Birgan鈥檚 current research is concerned with temporality as a subject and instrument of political contention from a comparative perspective. Her doctoral research, entitled 鈥淭emporality and Social Movements: A Political Ethnography of Activism in Contemporary Turkey (2016-2018)鈥� investigated the ways in which grassroots oppositional movements were affected by the accelerated authoritarian turn in Turkish politics after the 2016 military coup attempt.
Her areas of research include: Social movements and contentious politics, socio-political change, social justice, climate justice, social theory, sociological theory, political sociology, cultural sociology, time and temporality, Global South and Global North, qualitative research, ethnography, and feminist epistemology.
Journal articles:
Gokmenoglu, B. (2022). 鈥淭emporality in the Social Sciences: New Directions for a Political Sociology of Time鈥�. The British Journal of Sociology, 73(3), 643-654.
Gokmenoglu, B. (2022, March 8). 鈥淎gainst the Clock: How Erdogan Politicised Time in Turkey鈥檚 2018 Elections鈥�. [Online]. The Sociological Review Magazine. [Also available in .]
Gokmenoglu, B. (2022). 鈥淧olitics of Anticipation: Turkey鈥檚 2017 Constitutional Referendum and the Local 'No' Assemblies in Istanbul鈥�. Social Movement Studies. DOI:
Ferreri, V., Gokmenoglu, B., Noula, E. & Zagaria, V. (2021, September 21). 鈥淒efiant Engagements鈥�. In Musallam, F. & Zagaria, V. (Eds.). #PoliticalEngagements: Ethnography and Political Engagement. Allegra Lab.
Book review:
Gokmenoglu, B. (2022, January 24). [Review of the book Neither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization by Rodrigo Nunes]. LSE Review of Books.
Gokmenoglu, B. (2021, April 1). 鈥淭he Struggle at Turkey鈥檚 Bo臒azi莽i University: Attacks on Higher Education Tighten the Grip of the AKP鈥檚 Hegemonic Project鈥�. Public Seminar. The New School for Social Research.
