Meral Ugur-Cinar

Meral Ugur-Cinar

@meralugurcinar.bsky.social

Associate Prof. Bilkent University POLS, editor @Gender, Place & Culture, UPENN PhD, New School postdoc political regimes, populism, collective memory, political narratives, political membership, gender, social movements etc.

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Faculty Position in Department of Political Science and Public Administration (Turkish Politics) | Applications for Faculty Positions The Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, invites applications for an open rank (Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, preferably Assistant…

Assistant Professor in Turkish Politics #ECPRMemberJobs
🎓 PhD in relevant field
🇹🇷 Bilkent University
⌛ Thursday 1 January
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My book is now available in paperback

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+To rely solely on trends, tools, or shortcuts in the field or to rely on AI for doing the job for you amounts to putting yourself and your profession on autopilot.

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I'd like to reiterate what I said on a publication workshop for graduate students today as I believe it is central to being an academic as a calling: You cannot put this profession on autopilot as it necessitates your critical and analytical facilities, constantly.+

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Middle East Studies Association The Department of Political Science and Public Administration invites applications for two positions in Turkish Politics (open rank) and Public Policy (Assistant Professor).

#Employment The Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, invites applications for two positions in Turkish Politics (open rank) and Public Policy (Assistant Professor).
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Faculty Position in Department of Political Science and Public Administration (Turkish Politics) | Applications for Faculty Positions

Two job openings at our department. One for Turkish Politics (stars.bilkent.edu.tr/staffapp/POL...) and one for Public Policy (stars.bilkent.edu.tr/staffapp/POL...) .

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Our special issue "Genocide is a feminist issue" is now available here: tandfonline.com/toc/cgpc20/3...
@snehakrishnan.bsky.social

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Title: Patriarchy and political regimes: the role of patriarchal narratives in neopatrimonialism, populism, and the rise of the far right
Author: Meral Ugur-Cinar
Abstract: This article is written with the motivation to call for more interaction between the fields of gender studies and the study of political regimes. Approaching the Turkish case in comparative perspective, it aims to demonstrate the necessity to bring the study of gender to the foreground of comparative politics and specifically the study of issues such as states, political regimes, political parties, and social movements. In what follows, I explain why gender studies need to have a central place in the study of political science and comparative politics in particular instead of being seen solely as the study of male domination. I demonstrate the crucial role patriarchy plays in neopatrimonialism, populism, and far right politics. I show that understanding the link between authoritarianism and patriarchy is key in making sense of the authoritarian dynamics in politics. Being able to understand this link, on the other hand, can serve as a vital springboard in imagining more democratic, pluralistic, and inclusive political futures, as some social movements have tried to show us.
Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277539525000731

"It is long overdue that patriarchy and issues of gender are treated as central to the study of the states and political regimes. (...) patriarchy stands in the way of democracy and equal citizenship. (...) patriarchy provides a lens through which the legitimacy of a regime is judged." 💡

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These contributions also serve as an invitation to feminists across the globe to build a more reflective, critical, inclusive, egalitarian, and pluralistic feminism in thought, speech, and practice.

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This piece introduces our special issue which brings together works that reflect on the prospects and limits of feminism as we know it in the critical times we live in within the context of the Palestinian genocide.

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Genocide is a feminist issue: introduction to special issue This piece introduces our special issue called “Genocide is a Feminist Issue” which brings together works that reflect on the prospects and limits of feminism as we know it in the critical times we...

Our introduction to the forthcoming
@GPCjournal
special issue called "Genocide is a Feminist Issue" prepared together with @snehakrishnan.bsky.social is now available. First 50 copies available for free at www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TBDEX...

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10 months ago

Thank you both.

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Based on my research over more than a decade, I demonstrate how patriarchy is not just a women's issue but that it lies at the heart of political regime discussions.

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10 months ago

My latest article just got published:
Patriarchy and political regimes: the role of patriarchal narratives in neopatrimonialism, populism, and the rise of the far right
authors.elsevier.com/a/1l3dM-6kqp...
First 50 copies free with this link.

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10 months ago

Thank you.

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10 months ago

Siyasette hikayelerin,anlatıların kitabını yazmış biri olarak anlatacak yeni hikayeleri kalmayanların eski,kutuplaştırıcı,dışlayıcı hikayelerine sarılmalarına şaşırmıyor; bunun onlara fayda getireceğini de sanmıyorum.Daha kapsayıcı,çoğulcu,ilerici hikaleyelere...
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Çok tebrikler!

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What Leads to Voting Despite Intention to Abstain?: Emotions, Turnout, and Negative Campaigns in Turkish Elections | Review of Middle East Studies | Cambridge Core What Leads to Voting Despite Intention to Abstain?: Emotions, Turnout, and Negative Campaigns in Turkish Elections - Volume 57 Issue 2

For those who want to make sense of how injustices by the incumbent toward the Istanbul mayor and toward the political opposition in general mobilize voters, our article with Tuğçe İnce just got assigned to an issue (open access)
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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23 Nisan kutlu olsun. Cumhuriyet ve demokrasi öyle bir günde, öyle susarak, öyle korkarak kurulmadı. Azimle, kararlılıkla, cesaretle, vicdanla kuruldu. Elbette gelecek nesillere taşınması da öyle olacak, olmalı... Geleceğe kendi ömründen büyük bir miras bırakanlara saygıyla...

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This game visualizes best what I tried to say in this article.The incumbent does not hit all opposition at once.Perhaps that gives a sense of competitiveness.But it hits hard where it sees a threat.Sometimes debilitatingly.Smth to think about re: comp. auth.
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/electio...

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The effects of executive constraints on political trust This article explores political trust, delving into its subcomponents and the relationship between them. It is interested in explaining why governmental trust and trust in regulative state institut...

maintained. The less governmental interference to regulative state institutions, the more such institutions will be devoted to the public rather than partisan interests,resulting in a wider gap btwn state & govt trust.
More reason to champion checks and balances!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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explained by checks on the executive.This is the case b/c the more restricted the executive,the less regulative state institutions are affected by the fluctuations in gov'tal trust.When the govt cannot encroach upon state institutions the impartiality and efficacy of regulative institutions are...

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The blog post is based on our article "The effects of executive constraints on political trust,"
which is interested in explaining why governmental trust and trust in regulative state institutions are similar in some countries and different in others. It argues that the variation can best be...

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TRUEDEM - blog12 Meral Ugur-Cinar is an Associate Professor at Bilkent University’s Department of Political Science and Public Administration. She is the author of Collective Memory and National Membership (Palgrave) ...

We are happy to learn that TRUEDEM has selected our post with Kursat Cinar among the winning submissions. truedem.eu/news/blog-re....
Our post called "Executive Constraints and Political Trust" can be found here:
www.truedem.eu/blog/blog12

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Faculty Position in Department of Political Science and Public Administration | Applications for Faculty Positions

Multiple open positions at our department. Turkish Politics and Public Policy
stars.bilkent.edu.tr/staffapp/POL...
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@politicalquarterly.bsky.social

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This game visualizes best what I tried to say in this article.The incumbent does not hit all opposition at once.Perhaps that gives a sense of competitiveness.But it hits hard where it sees a threat.Sometimes debilitatingly.Smth to think about re: comp. auth.
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/electio...

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1 year ago
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Online Book Launch: Memory, Patriarchy and Economy in Turkey We are inviting you to the online launch event of Meral Uğur-Çınar’s (Bilkent University) book, Memory, Patriarchy, and Economy in Turkey: Narratives of Political Power. The book, published b…

Looking forward to today's PSA Turkish Politics
event on @meralugurcinar.bsky.social's new book. So much to engage on narratives, from contested histories to patriarchal presents to promises of future economic development.

Join us at 15:00 UK time/10:00am ET:
psaturkishpolitics.uk/2025/01/03/o...

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9/13 | Left Populism – February 13, 2019 – Praxis 13/139/13 | Left Populism – February 13, 2019 – Praxis 13/13

I find these particularly still very useful for my UG classes:
Arato, "Political Theology and Populism."
Weyland, “Neopopulism and Neoliberalism in Latin America: Unexpected Affinities.”
Video of Cohen's conference presentation, (minutes 31.55-46.08), blogs.law.columbia.edu/praxis1313/9...

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