Meltem Ahıska

Orientalism/Occidentalism
Critical theory
Social memory
Aesthetics and Politics
Gender
“Memory as Encounter: The Saturday Mothers in Turkey” in Women Mobilizing Memory, eds. Ayşe Gül Altınay, María José Contreras, Marianne Hirsch, Jean Howard, Banu Karaca, and Alisa Solomon, Columbia University Press, 2019.
“Violence against Women in Turkey: Vulnerability, Sexuality, and Eros” in Vulnerability in Resistance, eds. Judith Butler, Zeynep Gambetti, Leticia Sabbay, Duke University Press, 2016.
“Orientalism/Occidentalism” Vocabulary for the Study of Religion, eds. Robert Segal, Kocku von Stuckrad, Leiden: Brill, 2015.
“Monsters That Remember: Tracing the story of the Workers’ Monument in Tophane, Istanbul” New Perspectives on Turkey, no.45: 9-47, 2011.