Publications

2024

• Arslan, Berna Zengin (2024) "Beyond the Dichotomy of Secular and Religious. Turkish Secularism, the State, and the Diyanet." OUP Handbook of Religion in Turkey, Caroline Tee, Fabio Vicini, Philip Dorroll (eds), Oxford University Press.
• Birelma, Alpkan, Işıklı, E., and Sert, D. 2024. “The stubborn persistence of working-class protest in Turkey in an age of authoritarian neoliberalism.” Turkish Studies 25(1), DOI: 10.1080/14683849.2023.2285508
• Birelma, Alpkan. 2024. [Book review] “The politics of the welfare state in Turkey: How social movements and elite competition created a welfare state,” by Erdem Yörük (University of Michigan Press, 2022). Social Policy & Administration.
• Mutlu, Burcu. “Strategic In/visibility of Turkish Egg Donors: Reproductive Labor, Secrecy, and Stigma in the Transnational Bioeconomy.” Medical Anthropology (May 21, published online first) https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2024.2355959
• Rottmann, Susan Beth & P. Sezingalp Ozcetin. 2024. Domesticity and Dwelling in Displacement: Home-Making practices of Syrian Women in Istanbul Houses. Gender, Place and Culture. DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2024.2338392
• Sipahi, Ali. 2024. “An ethnographic moment in Turkey during the long 1968: Anthropologist portraits from the Chicago Circle and beyond,” BEROSE: International Encyclopedia of the Histories of Anthropology, https://www.berose.fr/article3265.html
• Sipahi, Ali. 2024. “How to be a Good Guest? American Ethnographers in Cold War Turkey,” Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute, 30:1 (March 2024): 133-149. https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9655.14049

2023

• Birelma, Alpkan. 2023. “Günümüz Türkiyesi’nde İşçi Sınıfının Hak Arama Mücadelesinin Çapı ve Sınırları.” In Çoklu Krizler Çağında Yoksulluk: Sosyal Politika ve Sosyal Hizmete Eleştirel Yaklaşımlar, ed. D. Yükseker, İ. Ö. Kerestecioğlu and N. Ş. Taşğın, Nika Yayınları, İstanbul.
• Birelma, Alpkan., Işıklı, E., and Sert, D. 2023. “Otoriterlik Koşullarında İşçi Sınıfı Eylemleri: 2015 Sonrası Türkiye Vakası.” Praksis 62, 25-51.
• Birelma, Alpkan. 2023. “Militant minority at work: a successful case of unionisation of garment workers in Istanbul.” Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement, 44:1, 113-130.
• Mutlu, Burcu. 2023. “Between Solidarity and Conflict: Tactical Biosociality of Turkish Egg Donors.” Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 47 (3), 684-700.
• Mutlu, Burcu. 2023. “Duygulanımsal Biyoekonomiler ve Yumurta Donörlerinin (Görünmeyen) Üreme Emeği.” Ayşe Akalın (ed.), Temasın İmkânları Değmek, Değer Üretmek, Dayanışmak içinde. İstanbul: Metis.
• Şahin-Mencütek, Z., E. Gökalp-Aras, A. Kaya & Susan Beth Rottmann. 2023. Syrian Refugees in Turkey. Between Reception and Integration. Springer: IMISCOE Research Series.
• Rottmann, Susan Beth and M. Kanal. 2023. Akle Tayyibe [Tasty Dish]—Cooking Up Belonging in the Syrian Refugee Foodscape in Turkey. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies (JIRS) DOI:  10.1080/15562948.2023.2275256
• Rottmann, Susan Beth. 2023. Forced Migration and the Politics of Belonging in Europe: Integration Policy, National Debates and Migrant Strategies. International Migration Review.  https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183231195284
• Rottmann, Susan Beth. 2023. “At the Unsettling Limits of Collaborative Life Writing: A Memoir of An Ethnography-Memoir.” In: Anthropological Approaches to Reading Migrant Writing: Reimagining Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge, and Power. Edited by Deborah Reed-Danahay and Helena Wulff. London: Routledge.
• Sipahi, Ali. 2023. “Antropolog Lloyd A. Fallers’ın 1960’lardaki Türkiye Çalışmaları,” folklor/edebiyat, no. 116 (November 2023): 1129–1150. 

2022

• Arslan, Berna Zengin and Bryan S. Turner. 2022. “Against the ‘Exception’: Rethinking Turkish Secularism through the Diyanet” in The I.B. Tauris Handbook of Sociology and the Middle East. Fatma Müge Göçek and Gamze Evcimen (eds), Bloomsbury Publishing.
• Arslan, Berna Zengin. 2022. “Bilime Feminist Eleştiri” in Meraklısına Bilim 2021, Bilim Akademisi 10 Yaşında, Sarkaç Seçkisi. (https://sarkac.org/2022/03/bilime-feminist-elestiri-2/)
• Birelma, Alpkan. 2022. Trade Unions in Turkey 2022. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Berlin.
• Birelma, Alpkan., Işıklı, E., and Sert, D. 2022. “2010’ların ikinci yarısında Türkiye’de işçi sınıfı protesto eylemleri.” Çalışma ve Toplum 74, 1861-1900.
• Kılıçtepe, Şafak, Saluk, Seda, ve Mutlu, Burcu. 2022. “Üreme Adaleti Perspektifinden Türkiye’de Üreme ve Doğurganlık Politikalarına Bakış.”Feminist Tahayyül 3 (1), 39-72.
• Rottmann, Susan Beth. & R. Sayer. 2022. Embracing Vulnerability in Writing Migrant Lives. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 37:1, 153-174, DOI: 10.1080/08989575.2022.2038939.
• Sezingalp Ozcetin, P. & S.B. Rottmann. 2022. (Lived) Spaces of Belonging, Culture and Gender: Spatial Practices of Home for Syrian Women in Istanbul. Space and Culture. https://doi.org/10.1177/12063312221089213.
• Sipahi, Ali. 2022. “The Making of a National City: From Harput to Elazığ,” in Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Turkey, ed. by Joost Jongerden. New York: Routledge, 2022, 63–74.
• Sipahi, Ali. 2022. “Peter Benedict: Türkiye Etnografi Tarihinden Bir Portre,” Antropoloji, no. 44 (2022): 4–19.

2021

• Arslan, Berna Zengin. 2021. “Reforming Laïcité or Reforming Islam? Institutional and Legal Integration of Islam in France” in Islam, Secularism and the Culture Wars in France Forum. Berkeley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. (https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/responses/reforming-islam-orreforming-laicite-institutional-and-legal-integration-of-islam-in-france)
• Arslan, Berna Zengin and Bige Acimuz. 2021. “Reforming Laïcité or Reforming Islam? Secularism, Islam, and the Regulation of Religion in France”, Journal of Law, Religion and State, 9 (147-177).
• Birelma, Alpkan. 2021. “Türkiye’de sendikal hareketin ve hakların yukarıdan görünümü: niteliksel bir araştırma.” Çalışma ve Toplum 70, 1787-1817.
• Mutlu, Burcu. 2021. “Crafting Moral Agency in Transnational Egg Donation: The Case of Turkish Egg Donors.” In Ayse Dayi, Sezin Topcu and Hilal Alkan (eds), Reproduction, Maternity, Sexuality: Governing the Female Body in Contemporary Turkey.  I.B Tauris.
• Rottmann, Susan Beth. 2021. “Analysing Belonging in RESPOND Countries: The Impact of Social Locations and Meso-Level Inclusion.” RESPONDing to Migration: A Holistic Perspective on Migration Governance. Soner Barthoma ve Onver A. Cetrez tarafindan düzenlendi. Uppsala Üniversitesi Yayınları, 341-356.
• Kaya, A., Rottmann, Susan Beth, N. Ela Gökalp-Aras, Zeynep Şahin-Mencütek. 2021. “Turkey: border management, protection, reception, and integration of refugees.” RESPONDing to Migration: A Holistic Perspective on Migration Governance. Soner Barthoma ve Onver A. Cetrez tarafindan düzenlendi. Uppsala Üniversitesi Yayınları, 187-208.
• Kaya, A., Rottmann, Susan Beth, N. Ela Gökalp-Aras, Zeynep Şahin-Mencütek. 2021. Türkiye’de Mültecilik: Koruma, Kabul ve Entegrasyon. İstanbul: Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları.  E-ISBN: 978-605-399-571-5.
• Rottmann, Susan Beth & M. Nimer. 2021. “We always open our doors for visitors”- Hospitality as Home-making Strategy for Refugee Women in Istanbul. Migration Studies 9(3): 1380–1398.
• Janas, M. & Rottmann, Susan Beth. 2021. Everyday Agency - Rethinking Refugee Women’s Agency in the Cultural Context. Frontiers in Psychology – Cultural Psychology. 12: 726729. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.726729.
• Nimer, M. & Rottmann, Susan Beth. 2021. Logistification and Hyper-Precarity at the Intersection of Migration and Covid-19 Governance in Turkey: Refugee Inclusion and Exclusion in the Labour Market. Journal of Refugee Studies doi: 10.1093/jrs/feab076.
• Sipahi, Ali. 2021. “Başka bir dünya onu merak etmekle başlar: Marshall Sahlins’in ardından,” Toplum ve Bilim, no. 156 (2021): 166–184.
• Sipahi, Ali. 2021. “Ethnographic authority and public culture in Turkey in the 1950s,” History and Anthropology 32, no. 3 (2021): 381–403.
• Sipahi, Ali. 2021. “‘Battle of Agencies’ Released,” CSSH Behind the Scenes, 1 March 2021.
• Sipahi, Ali. 2021. “In pursuit of intellectual discovery: an interview with Michael E. Meeker,” New Perspectives on Turkey, no. 65 (2021): 100–119.

2020

• Arslan, Berna Zengin. 2020. “Salgının İcadı Olur mu? Agamben ve Büyük Körlüğü”. Toplum ve Bilim, 152.
• Arslan, Berna Zengin. 2020. “Reading the Universe with Heart and Practicing Science as Religious Ethics: Reconciling Islam and Science in Contemporary Turkey”. Social Epistemology. Vol. 34(3).
• Birelma, Alpkan. 2020. “When Class Unionism Leads to Working-Class Recomposition: The Case of TÜMTİS in Turkey.” In Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle, ed. Robert Ovetz, Pluto Press, London, 64-89.
• Rottmann, Susan Beth. 2020.  Cultivating membership abroad: Analyzing German pre-integration courses for Turkish marriage migrants. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1070289X.2020.1851004.
• Rottmann, Susan Beth & M. Nimer. 2020. Language learning through an intersectional lens: Gender, migrant status and gain in symbolic capital for Syrian refugee women in Turkey. Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication 40(1): 67-85.
• Nimer, M. & Susan Beth Rottmann. 2020. Migration Regime and “Language Part of Work”: Experiences of Syrian Refugees as Surplus Population in the Turkish Labour Market. Critical Sociology 42(7–8): 975–987.
• Rottmann, Susan Beth, I. Josipovic & U. Reeger. 2020. Beyond Legal Status: Exploring Dimensions of Belonging among Forced Migrants in Istanbul and Vienna. Social Inclusion 8(1).
• Rottmann, Susan Beth & A. Kaya. 2020. ‘We can’t integrate in Europe. We will pay a high price if we go there’: culture, time and migration aspirations for Syrian refugees in Istanbul. Journal of Refugee Studies 33(2).
• Sipahi, Ali. 2020. “Deception and Violence in the Ottoman Empire: The People’s Theory of Crowd Behavior during the Hamidian Massacres of 1895,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 62, no. 4 (October 2020): 810– 835.

2019

• Sipahi, Ali. 2019. “Arabella ile Tomas,” Tarihçilerden Başka Bir Hikâye, der. Ebru Aykut, Nurçin İleri, Fatih Artvinli. İstanbul: Can Yayınları, 2019, 29-52.
• Sipahi, Ali. 2019. [Book Review] “Begüm Adalet. Hotels and Highways: The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018, xi + 286 pages.” New Perspectives on Turkey, no. 60 (May 2019): 140-44.
• Birelma, Alpkan. 2019. “Working-class entrepreneurialism: Perceptions, aspirations and experiences of petty entrepreneurship among male manual workers in Turkey.” New Perspectives on Turkey, 61, 45-70.
• Rottmann, Susan Beth. 2019.  In Pursuit of Belonging: Forging and Ethical Life in European-Turkish Spaces.  Londra ve New York: Berghahn Books.

2018

• Arslan, Berna Zengin. 2018. “The Making of New Muslim Femininities and Masculinities: Gendered Spaces and the Pedagogies of the Gülen Community”, in Patriarchat im Wandel: Frauen und Politik in der Turkei, Asli Aksoy (ed) Campus Verlag.
• Birelma, Alpkan. 2018. “Türkiye Sendikal Hareketinde Aykırı bir Yeniden Canlanma Vakası: TÜMTİS’in Yakın Dönemdeki Atılımı.” In Türkiye’nin Büyük Dönüşümü: Ayşe Buğra’ya Armağan Kitabı, ed. Osman Savaşkan and Mehmet Ertan, İletişim Yayınları, İstanbul, 579-607.
• Birelma, Alpkan. 2018. “Some thoughts on class and class struggle as evoked by Durrenberger and Doukas’ article.” Dialectical Anthropology, 42(1), 25-28.
• Birelma, Alpkan. 2018. “When Local Class Unionism Meets International Solidarity: A Case of Union Revitalisation in Turkey.” Global Labour Journal, 9(2), 215-230.
• Mutlu, Burcu. 2018. “Gizleyerek Aile Olmak: Yurtdışında Yasaklı Biyoteknolojilerle Çare Arayışları.” Toplum ve Bilim 144: 161-193.
• Mutlu, Burcu. 2018. “Cinsellik, Üreme/Doğurganlık, ve Sağlık Politikaları Üzerine Sohbet.” (Neslihan Şen, Nilay Erten, Nurhak Polat, Seda Saluk and Şafak Kılıçtepe ile birlikte). Kültür ve Siyasette Feminist Yaklaşımlar 33-34:123-154.
• Rottmann, Susan Beth. 2018. Citizenship Ethics: German-Turkish Return Migrants, Belonging and Justice. Cultural Dynamics 30(3): 154-172.
• Sipahi, Ali. 2018. “Narrative Construction in the 1895 Massacres in Harput: The Coming and Disappearance of the Kurds,” Études arméniennes contemporaines, no. 10 (2018): 63-95.

2017

• Birelma, A. 2017. “Subcontracted Employment and Labor’s Response in Turkey.” In Uncertain Times: Anthropological Approaches to Labor in a Neoliberal World, ed. Paul Durrenberger, University Press of Colorado, Boulder, 261-286.
• Mutlu, Burcu. 2017 “Morally Accounting for Sex Selection Online in Turkey.” BioSocieties 12(4): 543- 567 (SSCI, impact factor 2018: 2.958).
• Bozkurt, K. & Susan Beth Rottmann.  2017. “Legal and Anthropological Approaches to Migration Policy in Turkey”, Hasan Arapgirlioglu ve diğerleri, Researches on Science and Art in 21st Century Turkey (21. Yüzyıl Türkiye'sinde Bilim ve Sanat Üzerine Araştırmalar). Ankara: Gece Kitapligi.

2016

• Sipahi, Ali. 2016. “Convict Labor in Turkey, 1936-1953: A Capitalist Corporation in the State?” International Labor and Working-Class History, no. 90 (Fall 2016): 244-65.
• Sipahi, Ali. 2016. “Window-Conflicts in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey: Visual Privacy, Materiality and Right to the City,” Middle Eastern Studies 52, no. 4 (2016): 588-604.
• Sipahi, Ali. 2016. “Introduction,” co-authored by the editors, in The Ottoman East in the Nineteenth Century: Societies, Identities and Politics, ed. by Yaşar Tolga Cora, Dzovinar Derderian, and Ali Sipahi. London: I.B. Tauris, 2016, 1-15.

2015

• Arslan, Berna Zengin. 2015. “Aleviliği Tanımlamak: Türkiye’de Dinin Yönetimi, Sekülerlik ve Diyanet”, (Defining Alevism: Management of Religion in Turkey, Secularism and the Diyanet) Mülkiye Dergisi. 39 (1): 135-158.
• Birelma, Alpkan. 2015. “Türkiye’de Taşeron Çalışma.” Toplum ve Bilim, 133, 55-96.
• Mutlu, Burcu. 2015 “The Gendered Ethics of Secrecy and Disclosure in Transnational Sex Selection  from Turkey to Northern Cyprus.” In Venetia Kantsa, Lina Papadopoulou and Giulia Zanini (eds), (In)Fertile Citizens: Anthropological and Legal Challenges of Assisted Reproduction Technologies. Conference Proceedings. Alexandria Publishing House.
• Rottmann, Susan Beth. 2015.  “Educational Strategies of Turkish Migrants from Germany: The Quest for Cultural Capital in Turkey” , Almut Küppers, Barbara Pusch ve Pınar Uyan-Semerci (editörler), Education in Transnational Spaces: Theory, Practice and Research based on German-Turkish Examples.  VS ahar Verlag.

2014

• Birelma, Alpkan. 2014. “Türkiye’de Evsizlik: Genel Bir Değerlendirme.” In Türkiye’de Sosyal Hizmet ve Öteki, ed. Pınar Akkuş and Özgür Başpınar Aktükün, Bağlam Yayınları, İstanbul, 291-326.
• Birelma, Alpkan. 2014. Ekmek ve Haysiyet Mücadelesi: Günümüz Türkiyesi’nde Üç İşçi Hareketinin Etnografisi. İletişim Yayınları, İstanbul.
• Rottmann, Susan Beth. 2014.  Negotiating Modernity and European-ness in the Germany-Turkey Transnational Social Field. Insight Turkey 16(4), 143-158.
• Turner, Bryan S., Berna Zengin Arslan. 2014. “Legal Pluralism and Shari’a: a comparison of Greece and Turkey”. Sociological Review. Vol. 62 (3): 439-456.

2013

• Turner, Bryan S., Berna Zengin Arslan. 2013. “State and Turkish Secularism: The Case of the Diyanet” in The Religious and the Political a Comparative Sociology of Religion by Bryan S. Turner, Cambridge University Press.
• Arslan, Berna Zengin. 2013. Christopher Dole. "Healing Secular Life: Loss and Devotion in Modern Turkey”. New Perspectives on Turkey. No.49: 177-181.
• Rottmann, Susan Beth. 2013.  Cultivating and Contesting Order: “European Turks” and Negotiations of Neighborliness at “Home.” Anthropology of the Middle East 8(2): 1-20.
• Sipahi, Ali. 2013. “İmralı Cezaevi’nin Tarihi,” Toplum ve Kuram, no. 8, Bahar 2013: 111-136.

2012

• Sipahi, Ali. 2012. “Unearthing the Ottoman Present,” New Perspectives on Turkey, no. 47, Fall 2012: 211-220.
• Sipahi, Ali. 2012. “HAU: Felsefi Antropolojiden Antropolojik Felsefeye Doğru,” Toplum ve Bilim, no. 23, Mart 2012: 286-91.
• Birelma, Alpkan. 2012. “Ekmek ve Haysiyet Mücadelesi: 2000’lerde Üç Sendikalaşma Mücadelesi Vakası.” Toplum ve Bilim, 124, 146-164.

2011

• Mutlu, Burcu. 2011. “Türkiye’de ‘Üremeye Yardımcı’ Teknolojiler: Kadınların Tüp Bebek Anlatıları. Ayşecan Terzioğlu, Cenk Özbay and Yeşim Yasin (eds), Neoliberalizm ve Mahremiyet: Türkiye’de Beden, Sağlık ve Cinsellik. Istanbul: Metis.
• Turner, Bryan S., Berna Zengin Arslan. 2011. “Shari’a and Legal Pluralism in the West”. European Journal of Social Theory. Great Britain. 14. No. 2: 139-159.

2010

• Zengin, Berna. 2010. Women Engineers in Turkey Gender, Technology, Education and Professional Life, Lambert Academic Publishing: Germany. Translated to 6 different languages, 2021 (French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Polish).

2009

• Mutlu, Burcu. 2009. “Kariyer de Yaparım, (Tüp) Bebek de!.” Amargi 15: 37-39.

2008

• Rottmann, Susan Beth & M.M. Ferree. 2008. Citizenship and Intersectionality: German Feminist Debates about Headscarf and Antidiscrimination Laws.  Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State, and Society 15(4): 481-513.

2002

• Zengin Arslan, Berna. 2002. “Women in Engineering Education in Turkey: Understanding the Gendered Distribution”. International Journal of Engineering Education. Great Britain. 18. No.4: 400-408.

2001

• Zengin Arslan, Berna, S., Yetkin. 2001. “A Presentation on Turkish Immigrants in Austria: Transgressions and Transnational Identities”. Toplum ve Bilim. Birikim Publications: Ankara, 89: 242-249. (In Turkish)