Kerem H L Öktem

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.