Serhun Al
Biographic Data
| ID | 95637 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Serhun Al |
| GIVEN NAMES | Serhun |
| FAMILY NAME | Al |
| SIGNATURE | AL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6253-3214 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Electoral dynamics, new nationalisms, and party positions on Syrian refugees in Turkey
When and under what conditions do ideologically similar nationalist parties adopt different positions and discourses about refugees and immigrants? We address this question by examining nationalist parties' approaches toward Syrian refugees in Turkey. Documenting these differences based on an original Twitter dataset and party manifestos, we argue that electoral dynamics under the new presidential system have shaped nationalist parties' discourse…
From Beka to Ghaza? New Ontological Security Regime and Turkey’s Neo-Imperial Bid in World Politics
Turkey’s domestic and foreign policy agendas have long been dominated by the state survival politics (‘Beka Meselesi’ in Turkish). This survival logic is so powerful as it gravitates around collective anxieties and their re-production since the beginning of the early Republican period, the separation of Turkey along ethnic lines being the most distressing. Building on this, this article makes two claims. Firstly, it argues that alternative interp…
Federal versus Unitary States: Ethnic Accommodation of Tamils and Kurds
This article contributes to the debate on whether federalism leads to ethnic accommodation and is peace-preserving through comparing the methods of ethnic accommodation in federal and unitary states. Rather than focusing on a large dataset, this article offers an in-depth picture of the role the two systems play in ethnic accommodation, offering a more nuanced understanding. The Kurds (Iraq and Turkey) and Tamils (India and Sri Lanka) have been c…
Islam, ethnicity and the state: Contested spaces of legitimacy and power in the Kurdish-Turkish public sphere
The pro-Kurdish nationalist mobilization in Turkey was mostly built on the right to self-determination aligned with the Marxist-Leninist ideology for the insurgent Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the early 1980s and ethnic minority rights for the secular-leftist pro-Kurdish legal parties in the 1990s. The Turkish state mostly framed the legal and illegal pro-Kurdish mobilization as ‘the enemy of the state’ and ‘the enemy of Islam’ in its counte…
Kurdish Hizbullah in Turkey: Islamism, Violence and the State
Statehood and the political dynamics of insurgency: KLA and PKK in comparative perspective
Why do some insurgencies attain their ultimate goal of statehood while others never do? Although explanations for insurgency success based on political will, natural resources, geography or diaspora involvement have advanced our understanding of the conditions under which insurgencies are likely to succeed in pursuing their statehood agenda, they have not adequately addressed the critical role of the major external actors (e.g. USA, UK, European …
When do states (de)securitise minority identities? Conflict and Change in Turkey and Northern Ireland
Hyphenated Turkishness: The plurality of lived nationhood in Turkey
Is Turkish nationality one singular identity that does not permit ethnic modifiers? Or can it be understood as pluralistic, with identities nested — “hyphenated” — with Turkishness? Then, are Turkish and Kurdish identities necessarily mutually exclusive? Such questions over the boundaries of Turkishness have long been framed in the civic versus ethnic dichotomy — an approach that does not ask whether Turkish nationhood is monolithic or pluralisti…
An Anatomy of Nationhood and the Question of Assimilation: Debates on Turkishness Revisited
Scholars have primarily debated the anatomy of T urkishness within the framework of an ethnic versus civic dichotomy. Arguing that such an approach would be inconclusive and less explanatory, this article approaches T urkishness from a singularity/plurality framework. First, the article emphasizes the singular nature of T urkishness – defined as monolithic nationhood – in the early Republican years that rejected any alternative identity approache…
Nation-building in Turkey and Morocco: Governing Kurdish and Berber dissent
Elite Discourses, Nationalism and Moderation: A Dialectical Analysis of Turkish and Kurdish Nationalisms
Scholars of nationalism and ethnicity have long studied when and how nationalist discourses on the one hand and national and ethnic identities on the other are often socially constructed along with their outcomes of ethnic disputes and nationalist polarizations. However, studies on the deconstruction processes of the nationalist discourses, their evolution over time and degrees of ethnic peace and moderation have mostly been limited. By taking th…
Local Armed Uprisings and the Transnational Image of Claim Making: The Kurds of Turkey and the Zapatistas of Mexico in Comparative Perspective
The purpose of this article is to explore why and how some local armed uprisings are able to go global with a transnational image of ‘social justice’ while others fail to build such image despite becoming transnational. The cases to be analyzed in the article are the pro-Kurdish mobilization in the leadership of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Turkey and the pro-Mayan Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) movement in Mexico. In expla…
Regimes of ethnicity and nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey
Serhun AlUniversity of Utah, UT, [email protected]© 2014, Serhun Al
Interpretive research design: Concepts and processes
by Peregrine Schwartz-Shea and Dvora Yanow, New York, Routledge, 2011, 200 pp., $29.95 (paperback), ISBN-10 041587808X In social sciences a protracted academic tendency for positivist methodology i
Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey
Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey." British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 40(3), pp. 352–353
Symbiotic Antagonisms: Competing Nationalisms in Turkey
Symbiotic Antagonisms: Competing Nationalisms in Turkey
An Anatomy of Nationhood and the Question of Assimilation: Debates on Turkishness Revisited
Scholars have primarily debated the anatomy of T urkishness within the framework of an ethnic versus civic dichotomy. Arguing that such an approach would be inconclusive and less explanatory, this article approaches T urkishness from a singularity/plurality framework. First, the article emphasizes the singular nature of T urkishness – defined as monolithic nationhood – in the early Republican years that rejected any alternative identity approache…
Electoral dynamics, new nationalisms, and party positions on Syrian refugees in Turkey
When and under what conditions do ideologically similar nationalist parties adopt different positions and discourses about refugees and immigrants? We address this question by examining nationalist parties' approaches toward Syrian refugees in Turkey. Documenting these differences based on an original Twitter dataset and party manifestos, we argue that electoral dynamics under the new presidential system have shaped nationalist parties' discourse…
Elite Discourses, Nationalism and Moderation: A Dialectical Analysis of Turkish and Kurdish Nationalisms
Scholars of nationalism and ethnicity have long studied when and how nationalist discourses on the one hand and national and ethnic identities on the other are often socially constructed along with their outcomes of ethnic disputes and nationalist polarizations. However, studies on the deconstruction processes of the nationalist discourses, their evolution over time and degrees of ethnic peace and moderation have mostly been limited. By taking th…
Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey
Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey." British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 40(3), pp. 352–353
From Beka to Ghaza? New Ontological Security Regime and Turkey’s Neo-Imperial Bid in World Politics
Turkey’s domestic and foreign policy agendas have long been dominated by the state survival politics (‘Beka Meselesi’ in Turkish). This survival logic is so powerful as it gravitates around collective anxieties and their re-production since the beginning of the early Republican period, the separation of Turkey along ethnic lines being the most distressing. Building on this, this article makes two claims. Firstly, it argues that alternative interp…
Nation-building in Turkey and Morocco: Governing Kurdish and Berber dissent
Local Armed Uprisings and the Transnational Image of Claim Making: The Kurds of Turkey and the Zapatistas of Mexico in Comparative Perspective
The purpose of this article is to explore why and how some local armed uprisings are able to go global with a transnational image of ‘social justice’ while others fail to build such image despite becoming transnational. The cases to be analyzed in the article are the pro-Kurdish mobilization in the leadership of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Turkey and the pro-Mayan Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) movement in Mexico. In expla…
When do states (de)securitise minority identities? Conflict and Change in Turkey and Northern Ireland
Hyphenated Turkishness: The plurality of lived nationhood in Turkey
Is Turkish nationality one singular identity that does not permit ethnic modifiers? Or can it be understood as pluralistic, with identities nested — “hyphenated” — with Turkishness? Then, are Turkish and Kurdish identities necessarily mutually exclusive? Such questions over the boundaries of Turkishness have long been framed in the civic versus ethnic dichotomy — an approach that does not ask whether Turkish nationhood is monolithic or pluralisti…
Regimes of ethnicity and nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey
Serhun AlUniversity of Utah, UT, [email protected]© 2014, Serhun Al
Interpretive research design: Concepts and processes
by Peregrine Schwartz-Shea and Dvora Yanow, New York, Routledge, 2011, 200 pp., $29.95 (paperback), ISBN-10 041587808X In social sciences a protracted academic tendency for positivist methodology i
Symbiotic Antagonisms: Competing Nationalisms in Turkey
Interpretive research design: Concepts and processes
by Peregrine Schwartz-Shea and Dvora Yanow, New York, Routledge, 2011, 200 pp., $29.95 (paperback), ISBN-10 041587808X In social sciences a protracted academic tendency for positivist methodology i
Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey
Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey." British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 40(3), pp. 352–353
Elite Discourses, Nationalism and Moderation: A Dialectical Analysis of Turkish and Kurdish Nationalisms
Scholars of nationalism and ethnicity have long studied when and how nationalist discourses on the one hand and national and ethnic identities on the other are often socially constructed along with their outcomes of ethnic disputes and nationalist polarizations. However, studies on the deconstruction processes of the nationalist discourses, their evolution over time and degrees of ethnic peace and moderation have mostly been limited. By taking th…
Local Armed Uprisings and the Transnational Image of Claim Making: The Kurds of Turkey and the Zapatistas of Mexico in Comparative Perspective
The purpose of this article is to explore why and how some local armed uprisings are able to go global with a transnational image of ‘social justice’ while others fail to build such image despite becoming transnational. The cases to be analyzed in the article are the pro-Kurdish mobilization in the leadership of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Turkey and the pro-Mayan Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) movement in Mexico. In expla…
Regimes of ethnicity and nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey
Serhun AlUniversity of Utah, UT, [email protected]© 2014, Serhun Al
An Anatomy of Nationhood and the Question of Assimilation: Debates on Turkishness Revisited
Scholars have primarily debated the anatomy of T urkishness within the framework of an ethnic versus civic dichotomy. Arguing that such an approach would be inconclusive and less explanatory, this article approaches T urkishness from a singularity/plurality framework. First, the article emphasizes the singular nature of T urkishness – defined as monolithic nationhood – in the early Republican years that rejected any alternative identity approache…
Nation-building in Turkey and Morocco: Governing Kurdish and Berber dissent
Hyphenated Turkishness: The plurality of lived nationhood in Turkey
Is Turkish nationality one singular identity that does not permit ethnic modifiers? Or can it be understood as pluralistic, with identities nested — “hyphenated” — with Turkishness? Then, are Turkish and Kurdish identities necessarily mutually exclusive? Such questions over the boundaries of Turkishness have long been framed in the civic versus ethnic dichotomy — an approach that does not ask whether Turkish nationhood is monolithic or pluralisti…
Statehood and the political dynamics of insurgency: KLA and PKK in comparative perspective
Why do some insurgencies attain their ultimate goal of statehood while others never do? Although explanations for insurgency success based on political will, natural resources, geography or diaspora involvement have advanced our understanding of the conditions under which insurgencies are likely to succeed in pursuing their statehood agenda, they have not adequately addressed the critical role of the major external actors (e.g. USA, UK, European …
When do states (de)securitise minority identities? Conflict and Change in Turkey and Northern Ireland
Kurdish Hizbullah in Turkey: Islamism, Violence and the State
Islam, ethnicity and the state: Contested spaces of legitimacy and power in the Kurdish-Turkish public sphere
The pro-Kurdish nationalist mobilization in Turkey was mostly built on the right to self-determination aligned with the Marxist-Leninist ideology for the insurgent Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the early 1980s and ethnic minority rights for the secular-leftist pro-Kurdish legal parties in the 1990s. The Turkish state mostly framed the legal and illegal pro-Kurdish mobilization as ‘the enemy of the state’ and ‘the enemy of Islam’ in its counte…
Federal versus Unitary States: Ethnic Accommodation of Tamils and Kurds
This article contributes to the debate on whether federalism leads to ethnic accommodation and is peace-preserving through comparing the methods of ethnic accommodation in federal and unitary states. Rather than focusing on a large dataset, this article offers an in-depth picture of the role the two systems play in ethnic accommodation, offering a more nuanced understanding. The Kurds (Iraq and Turkey) and Tamils (India and Sri Lanka) have been c…
Electoral dynamics, new nationalisms, and party positions on Syrian refugees in Turkey
When and under what conditions do ideologically similar nationalist parties adopt different positions and discourses about refugees and immigrants? We address this question by examining nationalist parties' approaches toward Syrian refugees in Turkey. Documenting these differences based on an original Twitter dataset and party manifestos, we argue that electoral dynamics under the new presidential system have shaped nationalist parties' discourse…
From Beka to Ghaza? New Ontological Security Regime and Turkey’s Neo-Imperial Bid in World Politics
Turkey’s domestic and foreign policy agendas have long been dominated by the state survival politics (‘Beka Meselesi’ in Turkish). This survival logic is so powerful as it gravitates around collective anxieties and their re-production since the beginning of the early Republican period, the separation of Turkey along ethnic lines being the most distressing. Building on this, this article makes two claims. Firstly, it argues that alternative interp…
Political science (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Politics (9 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (7 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (6 works) · Ethnic group (5 works)