Books by Hilal Alkan
De Gruyter, 2023
Based on an ethnography of charitable organizations in the prosperous
and conservative city of Ka... more Based on an ethnography of charitable organizations in the prosperous
and conservative city of Kayseri, this monograph looks into the ways the redistributive task of poverty alleviation and welfare provision has become
a function of gift networks in contemporary Turkey. It offers an in-depth analysis of the relations between donors, volunteers and beneficiaries, and an exploration of the historical institutional framework and religious imaginary that informs these organisations.
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The Politics of the Female Body in Contemporary Turkey Reproduction, Maternity, Sexuality
In Turkey, the Justice and Development Party government has introduced new regulations about repr... more In Turkey, the Justice and Development Party government has introduced new regulations about reproductive rights, and shifted family and gender policies. Women's central role in reproductive and domestic work was swiftly reaffirmed, and abortion and IVF were newly debated. Taking Turkey as the case study, this is the first book to examine the various ways neoliberal modes of governing women's bodies interact with conservative and authoritarian measures.
The contributions focus on reproduction, maternity and sexuality, to explore the three main areas of governmental interventions into the female body. Topics for discussion include: the expansion of IVF and egg markets, the privatization of gynaecological and obstetrical care, differential treatment of poor and ethnic minority women's fertility/sexuality, and women's multiple responses to these shifts. While focusing on Turkey, the book presents analytical tools applicable under rising authoritarianisms and conservatisms worldwide.
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Urban Neighbourhood Formations: Boundaries, Narrations and Intimacies, 2020
This book examines the formation of urban neighbourhoods in the Middle East, Africa, and South As... more This book examines the formation of urban neighbourhoods in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. It departs from ‘neighbourhoods’ to consider identity, coexistence, solidarity, and violence in relations to a place.
Urban Neighbourhood Formations revolves around three major aspects of making and unmaking of neighbourhoods: spatial and temporal boundaries of neighbourhoods, neighbourhoods as imagined and narrated entities, and neighbourhood as social relations. With extensive case studies from Johannesburg to Istanbul and from Jerusalem to Delhi, this volume shows how spatial amenities, immaterial processes of narrating and dreaming, and the lasting effect of intimacies and violence in a neighbourhood are intertwined and negotiated over time in the construction of moral orders, urban practices, and political identities at large.
This book offers insights into neighbourhood formations in an age of constant mobility and helps us understand the grassroots-level dynamics of xenophobia and hostility, as much as welcoming and openness. It would be of interest for both academics and more general audiences, as well as for students of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Urban Studies and Anthropology.
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Papers by Hilal Alkan
Women's History Review, 2024
This paper looks into the life and ethnographic work of Leonore Kosswig (1904–1973), who lived in... more This paper looks into the life and ethnographic work of Leonore Kosswig (1904–1973), who lived in Turkey as a German exile from 1937 until her death in 1973. While her husband, Curt Kosswig was invited to Istanbul University as a full professor, Leonore had no institutional affiliation. However, she traveled with her husband around Anatolia and joined his fieldwork, during which she developed an interest in local customs and the daily life of villagers and nomadic tribes. Leonore decided to stay in Turkey after Curt’s return to Germany in 1955. Her excellent command of Turkish and former experience in fieldwork allowed her to become one of the first women to conduct ethnographic research in Turkey. Until her death, she pursued several pioneering research projects on wedding customs, tablet weaving, nomadic life, and ownership signs. Relying on her research publications and ego-documents, we employ a biographical approach to articulate upon her liminal existence in exile. In dialogue with research on twentieth century forced migrations that engage with the concepts of in-betweenness and liminality, we address Leonore’s liminal existences on the edge of two worlds on numerous planes. In particular, we argue that Kosswig’s liminality was reflected on her exilic existence in Istanbul as a foreign woman; her ethnographic research agenda into liminal geographic locations, marginalized communities, and disappearing cultural artifacts; and her gendered navigation of foreignness and nativeness.
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Citizenship Studies, 2022
As two of the major countries that received Syrians during the exodus led by the civil war, Turke... more As two of the major countries that received Syrians during the exodus led by the civil war, Turkey and Germany have responded to this wave of migration with different asylum and migration management schemes. These responses have created a significant disparity between the family constellations of Syrian refugees in these countries and have produced different outcomes at the intersections of familial care arrangements and citizenship statuses. This article foregrounds kinship as a system of relatedness founded on gendered care practices, and the 'kin-contract' as the patriarchal scaffolding of familial entitlements and obligations in the lives of Syrian migrants. Based on ethnographic research in Istanbul and narrative research in Berlin and Leipzig, it compares the effects of the migration and citizenship regimes of Turkey and Germany on the experience and consequences of this 'kin-contract' in refugees' lives.
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ZMO Programmatic Papers 14, 2021
Annette Wieviorka (2006) identifies our time as the “Era of the Witness”, an era in which witness... more Annette Wieviorka (2006) identifies our time as the “Era of the Witness”, an era in which witness statements appear among the key components of public history and national narratives. It is an era in which individual narratives based on memories of events of social significance began to compete with, challenge, and also shape official histories. It is an era that began in the aftermath of World War II and has been made possible by the technological developments that allowed audiovisual recordings to become increasingly available. It has involved a change in the primary location of giving testimonies (from the courts to the public sphere), in the diversity of witnesses (increasingly coming from marginalised groups), in the mediums used (from written or oral statements saved in archives to Youtube videos or even holograms), and finally in the function of witness accounts (from consolidating singular hegemonic narratives to multiplying historical truths). The witness in Wieviorka’s acc...
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American Ethnologist, 2021
As of 2020, Turkey was home to 3.6 million Syrian migrants who fled violence in their country aft... more As of 2020, Turkey was home to 3.6 million Syrian migrants who fled violence in their country after the uprisings of 2011. Although they are not recognized as refugees, Syrian migrants have been granted the right to self-settlement in Turkey. The Turkish state has promoted this reception as a form of hospitality and generosity. The state's elevation of hospitality has been criticized, however, for reinforcing inequalities. More broadly, the concept of hospitality itself has been scrutinized for its immediate affinity to hostility. But as revealed by ethnographic work with Istanbul's neighborhood aid networks, “hospitality” at the grassroots level is governed by principles of the gift. In everyday interactions, it can catalyze a cycle of reciprocal returns that may lead to long-term relationships. Countering the argument that hospitality is always paired with hostility, this ethnography shows that it can also turn strangers into relatable Others.
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Migration Letters, 2021
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Urban Neigbourhood Formations: Boundaries, Narrations and Intimacies. Eds Hilal Alkan & Nazan Maksudyan, Routledge, 2020
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Beyond Istanbul (7): 71-75, 2019
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in Les Cahiers du CEDREF: Transformations of the Gender Regime in Turkey edited by Azadeh Kian and Buket Türkmen, 2018
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Routledge Handbook of Global Citizenship Studies edited by Engin F. Isin and Peter Nyers, 2014
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Neoliberalizm ve Mahremiyet: Türkiye'de Beden, Sağlık ve Cinsellik, 2011
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Ethnographies of Islam: Ritual Performances and Everyday Practices, 2012
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Blog posts and online publications by Hilal Alkan
https://www.otherwisemag.com/granpas-rubber-tree, 2024
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Replito Archive, 2023
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https://global-qualitative-sociology.net/2024/02/04/when-migrants-compare/ , 2024
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‟Günümüz Türkiye’sinde Kadın Bedeni Politikaları: Üreme, Annelik, Cinsellik (The Politics of the ... more ‟Günümüz Türkiye’sinde Kadın Bedeni Politikaları: Üreme, Annelik, Cinsellik (The Politics of the Female Body in Contemporary Turkey: Reproduction, Maternity, Sexuality)” isimli kitap 2021’in yaz aylarında İngilizce olarak I.B. Tauris yayınlarından çıktı. Kitabın editörlüğünü Ayşe Dayı, Sezin Topçu ve Betül Yarar’la birlikte yapmış olan Hilal Alkan’la Türkiye’de kadın bedenini hedef alan politikaları, kadınların bunlarla nasıl baş ettiğini ve kitabın yazılış öyküsünü konuştuk.
Kaynak: Çatlak Zemin - https://catlakzemin.com/kadinlarin-dogurganligi-hep-bir-toplumsal-duzenleme-konusu-hilal-alkan-ile-soylesi/
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Books by Hilal Alkan
The contributions focus on reproduction, maternity and sexuality, to explore the three main areas of governmental interventions into the female body. Topics for discussion include: the expansion of IVF and egg markets, the privatization of gynaecological and obstetrical care, differential treatment of poor and ethnic minority women's fertility/sexuality, and women's multiple responses to these shifts. While focusing on Turkey, the book presents analytical tools applicable under rising authoritarianisms and conservatisms worldwide.
Urban Neighbourhood Formations revolves around three major aspects of making and unmaking of neighbourhoods: spatial and temporal boundaries of neighbourhoods, neighbourhoods as imagined and narrated entities, and neighbourhood as social relations. With extensive case studies from Johannesburg to Istanbul and from Jerusalem to Delhi, this volume shows how spatial amenities, immaterial processes of narrating and dreaming, and the lasting effect of intimacies and violence in a neighbourhood are intertwined and negotiated over time in the construction of moral orders, urban practices, and political identities at large.
This book offers insights into neighbourhood formations in an age of constant mobility and helps us understand the grassroots-level dynamics of xenophobia and hostility, as much as welcoming and openness. It would be of interest for both academics and more general audiences, as well as for students of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Urban Studies and Anthropology.
Papers by Hilal Alkan
Blog posts and online publications by Hilal Alkan
Kaynak: Çatlak Zemin - https://catlakzemin.com/kadinlarin-dogurganligi-hep-bir-toplumsal-duzenleme-konusu-hilal-alkan-ile-soylesi/
The contributions focus on reproduction, maternity and sexuality, to explore the three main areas of governmental interventions into the female body. Topics for discussion include: the expansion of IVF and egg markets, the privatization of gynaecological and obstetrical care, differential treatment of poor and ethnic minority women's fertility/sexuality, and women's multiple responses to these shifts. While focusing on Turkey, the book presents analytical tools applicable under rising authoritarianisms and conservatisms worldwide.
Urban Neighbourhood Formations revolves around three major aspects of making and unmaking of neighbourhoods: spatial and temporal boundaries of neighbourhoods, neighbourhoods as imagined and narrated entities, and neighbourhood as social relations. With extensive case studies from Johannesburg to Istanbul and from Jerusalem to Delhi, this volume shows how spatial amenities, immaterial processes of narrating and dreaming, and the lasting effect of intimacies and violence in a neighbourhood are intertwined and negotiated over time in the construction of moral orders, urban practices, and political identities at large.
This book offers insights into neighbourhood formations in an age of constant mobility and helps us understand the grassroots-level dynamics of xenophobia and hostility, as much as welcoming and openness. It would be of interest for both academics and more general audiences, as well as for students of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Urban Studies and Anthropology.
Kaynak: Çatlak Zemin - https://catlakzemin.com/kadinlarin-dogurganligi-hep-bir-toplumsal-duzenleme-konusu-hilal-alkan-ile-soylesi/