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Utku Balaban

Utku Balaban is an Associate Professor of Sociology, a former faculty member of Ankara University, and a research fellow of EUME and Humboldt University’s re:work in Berlin, Germany. In his work, Balaban focuses on how industrial globalization frames local political movements such as Islamism. He was dismissed from his position at Ankara University with a statutory decree in February 2017, because he undersigned a declaration as known as “the Peace Petition” to protest the violence against Kurdish citizens by government forces in Turkey.

Anti-authoritarian Coalitions

April 1, 2022

Do they work, can they work? If the opposition parties had agreed on a candidate, Orban in Hungary, Modi in India, Duterte in the Philippines, and Morawiecki in... Read more.

Authoritarian Parasitism in Turkey and Beyond

February 6, 2019

Erdogan and the rise of strongman politics Authoritarianism is on the rise in different corners of the world. Following in each other’s footsteps, the strongmen... Read more.