Yabanci, Bilge

Bilge
Yabanci

My interdisciplinary research connects the theoretical and conceptual borders of political science, sociology, and political psychology. Specifically, I work on migrant organisations in host countries (diaspora organizations) and recipient countries (civic networks and organizations that advocate refugee /migrant rights). In my current project, I investigate alternative communicative narratives that such organisations can adopt to reach out to the wider public. These communicative narratives reframe migrants and refugees as 'deserving' and 'rights-bearing agents' and seek to generate cross-partisan public deliberation and positive attitudes. In my current project, I combine fieldwork, network analysis, surveys and online randomized experiments to predict how social change for more inclusive societies can be initiated. This research aims to offer policy-relevant alternatives to change racialized attitudes of various ideological, socio-economic, and psychographic groups as well as non-citizens (migrants and refugees).
Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 1358
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3937-9789
X/Twitter https://twitter.com/byabanci

Roles

  • Università Ca' Foscari

    University, Venezia, Italy
    Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow

  • Northwestern University

    University, Chicago, United States
    Researcher

  • Northwestern University

    University, Evanston, United States

  • Stockholm University

    University, Stockholm, Sweden
    Researcher

Research

Lobbying the Autocrat

Year 2023
Journal Name
3 Journal Article

Gender Politics under Autocratization and Two Decades of Women's Movement in Turkey

Authors Bilge Yabanci, Chiara Maritato
Year 2023
Book Title Religion, Gender, and Populism in the Mediterranean
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4 Book Chapter

Civil Society and Latent Mobilisation Under Authoritarian Neoliberal Governance

Authors Bilge Yabancı
Year 2022
Book Title Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Resistance in Turkey
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5 Book Chapter

Co-opting religion: how ruling populists in Turkey and Macedonia sacralise the majority

Authors Bilge Yabanci, Dane Taleski
Year 2017
Journal Name Religion, State and Society
Citations (WoS) 4
10 Journal Article

Populism as the problem child of democracy: the AKP’s enduring appeal and the use of meso-level actors

Authors Bilge Yabanci
Year 2016
Journal Name Southeast European and Black Sea Studies
11 Journal Article

The (Il)legitimacy of EU state building: local support and contention in Kosovo

Authors Bilge Yabanci
Year 2016
Journal Name Southeast European and Black Sea Studies
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12 Journal Article

The Far Right in the Balkans

Authors Bilge Yabanci
Year 2015
Journal Name Europe-Asia Studies
13 Journal Article
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