Zeynep Gambetti

Zeynep Gambetti is an independent scholar of political theory,  and co-chair of the International Board of the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs. She has worked as an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul (2000-2019). Her research interests include 20^th century continental thought, critical theory, collective agency and neoliberal authoritarianism. She has published on the Kurdish movement in Turkey, with particular emphasis on space as a vector of relationality. Inspired primarily by Arendt, Marx, Deleuze and Foucault, her theoretical work focuses on contemporary forms of violence and resistance. Among her publications are Rhetorics of Insecurity: Belonging and Violence in the Neoliberal Era (co-edited with Marcial Godoy-Anativia) and Vulnerability in Resistance: Politics, Feminism, Theory (co-edited with Judith Butler and Leticia Sabsay). She is currently working on a theory of fascism that situates its rebirth within neoliberal societal dynamics.