Zeynep Gambetti İstanbul

Zeynep Gambetti is an independent scholar of political theory. She earned her PhD from the University of Paris VII with a dissertation entitled Lies and Politics: The Implications of Visibility in 1999. She worked as associate professor at the Political Science and International Relations Department at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, from 2000 to 2019. She currently co-chairs the International Board of UC-Berkeley’s International Consortium for Critical Theory Programs. Her theoretical work focuses on contemporary forms of violence, authoritarianism 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).