About

Didem Türkoğlu is an assistant professor at Kadir Has University. She was a postdoctoral associate at the at New York University – Abu Dhabi and has received her PhD in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a political sociologist whose research interests focus on social movements and studies of social inequalities. In her current book project, she conducts a comparative analysis of higher education policies and the protests against tuition hikes over the last two decades in 34 OECD countries with a special focus on England, Germany, Turkey, and the United States. She highlights the impact of alliances between oppositional groups and parties on policy outcomes. In addition, she works on the impact of Covid-19 policies on collective action and social inequalities in Turkey and Brazil. Her articles have appeared in Mobilization, Current Sociology, Social Media +Society, Sociology Compass, and Journal of Democracy.

Research Interests

Cyber Politics, Media, Nationalism, Social Movements, Political Sociology, Mobilisation, Political Activism

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Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Participation and Mobilisation
• Political Sociology
• Comparative Political Institutions
• Internet and Politics
• Knowledge Politics and Policies