Nicole F. Watts, PhD

 

Assoc. Professor

Dept. of Political Science

San Francisco State University

1600 Holloway Ave. HSS 129
San Francisco, CA 94132-4155

 

Tel: (415) 405-2470

Email: nfwatts@sfsu.edu

 

Urfa, Turkey

Course Pages

 

Kurdish New Year Celebrations, Diyarbakır, Turkey. March 2004.

View of Hasankeyf, Turkey, June 2006.

Video and Photo Galleries

 

Selected Publications and Work in Progress

  • Activists in Office: Kurdish Politics and Protest in Turkey (Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 2010)
  • "The Missing Moderate: Legitimacy Resources and pro-Kurdish Party Politics in Turkey," in: The Kurdish Policy Imperative, ed. by Robert Lowe and Gareth Stansfield (London: Chatham House, 2010)
  • "The Role of Symbolic Capital in Protest: The Destruction of a Martyr's Monument and State-Society Relations in Halabja" (article under review)
  • "Re-Considering State-Society Dynamics in Turkey's Kurdish Southeast," European Journal of Turkish Studies 10 (2009)
  • "Towards Kurdish Distinctiveness in Electoral Politics: The 1977 Elections in Diyarbakir" (with Gilles Dorronsoro), International Journal of Middle East Studies 41:3 (August 2009): 457-478, published by Cambridge University Press
  • “Silence and Voice: Turkish Policies and Kurdish Resistance in the mid-20th century,” in The Evolution of Kurdish Nationalism, ed. Mohammed Ahmed and Michael Gunter (Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Press, 2007).
  • Activists in Office: Pro-Kurdish Contentious Politics in Turkey.” Ethnopolitics 5:2 (June 2006)
  • "Institutionalizing Virtual Kurdistan West: Transnational Networks and Ethnic Contention in International Affairs," in Boundaries and Belonging: States and Societies in the Struggle to Shape Identities and Local Practices, ed. by Joel Migdal (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)
  • “Relocating Dersim: Turkish State-Building and Kurdish Resistance, 1931-1938,” New Perspectives on Turkey 23 (Fall 2000): 5-30.
  • “Allies and Enemies: Pro-Kurdish Parties in Turkish Politics, 1990-1994,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 31:4 (November 1999): 631-656.

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