Möser, Cornelia, Jennifer Ramme, and Judit Takács, eds. Paradoxical Right-Wing Sexual Politics in Europe. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

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How did far-right, hateful and anti-democratic ideologies become so successful in many societies in Europe? This volume analyses the paradoxical roles sexual politics have played in this process and reveals that the incoherence and untruthfulness in right-wing populist, ultraconservative and far-right rhetorics of fear … more info

Borsuk, İmren, Pınar Dinç, Sinem Kavak, and Pınar Sayan, eds. Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Resistance in Turkey: Construction, Consolidation, and Contestation. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

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This book offers new clarity on three important political concepts: authoritarianism, neoliberalism, and resistance. While debates on authoritarian resurgence have been limited to the examination of political factors (e.g., polarisation, conflict) until recently, the rising literature on ‘authoritarian neoliberalism’ highlights how the neoliberal restructuring … more info

Yıldız, Pınar. Kayıp Hafızanın İzinde: Sinemada Geçmişle Yüzleşme, Yas ve İnkar. İstanbul: Metis, 2021.

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Son yirmi yıldır Türkiye sinemasında bastırılanın görünür hale geldiği, geçmişteki suçların ve normallik görüntüsünün ardında yatan dehşetin sarsıcı bir şekilde ortaya çıktığı hikâyeler dile getiriliyor. Bu araştırmayı teşvik eden de, geçmişi hatırlamakta kullandığımız ve bize her zaman bir masumiyet, mağduriyet ya da kahramanlık hikâyesinin … more info

Üstündağ, Nazan. The Mother, the Politician, and the Guerrilla: Women’s Political Imagination in the Kurdish Movement. New York: Fordham University Press, 2023.

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The Mother, the Politician, and the Guerrilla intervenes in discussions on decolonialism and feminism by introducing the example of the Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement. Üstündağ shows how the practices and the concepts of the movement contribute to debates on how the past, present, and future … more info

Poya, Fawad. “Terrorists or Legitimate Insurgents? The Taliban Status under International Law.” Politics and Religion Journal 17, no. 1 (May 2023): 129–157.

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The term terrorism is not subject to a universally accepted definition. However, it is generally used to describe the use of violence against civilian targets to spread fear and distress and thereby achieve ideological and/or political objectives. Specific acts of terrorism, whether national or … more info

Fahimi, Mohammad Zaher, Mohammad Davood Sokhanwar, and Sardar Mohammad Saee, “Psychological Consequences of Being Deprived of Education for Female Students in Afghanistan: A Cross-Sectional and Qualitative Study”, Journal of Chemical Health Risks. JCHR (November, 2023) 13(4), 1902–1906.

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Deprivation of education is an event that has affected the lives of thousands of Afghan girls in different dimensions, including the psychological dimension. The aim of the current research is to objectively and deeply know the psychological experience of girls who have been banned … more info