Metin Koca
Associate Researcher
Current affiliation: Istanbul Bilgi University
Metin Koca works as a European Research Council postdoctoral researcher at Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey. Koca received his Ph.D. in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute, Italy, in January 2020. Koca is the author of the monograph “Tracing Cultural Change in Turkey’s Experience of Democratization: Unexpected Dialogues on Intolerance” (London: Routledge, 2023). As a Jean Monnet Scholar in “Justice, Freedom and Security”, Koca earned a Master’s degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science (2013). He is interested in the study of cultural change and reproduction, the politics of tolerance, recognition, and difference.
Areas of expertise: Democratization, cultural change, violent and non-violent radicalization, the politics of tolerance and recognition, Middle Eastern studies, European politics
Selected bibliography:
Monograph:
- “Tracing Cultural Change in Turkey’s Experience of Democratization: Unexpected Dialogues on Intolerance” (London: Routledge, 2023).
Book Chapter:
- “Religiosities in a globalized market: Migrant-origin Muslim Europeans’ self-positioning beyond the sending and receiving countries’ politics of religion” in Nativist and Islamist Radicalism: Anger and Anxiety eds. Ayhan Kaya, Ayşenur Benevento and Metin Koca (London: Routledge, 2023).
Peer-reviewed Journal:
- “On the Borders of Cultural Relativism, Nativism, and International Society: A Promotion of Islamist Democracy in the Middle East after the Arab Uprisings.” All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace 6(2):43–63, 2017.
Working Paper:
- “Beyond the Continuum: Contrasting Images from Violent and Non-Violent Radicalization.” Istanbul Bilgi University PRIME Youth Website, 2022.