Publications

Recent and forthcoming publications

Book manuscript in progress, on contract with Palgrave Macmillan

Feminist and LGBT+ Activism across Russia, Scandinavia and Turkey. Transnationalizing Spaces of resistance. Palgrave Macmillan, Selin Çağatay, Mia Liinason and Olga Sasunkevich.

2021

Liinason, Mia (forthcoming 2021) “Multiplicities of power - Multiplicities of struggle. Intersectional movements and feminist and queer grassroots activism”, in Handbuch Intersektionalitätsforschung [Handbook for intersectionality research], edited by A Biele Mefebue, A D. Bührmann, S Grenz, Springer VS

Liinason, Mia (forthcoming 2021) "Infiltration som motståndstaktik: Om att rekrytera rätt" [Infiltration as resistance tactic. About right recruitment], in K Boréus, A Neergaard & L Sohl (eds.) Ojämlika arbetsplatser. Hierarkier, diskriminering och strategier för jämlikhet [Unequal work places. Hierarchies, discrimination and strategies for equality], Nordic Academic Press, pp. 1-26.

2020

Liinason, Mia (2020) “‘Drawing the line’ and other small-scale resistances. Exploring agency and ambiguity in feminist and queer transnational NGOs,” International Feminist Journal of Politics, pp. 1-23.

Cagatay, Selin (forthcoming 2020) “Kemalist feminizm. Kadın hareketi tarihinin göz ardı edilmiş ‘bariz gerçeği’” [Kemalist feminism. The ignored ‘obvious truth’ of the history of women’s movement]. In Nacide Berber and Feryal Saygılıgil, eds., Modern Türkiye’de Siyasi Düşünce, Vol. 10 Feminizm [Political Thought in Modern Turkey, Vol. 10 Feminism], Istanbul: Iletişim Yayınları.

Sasunkevich, Olga (forthcoming 2020) "Emancipation is More than the Freedom of Choice: Rethinking the Feminist Agenda in Postsocialism", in Gender and Power in Eastern Europe - Changing Concepts of Femininity and Masculinity in Power Relations, edited by K. Bluhm, G. Pickhan, J. Stypinska, A. Wierzcholska. Springer Nature.

2019

Cagatay, Selin (2019) Book review: Zafer Toprak, Türkiye’de Yeni Hayat. Inkılap ve Travma 1908–1928 (New Life in Turkey. Revolution and Trauma 1908–1928), Istanbul: Doğan Kitap, 2017. In Aspasia, vol. 13, pp. 233-236.

Liinason, Mia (2019): “Challenging the visibility paradigm: Tracing ambivalences in lesbian migrant women’s negotiations of sexual identity,“ Journal of Lesbian Studies.

Liinason, Mia (second edition 2019) ”En feminism utan Kvinnan. Texter från 1990-talets feministiska rörelse” [Feminism without Woman. Texts from the feminist movement of the 1990s"], in Könspolitiska nyckeltexter II. Från befolkningskris till talibantal 1930-2002, edited by Klara Arnberg, Fia Sundevall and David Tjeder, Göteborg & Stockholm: Makadam förlag.

2018

Arik, Hulya (2018) "Emotional and Corporeal Formations of Secularism: A Case Study on Military Bases in Turkey, 1980s-2000s" , Social and Cultural Geography. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2018.1559344

Arik, Hulya (2018) "Secular risk governance and the Turkish military's battle with political Islam, 1980s-2000s", Security Dialogue, 1-18.

Cagatay, Selin (2018) "Women's Coalitions Beyond the Laicism-Islamism Divide in Turkey: Towards an Inclusive Struggle for Gender Equality?" Social Inclusion, vol. 6, no. 4 (November), 48–58.

Cagatay, Selin (2018) "Feminists in, against (and beyond?) the state: Women's rights, global gender equality regime, and Turkey's gender politics in the 21st century." In Diana Mulinari and Lena Martinsson, eds., Dreaming Global Change – Doing Local feminisms. Visions of Feminism. Global North /Global South Encounters, Conversations and Disagreements, New York and Oxon: Routledge, 58–80.

Cagatay, Selin (2018) Review essay: "New Perspectives on Modernity, Nationalism and Muslim Women in the late-Ottoman Period." In Aspasia, vol. 12, pp. 146–152.

Liinason, Mia (2018) "Borders and belongings in Nordic feminisms and beyond" Gender, Place and Culture. A Journal of Feminist Geography.

Liinason, Mia (2018) Guest Edited section of Gender, Place and Culture. A Journal of Feminist Geography: ”Ungendering Europe: Critical Engagements with Key Objects in Feminism”, co-edited with Erika Alm.

Liinason, Mia and Olga Sasunkevich (2018) ”Women resisting border regimes. Two case studies from Northern and Eastern Europe”, book chapter in Dreaming Global Change. Doing Local Feminisms. Visions of Feminism. Global North /Global South Encounters, Conversations and Disagreements, edited by Diana Mulinari and Lena Martinsson, London & New York: Routledge.

Liinason, Mia (2018) Equality Struggles. Women’s Movements, Neoliberal Markets and State Political Agendas in Scandinavia, London & New York: Routledge (monograph, 231 pages).

Liinason, Mia and Marta Cuesta (2018) “Interconnections: Narrating Nordic Feminisms” labrys, études féministes/ estudos feministas, vol. 31, pp. 1-23.

Sasunkevich, Olga (2018) “But I liked it, I liked it’: Revealing agentive aspects of women’s engagement in informal economy on the EU external borders”, The European Journal of Women's Studies, https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506818762984.

Sasunkevich, Olga (2018) “Ethnography of Invisible: Studying Informal Economy in Small Towns”. Sage Research Method Cases Part 2. London: Sage Publications Ltd. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781526436665.

Sasunkevich, Olga (2018) “Introduction: the three editors voice their opinions about the past and present of gender studies in postsocialist space”, Perekrestki, 1 – 2: 10-25, Guest editorial with Benjamin Cope and Elena Minchenia (in Russian).

2017

Arik, Hülya (2017) “Patriarchy”, in International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. New York: Wiley Press, with Alison Bain.

Cagatay, Selin (2017) "Laiklik, kadın hakları, toplumsal cinsiyet politikaları: Günümüz Türkiye'sini tarihsel ve küresel bağlamıyla birlikte düşünmek" [Laicism, women's rights, gender politics: Thinking today's Turkey in its historical and global context]. Birikim, no. 333–334 (January-February), 59–75.

Cagatay, Selin (2017) Book review: Serpil Çakır, Erkek kulübünde siyaset: Kadın parlamenterlerle sözlü tarih [Politics in the men’s club: Oral history with women parliamentarians], Istanbul: Versus Kitap, 2013. In Aspasia, vol. 11, pp. 129–131.

Liinason, Mia (2017) ”Jämställdhet som assemblage” ["Gender equality as assemblage"], Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning no. 3, pp. 165-186.

Liinason, Mia (2017) ”Challenging constructions of nationhood and nostalgia: exploring the role of gender, race and age in struggles for women's rights in Scandinavia”, with Clara Marlijn Meijer, Women’s History Review, pp. 1-25.

Liinason, Mia (2017) ”Sex in/and Sweden. Sexual rights discourses and radical sexual politics in Sweden”, Cogent Social Sciences, no. 3, pp. 1-16.

Sasunkevich, Olga (2017) “In Search of Agency: Examining Belarusian Society from Below”, Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, 3(1): 1–20, Guest editorial with Felix Ackermann and Mark Bermann.

2016

Arik, Hülya (2016) “Security, secularism and gender: the Turkish military's security discourse in relation to political Islam”, Gender, Place & Culture, 23:5, 641-658.

Cagatay, Selin (2016). "From 'daughters of the Republic' to contentious citizens: Kemalist women's activism in historical perspective." In Alexia Bumbaris, Veronika Helfert, Jessica Richter, Brigitte Semanek and Karolina Sigmund, eds., Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte un/diszipliniert? Aktuelle Beiträge aus der jungen Forschung (=Studien zur Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte; 11), Innsbruck et al.: StudienVerlag, 209–231.

Liinason, Mia (2016) Hoppets politik. Feministisk aktivism i Sverige idag [Politics of hope. Feminist activism in Sweden today], Stockholm & Gothenburg: Makadam, with Marta Cuesta (monograph, 288 pages).

Liinason, Mia (2016) Guest Edited section of Women's Studies International Forum: "Women's/Gender Studies and Contemporary Changes in Academic Cultures: European Perspectives" with Sabine Grenz, vol. 54, pp. 79-177.

Sasunkevich, Olga (2016) “Theorizing Social Functioning of Political Borders through the Studies of Cross-border Petty Trade” In: Lee, J & North, M (eds.) Borderlands Studies in Europe and North America. Nebraska University Press: 233-249.

Conference and key note presentations

2019

Arik, Hülya, Selin Çağatay, Mia Liinason and Olga Sasunkevich (2019) “The meanings and limits of ‘the political’: uses and contestations in feminist and LGBTI activism, arts and solidarities in Turkey, Russia and Scandinavia” presentation at G19, National Conference in Gender Research, Göteborg 7-9 oktober, 2019.

Cagatay, Selin (2019) "Making Possible an Impossible Strike: Transnational Solidarities and Counterpublic Feminisms in Turkey." 5th European Conference on Politics and Gender, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 4-6 July 2019.

Cagatay, Selin (2019) “Redefining the strike, building (left-)feminist solidarity. Transnational mobilizations around the International Women's Strike.” Invited presentation at the workshop "Left Feminist Theory and Historiography: Between the Legacy of State-Socialist Emancipation and Today’s Crises", Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia, 19-20 September 2019.

Sasunkevich, Olga (2019) “Welfare states and feminist activism”, presenter and discussant in one conference stream. Moderator and organizer of final session. Sino-Nordic Gender Studies Network Workshop Exploring gendered dimensions of welfare - China and the Nordic countries, Danish Cultural Centre, Beijing, China, 25-29 March 2019.

Liinason, Mia (2019) ”Den ofrivilligt politiska och ’politik med litet p’” ["The involuntary political and politics with a small 'p'"], key note presentation at Genusmaraton, Mid-Sweden University, Östersund 21/3 2019.

2018

Arik, Hulya (2018) "Contesting the “Islamic” in Revival: Women Practicing Islamic Visual Arts in Istanbul, Turkey" NSRN, Worldviews in World View: Particularizing Secularism, Secularity and Nonreligion, London, UK, 5-6 July 2018.

Arik, Hulya, Anne Marie Korte, Mariecke van den Berg, Konstanze Hanitzch, Sabine Grenz, Mia Liinason, Olga Sasunkevich (2018) ”The entanglements of religiosities and secularities in the media, culture and arts”, key note with roundtable. Chair: Mia Liinason and Sabine Grenz. 10th European Feminist Research Conference, Göttingen University, 12-15/9.

Cagatay, Selin (2018) "Feminist Activism in Times of Political Oppression: An Evaluation of 2010s’ Turkey." Gender Studies: Teaching, Learning and Studying, International conference of the EU Project "Gender studies curriculum: A step for Democracy and Peace in EU neighboring countries with different traditions" (GeSt), Kiev, Ukraine, 17-20 April 2018.

Liinason, Mia (2018) “Two Questions for Gender Studies (and Two Generative Refusals)”, key note presentation at Gender Studies 40-year anniversary, Lund University, 16/11, 2018.

Liinason, Mia and Olga Sasunkevich (2018) ”Transnational struggles in local contexts: Feminist and LGBTI activism in Scandinavia, Turkey and Russia”, workshop at 3rd Marxist-Feminist Conference, Lund university, 6-7/10

Liinason, Mia (2018) ”Spaces of Resistance. Studying globalization through a feminist geopolitical lens”, keynote presentation at Wallenberg Academy Fellows Annual Meeting, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, 18 September 2018.

Liinason, Mia (2018) ” Feminist borders and belongings: Nordic feminism in the transnational circuit”, presentation vid International Studies Association 59^th Convention, Hilton, San Francisco, USA, 4-7 april 2018.

Liinason, M and Sasunkevich, O ( 2018) "Queer crossings: The case of Russian-Norwegian Pride". The 19th Nordic Migration Conference, Norrköping, August 15–17, 2018.

Liinason, M and Sasunkevich, O ( 2018) "Women resisting border regimes: border textures of gendered identities and empowerment". Association for Borderland Studies World Conference, Vienna – Budapest, July 10 – 14, 2018.

2017

Arik, Hülya (2017) "Making Sense of a Mess: Practising Feminist Geopolitics in the Wake of a Failed Coup Attempt in Turkey”, Canadian Geographer's Association, Annual Meeting, York University, Toronto, 29/5-2/6.

Liinason, Mia (2017) ”Conditions for research”. Concluding event for University of Gothenburg Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Research, 6/12 2017.

Liinason, Mia (2017) ”Dynamics of power, dynamics of struggle”, Future of Feminisms in the Nordic Region Lund, 10-12/3.

Sasunkevich, O (2017) "Forced Emancipation and Absent Men: Understanding Women’s Economic Participation in Belarusian Regions". Gender – Power – Eastern Europe: Changing Concepts of Femininities and Masculinities and Power Relations. International Conference. The Institute of East European Studies, Free University, Berlin, June 21 – 23, 2017.

2016

Arik, Hülya (2016) “Reflecting on a Secular/Religious Divide in Shaping our Politics” Roundtable Discussion on Revolutionary Spiritualties, National Women's Studies Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 10-13/11.

CagatLiinason, Mia (2016) ”Feminism, tillhörighet och värden bortom ’värde’”, Feministiske forskningsfronter [Feminist research frontiers], STK (Center for gender research), Oslo University, 15/4.

Liinason, Mia (2016) ”’Friends, I almost said Comrades!’ Feminist movements and collective identities”, Future of Feminisms in the Nordic Region, Copenhagen, 26-28/8.

Liinason, Mia (2016) ”Problems and possibilities in ethnographic fieldwork”, Diversity Research Institute, Göttingen University, 7/7.

Liinason, Mia (2016) ”’We are not one’: Feminist grassroots activism and the politicization of difference”, Institute Colloquium, Diversity Research Institute, Göttingen University, 25/5.

Selection of popular science presentations

2019

Cagatay, Selin (2019) "Feminist grevler, ulusötesi dayanışma ve patriyarkanın değişen biçimleri" [Feminist strikes, transnational solidarity, and the changing guises of patriarchy]. Feminist Mekan, Istanbul, Turkey, 18 October 2019.

Liinason, Mia (2019) “Exploring Spaces of Resistance”, presentation Young Academy of Sweden, the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities [Vitterhetsakademien], February 6, 2019

2018

Liinason, Mia (2018) ”Motstånd över gränser: En fallstudie från Sverige och Ukraina” ["Resistance across borders: A case study from Sweden and Ukraine"], University Library at the University of Gothenburg, 17/4.

2017

Cagatay, Selin (2017) "Laikliğin savunusu ve reddiyesi – Laiklik üzerine feminist tartışmalar" [Defending or Rejecting Secularism – Feminist Discussions on Secularism]. Çatlak Zemin, Istanbul, Turkey, 14 October 2017.

2016

Liinason, Mia (2016) ”Känslor som motstånd” ["Feelings as resistance"], West Pride Gothenburg, 9/6.