Dr. Ercüment Çelik (Researcher)
Dr. Ercüment Çelik is a researcher in the project. He is working on the subproject "The European Experience as a Model: On the Transfer of European Trade Union Theories and Strategies to South Africa and Turkey" (working title)
- General information
- Education
- Work and Academic History
- List of Publications
- Conference Presentations, Invited Talks
- Supervision of M.A. theses
General information
Contact details
- Email: ercuement.celik(at)soziologie.uni-freiburg.de
- Telephone: +49 (0) 761 203 - 97810 or - 3496
- Address: Hansastraße 9, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
Short personal profile
Dr. Ercüment Çelik is a sociologist whose research interests focus on the sociology of work and labour, the sociology of development, Southern Theory/Sociology, and circulation of knowledge between Europe and the Global South.
He studied at the Middle East Technical University in Turkey before finishing his MA in the Global Studies Programme at the University of Freiburg, the University of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa and the Jawaharlal Nehru University in India.
In 2009, he completed his PhD at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Freiburg, where he has since worked as a researcher and lecturer. He is also a faculty member of Global Studies M.A. Programme.
His dissertation, "Street Traders: A Bridge Between Trade Unions and Social Movements in Contemporary South Africa" (2010) was published by Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. In 2011 his dissertation was awarded the Turkish Social Sciences Association's the Young Social Scientists.
Subproject:
"The European Experience as a Model: On the Transfer of European Trade-Union Theories and Strategies to South Africa and Turkey." (working title) For more details, please click here.
Education
2009 | Ph.D. | University of Freiburg (Germany) |
2005 | M.A. in Social Sciences | Global Studies Programme at the Universities of Freiburg (Germany), KwaZulu Natal (South Africa), Jawaharlal Nehru (India) |
2002 | B.A. in Sociology | Middle East Technical University (METU) (Turkey) |
Work and Academic History
2011 | Visiting researcher | Department of Sociology, University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
2010 | Visiting lecturer | The Latin American School of Social Sciences (FLACSO) (Argentina) |
2008 - 2010 | Lecturer | Institute for the International Education of Students (IES Abroad) Summer School, Freiburg |
Since 2009 | Faculty member | Global Studies M.A. Programme, University of Freiburg (Germany) |
Since 2009 | Researcher and lecturer | Institute of Sociology, University of Freiburg (Germany) |
2008 - 2009 | Teaching Assistant | Institute of Sociology, University of Freiburg (Germany) |
2007 - 2008 | Lecturer | Institute of Sociology, University of Freiburg (Germany) |
2006 - 2007 | Visiting researcher and teaching assistant | Industrial, Organisational and Labour Studies Department, University of KwaZulu Natal (South Africa) |
2006 | Member of Durban Organising Committee and coordinator of Africa Focus Sessions | XVI. ISA World Congress of Sociology, Africa Focus Sessions (South Africa) |
2002 - 2003 | Member of the METU Research Team | Department of Sociology, Middle East Technical University (METU) (Turkey). Research Project: Development of Sociology Discipline in Turkey in Relation to Underdevelopment |
2001 | Research assistant in the METU Team | Research Project: TRT Television, Public Opinion, May 2001. |
2001 | Research assistant in the METU Team | Research Project: World Bank, New Agricultural Reform Application Project in Turkey. |
2000 | Data analyst in the METU Team | Research Project: DSI. Yusufeli Dam Project |
1999 | Interviewer of the METU Team | Marmara Earthquake Research Project |
List of Publications
Monographies
- (2010). Street Traders: A Bridge between Trade Unions and Social Movements in Contemporary South Africa. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
Edited Volumes
- Keim, W., Çelik, E., Ersche, C., Wöhrer, V. (Eds.) (2014). Global Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences: Made in Circulation. Farnham: Ashgate.
(Preface by Michael Burawoy). - Ersche, C., Çelik, E., Keim, W., Wöhrer, V. (2013). Circulating Knowledge: Empirical Examples from the Social Sciences. Special Issue, 4 (2), Transcience, a Journal of Global Studies.
Chapters in Edited Volumes
- (2014). “Introduction” in W. Keim, E. Çelik, C. Ersche, V. Wöhrer (Eds.), Global Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences: Made in Circulation. Surrey: Ashgate.
(Jointly with the editorial team). - (2014). “Conclusion: Next Steps Towards Global Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences” in W. Keim, E. Çelik, C. Ersche, V. Wöhrer (Eds.), Global Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences: Made in Circulation. Surrey: Ashgate.
(Jointly with the editorial team). - (2013). “The Experience of ‘Global Studies Programme’ for a Social Science on a World Scale” in Gaston Fulquet, Caroline Janz and Asish Kumar (Eds.), Analyzing Globalization in the 21st Century. New Delhi: Palm Leaf Publications.
- (2013). “From Best Practice to Abolitionist Approach: Durban’s Street Trading Policy in the Run-up to the 2010 World Cup” in Brigit Obrist, Veit Arlt and Elisio Macamo (Eds.), Living the City in Africa: Processes of Invention and Intervention. Berlin, Zurich: LIT Verlag.
- (2010). “A Handicapped Democracy in Turkey: It can Crawl but not Stand Up” in Anand Kumar and Manish Tiwari (Eds.), Quest for Participatory Democracy: Towards Understanding the Approach of Gandhi and Jayaprakash Narayan. New Delhi: Rawat Publications.
- (2007). “Normalising Life in Durban: Bringing People Back to Its Streets” in Rob Pattman and Sultan Khan (Eds.), Undressing Durban. Durban: Madiba Press. (Jointly with Azad Essa).
- (In Press). “Önsöz: Türkiye’de Birleştiren ve Değiştiren Bir Güç Olarak Barışma Etiği” içinde: Ari Sitas. Barışma Etiği. Istanbul: Destek. (“Preface: The Ethic of Reconciliation as a Force of Change and Unification in Turkey” in Ari Sitas. The Ethic of Reconciliation. Istanbul: Destek).
- (In Press). “Soziale Bewegungen im Post-Apartheid-Südafrika” in D. de la Fontaine, F. Müller, C. Hofmann und B. Leubolt (Hrsg.), Das politische System Südafrikas. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. (“Social Movements in Post-Apartheid South Africa” in D. de la Fontaine, F. Müller, C. Hofmann und B. Leubolt (Eds.). The Political System of South Africa. Wiesbaden: Springer VS).
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
- (2013). “‘The Academy and the Rest?’ Intellectual Engagements, Circulation of Knowledge and the Labour Movement in South Africa, 1970s-1980s”, Transcience, a Journal of Global Studies, 4 (2): 19-35.
- (2011). “World Class Cities for All: Street traders as agents of union revitalization in contemporary South Africa”, LABOUR, Capital and Society/TRAVAIL, capital et société, 44 (2): 80-105.
- (2011). “Exclusion of Street Traders from the Benefits of the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa”, African Journal of Business and Economic Research, 6 (1): 62-86.
- (2011). “A Commentary on Boike Rehbein’s Approach to Critical Theory after the Rise of the Global South and on his Concept ‘Kaleidoscopic Dialectic’”, Transcience, a Journal of Global Studies, 2 (1): 72-80. (Jointly with V. Wöhrer, C. Ersche, F. Scholz, J. G. Jimenez, J. Altrogge, M. Vogelmann).
- (2006). “Informalisation of Women’s Labour and New Types of Labour Organisations: The Cases of SEWA and SEWU”, Alternation, Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of the Arts and Humanities in Southern Africa, 13 (2): 70-99.
- (2004). “Güney Afrika’da Ekonomi Politikaları ve Sendikalar: Çelişkiler ve Oydaşımlar”, Mülkiye Dergisi, XXVIII (243): 209-214. (Economic Policies and Trade Unions in South Africa: Contradictions and Consensus).
- (In Review). “The ‘Labour Aristocracy’ in Early Twentieth Century South Africa: An Analysis Beyond Traditional Conceptual and Territorial Boundries”, Africa (Cambridge Journal).
Book Reviews
- (2013). “Review of “Akira Suzuki (Ed.), Cross-National Comparisons of Social Movement Unionism: Diversities of Labour Movement Revitalization in Japan, Korea and the United States. Oxford, Bern, Berlin… Peter Lang, 2012, 345 pp.”, Transcience, a Journal of Global Studies, 4 (1): 40-41.
- (2009). Review of “Max Koch, Roads to Post-Fordism: Labour Markets and Social Structures in Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006, 210 pp.”, International Sociology, 24 (2): 235-238.
Conference Proceedings
- (2014). “Northern Theory, South African Engagement: Two examples from labour studies” in ECAS 2013, 5th European Conference on African Studies “African Dynamics in Multipolar World”. Lisboa: CEI. 978-989-732-364-5, pp. 608-635. https://repositorio.iscte-iul.pt/handle/10071/7593
Research Reports
- (2001). TRT Televizyon Yayınları Kamuoyu Araştırması, Mayıs 2001. Ankara: TRT. (TRT Television Public Opinion Research May 2001). (Jointly with Yusuf Ziya Özcan and Gamze Yıkılmaz).
Other Publications
- (2013). “Barışma Etiği, Mandela Anı ve Türkiye”, (The Ethic of Reconciliation, Mandela Moment and Turkey), http://www.sendika.org/2013/02/barisma-etigi-mandela-ani-ve-turkiye-ercument-celik/.
- (2013). “Barışma Etiği” (The Ethic of Reconciliation), http://www.radikal.com.tr/yenisoz/barisma_etigi-1121510.
- (2013). “Kämpferisch gegen Hegemonie: Gewerkschaftswissen zwischen Nord und Süd”, iz3w, Zeitschrift zwischen Nord und Süd, 335:32-33. (Combative against Hegemony: Trade Union Knowledge between the North and South).
- (2010). “Abseits oder mittendrin? Die südafrikanische Gewerkschaften suchen nach neuen Positionen” in: iz3w, Zeitschrift zwischen Nord und Süd, 316: XI-XII. (Offside or In the Middle? South African Trade Unions Searching for New Positions).
- (2009). “The Reverberating Success of the International Labour Film and Video Festival in Turkey”, ISA-Research Committee on Labour Movements (RC44) Newsletter, 3 (7): 8-9.
- (2008). “Community of Scholarship: Reflections from the RC44 Meetings at the 1st ISA Forum of Sociology”, ISA-Research Committee on Labour Movements (RC44) Newsletter, 3 (5): 3-4.
- (2008). “Marginalised Labour: Route to Social Movement Unionism?”. South African Labour Bulletin, 31 (5): 26-27.
- (2006). “Studienreise nach Rom: Die Arbeit internationaler Organisationen an den Milleniumszielen”, Forum, Zeitschrift der StipendiatInnen der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 2/2006: 52-53. (Study abroad trip to Rome: The Work of International Organizations on the development of the Millennium Goals) (Jointly with Fang Han).
- (2004-2007). 23 Journalistic Articles on the socio-political issues in Turkey, Germany and in the World at bianet.org: Independent Communication Network, funded by EU and Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA). http://eski.bianet.org/php/yazarlistex.php?yazar=Erc%FCment%20%C7EL%DDK
Works in Progress
- (Monography): The History of Turkish Sociology from a Southern Sociology Perspective.
- (Monography): Social Movement Unionism. The Global Circulation of a Concept in the Social Sciences.
Conference Presentations, Invited Talks
- 2014 “The Circulation of ‘Social Movement Unionism’ Concept as a Case of Intellectual South-South and North-South Dialogue”. Paper presented at the XVIII. ISA World Congress of Sociology, “Facing an Unequal World: Challenges for Global Sociology, 13-19 July, 201 4, Yokohama, Japan.
- 2013 “The Rise of Southern Sociology and Its Possible Implications for Turkish Sociology”. Paper presented at the 13th National Congress of Social Sciences of the Turkish Social Sciences Association, 4-6 December 2013, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
- 2013 “Contentious Activism and Transnational Organizing of Informal Workers”. Paper presented at the workshop o n “Social Movements and the Position of the Researcher”, 17-18 September, 2013, Centre for African Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland.
- 2013 "Northern Theory, South African Engagement: Three historical examples from labour studies”. Paper presented at the 5th European Conference on African Studies: African Dynamics in a multipolar world, 26-28 June 2013, Lisbon, Portugal.
- 2013 “The Rise of Southern Sociology: A New Orientation for Turkish Sociology?” Invited talks at the Middle East Technical University, Turkey, 20 March 2013, at Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, 26 March 2013, and at Boğaziçi University, Turkey, 28 March 2013.
- 2012 “From Transfer to Circulation of Knowledge in the South African Labour Movement”. Paper presented at the International Conference on “Circulating Social Science Knowledge”, 27-29 September 2012, University of Freiburg, Germany.
- 2012 “The Role of Intellectuals in the Circulation of Knowledge in the South African Labour Movement, 1970s-1980s”. Paper presented at the Second ISA Forum of Sociology, “Social Justice and Democratisation”, 1-4 August, 2012, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 2012 “From Studying to Teaching Global Studies: A Commitment and Future
Prospects”. Paper presented at the International Conference on “Studying Social Sciences in the Era of Globalization”, 1-4 April 2012, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India. - 2011 “An Overview of the Past Ten Years of the Global Studies Programme”. Paper presented at the Global Studies Programme Strategic Workshop, “Internationalisation and Afropolitanism”, 1-2. November 2011, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
- 2011 “The Movement of the Marginalised Labour Force: The Case of Street Traders in South Africa”. 09 December 2011, Invited talk at the Institut für Politikwissenschaft der Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany.
- 2011 “Rethinking Street Traders as a Promising Agent of Re-empowering Labour Movement in Contemporary South Africa”. Paper presented at the VII. Global Labour University Conference, “The Politics of Labour and Development”, 28-30 September, 2011, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
- 2010 “From an International Best Practice of a Progressive Policy to a Conservative Approach: Durban’s street trading management policy towards the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa”. Paper presented at the AEGIS, the European Network of Excellence in African Studies Thematic Conference “Living the City”, 7-9 October 2010, Center of African Studies Basel, Switzerland.
- 2008 “Street Traders as a Bridge between Trade Unions and Social Movements in Contemporary South Africa”. Paper presented at the First ISA Forum of Sociology, “Sociological Research and Public Debate”, 5-8 September 2008, Barcelona, Spain.
- 2006 “Informalisation of Women’s Labour and New Types of Labour Organisations: Cases of SEWA and SEWU”. Paper presented at the XVI. ISA World Congress of Sociology, “The Quality of Social Existence in a Globalizing World”, 23-29 July 2006, Durban, South Africa.
- 2004 “Informalisation and Feminisation of Labour and New Types of Labour Organisations in India and South Africa”. Paper presented at the International Seminar on “Campaigning Strategies on Informal Labour in the Global Garment Industry”, 23-25 September 2004, Evangelische Akademie, Meissen, Germany.
- 2004 “A Handicapped Democracy in Turkey: It Can Crawl, but not Stand Up”. Paper presented at the International Conference on “Global Quest for Participatory Democracy”, 20-22 February 2004, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
- 2002 “Negative Effects of Neoliberal Restructuring on Society: The Worsening of Income Distribution and Social Equity, and the Rise of Informal Sector in Turkey”. Paper presented at the Joint Seminar on “Contemporary Issues of Turkey's Transition Process: Politics and Society within the Context of Neo-liberal Globalisation”. July 2002, Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany and Department of Sociology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
Supervision of M.A. theses (completed)
All theses listed have been submitted to the Philosophical Faculty, University of Freiburg (Germany)
2012/2013:
- Martina Mberi: “Incorporation of Indigenous Knowledge into Development Practice in South Africa: A Case Study of the Ubuntu Education Fund”.
- Anne Marie Butler: “The Global Restructuring of Labour: Internships and the Precariatisation of Young People”.
- Gesa Christina Oehmichen: "The Future of Workers’ Representation in the Era of Global Restructuring: A Case Study on the BMW Group".
2011/2012
- Bruno Alejandro Gagliardo: “Value Chain & Workers in the Informal
Economy: A Case Study of the Waste Recovery and Recycling Sector in the
Free State Province in South Africa.” - Ivan Moreno: “Privatization of State-Owned Enterprises and Its
Consequences for the Poor in Mexico: The Case of la Comision Federal de
Electricidad (CFE) and Its New Management.” - Paola Isabel Reyes Corró: “The Globalization of Anglo-American Values:
An Assessment of Business Ethics and Corporate Codes of Ethics and Conduct.”
2010/2011
- Asaratul Akma binti Abdul Rashid: "Education and Livelihoods in Emergencies: The Case of Burmese Refugees on the Thai-Myanmar Border."
- Dmitry Poletayev: "Victims of Human Trafficking in Lao PDR: An Investigation into the Viability of a Non-Governmental Organisation Referral Network."
- Gaone Magogwe: "The Kgotla as a Critical Public Sphere in the Central District of Botswana: A Habermas Perspective."
- Gustavo Prepelitchi: "Microfinance and Development: A development strategy at the service of the global neoliberal agenda? A case study of three Microfinance Institutions in Kenya, Peru and Bangladesh."
- Liam Patuzzi: "Assessing Change in the European Union's Approach to Migration: Combinations and Contradictions between the Traditional Securitarian Paradigm and a New Developmental Component."
- Maureen Kinjanjui: "The Influence of Globalisation on Cultural Practices in Kenya: The Practice of Female Genital Mutilation in Kisii Community."
- Miriam Holländer: "Cooperatives as Agents of Social Development: A Case Study on an Argentine Worker Cooperative."
- Nihan Oral: "An Analysis of New Social Movements: The Case of Piqueteros in Argentina."