Dr. Demet Bolat

• Gender and Queer Studies
• Feminist Theory and Epistemology
• Studies of Commons
• Sociology of Communities
• Social Movements

2020-
Editor, Feminist Bellek, https://feministbellek.org/

2024-2025
Coordinator and Reporter, Cinsel Şiddetle Mücadelede Destek Mekanizmalarının İzlenmesi ve Üniversitelerdeki Kadın ve LGBTİ+ Öğrencilerinin Güçlendirilmesi [Monitoring Support Mechanisms Against Sexual Violence and Empowering Women and LGBTİ+ Students in Universities], Joint Research Project of ARAMIZDA and CEID (EU), October 2024 – May 2025

2023-2024
Researcher and Reporter, Depremzedelerin Hakları ve İradesiyle Defne’nin Yeniden İnşasına Disiplinlerarası Bir Akademik Katkı [An Interdisciplinary Academic Contribution to the Reconstruction of Defne with the Rights and Will of Earthquake Survivor]. Joint Research Project of BİRARDA and Sivil Düşün (EU).

2020-2021
Visiting Scholar, Alice Solomon Hochschule, Department of Social Economy, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, (Berlin, Germany).

2011-2017
Research Assistant, Muğla S.K. University, Department of Sociology.

2023
Ph.D., Department of Sociology, Muğla S.K. University, Mugla, Turkey

Dissertation: “Müştereği Kurmak: Türkiye'de Müşterek Mekan Denemelerinde Kadınlar” [Building the Common: Women in the Experiments of Common Space in Turkey]

Co-Chairs: Assistant Professor Gökçen Ertuğrul (Muğla University)

                    Professor Begüm Özden Fırat (Mimar Sinan University)

2013
M.A., Department of Sociology, Muğla S.K. Koçman University, Mugla, Turkey

Dissertation: “Muhalefet Alanı ve Heteroseksizm: Muhalefet Alanında Heteroseksüel Olmamak” [Field of Opposition and Heterosexism in Turkey: Not Being Heterosexual in the Field of Opposition]

Chair: Associate Professor Dilek Hattatoğlu

2010
B.A., Department of Sociology, Anadolu University, Eskişehir, Turkey

2025 -  
Fellow researcher at Academy in Exile at the TU Dortmund in Germany.

2017
Visiting Fellowship, Graz University, The Centre of Southeast European Studies.

2017
Şirin Tekeli Research Award, Sabancı University, Gender and Women’s Studies Center of Excellence.

Interview with Deniz Kandiyoti, “The Concept of Masculine Restoration,” Feminist Bellek Podcast, 6 August 2023. https://open.spotify.com/episode/7f4aFTKxYVDHDkCzEzcXfE

Interview with Rümeysa Çamdereli, “Desiring and Questioning the Family: Report on Family, Dreams, and Realities in Turkey,” Feminist Bellek Podcast, 23 November 2023. https://open.spotify.com/show/7ERdvdHtNj6jZPsux6uMRS

ARAMIZDA – The Association for Gender Research https://aramizda.org.tr/en/main-page/

BİRARADA – The Association for Research and Solidarity in Science, Arts, Education https://biraradadernek.org/en/

AG-DA – Solidarity Network for Gender Equality https://ag-da.org/

EGITIM-SEN – Education and Science Workers’ Union https://egitimsen.org.tr/

KAOS GL – Gay-Lesbian Cultural Research and Solidarity Association https://kaosgldernegi.org/en/

“The Ambivalent Meanings of Feeling at Home: Women in the Politics of the Common Spaces in Turkey.” Feminist Review, under review.

 “Hakikat-Sonrası Çağda Feminist Hakikat İddialarını Güçlendirmek: Toplumsal Cinsiyet Karşıtlığı ve Feminist Bakış Açısının Karşı-Temellükü” [Strengthening Feminist Truth Claims in The Post-Truth Era: Anti-Genderism and the Re-appropriation of Feminist Standpoint]. Fe Dergi 16, no. 1 (2024). DOI: 10.46655/federgi.1358956

 “Müştereği Kuran Emek: Patriyarkal-Neoliberal Emek-Değer İlişkilerinde Çatlaklar” [The Labour That Constitutes the Common: Cracks in the Neoliberal–Patriarchal Labour–Value Relations]. Praksis 52 (2020): 21–115.

 “Zorunlu Heteroseksüellik ve Türkiye Muhalefet Alanı Üzerine Bir Tartışma” [A Discussion on Compulsory Heterosexuality and the Fıeld of Opposıtıon in Turkey]. Ankara Üniversitesi SBF Dergisi71, no. 4 (2016): 1091–1117.

 “Bilim, Cinsiyet, Nesnellik:  Feminist Nesnellik Arayışı Üzerine Bir Tartışma” [Science, Gender, Objectivism: A Discussion on Seeking Feminist Objectivism]. Sosyoloji Dergisi 31–32 (2015): 1–19.

Müştereği Kurmak: Türkiye'de Müşterek Mekan Denemelerinde Kadınlar [Building the Common: Women in the Experiments of Common Space in Turkey]. Dipnot Yayınları, forthcoming 2026.

“Deneyimin İzinde: Kadınların Deneyimi, Araştırmacının Deneyimi ve Deneyime Dönüş için Feminist Epistemolojik Arayışlar” [Tracing Experience: Women’s Experience, the Researcher’s Experience, and Feminist Epistemological Pursuits in Returning to the Notion of Experience]. In Feminist Bilim Felsefesi.  Doruk Yayınları, forthcoming 2025.

“Ekmek: Buluştuğumuz Müşterek” [Bread: The Commons We Meet]. In 100 Sene 100 Nesne: Cumhuriyete Nesnelerin Gözünden Bakmak, edited by A. Doğan et al., 414–424. İstanbul: Alfa Yayıncılık, 2024.

“Yeniden Üretim ve Bakım Krizinde Feminist Politika” [Feminist Politics in the Crisis of Reproduction and Care]. In VII. Kadın Hekimlik ve Kadın Sağlığı Kongre Kitabı, 35–43. Ankara: Türk Tabipler Birliği Yayınları.

“Türkiye Muhalefet Alanı ve LGBT Hareket: Gerilimler, İttifaklar, Dönüşümler” [The Field of Opposition in Turkey and the LGBT Movement: Tensions, Alliances, Transformations]. In IIV. Ulusal Sosyoloji Kongresi Kitabı. 49-63. Muğla: Muğla Sıtkı Koçman Üniversitesi

 “Pierre Bourdieu.” In Sosyolojiye Giriş: Sosyolojinin Temel Tartışmaları, edited by Muammer Tuna, 97–99. Ankara: Detay Yayıncılık.

“Cinsiyet – Toplumsal Cinsiyet” [Sex – Gender]. Feminist Bellek, 2022. https://feministbellek.org/cinsiyet-toplumsal-cinsiyet/.

“Nasıl Başladı, Nasıl Devam Ediyor: Ana Akımlaşmadan Karşıtlığa Toplumsal Cinsiyet” [How It Began, How It Continues: Gender from Mainstreaming to Hostility]. Kaos GL Dergisi 178 (2021).

 “Akademi Bizim Neyimiz Olur?” [What Is the Academy for Us?]. Çatlak Zemin, 2019. https://www.catlakzemin.com/akademi-bizim-neyimiz-olur/.

“Heteronormatif Aile” [The Heteronormative Family]. Feminist Politika 17 (2013).

 “Yaşam Hakkı Tartışmasına Dair” [On the Right to Life]. Feminist Politika 15 (2012).

Anderson, Elizabeth. “Feminist Epistemoloji ve Bilim Felsefesi II” [Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science II]. Translated by D. Bolat and E. Burgan).  Arkhe-Logos Felsefe Dergisi 3 (2017).

Anderson, Elizabeth. “Feminist Epistemoloji ve Bilim Felsefesi I” [Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science I]. Translated by E. Burgan and D. Bolat).  Arkhe-Logos Felsefe Dergisi 2 (2016).

Demet Bolat and Selma Koçak. “Toplumsal Cinsiyet Çalışmalarının Güncel Durumu: Akademide Toplumsal Cinsiyet Çalışmalarını Savunmak, Görünürleştirmek, Güçlendirmek” [The Current Status of Gender Studies: Defending, Making Visible, Empowering Gender Studies in Academia]. Workshop Report, 23–24 December 2023. ARAMIZDA – The Association for Gender Research.

Şafak Aykaç, SemaBayraktar and Demet Bolat. “Depremzedelerin Hakları ve İradesiyle Defne’nin Yeniden İnşasına Disiplinlerarası Bir Akademik Katkı” [An Interdisciplinary Academic Contribution to the Reconstruction of Defne with the Rights and Will of Earthquake Survivor]. Joint Project of BİRARDA and Sivil Düşün (EU), August 2023 – April 2024.

“Bakım Krizini Aşmak için Feminist Bir Müşterekler Politikası-” [A Feminist Commons Policy to Go Beyond the Care Crisis]. Toplumsal Cinsiyet Eşitliği Dayanışma Ağı-Toplumsal Cinsiyet Eşitliğine Katkı Seminerleri, 10–31 May 2022 (4 weeks). Online lectures.

“Türkiye’de ve Dünyada Otoriterleşme, Toplumsal Cinsiyet Karşıtı Politikalar ve Akademi” [Authoritarianism, Anti-Gender Politics, and Academy in Turkey and the World]. Gender and Society Lecture Series, with U. Sözen. Marburg University & Off Universty & Aramızda Toplumsal Cinsiyet Araştırmaları Derneği, 2 February 2022. Online lecture.

“Bilim Cinsiyet ve Akademi” [Science, Academia and Gender]. Gender in Turkey Lecture Series, European University Viadrina Frankfurt & Off University & Aramızda Toplumsal Cinsiyet Araştırmaları Derneği, 8 February 2021. Online lecture.

“Müşterekler ve Türkiye’de Müşterekler Politikası” [Commons and Politics of Commons in Turkey]. Ankara Dayanışma Akademisi – Sosyal Araştırmalar Programı, 9 June – 14 July 2021 (6 weeks). Online lectures.

 “Toplumsal Cinsiyet Karşıtlığı Akademiye Nasıl Yanıyor?” [How Anti-Genderism Is Reflected in Academia]. Harici Akademi Lecture Series, Medya ve Hukuk Çalışmaları Derneği, 13 June 2021. Online lecture.

 “Feeling at Home: Women’s Politics of the Common at the Junction of Shelters and Thresholds.” 2024 ATGENDER Conference on Gender Studies and the Precarious Labour of Making a Difference, Utrecht, Netherlands, 27–29 September 2024. 

 “Commoning Value as an Alternative Rationality to Capitalist-Patriarchal (De)Valorizations: Women’s Practices of Self-Valorization in Common Spaces in Turkey.” Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, 5–7 April 2024.

“Yeniden Üretim ve Bakım Krizinde Feminist Politika” [Feminist Politics in the Crisis of Reproduction and Care]. Ekolojik Kriz Kadın ve Kadın Sağlığı. VII. Kadın Hekimlik ve Kadın Sağlığı Kongresi, Diyarbakır, Turkey, 1–3 April 2022.

“The Digital Paths of Feminist Action Against Anti-Gender Politics in Turkey” Making Use of Digitalization Workshop, Raul Wallenberg Institute & Sabanci University Gender and Women’s Studies Center of Excellence, 28 May 2021.

 “Building the Common: Women’s Experiences in the Collective Places in Turkey.” Networking and Mentoring Workshop in the Humanities and Social Sciences for At-Risk Ph.D. Students, Online Conference, Leipzig University, 14 May 2020.

 “OHAL ve KHK’ların Toplumsal Cinsiyet Çalışmalarına Etkileri” [Effects of the State of Emergency and Decree Laws on Gender Studies]. Dayanışma Yaşatır Workshop, Kaos GL/ Women for Women’s Human Rights (WWHR) – New Ways, İstanbul, Turkey, 8–9 November 2019.

 “Bedenin Ekolojisi: Bedene, Arzuya, Cinselliğe Queer Perspektiften Bir Bakış” [The Ecology of Bodies: A View to Body, Desire and Sexuality from the Queer Perspective]. Green Monday Talks, Mugla, Turkey, 10 June 2019.

 “Eşik Mekânlarda Kadınlar: Dayanışmada Kurulan Öznellikler” [Women in the Places of Threshold: Subjectivities Constituted in Solidarity]. VI. Crıtıcal Psychology Symposium, İzmir, Turkey, 19–21 October 2018.

 “Collective Spaces in Turkey: Effort for Togetherness Under the State of Emergency.” Politics of (de)Politicization, Central European University Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology 2018 Graduate Conference, Budapest, Hungary, 14–15 June 2018.

 “Beyond Privacy and Family Bonds: What Are the Promises of Solidarity Communities to Women?” XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, Canada, 15–21 July 2018.

 “Muhalefet Alanında Heteroseksizmin İzini Sürmek: Bourdieu’cü Bir Saha Çalışması” [Tracing Heterosexism in the Field of Opposition: A Bourdieuan Case Study]. III. Pierre Bourdieu Symposium, Antalya, Turkey, 14–15 April 2016.

 “Türkiye’de Muhalefet Alanının Heteroseksüel Örgütlenişi: Baskılama Mekanizmaları ve Direniş Yolları” [Heteronormative Organization of the Opposition Field in Turkey: The Oppression Mechanisms and Resistance Paths]. VI. Spring Workshop, SPOD, İstanbul, Turkey, 22–23 October 2016.

“Türkiye’de Aile Politikaları ve Kadınların Evkadınlaştırılmaları” [Family Politics and Housewifization of Women in Turkey]. VIII. National Congress of Sociology, Ankara, Turkey, 1–3 December 2016.

“Kadınlık, Erkeklik, Heteroseksizm: Türkiye Muhalefet Alanı Üzerine Bir Tartışma” [Femininity, Masculinity, Heterosexism: A Discussion on the Fıeld of Opposıtıon in Turkey]. 1st International Conference on Men and Masculinities, İzmir, Turkey, 11–13 September 2014.

“Türkiye Muhalefet Alanı ve Heteroseksizm” [The Field of Opposition in Turkey and Heterosexism]. II. Academic Symposium Against Discrimination, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey, 9–14 December 2013.