Mars 2021

Elise Massicard is a permanent senior research fellow at the French National Center for Scientific Research / Centre d’Etudes Internationales, Paris. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Critique Internationale. Revue Comparative de Sciences Sociales. From 2010 to 2014, she was a research fellow at the French Institute of Anatolian Studies in Istanbul, where she acted as the director of the Observatoire de la Politique Turque. She was also a visiting fellow at the University of California at Berkeley and at Northwestern University Her research focuses on the political sociology of contemporary Turkey, especially social movements, political parties, state-society relations, government practices, identity politics, and political territoriality (local governments, EU dimension) in times of political change. She has authored The Alevis in Turkey and Europe: Identity and Managing Territorial Diversity (Routledge, 2012). She has co-edited with Nicole Watts Negotiating Political Power in Turkey: Breaking up the Party (Routledge, 2013) and 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). Her last book on the role of neighbourhood headmen (muhtars) in Turkey’s government was published in 2022 Street-level governing. Nogitating the Turkish State in urban Turkey, Stanford University Press. She has published extensively in academic journals. She is a founding member and a member of the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Turkish Studies, a peer-reviewed, online, open access academic journal she is also a founding member of the Consortium for European Symposia on Turkey (http://cest-turkey.org/)

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