Books

Banu Gökarıksel, Michael Hawkins , Christopher Neubert*, and Sara Smith eds. 2021 Feminist Geography Unbound: Discomfort, Bodies, and Prefigured Futures. In Gender, Feminism, and Geography Book Series edited by Jennifer Fluri and Amy Trauger. West Virginia University Press. 

Refereed journal special issues 

• Suncana Laketa, Banu Gökarıksel, and Sara Ferguson eds. 2023 Special Issue: Lockdown and the Intimate, Environment and Planning C: Politics & Space, 41(8).

• LaToya Eaves, Banu Gökarıksel, Michael Hawkins*, Chris Neubert* and Sara Smith, “Discomfort Feminism and Uncomfortable Intimacies,” Gender, Place & Culture, 30(4).

• Christine Schenk, Banu Gökarıksel and Negar E. Behzadi eds. 2022 Special Issue: Security, Violence, and Mobility: The Embodied and Everyday Politics of Negotiating Muslim Femininities, Political Geography. 

• Sara Smith (lead editor), Nathan Swanson*, and Banu Gökarıksel eds, 2016 Special Section: Territory, Bodies, and Borders, Area, 48, 3.

• Banu Gökarıksel (lead editor) and Ellen McLarney, ed. 2010 Special Issue: Marketing Muslim Women: Muslim Women, Consumer Capitalism and Islamic Culture Industry, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, 6, 3. 

Refereed Journal Articles

• Lara Lookabaugh* and Banu Gökarıksel, 2025. “Mapping Karen Parker’s Journal: Student archival interpretation as feminist geographic worldmaking pedagogy,” Journal of Historical Geography, 88: 146-156, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.009

• Devran Öcal, Banu Gökarıksel, and Betül Aykaç, 2024 “Embodied Geopolitics: Refugee Bodies, Masculinities, and the Discursive Production of a Brown Threat”, Geopolitics, (published online in April 2024). https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2024.2342914

• Banu Gökarıksel and Anna Secor, 2022. “The Space of Encounter and the Making of Difference: The Entangled Lives of Alevi and Sunni Neighbors in Turkey,” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (published online in November 2022). https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12584

• Banu Gökarıksel and Anna Secor, 2022. “Uneasy Neighbors: The Making of Sectarian Difference and Alevi Precarity in Urban Turkey,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 1-17. doi:10.1017/S0020743822000162 (published online in May 2022)

• Devran Koray Öcal and Banu Gökarıksel, 2022. “Grounding Religious Geopolitics: The Everyday Counter-Geopolitical Practices of Turkish Mosque Communities in Germany,” Geoforum, 129, 151-160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.01.011 (published online in February 2022)

• With FLOCK, 2021.  “Student-led Activism for Racial Justice: Ruptures I, Pedagogy and Transformation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill” ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies vol.20, no. 5 (Nov 22), https://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/1918

• Michelle Eirini Padley and Banu Gökarıksel, 2021. “Affective Politics of Policy Making Spaces” Emotions, Space and Society, 39, (published online on 23 April 2021) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2021.100792

• Pallavi Gupta, Banu Gökarıksel, and Sara Smith, 2020. “The Politics of Saving Muslim Women: Gendered Geolegality, Security, And Territorialization in India,” Political Geography https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102257 

• Kamila Klingorova and Banu Gökarıksel,  2019. “Auto-photographic Study of Everyday Emotional Geographies” Area  https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12537 

• Banu Gökarıksel, Christopher Neubert, and Sara Smith, 2019. “Demographic Fever Dreams: Fragile Virility and Population Politics in the Rise of the Global Right,” Signs 44, 3: 561-587. 

• Banu Gökarıksel and Anna Secor, 2018. “Affective geopolitics: Anxiety, pain, and ethics in the encounter with Syrian refugees in Turkey,” Environment and Planning C, DOI: 10.1177/2399654418814257 (published online on 17 December 2018)

• Kamila Klingorova and Banu Gökarıksel, 2017. “ ‘God was with me everywhere’: Women’s embodied practices and everyday experiences of sacred space,” Gender, Place, & Culture, 25, 1: 37-60. DOI 10.1080/0966369X.2017.1398138 (published online on 13 November 2017)

• Banu Gökarıksel and Sara Smith, 2017.  “Intersectional Feminism Beyond U.S. Flag Hijabs and Pussy Hats in Trump’s America,” Gender, Place, & Culture, 24, 5: 628-644. DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2017.1343284 (published online on 6 July 2017) 

• Banu Gökarıksel and Anna Secor, 2017. “Devout Muslim Masculinities: The Moral Geographies and Everyday Practices of Being Men,” Gender, Place, & Culture, 24, 3: 381-402. DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2017.1314948 (published online on 29 April 2017)

• Banu Gökarıksel and Anna Secor, 2016. “The Post-Islamist Problematic: Questions of Religion and Difference in Everyday Life,” Social and Cultural Geography, 18, 5: 645-664. DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2016.1210669 (published online on 29 July 2016)

• Sara Smith (first author), Nathan Swanson*, and Banu Gökarıksel, 2015. “Introduction: Territory, Bodies, and Borders,” Area, 48, 3: 258-261. DOI: 10.1111/area.12247

• Banu Gökarıksel and Anna Secor, 2015. “Postsecular Geographies and the Problem of Pluralism: Religion and Everyday Life in Istanbul, Turkey,” Political Geography, 46: 21-30. DOI:10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.10.006