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Prof. Ayşe Kadıoğlu
  • Bio
  • Teaching
  • Writing
  • Selected lectures and videos
  • Institutional affiliations
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    • Bio
    • Teaching
    • Writing
    • Selected lectures and videos
    • Institutional affiliations

Ayşe Kadıoğlu's

Bio

Teaching

Selected lectures and videos

Institutional affiliations

Writing

Academic publications

Books

  • Cumhuriyet İradesi-Demokrasi Muhakemesi: Türkiye’de Demokratik Açılım Arayışları (Istanbul: Metis, 1999).

  • Vatandaşlığın Dönüşümü: Üyelikten Haklara (Istanbul: Metis, 2008, second edition 2012, third edition 2022).

  • (co-edited with Fuat Keyman) Symbiotic Antagonisms: Competing Nationalisms in Turkey (Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2011).

  • (co-edited with Kerem Öktem and Mehmet Karlı) Another Empire? A Decade of Turkey’s Foreign Policy Under the Justice and Development Party (Istanbul: Istanbul Bilgi University Press, 2012).

  • (co-edited with Olivier de Roy, Timothy Garton Ash, Paul Betts, Kalypso Nicolaidis) Reversing Europe’s Gaze: Perceptions of Power and the Power of Perceptions (London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming in 2026).

Articles in Refereed journals

  • “Citizenship, Immigration and Racism in a Unified Germany with Special Reference to the Turkish Guestworkers,” Boğaziçi University, Journal of Economics and Administrative Studies, 6/1-2, 1992, pp. 199-211.

  • “Women’s Subordination in Turkey: Is Islam Really the Villain,” The Middle East Journal, 48/4, Autumn 1994, pp. 645-661.

  • “Impact of Migration Experiences on Gender Roles: Findings of a Field Research in Turkey,” International Migration, 32/4, 1994, pp. 533-560.

  • “The Paradox of Turkish Nationalism and the Construction of Official Identity,” Middle Eastern Studies, 32/2, April 1996, pp. 177-194.

  • “Migration Experiences of Turkish Women: Notes from a Researcher’s Diary,” International Migration, 35/4, 1997, pp. 537-557.

  • “Republican Epistemology and Islamic Discourses in Turkey in the 1990s,” The Muslim World, LXXXVIII/1, January 1998, pp. 1-21.

  • “Citizenship and Individuation in Turkey: The Triumph of Will Over Reason,” CEMOTI , 26, 1998, pp. 23-43; reprinted in Steunebrink G. and E. van der Zweerde (eds), Civil Society, Religion, and the Nation: Modernization in Intercultural Context, Russia, Japan, Turkey (Studies in Intercultural Philosophy 13, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2004); also published in Turkish in Fuat Keyman (ed.), Liberalizm, Devlet, Hegemonya, (Everest, Istanbul, 2002), pp. 258-283.

  • “An Islamic Critique of Modernity in Turkey: Politics of Difference Backwards” (co-authored with Menderes Çınar), Orient , 40/1, March 1999, pp. 53-69.

  • “Civil Society, Islam and Democracy in Turkey: A Study of Three Islamic NGOs,” The Muslim World, 95/1, January 2005, pp. 23-43.

  • “Denationalization of Citizenship?, The Turkish Experience,” Citizenship Studies, 11/3, July 2007, pp. 283-301.

  • “An Oxymoron: The Origins of Civic-Republican Liberalism in Turkey,” Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies, 16/2, Summer 2007, pp. 171-190.

  • “Political Participation from a Citizenship Perspective,” Middle East Law and Governance, Inaugural issue, 1/1, January 2009, pp. 90-116.

  • “The Pathologies of Turkish Republican Laicism,” Philosophy and Social Criticism, 36/3-4, 2010, pp. 489-504.

  • “Reading John Stuart Mill in Turkey in 2017,” Middle East Law and Governance, 10/2, 2018, pp. 203-232.

  • “Autocratic Legalism in New Turkey,” Social Research: An International Quarterly, 88/2, Summer 2021, pp. 445-471.

  • “Leaving a Life Behind: Eliza Binemeciyan’s Encounter with ‘the Banality of Evil,'” Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies, 28/1, 2021, pp. 3-33.

  • “Writing to exist: Mes’adet Bedirhan’s pleas for Ottoman women,” Women’s History Review, 34/1, 2025, pp. 158-177.

Reports and book chapters

Council of Europe report:

Living Together: Combining Diversity and Freedom in 21st Century Europe, Council of Europe, 2011.


Book chapters:

  • “The Human Tie: International Labor Migration” in Canan Balkır and Allan M. Williams (eds), Turkey and Europe, Pinter Publishers, Ltd., St. Martin’s Press, London, New York, 1993, pp. 140-157.

  • “Is Racism Being Combated Effectively in Germany? The New Immigration Legislation,” in Goran Rystad (ed.), Encountering Strangers: Responses and Consequences, Lund University Press, Sweden, 1996, pp. 73-93.

  • “Cinselliğin İnkarı: Büyük Toplumsal Projelerin Nesnesi Olarak Türk Kadınları” in Bilanço 98, 75 Yılda Kadınlar ve Erkekler (Istanbul: Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı, 1998), pp. 89-101; also published in German in Barbara Pusch (ed.), Die neue muslimische Frau (Istanbul: Orient-Institut and Goethe-Institut, 2001), pp. 31-50.

  • “Democratic Citizenship” in Günay Göksu Özdoğan and Gül Tokay (eds), Redefining the Nation, State, and Citizen (Istanbul: Marmara University Research Centre for International Relations, 2000), pp. 59-69.

  • “Milliyetçilik-Liberalizm Ekseninde Vatandaşlık ve Bireysellik” in Tanıl Bora (ed.), Modern Türkiye’de Siyasi Düşünce Tarihi, Vol. 4 (Istanbul: İletişim, 2002), pp. 284-292.

  • “Can We Envision Turkish Citizenship as Non-membership” in Fuat Keyman and Ahmet İçduygu (eds), Citizenship and Identity In a Globalizing World: European Questions/Turkish Experiences (London and New York: Routledge, 2005), pp. 105-123.

  • “Muslim Feminist Debates on the Question of Headscarf in Contemporary Turkey” in Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Islamic Thought (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006).

  • “Aydınlanma, Vatandaşlık ve Kadın: Türkiye Örneği,” in Fuat Keyman (ed.), Aydınlanma, Türkiye ve Vatandaşlık (Istanbul: Osmanlı Bankası Arşiv ve Araştırma Merkezi, 2008).

  • “Vatandaşlık ve Siyasal Katılım,”  in Ergun Özbudun’a Armağan Cilt I, (Istanbul: Yetkin Yayınları, 2008).

  • “Genos versus Devlet: Conceptions of Citizenship in Greece and Turkey,” in Othon Anastasakis, Kalypso Nicolaidis and Kerem Oktem (eds), In the Long Shadow of Europe: Greeks and Turks in the Era of Postnationalism (Leiden: E. J. Brill, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009).

  • “Necessity and State of Exception: Turkish State’s Permanent War with its Kurdish Citizens” in Riva Kastoryano (ed.), Turkey Between Nationalism and Globalization, (London and New York: Routledge, 2013).

  • “Academic Freedom: the Global Challenge and the Case of Turkey,”  in Michael Ignatieff and Stefan Roch (eds), Academic Freedom: Global Challenges (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2018) pp. 63-69.

  • “What Stories does Europe Tell: A View from Turkey,” Harvard University, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Open Forum Series, 35, October 17, 2019.

  • “Imperious Nationalism in New Turkey: Foreign Policy Discourses in the AKP’s Electoral Manifestos,” (co-authored with Bengi R. Cengiz) in Alpaslan Özerdem and Ahmet Erdi Öztürk (eds), A Companion to Modern Turkey’s Centennial: Political, Sociological, Economic and Institutional Transformations since 1923 (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming in 2023).

  • “Reversing the Gaze: Tentative Lessons from and for Europe,” (Epilogue), co-authored with Kalypso Nicolaidis, in Olivier Yasar de France et al. (eds), Reversing Europe’s Gaze: Perceptions of Power and the Power of Perceptions (London: PalgraveMacmillan, forthcoming in 2026).

Other publications (non-academic)

Book

Zaman Lekesi (Time Stain, collection of essays) (Istanbul: Istanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2006).

Essays

  • “Tarihsel Açıdan Alman Milliyetçiliği, Vatandaşlık Kavramı ve Göç Politikaları,”  Türkiye Günlüğü, 17, 1991, pp. 104-109.

  • “Alaturkalık ile İffetsizlik Arasında Birey Olarak Kadın,” Görüş, TÜSIAD, no.9, May 1993, pp. 58-62.

  • “Devletini Arayan Millet: Almanya Örneği,” Toplum ve Bilim, 62, Güz 1993, pp. 95-111.

  • “Türkiye’de Yaşanan Hizipleşme ve Dreyfus Meselesi,” Birikim, 59, March 1994, pp. 98-101.

  • “Milletini Arayan Devlet: Türk Milliyetçiliğinin Açmazları,” Türkiye Günlüğü, 33, 1995, pp. 91-101; reprinted in 75/2003 Türkiye Günlüğü.

  • “Cumhuriyetin Kuruluş Yıllarında Türk Milliyetçiliğinin Çelişkisi ve Seçkinlerin Tavrı” in Nuri Bilgin (ed.), Cumhuriyet, Demokrasi ve Kimlik (Istanbul: Bağlam, 1997), pp. 277-282.

  • “Kamusal Alan ile Özel Alanın Yeniden Eklemlenmesi: Demokratik Vatandaşlık,” Diyalog, 1, 1996, pp. 119-134; also published in German in Kursat-Ahlers, Elçin, Dursun Tan and Hans-Peter Waldhoff (eds), Globalisierung, Migration und Multikulturalitat (Hannover: IKO-Verlag fur Interkulturelle Kommunikation, Institut fur Soziologie der Universitat, 1999), pp. 257-274.

  • “Cumhuriyet Kadını: Vatandaş mı, Birey mi?” Varlık, 1069, October 1996, pp. 12-15.

  • “Sıradan Milliyetçilik: Sürekli Milliyetçilik,” Varlık, 1076, May 1997, pp. 2-6.

  • “Yeni Alman Sağı: Bir Başka Tarihbilim Tartışması,” Toplumbilim, 7, October 1997, pp. 63-70.

  • “Laiklik ve Türk Liberalizminin Kökenleri,” Defter, 11/33, Spring 1998, pp. 41-63.

  • “Su Canavarının Karaya Çıkışı: Devlet ve MHP,” Birikim, 122, June 1999, pp. 23–28.

  • “Yirminci Yüzyılın Başında Aidiyet Biçimleri,” 8. Ulusal Kalite Kongresi, 3–4 November 1999, CD-ROM, TÜSIAD, KalDer.

  • “Sosyal Bilimsel Sancılar,” Doğu-Batı, 2/7, May-June-July 1999, pp. 171–186.

  • “The Debate on Democratization in the Broader Middle East and North Africa: A Civic Assessment from Turkey,” Istanbul Papers 3, Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV) and the German Marshall Fund of the United States, June 2004 (co-authored with Burak Akçapar, Mensur Akgün, Meliha Altunışık; this policy paper was also published in Turkish and Arabic).

  • “Eastern Union,” Oxfordforum, Oxford University Student Union, Summer 2006, pp. 38-39.

  • “Citizenship and Participation,” The CSD Bulletin, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, 13/2, Summer 2006, pp. 16–17.

  • “The Pigeon on the Bridge is Shot,” MERIP online, February 16, 2007.

  • “The Headscarf and Citizenship in Turkey,” Social Science Research Council blog, Immanent Frame, April 23, 2008.

  • “The Spirit of Convivencia,” The Cost of No EU-Turkey III: Five Views, Open Society Foundation, Istanbul, May 2011 (available in English and Turkish).

  • “From Oblivion to Memory: Skeletons in the Turkish Republican Closet” (co-authored with Orhan Miroğlu), in Dimitar Bechev (ed.), What Does Turkey Think? (London: European Council on Foreign Relations, June 2011).

  • “The Role of Islam in the Democratic Transformation of Arab Countries: Can Turkish Laicism be a Model?” Democracy on the Precipice: Council of Europe Democracy Debates 2011-12 (Council of Europe publication, 2012).

  • “Turkish Taboos Perpetuate Immaturity,” Free Speech Debate, February 17, 2012; reprinted in The Guardian, April 18, 2012.

  • “Participatory Democracy or Bust! Message from the ‘heartbeat’ city,” Eurozine, June 12, 2013.

  • “Skeletons in the Turkish Closet: Remembering the Armenian Genocide,” openDemocracy, April 24, 2015; reprinted in Hülya Adak, Fatma Müge Göçek and Ronald Grigor Suny (eds), Critical Approaches to Genocide: History, Politics and Aesthetics of 1915 (London and New York: Routledge, 2024).

  • “Coup d’état attempt: Turkey’s Reichstag fire,”  openDemocracy, July 16, 2016.

  • “Istanbul Mayoral elections: in praise of human agency,” openDemocracy, June 24, 2019.

  • “New authoritarian Zeitgeist: family resemblances,” openDemocracy, December 6, 2019.

  • “Exile, dignity and love: An Istanbul Story,” K24, May 18, 2020; reprinted in Eurozine on August 25, 2020.

  • “İhsan Raif: A woman with a pen and a pillow in Istanbul,” K24, January 18, 2021.

  • "Bireylerin tarihinin öğrettikleri," K24, December 27, 2022.

  • For essays in K24, see; https://www.k24kitap.org/yazarlar/ayse-kadioglu 

Opinion pieces

  • For opinion pieces in T24: https://t24.com.tr/yazarlar/ayse-kadioglu-2 


  • For opinion pieces in openDemocracy: https://www.opendemocracy.net/author/ayse-kadioglu/ 


  • Opinion pieces published in Radikal İki (published with the daily Radikal on Sundays) between 2001-2014 can no longer be reached online since the newspaper is closed down and its archives are removed from the internet.

Selected interviews, news pieces

  • Nare Dink, "Gurur veya suçlulukla değil tevazuyla hatırlamak," Agos, 24 Nisan 2026: https://www.agos.com.tr/tr/haber/gurur-veya-suclulukla-degil-tevazuyla-hatirlamak-40241 

  • Ayşe Kadıoğlu'ndan 20 yılın hikayesi, GazeteSU, 3 Haziran 2020: https://gazetesu.sabanciuniv.edu/tr/ayse-kadioglundan-20-yilin-hikayesi  

  • "Kadınlar korunmak değil eşitlik istiyor," Bianet, 1 Aralık 2017: https://bianet.org/haber/kadinlar-korunmak-degil-esitlik-istiyor-192036 

  • Nesrin Balkan'la Çarşamba Sohbetleri, GazeteSU, 3 Nisan 2014: https://gazetesu.sabanciuniv.edu/tr/buyuyunce-dj-olmak-istiyorum 

  • Nesrin Balkan'la Çarşamba Sohbetleri, GazeteSU, 21 Mart 2014: https://gazetesu.sabanciuniv.edu/tr/guzel-gulen-zarif-kadin-ayse-kadioglu 

  • Zeynep Miraç, Milliyet, 3 Aralık 2012: https://www.milliyet.com.tr/gundem/ecdadimiz-bir-kadin-ya-da-ermeni-olabilir-1636154

  • Agos, 3 Aralık 2012: https://www.agos.com.tr/tr/haber/ecdadimiz-bir-kadin-ya-da-ermeni-olabilir-3504 

  • Ezgi Başaran, T24, 13 Ağustos 2012: https://t24.com.tr/gundem/prof-kadioglu-hukumetin-ic-politakasi-dis-politikasinin-anti-tezine-donustu,210772?_t=1777471483481 

  • Interviews in the daily Radikal (between 2001-2014) can no longer be reached online since the newspaper is closed down and its archives are removed from the internet.

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