Position:
Research Fellow, European Studies Centre
Faculty / College Address:
Oriental Institute / St Antony's College
Email:
kerem.oktem@sant.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests:
- Politics and International Relations of Turkey
- Minorities in Turkey
- Urban development in the Middle East
- Islam and politics in the Balkans and in Europe
Current Projects:
- Research project "Islam and Politics in Western Europe"
- Collaborative Research project "Freedom and Diversity in Europe and North America", on immigration, diversity and the negotiation of free speech, together with Timothy Garton Ash
Courses Taught:
- Politics of the Middle East
- Cities and Societies of the Middle East
Recent Publications:
Books:
- Kerem Öktem, Kadıoğlu, Ayşe, Mehmet Karlı (Eds.), Another Empire? Turkey’s new foreign policy in the 2000s (Istanbul: Bilgi University Press, 2012)
Link to Website: http://anotherempire.info/
- Öktem, Kerem, Angry Nation. Turkey since 1989 (London: Zed Books, 2011).
Link to Website: http://angrynation.info/
- Kerslake, Celia, Kerem Öktem and Philip Robins (Eds.), Turkey’s Engagement with Modernity (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
- Öktem, Kerem, Othon Anastasakis and Kalypso Nicolaidis and (Eds.), In the long shadow of Europe. Greeks and Turks in the era of Post-Nationalism (Leiden: Brill, 2009).
- Öktem, Kerem and Reem Abou El-Fadl (Eds.): Mutual Misunderstandings: Muslims in the European media, Europe in the media of Muslim majority countries (Oxford: European Studies Centre, 2009).
Journal articles and book chapters:
- Öktem, Kerem, , Journal of Muslims in Europe, Autumn 2012.
- ________, ‘Between emigration, de-Islamization and the nation-state: Muslim communities in the Balkans’, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Vol. 11, No. 2, June 2011, 151–169.
- ________, ‘Alles Stehende verdampft: Homosexuelle Bewegungen und Identitäten im Kontext patriarchaler Machstrukturen in der Türkei’ in: Holzleithner, Elisabeth and Sabine Strasser, Multikulturalismus Queer Gelesen (Frankfurt a. M.: Campus Verlag, 2010).
- ________, ‘Ulus, zaman ve mekan: Türkiye ve Yunanistan’da toponomik politikalar’, in: Millas, Herkül, Sözde masum milliyetçilik (Istanbul: Kitap, 2010).
- ________, The natural, the political and the religious in the borderlands of Europe’, Journal of Multicultural Discourses, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2010, 21-25.
- ________, ‘The Ambivalent Sea: Regionalizing the Mediterranean Differently’, in: Bechev, Dimitar and Kalypso Nicolaidis, Mediterranean Frontiers: Borders, Conflict and Memory in a Transnational World (London: I.B. Tauris, 2009).
- ________, ‘Cosmopolitan desires, parochial anxieties: Istanbul and its unwelcome diversity’, Pensée de Midi (Actes Sud), Nr. 29, 2009.
- ________, ‘The Nation’s Imprint: Demographic Engineering and the Change of Toponymes in Republican Turkey’, European Journal of Turkish Studies (11/2008).
- ________, ‘Another Struggle: Sexual Identity Politics in Unsettled Turkey’, Middle East Report Online (09/2008).
- ________, ‘The patronising embrace: Turkey’s new Kurdish strategy, Stiftung Forschungsstelle Schweiz-Türkei Occasional Papers(02/2008).
- ________, ‘Being Muslim at the Margins: Alevis and the AKP’, Middle East Report(246/2008).
- Bechev, Dimitar and Kerem Öktem: ‘Trans-Nationalism in South East Europe: Constructing, Transcending and Reinforcing Borders’, Journal of South East European and Black Sea Studies,Vol. 6, No. 4, 2006.
- ________, ‘British Media perspectives on Turkey’s EU accession prospects: Euro-scepticism and Turco-philia’, Südosteuropa,Vol. 53, No. 4, 2005.
- ________, ‘Mardin as a city of containment: Poetic, mediagenic and traumatic images of a city in Southeast Turkey’, Cities, Vol. 22, No. 3, 2005.
- ________, ‘Incorporating the time and space of the ethnic ‘other’: Nationalism and Space in Southeast Turkey in the 19th and 20th Centuries’, Nations and NationalismVol. 10, No. 4, 2004.
Further Info:
Link to my personal website: http://keremoktem.com/
