Emel Akcali
Assistant Professor
Building:
Nador u. 15
Room:
510
Phone number:
+36 1 327-3000/2062 Academic/Professional Experience and Achievements:
Emel Akçali graduated in International Relations at both the American University (Paris, BA) and at the Université de Galatasaray (Istanbul, MA). She obtained her PhD in Political Geography at Paris IV-Sorbonne in France. She worked at the Political Science and International Studies Department of University of Birmingham as a visiting lecturer and taught at Franklin College, Lugano, Switzerland before joining IRES. Her current research interests cover social movements, upheavals and (trans-)formation of collective identities in the age of globalisation and Europeanisation, the state, society and politics in the Middle East, EU democratisation efforts in its periphery, non-Western and alternative globalist geopolitical discourses and critical realist philosophy.
Academic/research topics:
State
society and politics research in the Middle East and North Africa; EU foreign policy from a critical perspective; Social movements; Politics of resistance; EU integration theories.
Courses taught by Emel Akcali
| The European Union, the Middle East and North Africa | 2012/2013 |
| Political Islam | 2012/2013 |
| The State, the Society and Politics in the Middle East | 2012/2013 |
| European Integration | 2012/2013 |
| The European Union, the Middle East and North Africa | 2011/2012 |
| Political Islam | 2011/2012 |
| The State, the Society and Politics in the Middle East | 2011/2012 |
| European Integration | 2011/2012 |
| The European Union, the Middle East, and North Africa | 2010/2011 |
| Political Islam | 2010/2011 |
Publications
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Chypre : Un enjeu géopolitique actuel. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2009.
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"EU, Political Islam and Polarization of Turkish Society." In Europe, the US and Political Islam , edited by Michelle Pace, 40-57. Hampshire and New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010.
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"Reading the Cyprus conflict through mental maps: An interdisciplinary approach to ethno-nationalism." In The Challenges of Ethno-Nationalism: Case Studies in Identity Politics, edited by Guelke Adrian, 41-59. Hampshire and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
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"The European Union’s Competency in Conflict Resolution: The Cases of Bosnia, Macedonia (FYROM) and Cyprus examined." In Cyprus: A Conflict at the Crossroads, edited by Thomas Diez and Nathalie Tocci, 180-197. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009.
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"Turkey’s Harmonisation with EU Norms: Progress or Regress." In Turkey and Europe: High Stakes, Uncertain Prospects, edited by James Sperling, Victor Papacosma and Andreas Thephanous, 53-72. Nicosia: University of Nicosia Press, 2008.
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How Happy to Call Oneself a Turk In Brockett, G. D. (2011). How happy to call oneself a Turk: Provincial newspapers and the negotiation of a Muslim national identity. Austin: University of Texas Press. . Vol. 19. Nations and Nationalism 19, no. 1., 2013.
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Rebecca Bryant, The Past in Pieces: Belonging in the New Cyprus. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010, 207pp. £29.50 (hbk).. Vol. 18. Nations and Nationalism 18, no. 4., 2012.
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Holliday S.J.: Defining Iran: politics of resistance In Holliday, S. J. (2011). Defining Iran: Politics of resistance. Farnham: Ashgate . Vol. 18. Nations and Nationalism 18, no. 2., 2012.
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The EU and Conflict Resolution, Promoting peace in the Backyard In Tocci, N. (2007). The EU and conflict resolution: Promoting peace in the backyard. London: Routledge. Vol. 13. Mediterranean Politics 13, no. 3., 2008.
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"Geographical Metanarratives in East-Central Europe : Neo-Turanism in Hungary." Eurasian Geography and Economics 53, no. 5 (2012): 596-614.
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"'Turkey’s Bid for European Union Membership: Between “thick” and “thin” conceptions of Europe." Eurasian Geography and Economics LII, no. 2 (2011): 196-216.
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"Getting real on fluctuating national identities: An insight from Northern Cyprus." Antipode 43, no. 5 (2011): 1725-1747.
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"Kemalist Eurasianism: An emerging Geopolitical discourse in Turkey." Geopolitics 14, no. 3 (2009): 550-569.
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"“Nature knows no boundaries”- A critical reading of UNDP environmental peacemaking in Cyprus." The Annals of the Association of American Geographers 99, no. 5 (2009): 940-947.
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"The Other Cypriots and Their Cyprus Questions." The Cyprus Review 19 , no. 2 (2007): 57-82.
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"Le partenariat stratégique entre Israel et la Turquie: la nouvelle donne géopolitique au Proche-Orient." Bulletin de l’Association des Géographes Français 8, no. 1 (2005): 5-14.
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"Erdogan's Ambiguous Northern Cyprus Policy: Calculation or over-reaction?" Cyprus Centre for European and International Affairs Newsletter - In Depth 8 (2011).
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