Contact
221 Burwood Highway
Burwood
Melbourne
Victoria
3125
Australia
ABOUT
Professor Ihsan Yilmaz is Research Chair of Islamic Studies and Intercultural Dialogue at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of Creating the Desired Citizen: Ideology, State and Islam in Turkey (Cambridge University Press). He has conducted mixed-method research on several themes: 1. Islam–state–law relations in majority and minority contexts; 2. Islamism, Islamist populism, politics of victimhood and resentment, emotions in politics; 3. Global Islamic movements; 4. Nation-building, citizenship, ethnic, religious and political minorities and their securitisation; 5. Socio-legal affairs, identities, belonging, political participation and intergroup relations of Muslim minorities in the West (the UK, Australia, and the USA); 6. Authoritarianism, democratic decay; 7. Turkish politics; 8. Turkish diasporas (the UK, Australia), transnationalism; 9. Muslim youth in the West.
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
Comparative
Ethnic Groups
Democratization
Identity/Representation
Islamic Studies
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Minorities
Security Studies
Turkish Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Europe
Southeast Asia
Pakistan
Indonesia
Turkey
Islamic World
Specialties
Nation-building
Citizenship
Authoritarianism
Languages
English (fluent)
Turkish (native)
Arabic (advanced)
French (intermediate)
German (intermediate)
Education
BA
| 1994
| Political Science and International Relations
| Bogazici University
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