Esra Özyürek
Esra Özyürek, Associate Professor, received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2002. Her academic interests include secularism and Islam, ideologies of state and citizenship, public and private, alternative modernities, and social and cultural memory. Her regional areas are Turkey and Europe.
Publications
Books
2006
Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey.. Durham: Duke University Press.
2006
The Politics of Public Memory in Turkey. (edited volume) Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.
2001
Remembering and Forgetting: Social Memory in Turkey. (edited volume)(in Turkish ) Istanbul: Iletisim.
Articles and Book Chapters
- 2005
- "The Politics of Cultural Unification, Secularism, and the Place of Islam in the New Europe." American Ethnologist, 32:4, 509-12
- 2004
- "Wedded to the Republic: Public Intellectuals and Intimacy Oriented Publics in Turkey." In Off Stage/On Display: Intimacies and Ethnographies in the Age of Public Culture, edited by Andrew Shryock. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 101-130.
- 2004
- "Miniaturizing Ataturk: Privatization of the State Imagery and Ideology in Turkey." American Ethnologist, 31:3, 374- 391.
- 2000
- "The Headscarf Knot in the Parliament." (in Turkish) In Ayse Gul Altinay (ed.) Homeland, Nation, and Women, 339-57. Istanbul: Iletisim.
- 1997
- "Feeling Tells Better Than Language: Emotional Expression and Gender Hierarchy." New Perspectives on Turkey, 16: 41-52.
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