canan coşkan

Vita

• Postdoctoral Fellow (since 12/2023) · Center for Social & Cultural Psychology, ULB, Belgium
• Independent Researcher (since 2018) · Turkey and Kurdistan
• Guest Lecturer (2018-2020) · IKG (Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence) in Bielefeld University, Germany
• Assistant Professor (2016-2018) · Department of Psychology in Altınbaş University, Turkey
• PhD in Social and Cultural Psychology Sciences (2011-2016) · University of Leuven, Belgium
• Master Degree in Social Psychology (2008-2010) · Middle East Technical University, Turkey

Research Interests

• Collective action, social movements, progressive social change, and identity dynamics
• Asymmetrical intergroup conflicts, anticolonial resistance, and social power
• Immigration, acculturation, cultural differences, and self-construals
• Decolonial, critical race and queer approaches to social and political psychology

Publications

• Coşkan, C. & Şen, E. (2024a). Resistance from below among racialized people: Exploring Kurdish power. Journal of Social Issues. https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12596
• Coşkan, C. & Şen, E. (2024b). Negotiating Kurdishness as Resistance: Reclaiming Racialized Identities and Power in the Multitudes of Kurdishness Through Collective Critical Consciousness. In I. David & K. Toktamis (Eds), Fragments of repression and resistance: AKP rule in Turkey. Peter Lang Publishing.
• Coşkan, C. & Şen, E. (2024c). The role of internal forced migration in understanding identity-power dynamics among Kurds. Identity. https://doi.org/10.1080/15283488.2024.2315439
• Ünal, H. & Coşkan, C. (2024). The Kurdish Struggle: Multiple ways of Resisting in a Historical Repressive Context. In Vollhardt, J. & Bou Zeineddine, F. (Eds), Resistance to Repression and Violence: Global Psychological Perspectives. Taylor & Francis.
• Kende, J., Reiter, J., Coşkan, C., Doosje, B., & Green, E. G. (2024). Immigrant political participation is associated with more positive majority immigration attitudes across European countries and Swiss cantons. Comparative Migration Studies, 12(1), 5. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-024-00365-4
• Coşkan, C., & Şen, E. (2023). “If I die, my children will pursue this case”: Counternarratives of power in Kurds. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 29(2), 135–154. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000659
• Duman, Y., & Coşkan, C. (2023). Locals’ support for integration policies and asylum seekers’ rights: Exploring a normative model of support for Syrians in Turkey. Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1111/sena.12399
• Kende, J., Reiter, J., Coşkan, C. Doosje, B. Green, E.G.T. (2023). The role of minority discrimination and political participation in shaping majority perceptions of discrimination: two cross-national studies. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 26(3), 607 –628. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302221075711
• Coşkan, C., Baysu, G., & Koç, Y. (2022). Routes to Collective Action among Opposition Voters: A Test of Efficacy, Anger, and Injustice during Repeated Elections in Turkey. In S. Husnu & H. Çakal (Eds) Intergroup Relations in Turkey. Routledge CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003182436-18
• Gezici-Yalçın, M., Coşkan, C., Batu, M., Yılmaz, N. & Kan, Ö. (2022). “Syrian” refuge at the gaze of Kurds and Arabs in Mardin: Understanding representations and acculturation expectations from a decolonial approach. In S. Husnu & H. Çakal (Eds) Intergroup Relations in Turkey. Routledge CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003182436-12
• Coşkan, C., Acar, Y. G., & Bayad, A. (2021). Revealing the Manifestations of Neoliberalism in Academia: Academic Collective Action in Turkey. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 9(2), 401-418. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.7077
• Gezici Yalçın, M. & Coşkan, C. (2022). Critical Approach to Methodological Problems in Psychology and Suggestions. [Psikolojide Yöntem Sorunlarına Eleştirel Yaklaşım ve Öneriler]. Studies in Psychology, 41 (3), 759-787. https://doi.org/10.26650/SP2020-844357
• Namer, Y., Coşkan, C., & Razum, O. (2020). Discrimination as a health systems response to forced migration. In K. Bozorgmehr, O. Razum, and B. Roberts (Eds), Health Policy and Systems Responses to Forced Migration, 195–211. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org10.1007/978-3-030-33812-1_11
• Acar, Y. G., & Coşkan, C. (2020). Academic activism and its impact on individual‐level mobilization, sources of learning, and the future of academia in Turkey. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 30(4), 388-404. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2455
• Baysu, G., & Coşkan, C. (2018). Reconciliation and intergroup forgiveness: the case of the Kurdish conflict in Turkey. Turkish Studies, 19(5), 748-772. https://doi.org/10.1080/14683849.2018.1484287
• Baysu, G., Coşkan, C., & Duman, Y. (2018). Can Muslim identity increase support for reconciliation? The case of the Turkish-Kurdish armed conflict from a minority perspective. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 64, 43–58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2018.02.002
• Coşkan, C., Phalet, K., Güngör, D., & Mesquita, B. (2016). Relationship Context Matters Cultural Differences in Self-Construals Revisited. Cross-Cultural Research, 50(1), 63-84. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1069397115622179
• Coşkan, C. (2016). Psikolojide İlişkisellik İhtimali: Kültürel ve Kültürlerarası Psikolojilerin Türkiye’deki Seyrine Hızlı Bakış. [A Possibility for Relationality in Psychology: A Short Overview of Cultural and Cross-Cultural Psychologies in Turkey]. Modus Operandi: İlişkisel Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, Sayı 3.