Research

Published

• Recreating the Third World Project: possibilities through the Fourth World. 

With Crystal Whetstone in 2020 Third World Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2019.1702457 

Abstract: In this paper, we make a theoretical argument that the Third World be returned to its political origins to inspire an updated Third World Project (TWP), revived as a global movement for progressive, anti-imperialist forces, through the Fourth World movement, which highlights internal colonialism. Both the TWP and the United Nations recognise only nation states as full members. We examine how a Third World strategy that brings in the Fourth World, or indigenous, minority and/or stateless groups, can help oppressed groups gain more autonomy and rights through a transnational solidarity rooted in empathy. We trace the intellectual roots and history of the TWP and consider obstacles in bringing together the TWP and the Fourth World movement. A Fourth World strategy corrects the TWP’s implicit approval of an underlying imperialism, and the TWP provides the Fourth World movement a model to accomplish its goal of resisting uncritical modernity.

• Uygur Diasporası (Uyghur Diaspora) (TR)

Book chapter in Diaspora Çalışmaları, M. T. Üstün (ed.), (pp. 367-390) 2022. To purchase the book, please visit orionkitabevi website here.

• Türkiye'deki Uygur Göçmenleri ve Çin'in Terörizm İddiaları (Uyghur Immigrants in Turkey and China's terrorism claims) (TR). 

Book chapter in Küresel Boyutlarıyla Göç: Politik, Ekonomik ve Sosyal Etkileri, E. Turan & S. Çevik (eds.), (pp. 71-88) 2022. To purchase the book, please visit nobelyayın website here. 

• Transnational Authoritarianism in Cyberspace: A Case Study of Uyghurs 

Book chapter in Critical Perspectives on Cybersecurity: Feminist and Postcolonial Interventions, A. Mhajne and A. Henshaw (eds.), Oxford University Press, Spring 2024. To purchase the book, please visit here. 

• Understanding the Covid-19 Crisis’s Impact on Rural Migrant Women Factory Workers in China

With Crystal Whetstone in 2024, Avrasya Uluslararası Araştırmalar Dergisi

• Diaspora of Diaspora: Turkey-Finnish Tatars Relations

With Evren Küçük in 2024, Scandinavian Journal of History

Abstract: From the rise of the diaspora of Mishar Tatar Turks in Finland – now known as the Finnish Tatar community – in the late 19th century to the present, the community has sought connections with the Ottoman Empire and later the Turkish Republic (from 1923 onward). Cold War politics partially account for why Finnish Tatars sought Turkish support, given that the community’s homeland lay in Soviet Russia. Even as Finnish Tatars re-established links with fellow Mishar Tatar Turks in present-day Russia, the diaspora community has continued to seek support from Turkey. Furthermore, Finnish Tatars have, in turn, supported Turkey, especially in advocating for Turkey’s acceptance into the European Union. Using diaspora studies, this article addresses the gap in connections between Finnish Tatars and Turkey. Through an overview of relations between Finnish Tatars and Turkey and a case study on the establishment of the Finnish-Turkish Folk School in 1948, which was born with influence from Turkey, the article argues that the transnational connections between Finnish Tatars and Turkey have been beneficial to both parties.

• Gendering Internal Colonialism: Engaging Reproductive Justice and Digital Testimony of Uyghurs in Diaspora 

With Crystal Whetstone in 2025, International Feminist Journal of Politics (Accepted, In process)

In Progress

• Global Gender Politics 6th edition, Routledge with Anne Sisson Runyan, Crystal Whetstone and Anwar Mhajne (expected Fall 2025).

• Theorizing Social Reproduction through China’s Internally Colonized Uyghur Community: The Need to Reconcile Exploitation and Oppression (Accepted 2024 ECPR Workshop: Pluralising Social Reproduction Approaches).

• Uyghur Women`s Resistance in Cyberspace (Title shortened. Under review)

• Transnational Authoritarianism and State Response in Türkiye and Canada: A Comparison of the Murders of Jamal Khashoggi and Hardeep Singh Nijjar. With Harun Koçak