Dr Åsa Eldén

Uppsala University, Sweden

Åsa Eldén holds a PhD from Uppsala University, Sweden, and has recently completed a research project on femicides in contemporary Turkey. The research was conducted in collaboration with Berna Ekal (EHESS, Paris), and discusses the understanding of femicides as defined in constant interaction between feminists, the media and the state. She has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, at Bosphorus University in Istanbul and a researcher at Uppsala University.

Selected publications related to the project include: ‘From Icons to Emblematic Cases: The Media and Murders of Women in Turkey’ artikel accepterad för publicering i Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication (Åsa Eldén and Berna Ekal; forthcoming in 2014); Men’s Violence, Visibility and Media, Women Citizen’s Network Publications: Istanbul, 2014 (in Turkish, edited by Berna Ekal and Åsa Eldén) ‘När mord blir emblematiska. Våld mot kvinnor i turkisk och svensk media’ Tidskrift för genusvetenskap 35 (2-3): 79-99. (In Swedish).