Ankara
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,
Turkey
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) is a political scientist known for his work in
nationalism
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Boğaziçi University
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. He received his
master's degree
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from
London School of Economics and Political Science
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and his
doctoral degree
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Lund University
, motto = Ad utrumque
, mottoeng = Prepared for both
, established =
, type = Public research university
, budget = SEK 9 billion Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB) and Visiting Professor at Blanquerna - Universitat Ramon Llull.
The second edition of his first book ''Theories of Nationalism. A Critical Introduction'' was published in April 2010. His second book ''Contemporary Debates on Nationalism: A Critical Engagement'' published in 2005 continued where he left off in the first book and focused on more recent (i.e. postmodern, feminist and post-colonial) accounts of nationalism along with topics such as globalization, cosmopolitanism, multiculturalism). The book, co-authored with Spyros Sofos, is ''Tormented by History: Nationalism in Greece and Turkey'' marks the first sustained and critical effort to study Greek and Turkish nationalisms in a comparative perspective. Özkırımlı's edited volumes include ''Nationalism and its Futures'' and (with Ayhan Aktar and Niyazi Kizilyurek) ''Nationalism in the Troubled Triangle: Cyprus, Greece and Turkey''.
Selected publications
* Yumul, A., and U. Özkirimli 2000. “Reproducing the nation: banal nationalism'in the Turkish press.” ''Media, Culture & Society'' 22.
* ''Theories of Nationalism. A Critical Introduction'' (2000)
* Özkirimli, U. 2003. “The nation as an artichoke? A critique of ethnosymbolist interpretations of nationalism.” ''Nations and Nationalism'' 9.
* ''Contemporary Debates on Nationalism: A Critical Engagement'' (2005)
*Özkirimli, U., & Grosby, S. (2007). Nationalism theory debate: the antiquity of nations?. ''Nations and nationalism'', ''13''(3), 523-537.
*''Tormented by History: Nationalism in Greece and Turkey'' co-authored with Spyros Sofos (2008) .
*Özkırımlı, U. (2011). The changing nature of nationalism in Turkey: Actors, discourses, and the struggle for hegemony. ''Symbiotic Antagonisms: Competing Nationalisms in Turkey'', 82-100.
*Özkırımlı, U. (Ed.). (2014). ''The making of a protest movement in Turkey:# occupygezi''. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.