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Burak Başkan (ENG)
@burakbaskaneng.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Political Science and Gender Studies at ETÜ | Alumnus: Middle East Technical University, University of Southampton, The University of Sheffield
My paper for the 3rd International Congress on Behavioral and Social Science Research:

"Tracking Inglehart’s Theory of Value Change in the Debates on the Next Generation Economics"
May 13, 2025 at 8:13 AM
My paper on the International Journal of Social Sciences:

"Revisiting Structural and Agential Approaches to Democratisation in the Age of Internetisation and Cyberisation"

Link: dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/toplu...
May 11, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Women of the world, unite!
You have nothing to lose but your chains!

- 8 March International Women's Day -
March 8, 2025 at 7:56 AM
My French Film Festival commenced with screenings of 10 feature-length and 10 short films. The festival will run until 17 February 2025.

Festival Website: www.myfrenchfilmfestival.com
January 18, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Rest in Peace, David Lynch (1946–2025)
January 16, 2025 at 7:36 PM
An Urban Allegory (Allégorie Citadine) is a wonderful French philosophical film that tells Plato's allegory of the cave through the eyes of a child wandering alone through the streets of Paris.
December 26, 2024 at 5:23 PM
My new paper on the Journal of Culture and Civilization:

Defending the Pluralistic Minimum Universality of Human Rights

Link: dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/cultu...
November 11, 2024 at 9:35 AM
A must-read for the people of the 21st century...
November 6, 2024 at 5:35 PM
My new paper on the Eurasian Research Journal:

Do Social Media Undermine Structures? Rethinking the Structure-Agency Debate

Link: dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/erj/i...
November 2, 2024 at 11:49 AM
An important platform to promote freedom of expression... Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #375.958!
September 17, 2024 at 5:29 AM
The #Paris2024 is the first "gender-equal Olympic Games" in the history.
August 8, 2024 at 8:26 PM
The human is the most dangerous animal in the world.

1963
Bronx Zoo, Bronx, New York City
July 18, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Torba, Bodrum, Türkiye
July 3, 2024 at 3:42 PM
"Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?"

Sonnet 18

By William Shakespeare
June 9, 2024 at 6:42 PM
My paper on the political communication strategies of two deeply rooted political traditions in US politics:

Democrats and Republicans in the 2010s: A Study on Political Communication in US Politics

Link: dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/toplu...
May 31, 2024 at 8:12 AM
"I hate the indifferent. I believe that living means taking sides. Those who really live cannot help being a citizen and a partisan. Indifference and apathy are parasitism, perversion, not life. That is why I hate the indifferent."

Antonio Gramsci died on this day in 1937.
April 27, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Happy 'World Art Day'.

I would like to share my favourite painting, which I see every time I visit the National Gallery in London, and of which I have a replica in my study at home.

Paul Delaroche's "The Execution of Lady Jane Grey".
April 15, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Ludwig van Beethoven, the last great representative of Viennese classicism, died in Vienna on 26 March 1827 at the age of 56.
March 26, 2024 at 8:25 AM
Say No to Hate!

21 March | International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
March 21, 2024 at 8:23 PM
My paper on the ethics of global poverty

"International Politics and Ethics: Positive, Negative and Reciprocal Duties on Global Poverty"

Link: burakbaskan.files.wordpress.com/2023/03/inte...
February 20, 2024 at 8:12 PM
The reason why humans call high places "beautiful scenery" is purely evolutionary. Acting with the reflex of self-protection against wild animals during the hunter-gatherer period, human beings have always preferred high places where they can see the dangers most easily in order to survive.
January 28, 2024 at 8:00 AM
"If the oppressor had no accomplices among the oppressed, the oppressor would not be so powerful."

Happy birthday to Simone de Beauvoir, who was born today in 1908.
January 9, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Judith Butler on being 'critical'...
December 18, 2023 at 7:21 PM
Good news from Tim Burton!
BeetleJuice 2 is coming.
December 1, 2023 at 5:43 PM
Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. There is no excuse for violence against women.
November 25, 2023 at 1:16 PM