Umut Ozkirimli is Professor of Political Science at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University. CMES. He is also a Honorary Professor in Europe, Nationalism and Globalization at the Center for Modern European Studies (CEMES), University of Copenhagen. His most recent publication is The Making of a Protest Movement in Turkey. #occupygezi, edited collection, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. He is currently working on the 3rd edition of Theories of Nationalism: A Critical Introduction.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Entering Brexit Britain, with Eric Cantona as my North star – Bill Bryson a trusty guide“I liked Britain in 1995, and I like Britain now – from the looks of it, more than she likes herself.”
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Published in: HomeWhite is the new black: populism and the academic alt-right“It is our duty to expose this moral agenda for what it is, not by 'deplatforming' them – only adding victimisation to their already lavish arsenal – but through reasoned argument.”
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Published in: HomeFear and loathing in Turkish academia: a tale of appeasement and complicityCan fear explain the loathing that the victims of this ‘academic cleansing’ are exposed to, often by their own colleagues? Could insecurity justify the complicity?
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Published in: HomeWhy Turkification will never workA country as heteregenous as Turkey can't be held together by an autocrat, so what to do?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Hej Carl Bildt, are you asleep? Should Europe still stand by Erdoğan?Dedicated to Aydın Engin, or “uncle Aydın”, and all jailed writers and journalists in Turkey.
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Published in: HomeVery Turkish abduction from the seraglio and crocodile tears of the ‘West’The international “friends of Turkey” bear a great deal of responsibility for Turkey’s predicament, a fact that the crocodile tears they shed today could not easily conceal.