Dr Birgan Gokmenoglu

• Social movements

• Contentious politics

• Sociology of time

• Sociology of the future

• Critical theories of democracy

• Experiments in alternatives to representative democracy

• Struggles for social justice

• Sociological theory

• Ethnography and qualitative methods

• PhD in Political Sociology (London School of Economics, 2020)

• MA in Sociology (University of Southern California, 2015)

• BA in Social and Political Sciences (Sabanci University, 2012)

• Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCertHE, London School of Economics, 2022)

• British Sociological Association

• American Sociological Association

• Advance HE

• The Cultural Theory Cluster

• The Identities and Inequalities Research Centre

• States and Societies (Year 1)

• Becoming a Social Researcher (Year 1)

• Globalisation, People, and Society (Year 3)

• Activism, Social Movements, and Social Change (Year 3)

Birgan’s current research is concerned with temporality as a subject and instrument of political contention from a comparative perspective. Her doctoral research, entitled “Temporality and Social Movements: A Political Ethnography of Activism in Contemporary Turkey (2016-2018)” investigated the ways in which grassroots oppositional movements were affected by the accelerated authoritarian turn in Turkish politics after the 2016 military coup attempt.

Her areas of research include: Social movements and contentious politics, socio-political change, social justice, climate justice, social theory, sociological theory, political sociology, cultural sociology, time and temporality, Global South and Global North, qualitative research, ethnography, and feminist epistemology.

Journal articles:

Gokmenoglu, B. (2022). “Temporality in the Social Sciences: New Directions for a Political Sociology of Time”. The British Journal of Sociology, 73(3), 643-654. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12938

Gokmenoglu, B. (2022, March 8). “Against the Clock: How Erdogan Politicised Time in Turkey’s 2018 Elections”. [Online]. The Sociological Review Magazine. https://doi.org/10.51428/tsr.nqzk4367 [Also available in Turkish.]

Gokmenoglu, B. (2022). “Politics of Anticipation: Turkey’s 2017 Constitutional Referendum and the Local 'No' Assemblies in Istanbul”. Social Movement Studies. DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2022.2047640

Ferreri, V., Gokmenoglu, B., Noula, E. & Zagaria, V. (2021, September 21). “Defiant Engagements”. In Musallam, F. & Zagaria, V. (Eds.). #PoliticalEngagements: Ethnography and Political Engagement. Allegra Lab. https://allegralaboratory.net/politicalengagements-defiant-engagements/

Book review:

Gokmenoglu, B. (2022, January 24). [Review of the book Neither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization by Rodrigo Nunes]. LSE Review of Books. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2022/01/24/book-review-neither-vertical-nor-horizontal-a-theory-of-political-organization-by-rodrigo-nunes/

Gokmenoglu, B. (2021, April 1). “The Struggle at Turkey’s Boğaziçi University: Attacks on Higher Education Tighten the Grip of the AKP’s Hegemonic Project”. Public Seminar. The New School for Social Research. https://publicseminar.org/essays/the-struggle-at-turkeys-bogazici-university/

Twitter: @birgangokmenog