Peer-reviewed journal articles:
Öcal, D.K. (2025). Studying state violence through an embodied approach: methodological reflections. Geographica Helvetica
Öcal, D.K. & Gökariksel, B. (2022). Grounding Religious Geopolitics: The Everyday Counter-Geopolitical Practices of Turkish Mosque Communities in Germany. Geoforum. (Open Access)
Öcal, D. K. (2020). “Like the father’s home:” perceived state of the Turkish-Sunni community in Germany. Political Geography, 78.
Öcal, D.K. (2020). Mosques as Spaces of Everyday Geopolitical Tensions. Geopolitics.
Öcal, D. K., Gökariksel, B., Aykaç, B. (2024). Embodied Geopolitics: The Discursive Construction of Refugee Men and Masculinities in Turkey. Geopolitics.
Under Review:
Gökarıksel, B., Öcal, D.K., Aykaç, B., Swanson, N., Jabr, S. Refugee Bodies and Agency, Violent Borders: Feminist Geopolitics of Migration, Displacement, and Resettlement (Special Issue Introduction). Geopolitics.
Book chapters:
Öcal, D. K. (2014). The Continuity of Statist Tradition in Islamism: Minorities from National Outlook to the Justice and Development Party. In Türkiye ve Kore’de Siyasi ve Ekonomik Dönüşüm (Ed. Gökhan Karsan & Erhan Atay). İstanbul Üniversitesi Avrasya Enstitüsü Yayınları (8). [originally written in Turkish]
Öcal, D.K. (2024). "Mosques are life itself there": The Social Lives of Turkish-Sunni Mosques in Germany in Routledge Handbook of Turkey's Diasporas (Eds Dr. Ayca Arkilic and Dr. Banu Senay)
Book reviews:
Öcal, D.K. (2020). [Review of the book Feeling Like a State: Desire, Denial, and the Recasting of Authority, by Davina Cooper]. Geographical Review.
Öcal, D.K. (2021). [Review of the book Anthropocene Geopolitics: Globalization, Security, Sustainability, by Simon Dalby]. Human Geography.
Öcal, D.K. & Şanlı, N. (2024). Review of "Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey" by Zeynep Korkman. Gender, Place, and Culture.
Contributions:
Öcal, D.K., Gökarıksel B.; Nissler, S. (2025). Borders, Migration, and Europe: Insights from the Borders of the European Union 2025 Conference. Blogpost for Center for European Studies at UNC Chapel Hill
Öcal, D.K. (2024). The Emergence of the "Father State" in Germany: A Feminist Political Perspective on Turkish-Sunni Mosques. Blogpost for Schweizerische Gesellschaft Mittlerer Osten und Islamische Kulturen.
Öcal, D.K. (2024). "Peki Feminizm Bunun Neresinde?": Siyasi Coğrafyanın Feminist Okumaları. Feminist Tahayyül [Araştırma Notu - Şubat 2024]