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Basak Gemici
Texas A&M University
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Discipline
Sociology
Sub Areas
Democratization
Turkish Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Kurdish Studies
Theory
Ethnography
Geographic Areas of Interest
Turkey
Kurdistan
All Middle East
Specialties
Authoritarian Populism, Gender, Everyday Life
Languages
Turkish (native)
English (fluent)
Kurdish (intermediate)
German (elementary)
Education
MA | 2016 | Sociology | University of Pittsburgh
MA | 2015 | Comparative Studies in History and Society | Koc University
BA | 2012 | Social and Political Science | Sabanci University
Abstracts
Prolonged Authoritarian Populism at the Urban Micro-level: “Distancing,” and the Changing Narratives of Doing “Normal” in Daily Istanbul Meaning-Making as a Social Force in Prolonging Authoritarian Populism