Yesim Bayar
Yeşim Bayar holds a M.Sc. in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Bayar and a Ph.D. in Sociology from McGill University. Her research interests include nationalism, citizenship, immigration, and state-minority relations.
Publications
Book
2014 Formation of the Turkish Nation-State, 1920-1938, Palgrave/Macmillan.
Articles and Book Chapters
“Laiklik ve Müslüman olmayan azınlıklar” [Laicism and non-Muslim minorities] in Umut Azak (ed.) Din-Siyaset İlişkileri ve Laiklik [The Relationship between Religion and Politics, and Laicism], Istanbul: Türk Tarih Vakfi. (forthcoming)
2024 “Everyday Nationhood, Diversity and Talking about Canada”, Ethnicities, 24, 1, 142-160 (early view online, November 2022).
2023 “Engagements with the Past and Armenians’ Settlement Journeys in Canada”, Canadian Review of Sociology, 60, 3, 463-478.
2021 “State of Nationalism: Nationalism and Empire”, Studies on National Movements, Vol. 7, 126-135 (reprint of my article published on the State of Nationalism).
2021 “Navigating the Nationalist Landscape of Exclusion: Armenian Citizens of Turkey and the Politics of Naming”, British Journal of Sociology, 72, 4, 1127-1140.
2020 “The League of Nations, Minorities and Post-Imperial Turkey”, Journal of Historical Sociology, 33, 2, 172-183.
2019 “Nationalism and Empire”, State of Nationalism, https://stateofnationalism.eu/article/nationalism-and-empire/
2019 “Roadblocks to Civility: Lessons from Turkish Nationalism” in Francesco Duina (ed.) States and Nations, Power and Civility: Hallsian Perspectives, University of Toronto Press.
2017 “Constitutional Debates and Nationalist Visions”, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 23, 3, 340-360.
2016 “Constitution-Writing, Nationalism and the Turkish Experience”, Nations and Nationalism, 22, 4, 725-743.
2014 “In Pursuit of Homogeneity: The Lausanne Conference, Minorities and the Turkish Nation”, Nationalities Papers, 42, 1, 108-125.
2011 “The Trajectory of Nation-Building through Language Policies: The Case of Turkey during the Early Republic (1920-1938)”, Nations and Nationalism, 17, 1, 108-128.
2009 “Educational Policies and the Process of Turkish Nation-Building: Where does Religion Fit In?”, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, 29, 3, 360-370.
Republished in Berna Turam (ed.) Secular State and Religious Society: Two Forces at Play, Palgrave, Macmillan, 2012.
Classes Taught
Principles of Sociology (Soc-101)
Power, Politics and Society (Soc-219)
Minorities and the State (Soc-3119) (cross-listed Govt. 3094)
Self and Society (Soc-255)
Nations and Nationalism (Soc-316)
Senior Year Experience, Independent Study (Soc-490)
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Thursday 1-3, & by appointment