Mehmet Sinan Birdal ist ein von der DFG geförderter wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in der Abteilung Gender & Diversity am Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaft. Er promovierte in Internationalen Beziehungen an der University of Southern California mit dem Schwerpunkt Kultur, Geschlecht und globale Gesellschaft.

 

2020-2023                  Ernst Reuter Fellow, Freie Universität Berlin

                                   Gender and Diversity Department

 

2019-2020                  Editor-in-Chief, History Foundation (Tarih Vakfi)

                                   Istanbul, Turkey

 

2016-2019                  Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Southern California

                                   Los Angeles, USA

 

2012-2017                  Assistant Professor, Isik University

                                   Istanbul, Turkey

 

2011-2012                  Visiting Professor, Istanbul University

                                   Istanbul, Turkey

 

2010-2011                  Assistant Professor, Maltepe University

                                   Istanbul, Turkey

 

2010                           Lecturer, Yeditepe University

                                   Istanbul, Turkey

 

2009                           Lecturer, University of Southern California

                                   Los Angeles, USA

 

2008                           PhD in International Relations, University of Southern California

                                   Los Angeles, USA

                                   Advisors: Hayward R. Alker, J. Ann Tickner

 

2004                           M.A. in International Relations,University of Southern California

                                   Los Angeles, USA

                                   Advisor: Hayward R. Alker

 

1999                           B.A. in International Relations, Ankara University

                                   Ankara, Turkey B.A. in International Relations

Lehre

Im Laufe seiner Karriere hat Birdal die folgenden Kurse an mehreren türkischen Universitäten und an der University of Southern California unterrichtet:

• Middle East Political Economy
• Sovereignty in the Middle East
• Perspectives on US Foreign Policy in the Middle East
• Seminar in Social Analysis: Turkey, The Failure of a Democracy
• Contemporary Politics of the Middle East
• Contemporary International Politics
• Comparative Foreign Policy Analysis
• Introduction to International Politics
• Theories of International Relations
• Regional Issues
• American Politics
• Research Methods in the Social Sciences (MA)
• Concepts and Frameworks in Security Studies (MA)
• War and Peace (MA)
• Great Powers and the Current International System (MA)
• Contemporary Approaches in International Relations (MA)

Im Jahr 2024 wird er einen Kurs mit dem Titel "Geopolitik der Sexualität" an der FUB unterrichten.

Forschung

Birdals Hauptforschungsinteressen erstrecken sich auf die Bereiche Theorie der internationalen Beziehungen, feministische Theorie, Queer-Theorie, politische Theorie und historische Soziologie. Birdal ist der Autor von The Holy Roman Empire and the Ottomans: From Global Imperial Power to Absolutist States (2011, türkische Übersetzung 2016), einer vergleichenden Studie über frühneuzeitliche Staatsbildung und Staatssysteme. Er hat über Themen wie geopolitische Doktrinen, Autoritarismus, psychologische Kriegsführung/Aufstandsbekämpfung, Queer Politics und Übergangsjustiz in der Türkei geschrieben.

Birdals DFG-Forschungsprojekt trägt den Titel Sexualwissenschaft, Selbstbestimmung und Transnationalismus: Global Scripts of the Early Homosexual Movements in Germany (1865-1969). Es untersucht den Zusammenhang zwischen Naturrecht, Souveränität und Geopolitik bei der Entstehung der Homosexuellenbewegung, indem es die folgenden Fragen aufwirft: Wie und warum wird Sexualität von Reformbewegungen in kritischen Momenten der Staatsbildung und internationalen Ordnung formuliert/reformiert? Welchen Einfluss haben Transnationalismus und Sexualwissenschaft auf die Erfindung und Verbreitung von sexuellen Identitäten und Gerechtigkeitsansprüchen? Welche Auswirkungen haben die Veränderungen in den internationalen Beziehungen auf die Sexualpolitik?

Birdal trat 2011 dem LGBTQA Caucus der International Studies Association bei und veröffentlichte mehrere Artikel über queere Politik in Einzel- und Gemeinschaftsprojekten auf Türkisch und auf Englisch. Diese Artikel untersuchen queere Herausforderungen für die Geschichtsschreibung der Republik Türkei, die Grenzen des liberalen Rechtsdiskurses für LGBTI+-Integration in der Türkei, die Auswirkungen der Gezi-Proteste 2013 auf die Opportunitätsstruktur von queerem Aktivismus in der Türkei und die verschiedenen Arten homophober staatlicher Repression in der Türkei, Tunesien, Ägypten und dem Libanon nach 2011.

Ausgewählte Publikationen

Bücher

The Holy Roman Empire and the Ottomans: From Global Imperial Power to Absolutist States (2011, I.B. Tauris).

Kutsal Roma İmparatorluğu ve Osmanlı: Küresel Emperyal İktidardan Mutlakıyetçi Devletlere (2016, Iletisim Yayinlari).

 

Artikel

“The State of the LGBTs in the Age of Reaction: Post-2011 Visibility and Repression,” Oxford Handbook on Global LGBT and Sexual Minority Politics (2020, Oxford University Press).

“Tek-adamlaşma” (On the path to dictatorship), Kuşku ile Komşuluk: Türkiye ve Rusya İlişkilerinde Değişen Dinamikler (Suspicious neighbors: changing dynamics in the Turkish-Russian relations), Gencer Özcan, Evren Balta and Burç Beşgül (eds). (2017, İletişim Yayınları), 321-340.

“Between the Universal and the Particular: The Politics of Recognition of LGBT Rights in Turkey,” Sexualities in World Politics: How LGBTQ Claims Shape International Relations, Manuela Lavinas Picq and Markus Thiel (eds). (2015, Routledge), 124-138.

“Farklı Kuramsal Yaklaşımlar Açısından Ekonomi ve Dış Politika (The Economy and Foreign Policy According to Different Theoretical Approaches),” Dış Politika - Karşılaştırmalı Bir Bakış (Foreign Policy: A Comparative View), Faruk Sönmezoğlu ve Özgün Erler Bayır (eds). (2014, Der Yayınları), 111-143.

“Feminizm (Feminism),” Uluslararası İlişkilere Giriş: Tarih, Teori, Kavram ve Konular (Introduction to International Relations: History, Theory, Concepts and Issues), Şaban Kardaş ve Ali Balcı (eds), (2014, Küre Yayınları), 241-256.

“The Davutoğlu Doctrine: The Populist Construction of the Strategic Subject,” Turkey Reframed: Constituting Neoliberal Hegemony, İsmet Akça, Ahmet Bekmen ve Barış Alp Özden (eds), (2013, Pluto Press), 92-106. (Turkish translation published by İletişim Yayınları)

“Neden LGBT Tarihi? Türkiye’de Siyaset ve LGBT-fobi (Why LGBT History? Politics and LGBT-phobia in Turkey),” Cumhuriyet Tarihinin Tartışmalı Konuları (Controversial Topics of Republican History), Bülent Bilmez (ed), (2013, Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları), 159-190.

“Ethnicity, Nationalism and Colonialism,” The International Studies Encyclopedia, Volume III, Edited by Robert A. Denemark (2010, Wiley-Blackwell Publishers), pp. 1714-1733.

 

Gemeinsame Projekte

(Case studies with Derviş Aydın Akkoç) Bir Daha Asla! Geçmişle Yüzleşme ve Özür (Never Again! Coming to Terms with the Past and Apology), Asena Günal ve Önder Özengi (ed), (2013, İletişim Yayınları).

With Timur Kuran et al., Social and Economic Life in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul: Glimpses From Court Records,10 vols. (2010-2011, Türkiye İş Bankası Yayınları).

Nicht peer reviewte Buchkapitel, Artikel und Kommentare

100. Yılda Lubunyalar: Heteroseksizmden Özel Harbe (Queers in the Republican Centennial: From Heterosexism to Counterinsurgency) Gazete Duvar (Independent online newspaper), 02.10.2023, https://www.gazeteduvar.com.tr/100-yilda-lubunyalar-heteroseksizmden-ozel-harbe-haber-1640304.

“The LGBTI and the Rhetoric of Repression,” A Critical Forum About LGBTI+ Prohibitions in Turkey, Jadaliyya.com, January 2, 2018, https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/34951.

“Voting on the Court Society,” Turkey’s Constitutional Referendum: A Roundtable, Jadaliyya.com, April 10, 2017, https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/34166.

“The Closing of the Opening: The AKP’s Armenian Policy,” April 1, 2017. PD Magazine, https://www.publicdiplomacymagazine.com/blog/adversarial-states/birdal.

“AKP İktidarında İdeoloji ve Hegemonya (Ideology and Hegemony under AKP Rule),” Marka, Takva, Tuğra: AKP Döneminde Kültür ve Politika (Brand, Piety, Imperial Cipher: Culture and Politics in the AKP Era), Kemal İnal, Nuray Sancar, Ulaş Başar Gezgin (eds), (Evrensel Basım Yayın), 2015, 48-57.

“Türkiye’de Dış Politika İdeolojisi (The Foreign Policy Ideology in Turkey),” Birikim (Independent magazine) (313), May 2015, 94-103. (https://birikimdergisi.com/dergiler/birikim/1/sayi-313-mayis-2015/2481/turkiye-de-dis-politika-ideolojisi/7158)

“Yüzleşme Siyaseti Üzerine (On the Politics of Coming to Terms with the Past),” Utanç ve Onur: 1915-2015 Ermeni Soykırımı’nın 100. Yılı (Shame and Pride: 1915-2015 The 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide), Aydın Çubukçu, Nevzat Onaran, Hakkı Zariç, Onur Öztürk (eds), (Evrensel Basım Yayın, 2015), 202-218.

With Rita Ender, “İki Mektupta Holokost Anmaları ve Hissettirdikleri (Two Letters on Holocaust Remembrance and How It Feels),” Agos (Armenian newspaper), 27.01.2015, https://www.agos.com.tr/tr/yazi/10368/iki-mektupta-holokost-anmalari-ve-hissettirdikleri. Republished by Avleramoz (Jewish website), 24.01.2016, https://www.avlaremoz.com/2016/01/24/iki-mektupta-holokost-anmalari-ve-hissettirdikleri/.

“Uluslararası Ceza Hukuku ve IŞİD Katliamları (International Penal Law and ISIS Massacres),” Güncel Hukuk (Contemporary Law) (131), 08.11.2014.

“Pnyx’ten Gezi’ye Siyasetin Yereli (Local Politics from Pnyx to Gezi),” KAOS GL (Queer magazine) (134), January-February 2014, 30-33. (https://kaosgl.org/gokkusagi-forumu-kose-yazisi/pnyxrsquoten-gezirsquoye-siyasetin-yereli)

“Dış Politikada Hedging Stratejisi (The Hedging Strategy in Foreign Policy),” Perspectives Heinrich Böll Stiftung (7), January 2014, 52-57. (English version: https://tr.boell.org/en/2014/06/16/hedging-strategy-foreign-policy-publikationen)

“Hak Siyaseti ve Özgürleşme (Politics of Rights and Emancipation),” KAOS GL (Queer magazine) (133), November-December 2013, 24-26. (https://kaosgl.org/gokkusagi-forumu-kose-yazisi/hak-siyaseti-ve-ozgurlesme)

With Mehmet Tarhan, “Gezi Sonrası Üzerine (On Post-Gezi),” KAOS GL (Queer magazine) (132), September-October 2013, 18-21. (https://kaosgl.org/haber/gezi-sonrasi-uzerine)

“Generation Y on the Rise in Turkey,” Ahram Online, 12.06.2013. (https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/4/73677/Opinion/Generation-Y-on-the-rise-in-Turkey.aspx)

“Queering Conservative Democracy,” Turkish Policy Quarterly 11(4), 2013, 119-129. (http://turkishpolicy.com/Files/ArticlePDF/queering-conservative-democracy-winter-2013-en.pdf)

Sinan Birdal ist regelmäßiger Kolumnist der Tageszeitung Evrensel und schreibt für mehrere Zeitungen, Zeitschriften sowie TV- und OTT-Kanäle.