Gözde Orhan

Gözde Orhan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences / Common Courses at Altinbas University, Istanbul. Graduating from the Department of Economics at the Yildiz Technical University in 2006, she received her M.A. (2008) and Ph.D. (2017) degrees from the Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History at Bogazici University.  Her dissertation is titled “The Production of Space in Dersim in the 2000s.”

The project

Title: The Alevi Policy of the Kurdish Movement in the 1990s: Ruptures, Discourses, and Historiography

Keywords: Urban studies, environmental studies, Kurdish cities, gender politics.

Selection of publications

Articles:

Orhan, G. (2020) “Remembering a Massacre: How Has the Rise of Oral History as a Methodology Impacted Dersim Studies?” Wrocław Yearbook of Oral History 9, pp. 97-120.

Orhan, G. (2020) “Remapping Regions: The Role of Socio-Economic Development Indicators in the New Incentive System of Turkey” Calisma ve Toplum 64, 73-89.

Orhan, G. (2019) “Religious Freedom Governance or Institutionalization of a Heterodox Religion? Turkey’s Urban Policies with Respect to Alevi Population” Peace Human Rights Governance PHRG 3 (2), 193-214.

Edited Books:

Orhan, G. (ed.) Tarihin Dönüşümü, Dönüşümün Tarihi (Istanbul: Nobel, 2022) ISBN: 978-605-2065-71-6

Tuna, Ş. G. and Orhan, G. (eds.) Dört Dağa Sığmayan Kent: Dersim Üzerine Ekonomi-Politik Yazılar (Istanbul: Patika, 2013) ISBN: 978-605-63617-5-3.