Kabasakal Badamchi, Devrim

Devrim Kabasakal Badamchi is a senior research fellow at the Institute for the Interregional Study of Constitutionalism at Charles University in Prague. She is a member of the ERC project Community through Constitution and the work package “Digital Public Sphere” at the Centre for Inequality and Open Society (CIOS).

Previously, she held research and teaching positions at Leiden University in the Netherlands, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in the UK and Izmir University in Turkey. She was a visiting fellow at Newcastle University and New School University. She earned a BA in Public Administration from Ankara University, Turkey; an MA in Political Science from Middle East Technical University in Turkey and a PhD in Political Theory from Luiss University in Rome.

Her research focuses on the political theory of rights and liberties in general. Particularly, she is interested in multiculturalism, toleration, free speech and hate speech. Moreover, she is concentrating on comparative political theory, especially the MENA region, with a focus on contemporary politics and constitutionalism in Turkey. Currently, she is focusing on the methodology of measuring identity in social media and the digital world in general.

At Charles University, she teaches courses on digital dimensions of constitutionalism.

She is the author of the monograph titled “Dimensions of Free Speech: An Exploration of a New Theoretical Framework”, published by Springer in 2021. She has published articles on various topics such as toleration, public reason, free speech and democratic education in reputable journals such as Turkish Studies, Philosophy and Social Criticism and Journal of International Relations.

 

Publications

Devrim Kabasakal Badamchi, “Demokratik Egitim ve Kozmopolitanizm: Guncel Bir Degerlendirme” (Democratic Education and Cosmopolitanism: A Contemporary Assessment” in Egitim Kuraminda Incelemler (Investigations in Educational Theory), Ankara: Pegem Akademi, October 2023 (book chapter)

Devrim Kabasakal Badamchi, “Academic Freedom: How to Conceptualize and Justify it?”, in Philosophy and Social Criticism, May 2022 (article) (Q1- Arts and Humanities Index)

Devrim Kabasakal Badamchi, Dimensions of Free Speech: An Exploration of a New Theoretical Framework, Springer, December 2021 (book)

Devrim Kabasakal Badamchi, “Moral Foundations of Global Justice”, Uluslararasi iliskiler Etigi (The Ethics of International Relations), ed. by Faruk Yalvac and Mustafa Atatorun, Ankara, Nika Yayinevi, 2020 (book chapter)

Devrim Kabasakal Badamchi, “Foundations of Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Conception of Education: Individual Emile or Citizen Emile?”, Beytulhikme- An international Journal of Philosophy,7(1), June 2017 (article) (Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index)

Devrim Kabasakal Badamchi, “Inferences of Immanuel Kant from Jean Jacques Rousseau: On Education”, Felsefe ve Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi (Journal of Philosophy and Social Sciences), Issue 21, Spring 2016 (article)

Devrim Kabasakal Badamchi, Does Democratic Education have to be a Liberal Education? A Philosophical Assessment, the Global e Learning Journal, Volume 5, Issue, 2, 2016 (article)

Devrim Kabasakal Badamchi, “Justifications of Freedom of Speech: Towards a Double-grounded Non-Consequentialist Approach”, Philosophy and Social Criticism, November 2015, Vol.41, No.9 (article) (Q1 Arts and Humanities Index)

Devrim Kabasakal Badamchi, “Is Hate Speech Part of Freedom of Expression”, Felsefe Dunyasi (World of Philosophy- Journal of Turkish Philosophical Society),Summer 2015, No. 61  (article)

Devrim Kabasakal Badamchi, “Abortion and Public Reason in Turkey: A Normative Evaluation of the Discourses of AKP and CHP”, Turkish Studies, Vol.15, No.1, March 2014 (article) (Q1) (Social Sciences Citation Index)

Devrim Kabasakal Badamchi, “Is Toleration Possible and Morally Relevant in the International Realm?”Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi (Journal of International Relations), Vol.8, No. 31, 2011(article) (Q2) (Social Sciences Citation Index) 

Devrim Kabasakal, “Dimensions of the Concept of Toleration in John Rawls’s Political Liberalism”, Felsefe Dunyasi (World of Philosophy- Journal of Turkish Philosophical Society), 52, 2010 (article)

Devrim Kabasakal, “Boundaries of the Political in Hannah Arendt’s Political Theory: Exclusion of the Social Question”, Topos- European Humanities University Philosophy and Cultural Studies Journal, 2 (19), August 2008 (http://topos.ehu.lt/en/zine/2008/2/kabasakal.pdf) (article)

Devrim Kabasakal, Meysam Badamchi, “Una Testimone Critica della Storia: Leggere Lolita a Teheran”, Filosofia e Questioni Pubbliche, trans. Domenico Melidoro, Vol 13, Number 1, 2008(Original title in English: A Critical Witness to History: Reading Lolita in Tehran) (book review)

Devrim Kabasakal, “The Relevance and the Limits of the Notion of a ‘Post-secular Age’ in Jurgen Habermas’s Theory of Toleration’, in Aakash Singh and Peter Losonczi eds. Discoursing the Post-secular, LIT- Verlag, Wien, 2010 (book chapter)

The Tension Between Action and Revolution in Arendt’s Thought- A Critical Assessment, LAP LAMBERT, (ISBN 978-3-8465-1959-2 (book)

Devrim Kabasakal Badamchi, Does Democratic Education have to be a Liberal Education? A Philosophical Assessment, 1st Conference on Educational Theory and Research, 10-12 February 2016, Izmir University of Economics, June 2017 (conference proceeding) 

Devrim Kabasakal Badamchi, “Moral Demands of Democratic Education in 21st Century: Cosmopolitanism and Critical Reflection as Ideals”, POLITSCI ‘15 Political Science Conference Proceedings, DAKAM Publishing, 10- 11 December 2015, İstanbul, Turkey (conference proceeding)

Devrim Kabasakal Badamchi, ‘Alevi’s Struggle for Recognition: An Analytical and Normative Assessment’, Academic Workshop Proceedings- Debating Multiculturalism 2, Spotlight on Multiculturalism 3-5 May 2012, Fatih University, İstanbul, Turkey (conference proceeding)

Devrim Kabasakal Badamchi, “Political Dispositions and Toleration: Reflections on Turkey from Habermas’s Theoretical Framework”, Global and Regional Dynamics: The Economic and Political Problems of Turkey and its Surrounding”, Izmir University, Izmir, Turkey, 28/29 April 2011(conference proceeding)