Dr. Ülker Sözen
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Biografie
Dr. Ülker Sözen received her PhD degree in Sociology in 2017 from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Turkey. She was a postdoctoral fellow from 2019 to 2022 at IRGAC and conducted research on civil society activism and authoritarianism. From 2022 to 2026, she has worked at the Institute for the Study of Religions at Leipzig University in the DFG project “Piety and Secularity Contested: Family and Youth Politics in post-Kemalist New Turkey”. She is currently a Gerda Henkel Stiftung postdoc fellow at the Chair of Development Politics in the project “Platformization, Forms of Authoritarianism, and the Future of Democracy: Perspectives from the Global South.”
Forschungsschwerpunkte
- Digital capitalism
- Authoritarianism
- Digital religions and Islam
- Gender and sexuality
- Social reproduction
Publikationen
- 2025: Young Muslims in the malady of love: Preaching and digital intimate publics on Turkish Social Media. Turkish Studies, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/14683849.2025.2483767
- 2025: Emotional Landscape of Activism in Turkey: Hope and Emotional Sustainability Under Authoritarianism. In Paul Kubicek (ed.), Paths of De-Democratization in Turkey (Culture, Society, and Political Economy in Turkey series), New York: Peter Lang, pp. 107-129.
- 2022: Production of Activism under Authoritarianism: Insights from the Rights-Based Civil Society in Turkey. In IRGAC (eds.), Global Authoritarianism: Perspectives and Contestations from the South. Transcript Verlag, pp. 255-271.