Derya Özkaya

I am a political scientist and working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Southeast European Studies (CSEES) at the University of Graz.

My research interests are primarily centered on the politics of emotions and affect, political ethnography of collective action and resistance, protest movements and contentious politics, collective memory, and contemporary politics of Turkey.

I am currently working on my first monograph on the emotional and affective dynamics of popular protests and collective action focusing on Turkey’s Gezi uprisings of 2013 and the post-Gezi political landscape in the context of anti-government protests and alliances.