Fight Scenes: Identity Contestation in Turkey's Pop Culture Arena

The Research in Comparative Politics Workshop and the Center for the Study of Europe present Liesel Hintz, Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.

Bridging the fields of International Relations and Comparative Politics, Hintz's research investigates how contestation over various forms of identity (e.g. ethnic, religious, gender, regional) spills over from domestic politics to shape, and be shaped by, domestic politics and foreign policy. Her regional focus is on Turkey and its Europe, Eurasian, and Middle Eastern neighborhoods. She incorporates many pop culture and social media sources and participant observation into her data analysis in order best to capture the various, especially vernacular, discourses on identity present in her cases.