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Dr Bulent Diken

Sociology: Reader in Social and Cultural Theory

Department: Sociology

Research Interests

I did my first degree in urban planning in Denmark (The Aarhus School of Architecture). From 1994 to 1997 I worked on my PhD thesis with the title "Strangers, Ambivalence and Social Theory", followed by another research project focused on the sociology of mobility. During 1998-1999 I held an assistant professorship at Roskilde University, Department of Geography. I came to Lancaster in September 1999.

My present research consists of two projects: "Revolt, Revolution, Critique - The Paradox of Society" and "The Sociology of Terrorism". In general I work on social theory, political philosophy, urbanism, post-structuralism and ethnicity/immigration.

Currently I am teaching three undergraduate courses, "Terror", "SociologyGoes to Hollywood",and "City and Mobility", as well asa MA course, "Social and Cultural Theory". I am interested in supervising PhD projects related to diagnostic social theory, new social theories, social philosophy, politics, mobility, urban issues, and post-structuralism.

Publications

Books

1995: Fra Østtyrkiet til Vestdanmark. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag.

1998: Strangers, Ambivalence and Social Theory. Aldershot: Ashgate.

2004: I Terrorens Skygge. Co-authored with Carsten B Laustsen. Copenhagen: Samfundslitteratur.

2005: The Culture of Exception - Sociology Facing the Camp. Co-authored with Carsten B Laustsen. London: Routledge.

2007: Sociology through the Projector. Co-authored with Carsten B Laustsen. London: Routledge.

2009: Nihilism. London: Routledge.

Fortcoming: Revolt, Revolution, Critique - The paradox of Society. London: Routledge.

Selected articles

2001: "Justification, Multiculturalism and Post Politics after 'Nine Eleven' ". ThirdText Vol 57, Winter 2001-02, pp. 1-12.

2002: "Zones of Indistinction: Camps of security and terror". Co-authored with C B Laustsen. Forthcoming in Space and Culture Vol 5(3).

2004: "Artworks' networks - field, system or mediators?". Co-authored with Niels Albertsen. Theory, Culture & Society 21(3).

2004: "From Refugee Camps to Gated Communities - Biopolitics and the End of the City", Citizenship Studies, Vol 8(1), pp. 83-106.

2005: "City of God". CITY, Vol 9(3), pp. 307-320.

2006: "From Exception to Rule - from 9/11 to the comedy of (t)errors", Irish Journal of Sociology, Vol 15, number 1, 2006, pp.81-98.

2006: "From War to War: Lord of the Flies as Sociology of Spite". Co-authored with Carsten B Laustsen, Alternatives 31(4), pp. 431-452.

2007: "Houellebecq, or, the carnival of spite", Journal for Cultural Research 11(1), pp. 57-74.

2008: "Climates of nihilism", Third Text Vol 22(6), pp. 719-732.

2009: "The (Impossible) Society of Spite: Revisiting Nihilism", Theory, Culture & Society, Vol 26(4), pp. 97-116.

2009: "Radical Critique as the Paradox of Post-Political Society", Third Text, Vol 23(5), pp. 579-586.

2011: "Fire as a Metaphor of (Im)mobility", Mobilities, Vol. 6(1), 95-102.

2011: "Huxley's Brave New World - and Ours". Journal for Cultural Research 15(3), pp 285-304.

2011: "The Hurt Locker". Co-authored with Bruce Bennett. Cultural Politics, Volume 7(2), pp. 165-188.

2011: "The Ghost of Spartacus". Forthcoming in The Journal of War and Culture Studies.

2011: "Revolt as pure politics - and the subject". Forthcoming in Third Text.

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Associated Keywords: Cinema, Cities, Migration, Mobilities, Political philosophy, Post-structuralism, Security, Social theory, Urban studies

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