On Repression and Resistance
This piece was first presented at the “Repression and Resistance: Inside and Outside the Academy” webinar organized by the New University in Exile on... Read more.
Aysen Candas (Columbia University, Ph.D.) is a political scientist and human rights activist who is researching the transition from democracy to autocracy; before she resigned, she was a tenured faculty member in Boğaziçi University’s Political Science and International Relations department; in 2016, she went into exile, as she was being persecuted for having signed a petition that called on the state to stop committing violence in Kurdish villages.
