Başak Akkan
Istanbul Bilgi University
Başak Akkan
Başak Akkan is an Associate Professor of Social Policy at the Department of International Relations at Istanbul Bilgi University. She holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Social Science from Utrecht University and an MS in European Social Policy from the London School of Economics. She has published in several scientific journals, including New Perspectives on Turkey, Child Indicators Research, Children and Youth Services, Feminist Theory, Historical Social Research, Journal of Gender Studies, Social Inclusion, and Social Politics. She is the co-editor of the book Overlapping Inequalities in the Welfare State: Strengths and Challenges of Intersectionality Framework, published by Springer in 2024. She is an associate editor at the International Journal of Care and Caring.
FURTHER INFORMATION
| Countries | Türkiye; |
|---|---|
| Topics | Care inequalities; Care needs poverty and deprivation; Care work and migration; Employment education and family carers; Gender and care; LTC Policy; Unpaid / informal care; Younger carers; |
| Methods | Case studies; Comparative policy analysis; Focus groups; Grounded Theory; Policy analysis; Qualitative studies; Thematic analysis; Theory and frameworks; |
| Role | Research; |
| Interest Groups | Long-Term Care Policy; Migration Mobility and Care Workers; Unmet need inequalities and care poverty (UNICAP); |
| Website | https://www.bilgi.edu.tr/en/academic/staff/basak-akkan/ |
| ORC.ID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5680-3553 |
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| X (Twitter) | https://x.com/selimiko08 |
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| Other 1 | https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/AAG-3226-2021; |
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| Research interests | Her research interests are in the theories of justice and inequality, focusing on intersectionality, care regimes in the Mediterranean, comparative care policies and child well-being studies. |
| Key publications | Akkan B, Buğra A and Knijn T (2023) Gendered familialism in a Meditrennen context: Women’s labor market participation and early childhood education and care in Turkey. New Perspectives on Turkey, 1-17. doi:10.1017/npt.2023.18 Akkan B (2021) Global pandemic and the veiled crisis of care in Turkey: Politics of social reproduction and masculinist restoration for the special issue “Caring in times of a global pandemic” edited by Emma Dowling, Ayşe Dursun, Syntia Hasenöhrl, Verena Kettner, Birgit Sauer, Journal of Historical Social Research 46(4):31-49. Akkan B (2020) An egalitarian politics of care: The intersectional inequalities of gender, class and age. Feminist Theory 21(1):47-64. Akkan B and Serim S (2018) Work and family reconciliation in Turkey: Young women as a vulnerable group in the labour market. Research and Policy on Turkey, Special Issue on Continuity and Change in Social Policies in Turkey 3(2): 173-186. Akkan B (2018) Politics of care in Turkey: Sacred familialism in a changing political context. Social Politics 25(1):72-91. |