, and indispensable to citizens’ claims. This article theorizes the legitimation trap as a contingent configuration in which procedural propriety certifies a substantively unjust order and narrows the terms in which that order can be contested. The trap mediates property, extraction, and racialised accumulation; it does not r…
The Algorithmic Leviathan or the Digital Agora? Mechanisms of Enclosure and Pathways to Rights-Based Governance of Digital Commons
Technology corporations increasingly deploy commons language while maintaining extractive ownership structures. We develop the charity-rights framework to explain how enclosure becomes normalized under progressive rhetoric. Drawing on moral economy perspectives, commons theory, and corporate social responsibility critique, the framework distinguishes charity logic (benefits as discretionary corporate benevolence) from rights-based governance (enf…
Red Pill Leadership Behaviours and Discourse Ethics
Red Pill ideology, an online ecosystem that frames men as victims of feminist progress, has moved well beyond fringe forums to shape leadership norms in corporate and political arenas. Scholars have charted its spread across the manosphere, yet we know little about how these narratives crystallise into day-to-day leadership behaviours that undermine workplace ethics and equity. This study conceptualises Red Pill leadership behaviours as a distinc…
Toxic experts in longevity business
In this paper, we introduce and theorize the concept of toxic experts as individuals who, by virtue of their perceived or actual expertise, systematically engage in behaviors characterized by professional and intellectual vices. Despite maintaining an appearance of legitimacy, toxic experts exploit public trust by disseminating unsubstantiated, misleading, or harmful claims for personal and commercial gain. Drawing on a multidisciplinary framewor…
Management and Organizational Studies (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Accountability (1 work) · African cultural and philosophical studies (1 work) · Argument (complex analysis) (1 work) · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation (1 work) · Business ethics (1 work) · Cognition (1 work) · Collective action (1 work) · Commons (1 work)