Dr Elsa Tulin Sen is a teaching fellow in geopolitics at the Ecole Polytechnique of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris and a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. She is the associate editor of the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) 

Elsa holds a BA in Philosophy and Sociology and an MA in Sociology from Sorbonne University. She has earned her PhD from the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at King’s College London, which was awarded a nomination for the Graduate School’s Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Prize and a Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize. Elsa’s doctoral research examined the past and present-day dynamics of the Kurdish movement in Turkey from a social movement perspective.

 

Research areas and interests

Nationalism, social movements, total social movements, geopolitics, ethnicity, diasporas, conflict resolution, Kurds, Turkey, Syria and the wider Middle East

 

Publications

• Elsa Tulin Sen. "Les Kurdes, des citoyens du monde par défaut? Réflexions sur des notions de citoyen, citoyenneté mondiale et diaspora à travers l'exemple kurde." [Are the Kurds citizens of the world by default? Reflecting on the notions of citizen, world citizenship and diaspora through the Kurdish example]", in Daniel Argelès, Meghann Cassidy, Heidi Knörzer, Chantal Schütz, Jeffrey Swartwood (dir.), Citoyens du monde? Le sujet à l'œuvre à l'échelle globale, Palaiseau, Editions de l'Ecole Polytechnique, 2023.
• Sen, Elsa Tulin (2021) “Le conflit syrien: un élément perturbateur du mouvement social kurde en Turquie” [The Syrian conflict: a disruptive element in the Kurdish social movement in Turkey], Confluences Méditerranée, 2 (117), pp. 195-209
• Sen, Elsa Tulin (forthcoming) “Le conflit syrien: un élément perturbateur du mouvement social kurde en Turquie” [The Syrian conflict: a disruptive element in the Kurdish social movement in Turkey], Confluences Méditerranée, March 2021
• Sen, Elsa Tulin (2020) “Book review: The Rise of Hybrid Political Islam in Turkey - Origins and Consolidation of the JDP by Sevinç Bermek” The British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.
• Sen, Elsa Tulin (2019) “Nationalism and social movements: a complex interface” Maghreb - Machrek 240 (2), pp. 139-156.
• Sen, Elsa Tulin (2018) “The Kurdish Struggle in Turkey as a ‘Total Social Movement’, 2013-2015” New Middle Eastern Studies 8 (1), pp. 90-110.
• Sen, Elsa Tulin (2015) “Book Review: Institutional Change in Turkey: The Impact of European Union Reforms on Human Rights and Policing by Leila Piran” Review of Social Studies 2 (1), pp. 124-127.