Hoy os presentamos a Bilge Yabanci, quien ocupa una doble posición en la Universidad de Deusto (España). Por un lado, es una Investigadora Ikerbasque (Ikerbasque Research Fellow) y, por otro, es Investigadora Ramón y Cajal del Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España).
Bilge pertenece al equipo de investigación Ética Aplicada a la Realidad Social (EARS) de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas – Universidad de Deusto. Anteriormente, obtuvo una beca Marie Curie Global Fellowship en Northwestern University (Estados Unidos) y en la Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia’ (Italia). Además, fue también Investigadora de Open Society (Open Society Fellow) en la Cohorte de Derechos Humanos e Investigadora Postdoctoral (Postdoctoral Fellow) en el Swedish Institute (Suecia).
Su investigación se centra en las dinámicas de la autocratización, el funcionamiento de los sistemas políticos autoritarios y los movimientos sociales y la oposición cívica dentro de estos regímenes. Su trabajo también explora el populismo, la interrelación entre ideologías, religión y nacionalismo, así como las emociones y el desempeño en la movilización política.
Actualmente, analiza las posibles vías para cambios de actitud y de comportamiento hacia grupos estigmatizados y vulnerables, incluyendo a refugiados y solicitantes de asilo. En un proyecto recientemente financiado por la Fundación ”la Caixa”, examina por qué y cómo las narrativas de la extrema derecha moldean las percepciones públicas sobre la migración y las minorías de género, al mismo tiempo que explora estrategias para desafiar y revertir dichas narrativas.
Sus artículos han sido publicados en revistas de renombre como Government and Opposition, Journal of Civil Society, Ethnopolitics, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Politics, Religion & Ideology, Southeast Europe and Black Sea Studies, Religion, State and Society, y International Spectator.
Publicaciones destacadas:
● Yabanci, Bilge. 2024. “Civic Opposition and Democratic Backsliding: Mobilization Dynamics and Rapport with Political Parties.” Government and Opposition, online first. https://doi.org/10.1017/gov.2024.9
● Yabanci, Bilge, Karabekir Akkoyunlu y Kerem Öktem. 2025. “Limits of Autocratisation: Actors and Institutions of Democratic Resistance and Opposition.”Third World Quarterly 46 (2): 97–116. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2025.2462248
● Yabanci, Bilge. 2024 “Surveil, Datafy, Publicize: Digital Authoritarianism and Migration Governance in Turkey.” Democratization. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2024.2433091
● Yabanci, Bilge. 2025. “Overcoming Prejudices and Stigmatization towards Refugees: A Novel Approach through Deliberative Citizen Dialogues in Turkey.” Migration Studies 13 (1). https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnae051
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Who carries out research at the University of Deusto? Meet Bilge Yabanci
Bilge Yabanci is an Ikerbasque Research Fellow at the University of Deusto (Spain) and a Ramón y Cajal Researcher funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (Spain).
Bilge is a member of the Applied Ethics to Social Reality (EARS) research team at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Deusto. Previously, she was awarded a Marie Curie Global Fellowship at Northwestern University (United States) and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy). She was also an Open Society Fellow in the Human Rights Cohort and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Swedish Institute (Sweden).
Her research focuses on the dynamics of autocratisation, the functioning of authoritarian political systems, and social movements and civic opposition within these regimes. Her work also explores populism, the interrelation between ideologies, religion, and nationalism, as well as emotions and performance in political mobilisation.
Currently, she is researching potential ways to change attitudes and behaviours towards stigmatised and vulnerable groups, including refugees and asylum seekers. In a recently funded project by the “La Caixa” Foundation, she examines why and how far-right narratives shape public perceptions of migration and gender minorities, while also exploring strategies to challenge and reverse these narratives.
Her articles have been published in renowned journals such as Government and Opposition, Journal of Civil Society, Ethnopolitics, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Politics, Religion & Ideology, Southeast Europe and Black Sea Studies, Religion, State and Society, and International Spectator.
Key publications:
● Yabanci, Bilge. 2024. “Civic Opposition and Democratic Backsliding: Mobilization Dynamics and Rapport with Political Parties.” Government and Opposition, online first. https://doi.org/10.1017/gov.2024.9
● Yabanci, Bilge, Karabekir Akkoyunlu y Kerem Öktem. 2025. “Limits of Autocratisation: Actors and Institutions of Democratic Resistance and Opposition.”Third World Quarterly 46 (2): 97–116. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2025.2462248
● Yabanci, Bilge. 2024 “Surveil, Datafy, Publicize: Digital Authoritarianism and Migration Governance in Turkey.” Democratization. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2024.2433091
● Yabanci, Bilge. 2025. “Overcoming Prejudices and Stigmatization towards Refugees: A Novel Approach through Deliberative Citizen Dialogues in Turkey.” Migration Studies 13 (1). https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnae051
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