Full Member
Güldem Baykal Büyüksaraç
Membership since:
2025
Field of activity:
Awards
Degrees:
2010
Doctorate Social and Economic Sciences
Dissertation Title: The Politics of Loss and the Poetics of Melancholy: A Case Study on Iraqi Turkmen
2000
Master Social and Economic Sciences
Thesis Title: The Iconography of Taksim Square: Competing Claims on a Public Space
1997
Undergraduate Social and Economic Sciences
1997
Undergraduate Social and Economic Sciences
Publications resulting from Research
Forthcoming. “Destructive Developmentalism and Precarious Heritage in Turkey.” In Alexandra Vukovich and Milan Vukašinović, eds. Inventing Heritage: Dialogues on the Politics of Medievalism between the Balkans and the World. Penn State University Press.
Forthcoming. “Acting with the Community: Applied Anthropology in a New Perspective.” Grazer Beiträge für Europäische Ethnologie, Special Issue: Transformation of European Universities, edited by Katharina Eisch-Angus et al.
2020b. “Türkiye’de koruma siyaseti ve yerel topluluklar: Köprülü Kanyon Millî Parkı örneği (The Politics of Conservation and Local Communities in Turkey: The Case of Koprulu Canyon National Park).” Antropoloji 40: 14-36. [Refereed article]
2020a. “Sıradan şeylerin belleği: Türkiye’de bir koruma alanında yerleşme, maddi dünya, peyzaj (Memory of the ordinary things: Dwelling, material world, landscape in a conservation area in Turkey).” Toplum ve Bilim 154: 5-35. [ISI Database]
2020. Özkan, Derya & Güldem Baykal Büyüksaraç, eds. Commoning the City: Empirical Perspectives on Urban Ecology, Economics, and Ethics. London: Routledge.
2019b. “Informal Tourism at the Edge of a Tangible Heritage: Feminized Performances of Street Vending in Aspendos/Belkıs.” In Işılay Gürsu ed. Public Archaeology: Theoretical Considerations and Current Practices, 93-102. London: The British Institute at Ankara (Monograph 52).
2017. “Trans-border Minority Activism and Kin-State Politics: The Case of Iraqi Turkmen and Turkish Interventionism.” Anthropological Quarterly, Vol 90, Issue 1: 17-54. [SSCI, Q3]
(With Jonathan Glasser). 2017. “Introduction to the Special Collection: Inhabiting the Margins: Middle Eastern Minorities Revisited.” Anthropological Quarterly, Vol 90, Issue 1: 5-16 (special collection ed. by Güldem Baykal Büyüksaraç & Jonathan Glasser). [SSCI, Q3]
2016. “All Dominion Belongs to Allah... Capital Get Out: The Issue of Social Justice and Muslim Anti-Capitalists in Turkey.” CrossCurrents, Vol 66, Issue 2: 239-251. [ESCI]
2015. “Unheard Voices: State-making and Popular Participation in Post-Ottoman Iraq.” Ethnic and Racial Studies (Special Issue: Minority Politics in the Middle East and North Africa: the Prospects for Transformative Change, guest edited by Will Kymlicka and Eva Pfoestl), Vol 38, Issue 14: 2551-2568. [SSCI, Q2]
2004. “Conquering Istanbul: The Controversy over the Taksim Mosque Project.” Anthropology in Action: Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice, Vol. 11, Number 2/3: 22-31. [ESCI]