{"id":11256,"date":"2020-03-02T11:42:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T16:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=11256"},"modified":"2025-06-10T09:23:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T13:23:27","slug":"caglar-dolek","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/people\/caglar-dolek\/","title":{"rendered":"Caglar Dolek"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"areas-of-interest\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Areas of Interest<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I work through an interdisciplinary research agenda cross-cutting the fields of critical criminology, police science, political economy, and social history. I have been particularly interested in the formation of state power with the advent of modern policing and its dialectical association with the contested processes of class formation and social marginalization. Building on my doctoral dissertation that was nominated for a Carleton University Senate Medal, I am currently working on a book project on the social history of policing in modern Turkey. Utilizing oral narratives, official discourses, visual imaginaries, and literary representations in the context of the making of police power and urban marginality in Ankara, Turkey\u2019s national capital, this project offers a critical contribution to international social historiographies on policing, law, and crime from the perspective of the Global South.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"teaching-approach\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Teaching Approach<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a passionate and enthusiastic teacher with a deep belief in the transformative power of higher education that equips students with skills of informed and critical thinking and communication. My ultimate goal in teaching is to foster critical thinking, alternative imagination and creative potential of my students for their empowerment as active and concerned citizens in a democratic society. For this aim, I love to integrate blended mediums of teaching with experiential learning techniques while making extensive use of open education sources including social journalism, literary critique, and visual arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"courses\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Courses<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>LAWS 2301E Criminal Justice System (Winter 2020)<br>\nSOCI 4860 Crime &amp; Punishment: A Social History (Summer 2020)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"selected-publications\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Selected publications<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Policing Slums in Turkey: Crime, Resistance, and the Republic on the Margin<\/em> [under contract with Edinburgh University Press]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bedirhanoglu, P\u0131nar, Caglar Dolek &amp; Funda Hulagu &amp; Ozlem Kaygusuz (eds.) (forthcoming) <em>Turkey\u2019s New State in the Making: Transformations in Legality, Economy, and Coercion<\/em>, ZED Books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dolek, Caglar (forthcoming) \u201c\u2019The law of the city\u2019?: social war, urban warfare, and dispossession on the margin,\u201d to be published in the collective volume: <em>Turkey\u2019s New State in the Making: Transformations in Legality, Economy and Coercion<\/em>, edited by Bedirhanoglu, P., Dolek, C., Hulagu, F. and Kaygusuz, O. (eds.) ZED Books, 276-294.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dolek, Caglar &amp; George S. Rigakos (2020) \u201cPrivate Security Work in Turkey: A Case Study of Precarity, Militarism and Alienation,\u201d <em>Critical Sociology<\/em>, 46(1): 119-140.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dolek, Caglar (2019) \u201cPolicing the Poor in Early Republican Ankara: Historical Formation of Urban Space, Class and the State,\u201d <em>Mulkiye Dergisi. <\/em>43(1): 63-110. (in Turkish)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bedirhanoglu, P\u0131nar, Caglar Dolek &amp; Funda Hulagu (2016) \u201cA Contribution to the Marxist Critique of Critical Security Studies: Rethinking \u2018Security\u2019 within the Context of the State, Coercion and Class Struggle\u201d, <em>Praksis<\/em>, 40: 9-40. (in Turkish)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bedirhanoglu, Pinar, Caglar Dolek &amp; Funda Hulagu (2016) \u201cThe Transformation of Internal Security and of the State in Turkey during the AKP Rule: A Class-based Analysis\u201d, <em>Austrian Journal of Development Studies<\/em>, XXXII, 1\/2: 21-41.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dolek, Caglar (2015) \u201cPrivatization of Security as a State-Led and Class-Driven Process: The Case of Turkey\u201d, <em>Science &amp; Society: A Journal of Marxist Thought and Analysis<\/em>, 79(3): 414-441.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11257,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Caglar","cu_people_last_name":"Dolek","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[45],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-11256","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-contract-instructor"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Contract Instructor","cu_people_degree":"Ph.D. Sociology (Carleton University)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"caglar.dolek@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/11256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/11256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19672,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/11256\/revisions\/19672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=11256"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=11256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}