Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles:

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.

Under Review:

Öcal, D. K., Gökariksel, B., Aykaç, B. (under review). Gender and Geopolitics: A feminist geopolitical analysis of the recent media discussions about Syrian and Afghan refugees in Turkey. 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]

Under Review:

"Mosques are life itself there": The Expansion of Imams' Authorities and Societal Roles within Spaces of Turkish-Sunni Mosques in Germany | Routledge Handbook of Turkey's Diasporas (Eds Dr. Ayca Arkilic and Dr. Banu Senay).

In Progress:

Political jokes through "no jokes": An alternative way of political satires against the Erdogan government in Turkey.

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.


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