Books, Edited Books by Selin Çağatay
Brill, Studies in Global Social History, Volume: 51, 2023
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Volume Editors: Selin Çağatay, Alexandra Ghit, Olga Gnydiuk, Veronika Helfert, Ivelina Masheva, Zhanna Popova, Jelena Tešija, Eszter Varsa, and Susan Zimmermann
This book examines women’s activism in and beyond Central and Eastern Europe and transnationally within and across different historical periods, political regimes, and scales of activism. The authors explore the wide range of activist agendas, repertoires, and forums in which women sought to advocate for their gender and labour interests.
Women were engaged in trade unions, women-only organizations, state instituions, and international and intellectual networks, and were active on the shopfloor. Rectifying geopolitical and thematic imbalances in labour and gender history, this volume is a valuable resource for scholars and students of women’s activism, social movements, political and intellectual history, and transnationalism.
Contributors are: Eloisa Betti, Masha Bratishcheva, Jan A. Burek, Selin Çağatay, Daria Dyakonova, Mátyás Erdélyi, Dóra Fedeles-Czeferner, Eric Fure-Slocum, Alexandra Ghiț, Olga Gnydiuk, Maren Hachmeister, Veronika Helfert, Natalia Jarska, Marie Láníková, Ivelina Masheva, Jean-Pierre Liotard-Vogt, Denisa Nešťáková, Sophia Polek, Zhanna Popova, Büşra Satı, Masha Shpolberg, Georg Spitaler, Jelena Tešija, Eszter Varsa, Johanna Wolf and Susan Zimmermann.
Palgrave Macmillan Thinking Gender in Transnational Times series, 2022
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What do struggles ... more Open Access: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-84451-6#about
What do struggles for women’s and LGBTI+ rights in Russia, Turkey and the Scandinavian countries have in common? And what can actors who struggle for rights and justice in these contexts learn from each other? Based on a multisited ethnography of feminist and LGBTI+ activisms across Russia, Turkey and the Scandinavian countries, this Open Access book explores transnational struggles on various levels, from the micro-scale of the everyday to large-scale, spectacular events. Drawing on ethnographic insights and encounters from various sites, this book conceptualizes resistance as situated in the grey zone between barely perceptible, even hidden or covert, forms of mundane activist practices and highly visible street protests, gathering large crowds. Taking the reader beyond the dichotomies of visible/invisible and public/private, this book advances new understandings of resistance, solidarity, and activism in transnationalizing feminist and queer struggles, illustrated by rich ethnographic case studies from Russia, Scandinavia and Turkey.
Articles, Book Chapters, Blog Posts by Selin Çağatay
Globalizations, 2024
Open Access: https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2024.2336645
This article employs a holistic und... more Open Access: https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2024.2336645
This article employs a holistic understanding of environmental, social, andeconomic sustainability to explore the interaction between neoliberalism,climate crisis, digitalization, and academic work with a focus on its everydayaspects. Drawing our experience of organizing an online conference during theCovid-19 pandemic and our dialogue with conference participants, we firstproblematize the presumed disembodiment of digital exchange and suggest anuanced understanding of physicality’s role in knowledge production. We thenexplore the impact of the changing times and spaces of academic work onbodies and minds and the boundaries between private and public realms.Finally, we challenge the notion of digital solutionism by highlighting theimplications of inhabiting digital platforms as spaces for knowledge production.While there is no simple solution to the problems around the digital shift inacademic work and conferencing, we argue, downsizing can be a counteractionto platform capitalism in times of the climate crisis.
Brill, Studies in Global Social History, Volume: 51, 2023
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In: Through the Prism of Gender and Work
Authors: Selin Çağatay, Mátyás Erdélyi, Alexandra Ghiț, Olga Gnydiuk, Veronika Helfert, Ivelina Masheva, Zhanna Popova, Jelena Tešija, Eszter Varsa, and Susan Zimmermann
The introductory chapter provides a historiographic and thematic framing for the contributions and, we hope, for future research. The first section discusses the existing historiography of the region, highlighting the long history of writing on women's labour activism in Central and Eastern Europe and its adjacent territories within and across the borders of different types of empires and nation-states, and across vastly diverse political regimes. The second section discusses key contributions of the chapters assembled in the volume to the study of women's (and sometimes men's) quests for the improvement of the lives and working conditions of women, pointing to their interconnections and highlighting their contributions to the development of long-term and transregional approaches to the history of women's labour struggles. The third section expands on the rationale for studying women's labour struggles from a long-term, transregional, integrative, and critical perspective, further discusses insights emerging from the volume and other scholarship, and highlights challenges as well as directions for ongoing and future research in the field of women's labour activism.
Labor History, 2023
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Gender, Place & Culture, 2023
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GTOT / Diyâr. Journal of Ottoman, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies, 2023
With Mia Liinason and Olga Sasunkevich, in Elisabeth L. Engebretsen and Mia Liinason, eds., Transforming Identities in Contemporary Europe. Critical Essays on Knowledge, Inequality and Belonging, London: Routledge , 2023
OPEN ACCESS: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003245155
Women's History Review , 2023
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International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2023
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International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2022
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Blog post, ZARAH: Women’s labour activism in Eastern Europe and transnationally, from the age of empires to the late 20th century. https://zarah-ceu.org/tracing-transnational-connections-in-trade-union-womens-education-the-icftu-womens-committee-in-turkey/
Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) Research Series 7, 43–54. , 2022
Contradictions: A Journal for Critical Thought, 2020
Since 2017, the International Women's Strike (IWS) has generated a global wave of protest against... more Since 2017, the International Women's Strike (IWS) has generated a global wave of protest against patriarchy and capitalism, as well as racism, heteronormativity, extractivism, and imperialism. Th is contribution off ers refl ections on the transnational mobilization around IWS from the perspective of feminist strike as an emerging concept, and considers the current and historical implications of the IWS as feminist action. It argues that the concept of feminist strike allows us to place women's paid and unpaid labor center stage, while it enables us to weave together multiple systems of oppression in the analysis of women's struggle for liberation. Drawing on insights from the Turkish context, the paper aims to call attention to the left-feminist engagement with the IWS-and its lack thereof-in Central and Eastern Europe.
Modern Türkiye’de Siyasi Düşünce, Cilt 10 Feminizm , 2020
In Nacide Berber and Feryal Saygılıgil, eds., Modern Türkiye’de Siyasi Düşünce, Vol. 10 Feminizm ... more In Nacide Berber and Feryal Saygılıgil, eds., Modern Türkiye’de Siyasi Düşünce, Vol. 10 Feminizm [Political Thought in Modern Turkey, Vol. 10 Feminism], Istanbul: Iletişim Yayınları, 313-338.
Engenderings, 2019
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/gender/2019/01/09/varieties-of-anti-gender-mobilizations-is-turkey-a-case/
Social Inclusion, 2018
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In Diana Mulinari and Lena Martinsson, eds., Dreaming Global Change – Doing Local feminisms. Visions of Feminism. Global North/Global South Encounters, Conversations and Disagreements, New York and Oxon: Routledge, 2018.
Birikim, no. 333–334 (January-February 2017), 59–75.
In Alexia Bumbaris, Veronika Helfert, Jessica Richter, Brigitte Semanek and Karolina Sigmund, eds., Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte un/diszipliniert? Aktuelle Beiträge aus der jungen Forschung (=Studien zur Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte; 11), Innsbruck et al.: StudienVerlag, 2016.
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Books, Edited Books by Selin Çağatay
Volume Editors: Selin Çağatay, Alexandra Ghit, Olga Gnydiuk, Veronika Helfert, Ivelina Masheva, Zhanna Popova, Jelena Tešija, Eszter Varsa, and Susan Zimmermann
This book examines women’s activism in and beyond Central and Eastern Europe and transnationally within and across different historical periods, political regimes, and scales of activism. The authors explore the wide range of activist agendas, repertoires, and forums in which women sought to advocate for their gender and labour interests.
Women were engaged in trade unions, women-only organizations, state instituions, and international and intellectual networks, and were active on the shopfloor. Rectifying geopolitical and thematic imbalances in labour and gender history, this volume is a valuable resource for scholars and students of women’s activism, social movements, political and intellectual history, and transnationalism.
Contributors are: Eloisa Betti, Masha Bratishcheva, Jan A. Burek, Selin Çağatay, Daria Dyakonova, Mátyás Erdélyi, Dóra Fedeles-Czeferner, Eric Fure-Slocum, Alexandra Ghiț, Olga Gnydiuk, Maren Hachmeister, Veronika Helfert, Natalia Jarska, Marie Láníková, Ivelina Masheva, Jean-Pierre Liotard-Vogt, Denisa Nešťáková, Sophia Polek, Zhanna Popova, Büşra Satı, Masha Shpolberg, Georg Spitaler, Jelena Tešija, Eszter Varsa, Johanna Wolf and Susan Zimmermann.
What do struggles for women’s and LGBTI+ rights in Russia, Turkey and the Scandinavian countries have in common? And what can actors who struggle for rights and justice in these contexts learn from each other? Based on a multisited ethnography of feminist and LGBTI+ activisms across Russia, Turkey and the Scandinavian countries, this Open Access book explores transnational struggles on various levels, from the micro-scale of the everyday to large-scale, spectacular events. Drawing on ethnographic insights and encounters from various sites, this book conceptualizes resistance as situated in the grey zone between barely perceptible, even hidden or covert, forms of mundane activist practices and highly visible street protests, gathering large crowds. Taking the reader beyond the dichotomies of visible/invisible and public/private, this book advances new understandings of resistance, solidarity, and activism in transnationalizing feminist and queer struggles, illustrated by rich ethnographic case studies from Russia, Scandinavia and Turkey.
Articles, Book Chapters, Blog Posts by Selin Çağatay
This article employs a holistic understanding of environmental, social, andeconomic sustainability to explore the interaction between neoliberalism,climate crisis, digitalization, and academic work with a focus on its everydayaspects. Drawing our experience of organizing an online conference during theCovid-19 pandemic and our dialogue with conference participants, we firstproblematize the presumed disembodiment of digital exchange and suggest anuanced understanding of physicality’s role in knowledge production. We thenexplore the impact of the changing times and spaces of academic work onbodies and minds and the boundaries between private and public realms.Finally, we challenge the notion of digital solutionism by highlighting theimplications of inhabiting digital platforms as spaces for knowledge production.While there is no simple solution to the problems around the digital shift inacademic work and conferencing, we argue, downsizing can be a counteractionto platform capitalism in times of the climate crisis.
OPEN ACCESS: https://brill.com/display/book/9789004682481/BP000001.xml
In: Through the Prism of Gender and Work
Authors: Selin Çağatay, Mátyás Erdélyi, Alexandra Ghiț, Olga Gnydiuk, Veronika Helfert, Ivelina Masheva, Zhanna Popova, Jelena Tešija, Eszter Varsa, and Susan Zimmermann
The introductory chapter provides a historiographic and thematic framing for the contributions and, we hope, for future research. The first section discusses the existing historiography of the region, highlighting the long history of writing on women's labour activism in Central and Eastern Europe and its adjacent territories within and across the borders of different types of empires and nation-states, and across vastly diverse political regimes. The second section discusses key contributions of the chapters assembled in the volume to the study of women's (and sometimes men's) quests for the improvement of the lives and working conditions of women, pointing to their interconnections and highlighting their contributions to the development of long-term and transregional approaches to the history of women's labour struggles. The third section expands on the rationale for studying women's labour struggles from a long-term, transregional, integrative, and critical perspective, further discusses insights emerging from the volume and other scholarship, and highlights challenges as well as directions for ongoing and future research in the field of women's labour activism.
Volume Editors: Selin Çağatay, Alexandra Ghit, Olga Gnydiuk, Veronika Helfert, Ivelina Masheva, Zhanna Popova, Jelena Tešija, Eszter Varsa, and Susan Zimmermann
This book examines women’s activism in and beyond Central and Eastern Europe and transnationally within and across different historical periods, political regimes, and scales of activism. The authors explore the wide range of activist agendas, repertoires, and forums in which women sought to advocate for their gender and labour interests.
Women were engaged in trade unions, women-only organizations, state instituions, and international and intellectual networks, and were active on the shopfloor. Rectifying geopolitical and thematic imbalances in labour and gender history, this volume is a valuable resource for scholars and students of women’s activism, social movements, political and intellectual history, and transnationalism.
Contributors are: Eloisa Betti, Masha Bratishcheva, Jan A. Burek, Selin Çağatay, Daria Dyakonova, Mátyás Erdélyi, Dóra Fedeles-Czeferner, Eric Fure-Slocum, Alexandra Ghiț, Olga Gnydiuk, Maren Hachmeister, Veronika Helfert, Natalia Jarska, Marie Láníková, Ivelina Masheva, Jean-Pierre Liotard-Vogt, Denisa Nešťáková, Sophia Polek, Zhanna Popova, Büşra Satı, Masha Shpolberg, Georg Spitaler, Jelena Tešija, Eszter Varsa, Johanna Wolf and Susan Zimmermann.
What do struggles for women’s and LGBTI+ rights in Russia, Turkey and the Scandinavian countries have in common? And what can actors who struggle for rights and justice in these contexts learn from each other? Based on a multisited ethnography of feminist and LGBTI+ activisms across Russia, Turkey and the Scandinavian countries, this Open Access book explores transnational struggles on various levels, from the micro-scale of the everyday to large-scale, spectacular events. Drawing on ethnographic insights and encounters from various sites, this book conceptualizes resistance as situated in the grey zone between barely perceptible, even hidden or covert, forms of mundane activist practices and highly visible street protests, gathering large crowds. Taking the reader beyond the dichotomies of visible/invisible and public/private, this book advances new understandings of resistance, solidarity, and activism in transnationalizing feminist and queer struggles, illustrated by rich ethnographic case studies from Russia, Scandinavia and Turkey.
This article employs a holistic understanding of environmental, social, andeconomic sustainability to explore the interaction between neoliberalism,climate crisis, digitalization, and academic work with a focus on its everydayaspects. Drawing our experience of organizing an online conference during theCovid-19 pandemic and our dialogue with conference participants, we firstproblematize the presumed disembodiment of digital exchange and suggest anuanced understanding of physicality’s role in knowledge production. We thenexplore the impact of the changing times and spaces of academic work onbodies and minds and the boundaries between private and public realms.Finally, we challenge the notion of digital solutionism by highlighting theimplications of inhabiting digital platforms as spaces for knowledge production.While there is no simple solution to the problems around the digital shift inacademic work and conferencing, we argue, downsizing can be a counteractionto platform capitalism in times of the climate crisis.
OPEN ACCESS: https://brill.com/display/book/9789004682481/BP000001.xml
In: Through the Prism of Gender and Work
Authors: Selin Çağatay, Mátyás Erdélyi, Alexandra Ghiț, Olga Gnydiuk, Veronika Helfert, Ivelina Masheva, Zhanna Popova, Jelena Tešija, Eszter Varsa, and Susan Zimmermann
The introductory chapter provides a historiographic and thematic framing for the contributions and, we hope, for future research. The first section discusses the existing historiography of the region, highlighting the long history of writing on women's labour activism in Central and Eastern Europe and its adjacent territories within and across the borders of different types of empires and nation-states, and across vastly diverse political regimes. The second section discusses key contributions of the chapters assembled in the volume to the study of women's (and sometimes men's) quests for the improvement of the lives and working conditions of women, pointing to their interconnections and highlighting their contributions to the development of long-term and transregional approaches to the history of women's labour struggles. The third section expands on the rationale for studying women's labour struggles from a long-term, transregional, integrative, and critical perspective, further discusses insights emerging from the volume and other scholarship, and highlights challenges as well as directions for ongoing and future research in the field of women's labour activism.