Asli Vatansever

Publikationen

Monographs
Vatansever A (2020) At the Margins of Academia. Exile, Precariousness, and Subjectivity, Leiden: Brill
Publ. ISBN: 978-90-04-43134-8

Vatansever A, Gezici-Yalçın M (2015) “Ne Ders Olsa Veririz”. Akademisyenin Vasıfsız İşçiye Dönüşümü
(Ready to Teach Anything: The Transformation of the Academic into Unskilled Worker). Istanbul: İletişim. (co-authored)

Vatansever A (2010) Ursprünge des Islamismus im Osmanischen Reich. Eine weltsystemanalytische
Perspektive. Hamburg: Dr. Kovač Verlag.

Edited volumes
Vatansever A, Kölemen A (eds.) (2022) Academic Freedom and Precarity in the Global North: Free as a
Bird. London: Routledge.

Roth R, Vatansever A (eds.) (2020) Scientific Freedom under Attack. Political Oppression, Structural
Challenges, and Intellectual Resistance in Modern and Contemporary History. Frankfurt am Main: Campus. ISBN: 978-3-593-51311-9.

Articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals
(2025) Random-Track: The End of Academic Career as We Know It?. Higher Education Politics &

Economics 11(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.32674/9edev689.

(2023) Feminization of Labor in Academia. Oxford Bibliographies in Education. Susan Faircloth (ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.

(2023) The Making of the Academic Precariat. Labor Activism and Collective Identity-Formation among
Precarious Researchers in Germany. Work, Employment and Society 37(5): 1206-1225.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09500170211069830. (Published online: March 11, 2022)

(2021) Feminization of Resistance: Reclaiming the Affective and the Indefinite as Counter-Strategy in
Academic Labor Activism. Publications 2022, 10 (1) – Special Issue on ‘Gender Research at the Nexus of
the Social Sciences and Humanities’. https://doi.org/10.3390/ publications10010001.

(2021) Ursprünge des Antiintellektualismus in der Türkei. Zeitschrift für Weltgeschichte 21/1 – Special
Issue on ‘Probleme der Wissenschaftsfreiheit’, Ralf Roth &

Aslı Vatansever (eds.). Peter Lang Publ.

(2020) Reflections on Exile and Academic Precarity: Discussing ‘At the Margins of Academia’. European
Journal of Turkish Studies [Online], 30 | 2020, co-authored with Aysuda Kölemen. URL:
http://journals.openedition.org/ejts/6646. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/ejts.6646.

(2018) Academic Nomads. The Changing Conception of Academic Work under Precarious Conditions.
Cambio. Rivista Sulle Trasformazioni Sociali Vol. 8, No. 15: 153-165, doi: 10.13128/cambio-22537.

(2018) Partners in Crime. The Anti-Intellectualist Complicity between the State and the Universities in
Turkey. Journal of Interrupted Studies 1 (2018): 1-23. Leiden: Brill.

(2015) Säkularisierung trotz Laizismus. Zeitschrift für Weltgeschichte 16/1: 51-61.

(2013) Prekarya Geceleri. 21. Yüzyıl Dünyasında Geleceği Olmayan Beyaz Yakalıların Rüyası” (Precarian
Nights. The Futureless White-Collar Workers’ Dream in the 21 st -Century World). EUL Journal of Social
Sciences, December 2013: 1-20.

(2013) A Tale of Two and A Half Revolutions. Humanities and Social Sciences Review 2/2: 1-6.
(2013) Die Muslimbrüder und die AKP: Die Blinden und der Einäugige. Zeitschrift für Weltgeschichte 14/2: 159-182.

(2011) Welche Welt? Wessen Geschichte? Die thematischen und methodologischen Herausforderungen der
Weltgeschichtsschreibung. Wissen Erwägen Ethik / Deliberation Knowledge Ethics 22/3: 441 – 445.

Chapters in edited volumes

Vatansever A (2025) From Academic Career to Nomadic Drift: Mobility and Labor Coercion.
In: Courtois A, Marginson S, Montgomery C, Sidhu R (eds.) The future of cross border academic
(im)mobilities: Power, Knowledge and Agency. Bloomsbury Higher Education Research series (the Centre
for Global Higher Education series).

Vatansever A (2023) Survival in Silence. Of guilt and grief at the intersection of precarity, exile, and
womanhood in neoliberal academia. In Burlyuk O, Rahbari L (2023) Migrant academics'

narratives of precarity and resilience. Open Book Publishers. Online version available at: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0331.

(2022) Blessing or curse? Third-party-funding as a paradoxical pull factor in forced internationalization. In
Axyonova V, Kohstall F, Richter C (eds.). Research in Exile: Networks, knowledge exchange and new
venues for internationalization in academia, 101-121. Bielefeld: Transcript.

(2020) Sources of Anti-Intellectualism in the Late Ottoman-Turkish Society. In Roth R &

Vatansever A (eds.), Scientific Freedom under Attack. Political Oppression, Structural Challenges, and Intellectual
Resistance in Modern and Contemporary History, 37-51. Frankfurt: Campus.

(2020) Between Excellence and Precariousness: The transformation of academic labor relations in Germany. In Roth R;

Vatansever A (eds.), Scientific Freedom under Attack. Political Oppression, Structural Challenges, and Intellectual Resistance in Modern and Contemporary History, 215-226. Frankfurt: Campus.

(2019) La migrazione intellettuale dalla Turchia. In Mercuri M &

Acconcia G (eds.), Migrazioni nel
Mediterraneo. Dinamiche, identità e movimenti, 120-134. Milan: Franco Angeli.

(2018) Sürgün Hükmünde Kararname. Göçebelik, Güvencesizlik ve Özneleşme (Exile Decree. Nomadism,
Precariousness, and Subjectivation). In: Inal K, Besler E, Talu B (eds.) OHAL’de Hayat. KHK’liler
Konuşuyor (Living Under the State of Emergency. Decreed People Talking), 413-460. Ankara: Belge.

(2016) Proletarya ile Orta Sınıf Arasında: Siyasi Aktör Olarak Prekarya (Between the Proletariat and the
Middle Class: The Precariat as a Political Actor). In: Sunar L (ed.), Türkiye’de Toplumsal Tabakalaşma ve
Eşitsizlik (Social Stratification and Inequality in Turkey), 163-194. Istanbul: Matbu. (extended 2 nd edition: 2018, Nobel Publ., 181-217)