Nilüfer Göle (born 1953) is a Turkish sociologist and a contemporary Turkish academic who specializes in the political movement of today's educated, urbanized, and religious Muslim women. From 1986 to 2001 a professor at the
Boğaziçi University
Boğaziçi University ( tr, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi), also known as Bosphorus University, is a major research university in Istanbul, Turkey. Its main campus is located on the European side of the Bosphorus, Bosphorus strait. It has six facult ...
in
Istanbul
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, she is currently Directrice d'études at the
École des hautes études en sciences sociales
The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (french: École des hautes études en sciences sociales; EHESS) is a graduate ''grande école'' and '' grand établissement'' in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences. The ...
(EHESS), Centre d’Analyse et d’Intervention Sociologiques (CADIS), in Paris. Göle is the author of ''Interpénétrations: L’Islam et l’Europe'' and ''The Forbidden Modern: Civilization and Veiling''. Through personal interviews, Göle has developed detailed case studies of young Turkish women who are turning to the tenets of fundamental Islamic
gender
Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to femininity and masculinity and differentiating between them. Depending on the context, this may include sex-based social structures (i.e. gender roles) and gender identity. Most cultures u ...
codes. Her sociological approach, which is underpinned with Socialist and Marxist ideology, has also produced a broader critique of
Eurocentrism
Eurocentrism (also Eurocentricity or Western-centrism)
is a worldview that is centered on Western civilization or a biased view that favors it over non-Western civilizations. The exact scope of Eurocentrism varies from the entire Western worl ...
with regard to emerging Islamic identities at the close of the twentieth century. She has explored the specific topic of
covering, as well as the complexities of living in a
multicultural
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world.
She holds French citizenship.
Notes
References
Selected publications
* ''Interpénétrations: L’Islam et l’Europe''. (Paris: Galaade Editions, 2005).
* “Islamisme et féminisme en Turquie: regards croisés,” in ''Le foulard islamique en questions'' (Paris: Éditions Amsterdam, 2004).
* Ed. with Ludwig Ammann, ''Islam in Sicht. Der Auftritt von Muslimen im öffentlichen Raum''. (Bielefeld: Transcript-Verlag, 2004).
* ''The Forbidden Modern: Civilization and Veiling''. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997).
Further reading
PBS Interview with Nilüfer Göle
External links
At Centre d'Analyse et d'Intervention SociologiquesCourses taught by Göle at EHESS (2009-2010)
1953 births
Living people
People from Ankara
Naturalized citizens of France
French people of Turkish descent
Turkish non-fiction writers
Turkish sociologists
Sociologists of religion
Academic staff of Boğaziçi University
Turkish women writers
Members of the Turkish Academy of Sciences
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