Umut Özkirimli

Visiting Professor

Professor Umut Ozkirimli joined the MEC as Visiting Professor. He is also Professor of Political Science at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), Lund University, and an Honorary Professor in Europe, Nationalism and Globalization at the Center for Modern European Studies (CEMES), University of Copenhagen; and a Senior Fellow at Istanbul Policy Center, Sabanci University. Previously, he was a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence.  

Umut is currently working on a collaborative project on ‘Nation and State in the Middle East’ which brings together the MEC with CMES, Lund University, the Middle East and North Africa Center at Sussex University and the Center for Humanities and Social Sciences at Qatar University College of Arts and Sciences. The project is premised on the belief that nationalism studies is ill-equipped to theoretically comprehend the ‘double challenge’ of nationalism, i.e. the various challenges to the nation and the state as well as their resilience in the face of these conflicting dynamics. The aims of the project are to address the limitations of the various debates on nation and the state and  propose new conceptual and theoretical tools to make better sense of the evolving social and political developments in the contemporary Middle East where these trends and challenges are arguably most profoundly active.

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Contact Details

Email: umut.ozkirimli@cme.lu.se
Mob:   +46 (0)721 981 703
Twitter: @UOzkirimli

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Research Interests

• Nations and nationalism;
• Identity, belonging and multiculturalism;
• Social movements;
• Turkey and Turkish politics;
• The Kurds (in Turkey and Syria).

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Selected Publications

Books

• Ozkirimli, U. Theories of Nationalism: A Critical Introduction, 3rd revised and expanded edition,Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

• Ozkirimli, U., H. Berggren, S.A. Sofos and L. Trädgårdh. From Models to Basket Cases? Sweden and Turkey as Instantiations of a Global Crisis, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

• Ozkirimli, U. The Making of Turkey’s Protest Movement: #occupygezi, edited volume, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Pivot, 2014.

• Ozkirimli, U. Theories of Nationalism: A Critical Introduction, 2nd revised and expanded edition, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 (translated into Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Greek; Albanian translation in progress).

• Ozkirimli, U., A. Aktar and N. Kizilyurek. Nationalism in the Troubled Triangle: Cyprus, Greece and Turkey(with Ayhan Aktar and Niyazi Kızılyürek), edited volume, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

• Ozkirimli, U. Tormented by History: Nationalism in Greece and Turkey(with S.A. Sofos), London: Hurst & Co and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

• Ozkirimli, U. Contemporary Debates on Nationalism: A Critical Engagement, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Articles

• Ozkirimli, U. ‘Reading Gezi Protests as a “Moment”: A Collective Frame Approach’ (with Spyros A. Sofos), in S. Fadaee (ed.) Understanding Southern Social Movements, London: Routledge, 2016.

• Ozkirimli, U. ‘Cosmopolitanism’ and ‘Nationalism, Transcendence of’, in J. Stone, D.M. Rutledge, P.S. Rizova, A.D. Smith (eds), The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016.

• Ozkirimli, U. ‘Gezi and the Kurds in Turkey: Reflections on the Future of the Peace Process’, Orient (Deutsches Orient-Institut), Vol. 1, 2014, pp. 35-39.

• Ozkirimli, U. ‘Multiculturalism, Recognition and the “Kurdish Question” in Turkey: The Outline of a Normative Framework’, Democratization, Vol. 21 (6), 2014, pp. 1055-1073.

• Ozkirimli, U. ‘Vigilance and Apprehension: Multiculturalism, Democracy and the “Kurdish Question” in Turkey’, Middle East Critique, Vol. 22 (1), 2013, pp. 1-18.
• Ozkirimli, U. ‘Passionately Internationalist: Fred Halliday and Nationalism Studies’, Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 19 (1), 2013, pp. 1-5.

• Ozkirimli, U. ‘The Topography of Nationalism in Turkey: Actors, Discourses and the Struggle for Hegemony’, in R. Kastoryano (ed.), Turkey between Nationalism and Globalization, London: Routledge, 2013.

• Ozkirimli, U. ‘“And People’s Concerns Were Genuine: Why Didn’t We Listen More?” Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Recognition in Europe’, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Vol. 20 (3), 2012, pp. 307-230.

• Ozkirimli, U. ‘From Pater Familias to Homo Nationalis: Understanding Nationalism in Turkey’ (with P. Uyan-Semerci), Ethnicities, Vol. 11 (1), 2011, pp. 59-79.

• Ozkirimli, U. ‘The Changing Nature of Nationalism in Turkey’, in A. Kadioglu and E.F. Keyman (eds), Symbiotic Antagonisms in Turkey: Sources, Discourses and Changing Nature of Turkish, Kurdish and Islamic Nationalisms, Utah: University of Utah Press, 2011.

• Ozkirimli, U. “Colonizing the Past: History and Memory in Greece and Turkey” (with S.A. Sofos), in F. Gemenne and S. Carvalho (eds), Nations and Their Pasts, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Book series

U. Ozkirimli is the co-editor of a book series on ‘Islam and Nationalism’ with S.A. Sofos for Palgrave Macmillan.