Dr Pınar E. Dönmez

The Centre for Law, Justice and Society

Global Inequalities Research Group

The Centre for Urban Research on Austerity

Journal articles:

(2022) Disciplining speech, violating rights: Recurrent and shifting patterns in the context of Turkey, Feminist Dissent, No. 6. Special Issue: Why Free Speech? https://doi.org/10.31273/fd.n6.2022.1263 

(2022) The Covid-19 pandemic, academia, gender, and beyond: A review, Publications. https://doi.org/10.3390/publications10030030

(2021) Authoritarian and neoliberal attacks on higher education in Hungary, (with Celine Cantat), Radical Philosophy, Issue, 210, 55-62. https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/authoritarian-and-neoliberal-attacks-on-higher-education-in-hungary

(2021) Marketization of Academia and Authoritarian Governments: The Cases of Hungary and Turkey in Critical Perspective, (with Anil Duman), Critical Sociology, 47 (7–8), 1127-1145: https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920520976780 

(2021) Against austerity and repression: Historical and contemporary manifestations of progressive politicization in Turkey, Environment and Planning C: Politics & Space, 39 (3), 512-535: https://doi.org/10.1177%2F2399654420920291  

(2020) British Immigration Policy, Depoliticisation and Brexit, (with Alex Sutton), Comparative European Politics, 18, 659–688: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41295-020-00204-7  

(2019) Crisis of Capitalism and (De-)Politicisation of Monetary Policymaking: Reflections from Hungary and Turkey, (with Eva Zemandl), New Political Economy, 24:1, pp. 125-143.

(2016) Revisiting the Debate on Open Marxist Perspectives (with Alex Sutton), British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol. 18 No. 3, pp. 688-705.

Edited book:

(2018) Comparing Strategies of (De)Politicisation in Europe: Governance, Resistance, Anti-politics, (Eds.) Jim Buller, Pinar E. Donmez, Adam Standring and Matthew Wood, Palgrave Macmillan.

Book chapters:

(2023) Crises of Authoritarian Financialization: Monetary Policy in Hungary and Türkiye in the Polycrisis (with David Karas) in M. Yağcı (ed.) Central Banking in a Post-Pandemic World: Challenges, Opportunities, and Dilemmas (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003323280  

(2018) Politicisation as governing strategy versus resistance: Demystifying capitalist social relations and state in Turkey, in J. Buller, P. E. Donmez, A. Standring and M. Wood (eds.) Comparing Strategies of (De)Politicisation in Europe, Palgrave Macmillan.

(2018) Depoliticisation, Post-Politics and the Problem of Change, (with J. Buller, A. Standring and M. Wood) in J. Buller, P. Donmez, A. Standring and M. Wood (eds.) Comparing Strategies of (De)Politicisation in Europe, Palgrave Macmillan.

(2014) Crisis and Regional Governance Attempts: the Curious Case of Turkey in Critical Perspective, in T. Haastrup and J. Eun (eds.), Regionalising Global Crises: The Financial Crisis and New Frontiers in Regional Governance, Palgrave MacMillan International Political Economy Series.

Working papers:

(2015) State, Crisis and Politicisation of Economic Policymaking: Reflections from Hungary and Turkey (with Eva Zemandl), Center for Policy Studies Working Paper, No: 9, Budapest.

(2014) Making Sense of (Anti) Politics In and Out of Crisis in Turkey: A Critical Intervention, Vol. III, Issue 5, pp. 39-53, Centre for Policy and Research on Turkey (Research Turkey), London, ResearchTurkey. 

I am interested in learning about processes of crisis and restructuring; repression and resistance, critique of political economy and IPE, politics of policymaking, depoliticisation and (re)politicisation in Turkey and beyond, theories of state, Marxism(s)

PhD Politics and International Studies (Warwick)

MA International Political Economy (Warwick)

BSc Political Science and Public Administration (Middle East Technical University)

Minor Degree History of Philosophy (METU)

Undergraduate:

POPP1104 Introduction to Contemporary International Relations

POPP1105 Global Comparative Politics (contribution to Turkey case study)

POPP2004 Contemporary International Theory

POPP3000 Dissertation

BPIR1003 Global Challenges

BPRI2004 Contemporary IR Theory

Postgraduate:

POPP5027/BMIR5002 Theory and Practice of IR

BMIR5005 MA Dissertation

Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) (2020)

Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert) Teaching in Higher Education (2020)

Research Team Member: The Anti-politics of Austerity: Exploring the Scalar and Spatial Dimensions of Political Crisis and Renewal in Europe. Supported by the Independent Social Research Foundation Flexible Grants for Small Groups 

Post-Doctoral Researcher: Tracing the Changes in Policymaking and 'the Political' in European Periphery Under Crisis. Institutional host: CEU Center for Policy Studies. Funded by the Tempus Public Foundation/Hungarian Scholarship Board (2014-2016)

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow: The Emergence of Southern Multinationals and their Impact on Europe. Institutional host: Department of International Relations, Koç University. Funded by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (2012-2013)

Participation in conferences/workshops and invited talks (selected):

(2024) Austerity anew in the midst of post-pandemic inflation, cost of living and debt crises, 14^th Annual Conference in Political Economy, International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE), Istanbul Bilgi University, 5 September.

(2024) British Journal of Politics and International Relations (BJPIR) Roundtable - John Peterson Best Paper Prize: ‘Guided by the science – (De)politicising the UK government’s response to the coronavirus crisis’ by Steven Kettell and Peter Kerr, Invited roundtable contributor, PSA Annual Conference, Glasgow, 27 March.

(2024) Taking Stock: Faculty Perspectives on Block Teaching from the Subject Areas of Politics and IR, English and History, Roundtable organiser and contributor, DMU Learning and Teaching Conference, Leicester, 7 February.

(2023) Labour Geography, Articulations of Agency and the Spatial Politics of Authoritarianism, Invited panel discussant, The Annual Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) Conference, Imperial College London, 31 August.

(2023) Teaching IPE in Challenging Times, Roundtable contributor, BISA Annual conference, 21 June.

(2022) Financial Subordination in the Semi-Periphery, Central Banking, and the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic: Case of Turkey (with David Karas), POLSIS Political Economy Research Group ‘work-in-progress’ workshop ‘Political Economy after the Covid Crisis: Shifting research agendas’, University of Birmingham, 15- 16 June. 

(2022) Financial Subordination and Evolution of Central Banking in the Pre- and Post-Covid Era: Cases of Hungary and Turkey (with David Karas), PSA Annual Conference, 11 April. 

(2021) Politics of (Higher) Education in the UK: Reproduction, Restructuring and Resistance (with Alex Sutton), PSA Annual Conference, 30 March.

(2018) Premises and challenges of progressive politicisation under austerity and repression, Invited speaker, Socialist Theory and Movements Seminar Series, University of Glasgow, 20 November.

(2017) Academic Freedom in the era of Repressive Neoliberalism (with Anil Duman), COSMOS Conference, The Contentious Politics of Higher Education: Student Movements in Late Neoliberalism, 15-16 November, Florence and ‘Academic Freedom and Politics’ Conference, LMU, 8-9 December, Munich.

(2017) British Immigration Policy, Depoliticisation and Brexit (with Alex Sutton), 3^rd SVOC Conference, 30 November-1 December, Budapest.

(2016) Post-2008 transformations and restructuring in Hungary and Turkey: Challenging mainstream explanations, 2^nd Conference on The Role of State in Varieties of Capitalism, Central European University, Budapest, 10-11 November.

(2015) Crisis, Depoliticisation and Repoliticisation in the European Periphery: Reflections from Hungary and Turkey, ECPR Joint Sessions, University of Warsaw, Poland, 29 March - 2 April; and Hungarian Particularism in the European Union: Politico-Legal Perspectives, conference organised by the Center For European Union Research (CEU) and The Lendület-Hpops Research Group (MTA), Central European University, 15 May.

(2014) Crisis, Authoritarianism and June Uprising in Turkey, presented at the Association for the Study of Nationalities and Central European University, Nationalist Responses to Economic and Political Crises, International Conference, Budapest, 2-14 June.

(2014) Understanding Gezi Protests in the Depoliticisation-Politicisation Nexus”, presented at the International Conference “June Uprising in Turkey: Background, Dynamics and Perspectives”, University of Kassel, Germany, 15-16 May.

(2013) Forms of Depoliticisation: The Turkish and Italian Experiences in Historical Perspective, (with Simona Pino), presented at the PSA Annual Conference, Cardiff, 25-27 March.

(2012) Revisiting the Debate on Open Marxism and Implications for the Study of “the International”, (with Alex Sutton) presented at the First Spectrum Conference on Global Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, 2-3 November.

(2011) Assessing the “Success” of Depoliticisation Strategy in Economic Policy Making: Turkish Case in the 2000s, PSA Annual Conference, London, 19-21 April.

(2010) Politics of Crisis Management: a Re-assessment of the Turkish Case, presented in the Crisis, Rupture, Anxiety Conference, University of Salford, Manchester, 9-10 September.

Postdoctoral Research Grant, Tempus Public Foundation/Hungarian Scholarship Board (Jan-Jun 2014; Feb-Jun 2015; Jan-Jun 2016)

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) (Oct 2012-Apr 2013)

Early Career Fellowship, Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick (2011-2012)

Politics and International Studies Departmental PhD Studentship, University of Warwick (2007-2010)

British Council-Turkish Educational Foundation MA Chevening Scholarship (2006-2007)

Research Assistantship, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Middle East Technical University (Jan 2005- Sep 2006)