Dr. Charlotte Binder
From 2014 until 2019 I was employed as a research assistant at the Unit for Intercultural Education at the University of Bremen, Germany.
In cooperation with researchers from Germany and Turkey, I carried out research projects on “Women’s Movements in Different Cities in Turkey" (2014-2017) and “Women’s and Gender Studies at Universities in Turkey” (2017-2019), which I designed significantly and which were financed by third-party donors.
A basis for the processing of these research projects was my PhD project completed in 2016. In my doctoral thesis, which was published in 2017, I analysed coalitions among women’s and gender-based political actors in the framework of the International Women’s Day – in comparison for Berlin and Istanbul – through an empirical study.
Address: Berlin, Germany
In cooperation with researchers from Germany and Turkey, I carried out research projects on “Women’s Movements in Different Cities in Turkey" (2014-2017) and “Women’s and Gender Studies at Universities in Turkey” (2017-2019), which I designed significantly and which were financed by third-party donors.
A basis for the processing of these research projects was my PhD project completed in 2016. In my doctoral thesis, which was published in 2017, I analysed coalitions among women’s and gender-based political actors in the framework of the International Women’s Day – in comparison for Berlin and Istanbul – through an empirical study.
Address: Berlin, Germany
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In the 1970s, first of all Women’s Studies were integrated in different disciplines inclusively and shaped by the increasing political fragmentation of society and science in Turkey. The ‘women’s question’ were analysed on the basis of divergend Islamic, Kemalist or Marxist perspectives – however, at that time not with a feminist perspective yet. Not until the formation of the independent feminist oriented women’s movement in the 1980s, the exclusive institutionalization of feminist discourses as teaching and research area in the science system has been started. Female academicians founded the first WGSC in 1989 at Istanbul University; until 2017 100 WGSC were established.
The article focuses on the relationship between these centres at universities and women’s movements in Turkey. For contextualization, women’s movements in Turkey are presented as plural-differentiated social movements, and the historical devolopement of Women’s and Gender Studies in Turkey is outlined. Three case studies, which are based on expert interviews and document collections, show subsequently, how the political-ideological diversity of the women’s movements besides other factors affect the processes of institutionalization and transformation of the centres and therefore upheavals and paradigm shifts within the Women’s and Gender Studies.
On the basis of qualitative empirical studies in the cities of Ankara and Diyarbakır, as well as in smaller cities on the Aegean and the Black Sea Region, comparative research was carried out to determine to what extent the category of gender, which has been decentered and deconstructed in the framework of (post)structuralist, postcolonial and queer-feminist critique, can still function as a crystallization point for social movements.
This article discusses the possibilities but also the limits of coalition building between civil society actors within the complex society of Turkey on the basis of women’s and gender policy activities and debates.
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The strength of aimed comparison lies in the fact that in today’s Turkey – unlike Germany – women’s movements work towards common goals and criticize publicly. Based on a ‘deep description’ of IWD – while focusing on coalition building in the context of the event – the following research question ought to be answered: After the unifying collective subject of ‘we women’ has been decentered and deconstructed in the context of (post)structuralist, postcolo-nial and queerfeminist scientific discourses, how can the categories of sex and gender still func-tion as a focal point for social movements? Thus, this dissertation deals with coalition politics among diverse women* on the occasion of this transnational event.
In the 1970s, first of all Women’s Studies were integrated in different disciplines inclusively and shaped by the increasing political fragmentation of society and science in Turkey. The ‘women’s question’ were analysed on the basis of divergend Islamic, Kemalist or Marxist perspectives – however, at that time not with a feminist perspective yet. Not until the formation of the independent feminist oriented women’s movement in the 1980s, the exclusive institutionalization of feminist discourses as teaching and research area in the science system has been started. Female academicians founded the first WGSC in 1989 at Istanbul University; until 2017 100 WGSC were established.
The article focuses on the relationship between these centres at universities and women’s movements in Turkey. For contextualization, women’s movements in Turkey are presented as plural-differentiated social movements, and the historical devolopement of Women’s and Gender Studies in Turkey is outlined. Three case studies, which are based on expert interviews and document collections, show subsequently, how the political-ideological diversity of the women’s movements besides other factors affect the processes of institutionalization and transformation of the centres and therefore upheavals and paradigm shifts within the Women’s and Gender Studies.
On the basis of qualitative empirical studies in the cities of Ankara and Diyarbakır, as well as in smaller cities on the Aegean and the Black Sea Region, comparative research was carried out to determine to what extent the category of gender, which has been decentered and deconstructed in the framework of (post)structuralist, postcolonial and queer-feminist critique, can still function as a crystallization point for social movements.
This article discusses the possibilities but also the limits of coalition building between civil society actors within the complex society of Turkey on the basis of women’s and gender policy activities and debates.
The strength of aimed comparison lies in the fact that in today’s Turkey – unlike Germany – women’s movements work towards common goals and criticize publicly. Based on a ‘deep description’ of IWD – while focusing on coalition building in the context of the event – the following research question ought to be answered: After the unifying collective subject of ‘we women’ has been decentered and deconstructed in the context of (post)structuralist, postcolo-nial and queerfeminist scientific discourses, how can the categories of sex and gender still func-tion as a focal point for social movements? Thus, this dissertation deals with coalition politics among diverse women* on the occasion of this transnational event.