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. She is the daughter of
Turgut Göle, a politician from the
Republican People's Party
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.
From 1986 to 2001 a professor at the
Boğaziçi University in
Istanbul
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, she is currently Directrice d'études at the
École des hautes études en sciences sociales (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 social, psychological, cultural, and behavioral aspects of being a man (or boy), woman (or girl), or third gender. Although gender often corresponds to sex, a transgender person may identify with a gender other tha ...
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)
refers to viewing Western world, the West as the center of world events or superior to other cultures. The exact scope of Eurocentrism varies from the entire Western world to just the con ...
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 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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