Rahime Süleymaoğlu-Kürüm

Rahime Süleymaoğlu-Kürüm
Bahçeşehir University · Political Science and International Relations

Doctor of Philosophy

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Introduction
I am an associate professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations and Jean Monnet Chair on Feminist Epistemic Justice within the EU and Beyond (FEJUST) at Bahçeşehir University. I hold a PhD in Politics and International Relations from the University of Nottingham, UK.
Education
November 2007 - July 2012
University of Nottingham
Field of study
  • Politics and International Relations
September 2005 - December 2006
University of Nottingham
Field of study
  • International Law
September 2001 - February 2005
Eastern Mediterranean University
Field of study
  • International Relations

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Publications (33)
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The political participation of youth is growing in importance with the proliferation of youth parliaments, councils, and online campaigning. Yet, these sites are not accessible to all youth, especially those from minority, or refugee communities. Activism by these types of youth is often denounced or reduced to dehumanising narratives of their expe...
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Starting from the ‘gender problem’ in European studies, we scrutinize the gendered knowledge production patterns in a least likely case to be gendered, EU–Turkey studies, due to the overrepresentation of women in the field and its feminine image. We utilize feminist standpoint theory and apply research synthesis and citation analysis techniques to...
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The concept of modernity and its association with the West and secularism is being challenged with the rise of religious movements in the age of globalisation. This provides a fertile ground for alternative modernities, disconnected from the West and secularism, to surface. This paper provides a theoretical explanation for the emergence of alternat...
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This paper focuses on the geographical, historical, and cultural spatializations of Turkish national identity by political elites in the post-2000 era. Considering the close link between the formation of national identity and the spatial constructions of homeland, the paper shows that Turkish national identity since the foundation of the Republic h...
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As relations between the European Union (EU) and Turkey have progressed, so has the body of literature on the relationship – to the extent that we can now identify ‘EU–Turkey studies’ as a boutique sub-discipline of EU studies. This article provides a systematic mapping of the evolution of EU–Turkey studies from 1996 to 2020 in order to explore the...
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This chapter focuses on the incorporation of gender equality into the European Union’s (EU) good governance promotion through the provision of development aid to the Tanzanian agricultural sector. Drawing on the literature on norm contestation in the EU, gendering EU studies and postcolonialism, this chapter presents three critical arguments. First...
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This article analyses the gender performances of Turkish women diplomats through in-depth interviews. Building on Morison and MacLeod’s performance-performativity approach, we highlight the need to take into account the different meanings and significance of gender performances under different political and social conditions. We find that a shift a...
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This chapter explores how the escalating tension between young Syrian refugees and host youth communities in Istanbul can be addressed through the use of photography to build peaceful relations. The research employs photovoice and its accompanying use of storytelling as an informal learning opportunity of learning to live together, to engage with,...
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Medyanın bir konuyu onaylayarak veya kınayarak hükümetlerin kararlarında etki sahibi olmasının yanında, siyasi elitlerin görüşleri doğrultusunda kitleleri manipüle etme etkisi de mevcuttur. Bu çalışma medyanın kamuoyu oluşturmadaki bu iki yönlü etkisine dikkat çeken medyalaşma ve çerçeveleme yöntemlerini kullanarak, Suriyeli göçmen krizi döneminde...
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This chapter looks at how arts-based feminist participatory action research (PAR) can be utilised for developing political capabilities of women and facilitate their contribution to epistemic justice. The data draws on co-production of 8 videos with 24 young conservative women university students in Istanbul, and the videos display these women’s mu...
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This book explores the Europeanisation of gender policies and addresses some of the challenges of the debates surrounding the EU’s impact on domestic politics. Using Turkey as a case study, it illustrates that Europeanisation needs a feminist agenda and perspective. The first part of the book critically engages with the literature on Europeanisatio...
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Drawing on the insights of key feminist philosophers (Carole Pateman, Onora O’Neill, Martha Nussbaum, Nancy Fraser and Anne Phillips), this chapter offers a feminist critique to the conditionality and social learning mechanisms which are subsequently conceptualised as interest-driven and norm-driven pathways of Europeanisation. In doing so, the cha...
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This chapter introduces the debates surrounding the Europeanisation of non-members and identifies existing knowledge gaps of Europeanisation. It then introduces the EU’s gender policies and the Turkish context, briefly addresses the shortcomings of Europeanisation framework and offers a rationale on how feminist approaches strengthen its explanator...
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The concluding chapter offers an overview of the extent to which Turkey has adopted and applied EU norms in different gender policy areas, and further scrutinises the impact of the Europeanisation process on women’s development. Building on the findings of seven empirical chapters touching upon both the adoption and application of the EU’s rules, w...
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This chapter introduces the Europeanisation debate with extensive discussion on the mechanisms, scope conditions and potential outcomes, with a special focus on gender equality policy. We first introduce the research questions guiding the process of Europeanisation as well as the domestic and EU-level independent variables guiding three theoretical...
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This paper studies the sociology of elites and the role of cliques on the foreign policy-making process through an exploratory case study of Turkish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. It identifies elite sociology as the independent variable triggering a policy-making process in the Turkish Ministry for Foreign Affairs in line with organisational proces...
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This chapter analyses the status and roles of women in Turkish diplomacy, both historically and in terms of current patterns. Apart from the formal diplomatic positions that women have begun to occupy in growing numbers in recent decades, there is a much longer historical legacy of informal diplomatic roles played by Ottoman/Turkish women. In the T...
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Traditionally male-dominated, diplomacy has entered into a period of transformation with large numbers of women entering the profession. This article introduces the main contributions of the limited number of studies which analyses diplomacy from a gender perspective, and surveys the prevailing masculine norms in diplomacy through examples from dif...
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Since the 2000s, Turkish policymakers and private sector interests have combined representations of Turkey as both Western and Eastern with a branding approach to identity in foreign policy, trade and investment promotion, and cultural sector activities. This article analyses how the commodification of its liminal identity as a dual identity allowe...
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Parliamentarians find themselves engaged in political struggle through the medium of language and constrained by their own rhetoric. These parliamentary debates reveal political perceptions. The external perceptions about the European Union emerge as a relatively understudied topic in political science. This brings forth the following question; how...

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