Özgür Sevgi Göral

Activité de recherche : Turquie contemporaine, Études de genre

Question transverse : Mouvements sociaux et mutations politiques, Droits des personnes

Coordonnée professionnelle : ozgursevgigoral@gmail.com

Page professionnelle : https://ehess.academia.edu/ÖzgürSevgiGöral

Özgür Sevgi Göral, historienne et politologue, diplômée de la faculté de droit de l'université d'Istanbul, a obtenu son master à l'université de Boğaziçi, sur la question de l'enfant et la délinquance juvénile au début de l'ère républicaine. Elle a obtenu son doctorat de l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales, avec sa thèse intitulée Enforced Disappearance and Forced Migration in the Context of Kurdish Conflict : Loss, Mourning and Politics at the Margin en 2017. Parallèlement, elle a enseigné au sein des différents universités en Turquie. Elle est l'une des fondatrices du Centre pour la vérité, justice, mémoire (Hafıza Merkezi), une ONG basée à İstanbul qui se concentre sur les graves violations des droits humains en Turquie, et a été directrice du programme d'études mémorielles du centre depuis sa création en 2010 jusqu'en 2018 (https://hakikatadalethafiza.org/en/).

Après 2018, elle a travaillé comme chercheuse postdoctorale à l'Université Paris 8, avec sa recherche postdoctorale sur les régimes de mémoire coloniale de la Turquie et de la France. Cette recherche a été publiée en turc sous la forme d'un livre, intitulé Yaramız Derindir. Hafıza Sahası ve Sömürgeci Afazi. Après avoir enseignée à Sciences Po Paris et à l'INALCO, durant l’année 2022-2023, elle a été chercheuse invitée à l'université de Cambridge, avec son projet de recherche intitulé Performing Memory, Tracing Space : Mapping the Commemorations of the Armenian Genocide in Turkey. À partir de novembre 2023, elle mènera son projet de recherche intitulé Alone but not Lonely : Subjectivities, Agency, and Activism of Displaced Kurdish LGBTQI+ communities, financé par Gerda Henkel, en tant que chercheuse associée au CETOBAC. Elle a publié plusieurs livres et articles sur les disparitions forcées, la violence d'État, les études de genre, l'anthropologie juridique et les études sur la mémoire. Elle a eu des prix et des bourses pour ces projets de recherche tels que Şirin Tekeli Research Award, Sabancı University Gender and Women's Studies Center of Excellence et Best Article Award, Kurdish Political Studies Program at the University of Central Florida.

Özgür Sevgi Göral, a graduate of Istanbul University Faculty of Law, completed her master's degree at Boğaziçi University, on the child question and juvenile delinquency during the early republican era. She had a Ph.D. from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, with her thesis entitled Enforced Disappearance and Forced Migration in the Context of Kurdish Conflict: Loss, Mourning and Politics at the Margin in 2017. Meanwhile, she gave various lectures at different universities in Turkey. She is one of the founders of the Truth Justice Memory Center (Hafıza Merkezi), an NGO based in İstanbul focused on grave human rights violations in Turkey and served as the Center's Memory Studies Program Director from its establishment in 2010 until 2018 (https://hakikatadalethafiza.org/en/).

After 2018, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher at University Paris 8, with her postdoctoral research on the colonial memory regimes of Turkey and France. This research has been published in Turkish as a book, entitled Yaramız Derindir. Hafıza Sahası ve Sömürgeci Afazi. After working as a lecturer at Sciences PO Paris and INALCO, she was a visiting scholar at Cambridge University, with her research project entitled Performing Memory, Tracing Space: Mapping the Commemorations of the Armenian Genocide in Turkey, in 2022-2023. Commencing by November 2023, she will conduct her research project entitled Alone but not Lonely: Subjectivities, Agency, and Activism of Displaced Kurdish LGBTQI+ communities funded by Gerda Henkel, as an associated researcher of CETOBAC. She published several books and articles on enforced disappearances, state violence, gender studies, legal anthropology, and memory studies. She has received several fellowships and awards such as Şirin Tekeli Research Award, Sabancı University Gender and Women's Studies Center of Excellence and Best Article Award, Kurdish Political Studies Program at the University of Central Florida.   

Intérêts scientifiques / Scientific interests

Turquie contemporaine / Contemporary Turkey

Anthropologie légale / Legal anthropology

Violence d’état / State violence

Études mémorielles / Memory studies

Génocide des Arméniens / Armenian Genocide

Mouvements sociaux / Social movements

Champs / Fields

Empire ottoman / Ottoman Empire

Turquie contemporaine / Contemporary Turkey

Études de genre / Gender studies

Enseignements / Teaching activities 

2019-2021 Introduction to Comparative Political Institutions and Constitutional Law, Sciences PO Paris

Introduction to Political Science, Sciences PO Paris

2019-2021 Expression Ecrite et Traduction Anglais-Turc INALCO    

2017-2018 Identity, Body, Power, Université des beaux-arts Mimar Sinan

2011-2014 World History et Contemporary Issues in Istanbul, Université de Bogazici

2009-2012 International Law, Université de Sabancı    

2006-2009 Societal Transformations, Historical Structures, Université technique de Yıldız

Publications

Ouvrages

Enforced Disappearances in Turkey. Loss, Politics and Memory-Making at the Margin, Brill, sous contrat, à paraître, 2024

Yaramız Derindir. Hafıza Sahası ve Sömürgeci Afazi (Our wound is deep. Memory Space and Colonial Aphasia), Istos, 2023

Any Hopes for Truth? A Comparative Analysis of Enforced Disappearances and the Missing in Middle East, North Africa and Caucasus, Hafıza Merkezi Publications, 2019

Articles sélectionnés

Waiting for the disappeared: waiting as a form of resilience and limits of the legal space in Turkey, Social Anthropology, 29 (3), 2021, 800 – 815

Memory as experience in times of perpetual violence: unpacking the pact of public secrets, Kurdish Studies, 9 (1), 2021, 77–95

Land disputes on the outskirts of Istanbul: a unique case of legalization amidst demolitions and forced evictions, Environment and Urbanization, 32 (1), 2020, 69–88 (avec Yves Cabannes)

Alternatives to State Approaches in Turkey and Russia: The Politics of Memory and Civic Activism in Comparison, Caucasus Edition, 4 (2), 2019, 36 – 68 (avec Dmitry Dubrowski, and Margarita Ter- Oganezova)

Kentsel Dönüşüm Projelerine Muhalefet Etmek: Kentsel Muhalefetin Cinsiyeti (Challenging urban transformation projects: gender of the urban movements) İstanbul Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Dergisi, 44, March 2011, 67 – 81

Patlamaya Hazır bir ‘Şimdi’: Putları Yıkıyoruz (A ‘now’ ready to explode: we are destroying idols) Toplum ve Bilim, 94, Fall 2002, 189 – 210

Aydınlar Ocağı (Intellectuals’ Hearth), Modern Türkiye’de Siyasi Düşünce- Muhafazakarlık, ed. Tanıl Bora and Murat Gültekingil, vol. 5, İletişim, Istanbul, 2004, 583 – 590 (avec Emin Alper)

Afet Inan, Modern Türkiye’de Siyasi Düşünce-Kemalizm, vol. 2, ed. Ahmet Insel, Iletişim, Istanbul, 2001, 220 – 227

Chapitres d’ouvrages

Imkansız bir talep olarak adaleti beklemek: Kaybedilenler ve yakınları (‘Demanding justice’ as an impossible demand: The disappeared and their relatives), dans Beklerken. Zamanın Bilgisi ve Öznenin Dönüşümü, ed. Zerrin Oo zlem Biner, Ozge Biner, Istanbul: Iletişim, 2019, 45 – 87

Urban Anxieties and Kurdish Migrants: Urbanity, Belonging and Resistance in Istanbul dans The Making of Neo-Liberal Turkey, ed. Cenk Özbay, Merve Erol, Ayşecan Terzioğlu, et Umut Türem, Franham: Ashgate, 2016, 111 – 131

Devlet Şiddetinden Arta Kalanlar: Kayıp, Yas ve Kamusal Sırlar (Remains of state violence: loss, mourning and public secrets) dans Şiddet İsyan Yas: 90’lar Türkiye’sine Bakmak, ed. Ayşen Uysal, Ankara: Dipnot, 2016, 115 – 145

In praise of Turkishness – An end in sight? Perspectives, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Istanbul, January 2014, 48 – 51

Kenti Üretmek Kimin Hakkı (Who has the right to produce the city) dans Milyonluk Manzara, Iletişim, Istanbul, 2013, 93 – 99

The Significance of Remembrance in Transitional Justice, dans Perceptions, Actors and the Settlement of the Kurdish Issue, Diyarbakir Institute for Political and Social Research (DISA) & Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Ankara, 2012

19. Yüzyıl İstanbulunda Suç, Toplumsal Kontrol ve Hapishaneler Üzerine Çalışmak (Studying Crime, Social Control and Prisons concerning the 19th century Istanbul), dans Osmanlı'da Asayiş, Suç ve Ceza: 18-19. Yüzyıllar, ed. Noemi Levy et Alexandre Toumarkine, Istanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, 2008, 17-33

Rapports

Searching for Peace, Transforming the Law: Model of Women’s Courts, Hafıza Merkezi Publications, 2017 (avec Özlem Kaya)

Unspoken Truth: Enforced Disappearances, Hafıza Merkezi Publications, 2013 (avec Ayhan Işık et Özlem Kaya)

Democratization of Turkey – Policy Implications and Support Options, with Luxshi Vimalarajah, Berghof Foundation Publications, 2013

Présentations

A feminist analysis of the Kurdish women’s movement in Turkey: Possibilities and limitations for peace-making process, Gender and Politics in Contemporary Turkey, EHESS and Yale University, Online Workshop, May 16 – 17, 2022

Witnessing, remembering and encountering in the streets: activism of the Kurdish movement, Le régime politique et la rue: du néo-populisme à la dérive autoritaire dans les démocraties, Institut d’Etudes Avancées de Paris (IEP), Paris, June 19, 2019

The making of the colonial effect: law, human rights work and pacts of public secrets of Kurdistan, Institute of Ethnology’s Workshop, Human Rights Work and Transnational Legal Activism: Limits and Potential, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, February 8 – 9, 2019

Failed reconciliation, impossible justice in Turkey: The Case of Temizö z and Others” Keyman Turkish Studies Program’s Conference, Law & Politics in Turkey: Reform, Authority and Emergency, Northwestern University, Chicago, October 26 – 28, 2017

Until my last breath, after the end of this world: looking for justice in times of perpetual conflict in Turkey, Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) conference, The Politics of Post Conflict and Post-Authoritarian Narrative Panel, Columbia University, New York, May 5, 2017

The Affective Space of the Kurdish Conflict in the juridico-political: Contentious Memories of Fear, Defiance and Resentment, Politics of Emotions in Turkey and Its Connected Geographies, London School of Economics, London, January 11 – 12, 2017

Documentation as part of memorialization and peace making efforts, PILPG meeting, Human Rights Documentation ToolKit Event, Washington D.C., October 25, 2016

Waiting for Justice as an Impossible Dream: Forcibly Disappeared and their Relatives, Waiting: On Temporality, Power and Subjectivity, Istanbul Policy Center and Sabancı University, Istanbul, June 11 – 12, 2015

Peace Process and Reconciliation: How to Deal with the Past?, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and Van Leer Jerusalem Institute meeting, Themes of Conflict in Middle Eastern Democracies: A Comparative Perspective from Turkey and Israel, I[stanbul, November 6- 7, 2014

A new battleground in the Kurdish conflict: constitution making process, Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability (AHDA) conference, Local Memory, Global Ethics, Justice: The Politics of Historical Dialogue in Contemporary Society, Columbia University, New York, December 11-14, 2012

Women and Gender Issues in Turkey, European Parliament conference, The Kurdish Question in Turkey – Time to Renew the Dialogue and Resume Direct Negotiations, Brussels, December 2012

İç göç, kentsel dönüşüm ve toplu konutlar: Ayazma’nın kadınları (Internal migration, urban transformation, and mass houses: Women of Ayazma), International Multidisciplinary Women’s Congress, Izmir, Türkiye, October 13-16, 2009

Projets Collectives / Collective projects

2011-2018 Responsable du travail sur le terrain pour le projet Unspoken Truth, Enforced dissappearences, mené à Istanbul, Diyarbakır, Mardin, Şırnak, Batman et Urfa, Hafıza Merkezi.

2010- 2011 Membre de l'équipe et responsable du travail de terrain à Istanbul pour le projet Public Mediation in the Metropolis of the North Africa and the Middle East: Competition on land and Access to Housing (Amman, Bayreuth, Casablanca, Damascus, Istanbul, Tehran, Cairo) Institut Français du Proche Orient – Damas, IFEA Istanbul, CNRS.