PSA Turkish Politics Virtual Book Launch with Élise Massicard

PSA Turkish Politics Specialist Group is inviting you to its virtual book launch event in which Dr Élise Massicard will present her new book Street-Level Governing Negotiating the State in Urban Turkey, published by Stanford University Press.

The event will take place on Zoom on Wednesday 25 October 2023 at 10:00 (PDT/PST) / 18:00 (BST/CET) / 20:00 (Turkish Time).

The book will be discussed by Professor Yael Navaro (University of Cambridge) and Professor Reşat Kasaba (University of Washington).

The presentations will be followed by feedback from discussants and a Q&A session.

Registration can be made via Eventbrite.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Elise Massicard is Research Professor at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique / Centre for International Studies, Sciences Po. Her research focuses on the political sociology of contemporary Turkey. She studies relationships between space and politics, which she inquires through parties, social movements, the sociology of institutions, state-society relations, and everyday politics. 

Massicard is a founding member and a member of the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Turkish Studies. She is also a member of the Editorial board of the journals Critique Internationale, Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée, and Diyar. Zeitschrift für Osmanistik Türkei- und Nahostforschung (Germany). Elise Massicard is a founding member of the Consortium of European Symposia on Turkey. Since 2017, she is vice chair of the Scientific Interest Group “Middle East and Muslim World”, (GIS MOMM), and she chairs its priority project on structuring French research on Turkish worlds. She is the author of The Alevis in Turkey and Europe: Identity and Managing Territorial Diversity (Routledge, 2012) and of Street-level Governing. Negotiating the State in Urban Turkey, (Stanford University Press, 2022). She coedited with Nicole Watts Negotiating political power in Turkey: Breaking up the Party (Routledge, 2013). She coedited with Marc Aymes and Benjamin Gourisse Order and Compromise. Government Practices in Turkey from the Late Ottoman Empire to the Early 21st Century (Brill, 2015). She co-edited with Alain Dieckhoff and Christophe Jaffrelot Contemporary Populists in Power (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).