Faculty Member, Political Science and International Relations
Associate professor
About
Zeynep Gambetti is associate professor of political theory at Bogazici University, Istanbul, since 2000. She obtained a Ph. D. degree at the University of Paris VII with a dissertation entitled Lies and Politics: The Implications of Visibility in 1999. She teaches courses on Hannah Arendt, theories of ideology and discourse, ethics and politics, and social movements.
Her work focuses on collective agency, the theory and practice of the public sphere, and ethics in the age of neoliberal globalization. She has published several articles on Arendt, and on violence and subjectivity in the neoliberal order. She has also carried out research in Southeastern Turkey on the transformation of the conflict between the Turkish state and Kurdish separatists, the decolonization of urban space, and has compared the Kurdish movement with the Zapatistas in Mexico.
She is currently exploring a theoretical framework through which to reflect upon recent radical movements, especially those that can create alternative spaces of existence.









