Dr Birgân Gökmenoğlu

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Lecturer in Sociology

Email:
birgan.gokmenoglu@bcu.ac.uk

Birgan (she/her) is a political ethnographer and sociologist working on time and futurity, social movements, radical grassroots politics, and experiments in alternative forms of democracy. She holds a PhD in Political Sociology from the London School of Economics (LSE), and has taught at the LSE (London, UK), Bogazici University (Istanbul, Turkey), and the University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA, USA) before joining BCU. Her work appeared in academic journals like the British Journal of Sociology and Social Movement Studies as well as more publicly oriented publications such as The Sociological Review Magazine and Jadaliyya.

Birgan is currently working on her first book where she critically analyses the strengths and limits of horizontalist political organisation, based empirically on her two-year ethnography of local assemblies in Istanbul/Turkey. Her ongoing research project examines the HS2 (High Speed Railway 2) in the UK from the perspective of future imaginations and social inequalities, which is funded by a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant.

She serves as Co-Convenor of the Theory Study Group at the British Sociological Association (BSA) and Co-Organiser of the Alternatives to Capitalism Network at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE).  

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