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Research
Watching television while forcibly displaced: Syrian refugees as participant audiences
This article explores how Syrian refugees and internally displaced people are using social
media to reshape interpretations of their own status through their engagement with quality
TV texts that tackle the refugee crisis.
Research
COVID-19: Global Solidarity or Retrenchment?
While the COVID19 pandemic has united the world in common concern, it has also exposed fault lines between rich and poor countries and magnified the inequalities in the world system and structures of global power.
News + Media
Syrian Refugees and IDPs
A conversation about the the current state of Syrian refugees and internally displaced persons. Tima Kurdi shares her family's personal experience and Omar Dahi presents an examination of the situation.
Research
Reconciling fighters, settling civilians: the making of post-conflict citizens
The emergent illiberal peace in Syria extends the conditions of war and violence into the post-conflict period, creating new citizenship regimes that bifurcate Syrian society into the reconciled and settled and the unsettled and cast out.
Research
Weapons of mass participation: Social media, violence entrepreneurs, and the politics of crowdfunding for war
Since 2012, North American and European civilians have regularly engaged in combat operations against the Islamic State in the globalized and decentralized battlefields of Iraq and Syria. This article focuses on two aspects of this phenomenon.
News + Media
The Women's Movement and the Challenge of Political Islam in Turkey
Please Join Security in Context and the OU Center for Peace and Development at the University of Oklahoma for "The Women's Movement and the Challenge of Political Islam in Turkey," a talk with Yeşim Arat, Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Bogazici University in Istanbul.
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