„Same Same but different? Nativist & Islamist Radicalism“ – Public Talk by Prof. Dr. Ayha Kaya
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Date: Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Title: »Same Same but different? Nativist & Islamist Radicalism«
Format: Public Talk & Disccussion
Place: Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Room 408, Mohrenstr. 40-41 10117 Berlin
Time: 19:00 – 20:30 CET
Public Talk by
• Prof. Ayhan Kaya, Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at Istanbul Bilgi University
Discussion with:
- Prof. Dr. Gökce Yurdakul, Humboldt-University, Berlin
- PD Dr. Liriam Sponholz, DeZIM Institute, Berlin
- Dr. Cihan Sinanoğlu, DeZIM Institute, Berlin
ABSTRACT
Based on the findings of extensive fieldwork conducted in different European cities (n = 307 in-depth interviews with young European citizens in 18-30 age bracket in Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands) within the framework of an ongoing European Research Council Advanced Grant research (https://bpy.bilgi.edu.tr), this talk aims to challenge the scholarship that has so far studied European youth in ethno-culturally, and religio-politically divided separate clusters, such as “migrant-origin” and “native” youths.
Accordingly, this talk lays the groundwork by arguing that European youth respond differently to the challenges posed by contemporary flows of globalisation, such as deindustrialisation, structural exclusion, and socio-economic, political, spatial and psychological forms of deprivation and humiliation. Challenging the current uses of the term radicalism interchangeably with extremism, terrorism, fundamentalism, and violence, I take radicalism as a possible quest for the democratisation of democracies rather than a pathological issue.
The novelty of this work is to understand and explain the malaise of both ‘native’ and ‘immigrant origin’ youth simultaneously through a scientific method by de-culturalising and de-religionising what is socio-economic, political, and psychological in substance. So far, existing studies have focused on one or the other of these two phenomena, while this talk brings them together.
ABOUT
Ayhan Kaya is a Professor of Politics and Jean Monnet Chair of European Politics of Interculturalism at the Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University; Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence; and a member of the Science Academy, Turkey.
He is currently a European Research Council Advanced Grant holder (ERC AdG, 2019-2024). He received his PhD and MA degrees at the University of Warwick, England. Kaya was previously a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Florence, Italy, and an adjunct lecturer at the New York University, Florence in 2016-2017. He previously worked and taught at the European University Viadrina as Aziz Nesin Chair in 2013, and at Malmö University, Sweden as the Willy Brandt Chair in 2011.
Ayhan Kaya is specialised in European identities, Euro-Turks in Germany, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, Circassian diaspora in Turkey, the construction and articulation of modern transnational identities, refugee studies in Turkey, conventional and nonconventional forms of political participation in Turkey, and the rise of populist movements in the EU.
His recent manuscript is Populism and Heritage in Europe. Lost in Diversity and Unity (London: Routledge, 2019). His recent edited volume is Memory in European Populism (London: Routledge, 2019, with Chiara de Cesari).
Some of his books are
- Turkish Origin Migrants and their Descendants: Hyphenated Identities in Transnational Space (Palgrave, 2018)
- Europeanization and Tolerance in Turkey (London: Palgrave, 2013); Islam, Migration and Integration: The Age of Securitization (London: Palgrave, 2012)
- Contemporary Migrations in Turkey: Integration or Return (Istanbul Bilgi University Press, 2015, in Turkish, co-edited with Murat Erdoğan)
- Belgian-Turks, Brussels: King Baudouin Foundation, 2008 (co-written with Ferhat Kentel)
- Euro-Turks: A Bridge or a Breach between Turkey and the EU (Brussels: CEPS Publications, 2005, co-written with Ferhat Kentel, Turkish version by Bilgi University)
- Sicher in Kreuzberg: Constructing Diasporas, published in two languages, English (Bielefeld: Transkript verlag, 2001) and Turkish (Istanbul: Büke Yayınları, 2000)
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