Journal Articles

Burak Gürel, “Semi-private landownership and capitalist agriculture in contemporary China,” Review of Radical Political Economics, 2019, DOI: 10.1177/0486613419849683 

Burak Gürel, “The role of collective mobilization in the divergent performance of the rural economies of China and India (1950-2005),” The Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 46, No. 5, 2019, pp. 1021-1046, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2018.1434773

Burak Gürel, Bermal Küçük, and Sercan Taş, “The rural roots of the rise of the Justice and Development Party in Turkey,” The Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 46, No. 3, 2019, pp. 457-479, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2018.1552264​  

Weigang Gong and Burak Gürel, “Project-based state intervention and agrarian change in contemporary China: The case of rice production in Pingwan county, Hunan,” Rural China, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2019, pp. 312-333, DOI: 10.1163/22136746-01602006   

Burak Gürel and Mina Kozluca, “The unrest and relative empowerment of the working class in contemporary China,” METU Studies in Development, 2019 (Forthcoming). 
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Burak Gürel, “Dispossession and development in the neoliberal era,” Ankara University SBF Journal, Vol. 74, No. 3, 2019, pp. 983-1001, DOI: 10.33630/ausbf.569746 

Burak Gürel and Eylem Taylan, “Critique of the critics of Giovanni Arrighi’s Adam Smith in Beijing,” Alternative Politics, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2019, pp. 430-447.

Burak Gürel, “Classes and status groups in times of great transformation: Reading agrarian change in Çukurova through the lens of Yaşar Kemal,” Hacettepe University Journal of Faculty of Letters, Vol. 36, No. 2, 2019, pp. 209-220, DOI: 10.32600/huefd.433296

Bilge Merve Aktaş, Ilgım Veryeri Alaca, and Burak Gürel, "Connecting rural change and local crafts: Rebranding sock knitting in Yenikaraağaç," METU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture, Vol. 36, No. 2, 2019, pp. 121-140, DOI: 10.4305/METU.JFA.2019.2.2  

Burak Gürel and Erdem Yörük, “The state, capital, and the historical sociology of capitalism,” Mülkiye Dergisi, Vol. 42, No. 2, 2018, pp. 209-237 (Published in Turkish).

Burak Gürel, “Changing relations of production in Chinese agriculture from decollectivization to capitalism,” McGill Sociological Review, Vol. 4, 2014, pp. 67-92.

Weigang Gong, Chengrong Duan, and Burak Gürel, “Regional variation of lineage culture and fertility transition in rural China,” Rural China, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2013, pp. 258-310, DOI: 10.1163/22136746-12341244 

Burak Gürel, “Agrarian change and labour supply in Turkey, 1950-1980,” Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2011, pp. 195-219, DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0366.2010.00299.x

Burak Gürel, “‘Communist police!’ The state in the 1970s Turkey,” Journal of Historical Studies, Vol. 2, 2004, pp. 1-18.

Burak Gürel, “Islamist and Fascist Politics in Turkey in the 1970s: Promises and Results.” Praksis, No. 12, 2004, pp. 85-102 (Published in Turkish). 


​Book Chapters

Burak Gürel, “The historical background and near future of the rise of China.” In The China puzzle: The economic rise of China,  transformation of international relations, and Turkey, eds. Caner Bakır and Mustafa Yağcı. İstanbul: Koç University Press, 2019, pp. 21-51 (Published in Turkish).
 
Burak Gürel, “A critical review of Theda Skocpol’s theory of revolution.” In Historical sociology and international relations, ed. Faruk Yalvaç. Ankara: Nika Yayınevi, 2018, pp. 95-116 (Published in Turkish).

Burak Gürel, “Şefik Hüsnü (Degmer): The transformation of the Communist Party of Turkey from the October Revolution to Stalinism.” In Portraits from the Turkish left, eds. Emirali Türkmen and Ümit Özger. Ankara: Dipnot Yayınları, 2016, pp. 171-184 (Published in Turkish).

Burak Gürel, “İsmail Bilen: The Communist Party of Turkey from belated rise to precipitated collapse.” In Portraits from the Turkish left, eds. Emirali Türkmen and Ümit Özger. Ankara: Dipnot Yayınları, 2016, pp. 235- 252 (Published in Turkish).

Burak Gürel, “Islamism: A comparative-historical overview.” In The neoliberal landscape and the rise of Islamist capital in Turkey, eds. Neşecan Balkan, Erol Balkan, and Ahmet Öncü. New York: Berghahn Books, 2015, pp. 13-40.

Burak Gürel, “Historical development of class struggles in rural Turkey.” In Marxism and classes: Classes and their struggles in the world and in Turkey, eds. Ahmet Tonak, Sungur Savran, and Kurtar Tanyılmaz. İstanbul: Yordam Kitap, 2014, pp. 303-385 (Published in Turkish).

Burak Gürel, “Islamism.” In Political science: Concepts, ideologies, and interdisciplinary relations, eds. Gökhan Atılgan and E. Attila Aytekin. İstanbul: Yordam Kitap, 2012, pp. 407-428 (Published in Turkish).    

Burak Gürel and Can Nacar, “Şefik Hüsnü (Değmer).” In Political thought in modern Turkey, Vol: 8, The left, ed. Murat Gültekingil, İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 2007, pp. 118-133 (Published in Turkish).

Burak Gürel and Fulya Özkan, “İsmail Bilen (Laz İsmail).” In Political thought in modern Turkey, Vol: 8, The left, ed. Murat Gültekingil, İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 2007, pp. 294-309 (Published in Turkish).
 

Book Reviews
 
Mao redux? (Extended review of Minqi Li, China and the 21st Century Crisis, London: Pluto Press, 2016), Historical Materialism website, 2019.  

Caring for the poor: Islamic and Christian benevolence in a liberal world, by Cihan Tuğal (Routledge, 2017). New Perspectives on Turkey, Vol. 60, 2019, pp. 148-152

Capitalist agriculture without land privatization in China (Extended review of René Trappel, China’s agrarian transition: Peasants, property, and politics, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016), Capital &Class, Vol. 42, No. 3, 2018, pp. 563–567.

How the west came to rule: The geopolitical origins of capitalism, by Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglu (Pluto Press, 2015). New Perspectives on Turkey, Vol. 56, 2017, pp. 166-171.

The Third Great Depression: The Twilight of Capitalism, by Sungur Savran (Yordam Kitap, 2013). Praksis, No. 38, 2015, pp. 229-232 (Published in Turkish).

Peasants under siege: The collectivization of Romanian agriculture, 1949-1962, by Gail Kligman and Katherine Verdery (Princeton University Press, 2011). The Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 41, No. 2, 2014, pp. 291-294.