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Murat Metinsoy
Istanbul University
Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Istanbul University
Faculty of Economics Political Science and International Relations
Beyazit / Istanbul 34452
Turkey
ABOUT
Murat Metinsoy is Associate Professor at Istanbul University, Faculty of Economics, Department of Political Science and International Relations. He received his PhD degree from Bogazici University in 2010 with a dissertation titled "Everyday Politics of Ordinary People: Public Opinion, Dissent, and Resistance in Early Republican Turkey, 1925-1939." He studies everyday and informal politics of ordinary people, popular resistance and dissent under authoritarian regimes, labor movements, peasant politics, social impact of the wars during the 20th century, and secularism and cultural change in modern Turkey. As a minor field, he is also interested in social history of the Soviet Union and history of Turkish novel. His MA thesis, "Wars outside the War: The Social Impact of the Second World War on Turkey," which deals with the survival and resistance strategies of the peasants and working class in the face of social effects of the war and authoritarian state policies, was published in Turkish (Ikinci Dunya Savasi'nda Turkiye: Savas ve Gundelik Yasam) in 2007 and awarded with the Best Young Social Scientist Award by The Turkish Social Science Association and with the Best Book Award from the Ottoman Bank Archives and Research Center in 2007. His articles have been published in respected scholarly journals like International Journal of Middle East Studies, International Journal of Turkish Studies, International Journal of Turkish Studies, Toplum ve Bilim, Tarih ve Toplum, and Toplumsal Tarih. His book chapters have also been published in several national and international edited collections. He has carried out several research projects supported by TÜBITAK, Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA), American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) and Istanbul University Research Project Department. He currently revises his dissertation for publication and gives lectures about history and politics of modern Turkey, history of the 20th century, history of Middle East,Turkish novel, and history of civilizations.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Turkish Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
19th-21st Centuries
Modernization
State Formation
Pop Culture
Ottoman Studies
Kurdish Studies
Historiography
Geographic Areas of Interest
Ottoman Empire
Turkey
Specialties
Turkish Secularism In Everyday Life
Social And Economic History Of Early Republican Tu
Working Class And Peasant Politics
Languages
Turkish (native)
English (advanced)
French (intermediate)
Ottoman (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2010 | Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History | Bogazici University
MA | 2004 | Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History | Bogazici University
BA | 2000 | Political Science and International Relations | Istanbul University
Abstracts
The Everyday Forms of Peasant Politics in Early Republican Turkey: Resistance to Agricultural Taxes Reconsidering Turkish Unveiling Reform: Everyday Resistance and Adaptation to Unveiling during the Early Republican Era Rural Crimes, Violence and Banditry as Peasants’ Everyday Politics in Early Republican Turkey Reconsidering Turkey’s Democratization: Role of Social Resistance in Everyday Life in 1939-1945