Demet Gülçiçek
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Demet Gülçiçek is an honorary researcher at the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender. She holds her PhD from University of Warwick, and masters and bachelor degrees from Middle East Technical University, Turkey, all in sociology departments. She also works as an Assist. Prof. in Munzur University, Turkey.
Her research interests include feminist historiography, affect theories, Orientalism and Occidentalism studies, travelling theories and popular feminisms. Her book titled Travelling Theory and Women's Movements in Turkey: Imagining EuropeLink opens in a new window is recently published with Routledge.
Demet is a co-chair of ATGENDERLink opens in a new window (The European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation) until 2025. She is also a co-editor of Feminist Tahayyül (Feminist Imagination) Journal.
Recent Publications
Gulcicek, D. (2024) “An article that I am not in the mood to write any more: Motivations to research about popular feminism” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies. 20(2). 261-265. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-11176482
Gülçiçek, D. (2023) Travelling Theory and Women's Movements in Turkey. New York: Routledge
Gulcicek, D. (2023) ‘Seksenli Yıllarda Kadın Hareketi: Kişiseli Politik Yapmak’ [Women's movements during 1980s: Making Personal Political] Türkiye’nin 1980’li Yılları (ed.) M. K. Kaynar, İstanbul: İletişim Publishing. 771-792.
Gülçiçek, D. (2022) ‘Nation’s happiness, women’s altruism and the affective politics of self-blame: Generating a “mood of commitment”’ The Sociological Review Journal https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261221142124
Gülçiçek, D. and Erdogan, E. (Eds). (2022) Feminist Eleştiri: Arayışlar ve Müzakereler [Feminist Criticism: Inquires and Negotiations] Istanbul: Metis Publishing. https://www.metiskitap.com/catalog/book/37108
Gülçiçek, D. (2021) ‘Beyond the Waves: Navigating complexity, context and care in how we read feminist texts [Online]. The Sociological Review. https://doi.org/10.51428/tsr.ebco9318