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- MakaleAçık Erişim2026Scopus SJRQ1Affective States of Academics: The Dissolving Fantasy of the ‘Good Academy’
Gülçiçek, Demet; Erdoğan, Emine
Drawing on the affective trajectories of academics in social science and humanities departments, this article asks how they imagine a ‘good academy’ and how they navigate the tension between that imagination and the demands of contemporary university regulations. Based on sixteen in-depth interviews with early-career researchers in Ankara, Turkey, it traces how academics narrate their affective relationship with the academy. Bringing together Berlant's conceptualisation of cruel optimism and Ngai's analysis of low-key affective states such as ugly feelings, the article shows that the attachment to the good academy is narrated as something that obstructs flourishing due to the institutional demands in higher education. This in-betweenness is analysed in relation to loosening attachment to the academy that is produced by a mood of irritation.
- MakaleAçık Erişim2024Scopus SJRQ1The nation’s happiness, women’s altruism and the affective politics of self-blame: Generating a ‘mood of commitment’
Gülçiçek, Demet
This article contributes to the growing interest in affect and emotions in sociological research, with a specific focus on ‘mood’, developing the concept ‘mood of commitment’. It approaches political commitment as a mood, an affective lens, a dedication to a greater cause, asking how political commitments might be a low intensity affective relationship, and also a heightening, high intensity rhythm at the same time. I conceptualise ‘mood of commitment’ as an object of analysis that can be engaged to critically understand a wide range of political commitments. This article focuses on the case of Ottoman Muslim women’s movements in the early 20th century, amid the turmoil of nationalist movements and ‘modernisation’ processes. It firstly analyses objects of desires that are circulated to be persuasive in the political movements, and attunement of women’s movements with already existing nationalist movements. It secondly unpacks the kind of work involved in claiming to be in the ‘right’ mood of commitment, emphasising the production of hegemonic positions.
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İncele - DerlemeYalnız künye2023Scopus SJRQ1Museums, emotion and memory culture: the politics of the past in Turkey
Gülçiçek, Demet
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