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Seçkin Söylemez
"Demokrasilerde çareler tükenmez" (meaning: democracies always offer a solution) was once said by former Turkish president Süleyman Demirel. At least in Demirel's career as a political watchdog, this saying has been true more than once. But what does democracy actually mean? From a post-structuralist-constructivist perspective, democracy is considered to be fundamentally only a linguistic object, the content of which is determined by discursive processes within specific temporal and spatial contexts. What does this imply for the democratic understanding of people who exist within several spatial, i.e. national or even transnational, contexts? This is a question that seems more relevant today than ever before, especially if one considers recent cross-border debates between Germany and Turkey.
As a political scientist, I therefore ask the question - following the self-conception of my discipline as democracy studies - which substantive understanding of democracy do people of Turkish origin in the Federal Republic of Germany have? Due to the urban context of the research institute within the Ruhr region, I have the opportunity to take a specific look at Duisburg as a well-known case study of Turkish life in Germany.
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| 04.2020 – |
Research Associate at the Chair for Public Policy and Regional Politics Department of the Institute for Political Science , University of Duisburg-Essen |
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11.2019 – 04.2020 |
Government Employee, Public service of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia |
| 04.2019 – 09.2019 | Research assistant at the Chair for Political Theory of the Institute for Political Science, University of Duisburg-Essen |
| 05.2018 – 12.2018 | Consultant, German-Turkish Youth Bridge in Düsseldorf |
| 10.2014 - 01.2017 | Master of Arts in “Theory and Comparison of Political Systems in Transition” / scholarship holder of the Hans Böckler Foundation, University of Duisburg-Essen |
| 10.2016 – 03.2018 | Working Student, German-Turkish Youth Bridge in Düsseldorf |
| 05.2016 – 09.2016 | Research assistant in the BMBF project "Multiple Risks - Contingency Management in Stem Cell Research and Its Applications", University of Duisburg-Essen |
| 06.2016 – 08.2016 | Research internship, Foundation for Turkish Studies and Integration Research in Essen |
| 04.2014 – 09.2014 | Student assistant at the Chair for Political Theory of the Institute for Political Science, University of Duisburg-Essen |
| 10.2010 - 07.2014 | Bachelor of Arts in "Political Science", University of Duisburg-Essen |
| 10.2012 – 01.2013 | Semester abroad, Middle East Technical University (Ankara) |
| 03.2013 – 05.2013 | Research internship, German Federation of Trade Unions – Region Mülheim-Essen-Oberhausen |
Research focus
- Conflict Studies
- Migration and integration Studies
- Political culture and political attitudes Studies
- Post-structuralist and constructivist theories (e.g. Foucault, Laclau, Mouffe)
- Qualitative and discourse-analytical research methods (e.g. Jäger, Mayring, Nonhoff)
- Religious fundamentalism and ideologies of violence
- Theories of democracy and the history of democratic ideas
- Transnational communication (focus on diaspora communication)
- Turkish Studies
Fak. f. Ges. Wi./Inst. f. Pol. Wiss.
47057 Duisburg
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Wiss. Mitarbeiterinnen/Mitarbeiter, Institut für Politikwissenschaft
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- Söylemez, Seçkin & Kubesch, Markus (2021). "Zwei Schritte vor, ein Schritt zurück - Zur performativen Selbstreflexion des Postmigrantischen Theaters/ Das postmigrantische Theater als (ästhetisches) Dazwischen?" Talk given at the Conference „Re-thiniking The Post-Migrant Theatre“ (27.05.2021-29.05.2021), des studioNaxos on 27.05.2021 in Frankfurt am Main
- Söylemez, Seçkin (2021). Ein neuer Antisemitismus? Zur Debatte der Judenfeindlichkeit unter Muslimen in Deutschland. Talk given at „Montagsimpulse“ on 15/03/2021 Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Krefeld in Krefeld
- Söylemez, Seçkin (2021). Von Corona, Ignoranz und Rassismus. Talk given at „Gesundheit, Studium und Gesellschaft in Zeiten von Corona“ on 16/02/2021 ASTA-Duisburg-Essen
- Söylemez, Seçkin (2020). Das Gastarbeiternarrativ als These und Antithese. Talk given at „Neue Migrationsnarrative“ on 31/10/2020 Ruhr Museum in Essen
- Söylemez, Seçkin (2019). Reflections on Self-Discipline in the (Post-)Migration Society. Lecture given at "Wednesday Theory Feautre" on 11/12/2019 ASTA Duisburg-Essen
- Söylemez, Seçkin (2019). Autocratisation in the Name of Democracy? An Empirical Study of Turkish Citizens' Susceptibility to an Authoritarian Game of Deception. Co-Lecture given in the panel "Militant Democracy and its Hybridity" at General Conference 2019 of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) 04. - 07.09.2019 in Wroclaw
- Söylemez, Seçkin (2018). On the change and instrumentalization of the concept of democracy in Turkey under the AKP. Speaker in the panel "The meaning of democracy or: On the limits of the concept of democracy" at 27th Scientific Congress of the German Association for Political Science under the title "Frontiers of Democracy - Limits of Democracy" 25. - 28.09.2018 in Frankfurt am Main
- Söylemez, Seçkin (2017). Biopolitics in the age of stem cell debate - on the topicality of Michel Foucault's concept of biomedical power. Speaker at Conference of the thematic group "Constructivist Theories of Politics" under the title "News from Biopolis? The Politics of Biomedicine - theoretical reflections and practical approaches" 02. - 03.11.2017 in Duisburg