Umut Ozkaleli
Biographic Data
| ID | 915553 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Umut Ozkaleli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Umut |
| FAMILY NAME | Ozkaleli |
| SIGNATURE | OZKALELI U |
| AFFILIATIONS | ADA University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8856-2283 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Queering Peacebuilding: Microaggression and Social Identity Complexity in Post-Accord Bosnia and Herzegovina
Wedding rituals, political power and the third space in Soviet Azerbaijan
Afro-Cypriots: Prejudice, Colourism, Racism, and Rising Black Consciousness in Cyprus
This paper focuses on Afro-Cypriots, whose ancestors came to the Mediterranean island of Cyprus during the Ottoman period. The paper contributes to extant literature by exploring the impact of colonialism, racism, and slavery by questioning the ways Afro-Cypriots navigate their identities within the particular context of North Cyprus. By de-emphasizing the ethnic division of Turkish and Greek Cypriot identities, this paper focuses on the shifts f…
Embracing Afro hair, resisting colourism: Black women’s experiences in North Cyprus
This paper takes the intersectional domains of power framework to examine Black Cypriot women’s experiences with Afro hair in a community where black colour, hair, and features are othered. This paper draws particular attention to the interpersonal and cultural domains of power. We examine how hair prejudice has endured within families and in the Turkish Cypriot community by focusing on space and time differences. We compare the experiences of fi…
Loss of Black Identity in Cyprus
“Wake up Ali, wake up!” repeats the folk song. “Arap Ali” (Black Ali) was a folk hero and my paternal grandfather, who was murdered by British colonial soldiers. The song motivated the production of the first-ever Turkish Cypriot opera in 2019. The art form presented actual Black people as white. Connecting personal memories to the symbols of staged whitewashing, this study seeks to understand hidden colorist cultural practices in Cyprus. I discu…
De-worlding IR theory
The literature on ‘worlding IR’ that aims to recognize the possibility of the subject position of the non-West is growing. Offering a textual analysis, this article aims to contribute to critical IR debates by applying cinematographic apparatus theory to identify how the dominant subject position in IR is still reserved for the Western author and how the Western subject remains intact in worlding IR theorizing. The article treats worlding IR theo…
Agency in multiple temporalities: Being Syrian women, becoming widows and refugees, remaining pious
Displaced selves, dislocated emotions and transforming identities: Syrian refugee women reinventing selves
Intersectionality in Gender Mainstreaming: Equity Organizing in Turkey
Historically, Turkey is home to multiple identities and cultures. In following with the critiques of Diversity Mainstreaming approach toward Gender Mainstreaming, this article argues that recognition of identities can be possible if an intersectional approach is adopted. To overcome the particular challenges of Gender Mainstreaming’s implementation in Turkey’s multicultural society, this article introduces a concept that supplements Gender Mainst…
Kuzey Kıbrıs'ta Türkiyeli Göçmenler (Immigrants from Turkey in North Cyprus)
State of the state in their minds: Intersectional framework for women's citizenship in Turkey
What Was My War Like?’: Missing Pages From the Gendered History of War in Cyprus
This paper aims to uncover Turkish Cypriot women's war experiences and integrate that knowledge into the public discourse. We argue that the omission of women's war experiences thus far has served to sustain the mutually reinforcing alliance between patriarchy and nationalism, which we call patriarchal nationalism. Building on feminist standpoint theory, deconstruction of the official and hegemonic ‘his'tory of war poses challenges to the strongh…
Dissident Voices: Women, Minority Status, and Criticism of the Nationalist Turkish State
This paper analyses the ways in which women's various minority positions serve as critical standpoints for deconstructing exclusionary nationalisms in Turkey, and offers some alternatives. After a brief analysis of categories of Turkish nationalism, an analysis of field data is presented, which discusses examples of how women critically engage with nationalism. Interviews with 45 women from different social locations stress the richness and inter…
Butterflies for Girls, Cars for Boys: Gender in K-12
This article aims to analyse mainstream education, its restrictively gendered structure, and some possible alternatives for introducing gender issues to grades K-12. The article focuses not only on schools in order to analyse what they teach to children, but also what they teach to and reinforce in parents by using feminist methodology. Idea of ‘gender equality’ is challenged as it may lead to fixed definitions of being female or male which perpe…
Displaced selves, dislocated emotions and transforming identities: Syrian refugee women reinventing selves
Agency in multiple temporalities: Being Syrian women, becoming widows and refugees, remaining pious
State of the state in their minds: Intersectional framework for women's citizenship in Turkey
Intersectionality in Gender Mainstreaming: Equity Organizing in Turkey
Historically, Turkey is home to multiple identities and cultures. In following with the critiques of Diversity Mainstreaming approach toward Gender Mainstreaming, this article argues that recognition of identities can be possible if an intersectional approach is adopted. To overcome the particular challenges of Gender Mainstreaming’s implementation in Turkey’s multicultural society, this article introduces a concept that supplements Gender Mainst…
What Was My War Like?’: Missing Pages From the Gendered History of War in Cyprus
This paper aims to uncover Turkish Cypriot women's war experiences and integrate that knowledge into the public discourse. We argue that the omission of women's war experiences thus far has served to sustain the mutually reinforcing alliance between patriarchy and nationalism, which we call patriarchal nationalism. Building on feminist standpoint theory, deconstruction of the official and hegemonic ‘his'tory of war poses challenges to the strongh…
Dissident Voices: Women, Minority Status, and Criticism of the Nationalist Turkish State
This paper analyses the ways in which women's various minority positions serve as critical standpoints for deconstructing exclusionary nationalisms in Turkey, and offers some alternatives. After a brief analysis of categories of Turkish nationalism, an analysis of field data is presented, which discusses examples of how women critically engage with nationalism. Interviews with 45 women from different social locations stress the richness and inter…
De-worlding IR theory
The literature on ‘worlding IR’ that aims to recognize the possibility of the subject position of the non-West is growing. Offering a textual analysis, this article aims to contribute to critical IR debates by applying cinematographic apparatus theory to identify how the dominant subject position in IR is still reserved for the Western author and how the Western subject remains intact in worlding IR theorizing. The article treats worlding IR theo…
Butterflies for Girls, Cars for Boys: Gender in K-12
This article aims to analyse mainstream education, its restrictively gendered structure, and some possible alternatives for introducing gender issues to grades K-12. The article focuses not only on schools in order to analyse what they teach to children, but also what they teach to and reinforce in parents by using feminist methodology. Idea of ‘gender equality’ is challenged as it may lead to fixed definitions of being female or male which perpe…
What Was My War Like?’: Missing Pages From the Gendered History of War in Cyprus
This paper aims to uncover Turkish Cypriot women's war experiences and integrate that knowledge into the public discourse. We argue that the omission of women's war experiences thus far has served to sustain the mutually reinforcing alliance between patriarchy and nationalism, which we call patriarchal nationalism. Building on feminist standpoint theory, deconstruction of the official and hegemonic ‘his'tory of war poses challenges to the strongh…
Dissident Voices: Women, Minority Status, and Criticism of the Nationalist Turkish State
This paper analyses the ways in which women's various minority positions serve as critical standpoints for deconstructing exclusionary nationalisms in Turkey, and offers some alternatives. After a brief analysis of categories of Turkish nationalism, an analysis of field data is presented, which discusses examples of how women critically engage with nationalism. Interviews with 45 women from different social locations stress the richness and inter…
State of the state in their minds: Intersectional framework for women's citizenship in Turkey
Kuzey Kıbrıs'ta Türkiyeli Göçmenler (Immigrants from Turkey in North Cyprus)
Displaced selves, dislocated emotions and transforming identities: Syrian refugee women reinventing selves
Intersectionality in Gender Mainstreaming: Equity Organizing in Turkey
Historically, Turkey is home to multiple identities and cultures. In following with the critiques of Diversity Mainstreaming approach toward Gender Mainstreaming, this article argues that recognition of identities can be possible if an intersectional approach is adopted. To overcome the particular challenges of Gender Mainstreaming’s implementation in Turkey’s multicultural society, this article introduces a concept that supplements Gender Mainst…
Agency in multiple temporalities: Being Syrian women, becoming widows and refugees, remaining pious
Embracing Afro hair, resisting colourism: Black women’s experiences in North Cyprus
This paper takes the intersectional domains of power framework to examine Black Cypriot women’s experiences with Afro hair in a community where black colour, hair, and features are othered. This paper draws particular attention to the interpersonal and cultural domains of power. We examine how hair prejudice has endured within families and in the Turkish Cypriot community by focusing on space and time differences. We compare the experiences of fi…
Loss of Black Identity in Cyprus
“Wake up Ali, wake up!” repeats the folk song. “Arap Ali” (Black Ali) was a folk hero and my paternal grandfather, who was murdered by British colonial soldiers. The song motivated the production of the first-ever Turkish Cypriot opera in 2019. The art form presented actual Black people as white. Connecting personal memories to the symbols of staged whitewashing, this study seeks to understand hidden colorist cultural practices in Cyprus. I discu…
De-worlding IR theory
The literature on ‘worlding IR’ that aims to recognize the possibility of the subject position of the non-West is growing. Offering a textual analysis, this article aims to contribute to critical IR debates by applying cinematographic apparatus theory to identify how the dominant subject position in IR is still reserved for the Western author and how the Western subject remains intact in worlding IR theorizing. The article treats worlding IR theo…
Afro-Cypriots: Prejudice, Colourism, Racism, and Rising Black Consciousness in Cyprus
This paper focuses on Afro-Cypriots, whose ancestors came to the Mediterranean island of Cyprus during the Ottoman period. The paper contributes to extant literature by exploring the impact of colonialism, racism, and slavery by questioning the ways Afro-Cypriots navigate their identities within the particular context of North Cyprus. By de-emphasizing the ethnic division of Turkish and Greek Cypriot identities, this paper focuses on the shifts f…
Wedding rituals, political power and the third space in Soviet Azerbaijan
Queering Peacebuilding: Microaggression and Social Identity Complexity in Post-Accord Bosnia and Herzegovina
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Cyprus History, Politics, Society (5 works) · History (5 works) · Art (4 works)