Journal Articles

Burak Gürel, “Special session introduction–China in the MENA region: Within and beyond the Belt and Road Initiative,” Asian Perspective (Forthcoming, 2026).

Burak Gürel, Kadir Selamet, Baran Şahinli, Alperen Şen, and Deniz Tuzcu, “The political economy of Chinese investment in Turkey: Recent trajectory and structural constraints,” Asian Perspective (Forthcoming).

Burak Gürel, "Çin'in dünya sistemindeki değişen konumu" (China's changing position in the world system), Sanayi ve Toplum, No. 10-11, 2025, pp. 25-44. 

Burak Gürel, Baran Şahinli, and Deniz Tuzcu, “Labor unrest in Chinese-invested enterprises in Turkey: Local dynamics and global implications,” Asian Perspective, Vol. 49, No. 1, 2025, pp. 157-182, DOI: 10.1353/anp.2025.a953089 

Burak Gürel and Kadir Selamet, “The rise and fall of community development in rural Turkey, 1960-1980,” Journal of Agrarian Change, 2025, DOI: 10.1111/joac.12604

Indrajit Roy, Burak Gürel, and Erdem Yörük, “Politics of the poor and social protection in emerging Asia: A comparative analysis of China, India, and Turkey,” Indian Politics & Policy, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2024, pp. 121-155, DOI: 10.18278/inpp.4.2.6 
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Murat Koyuncu, Erdem Yörük, and Burak Gürel, “Does violent conflict affect the distribution of social welfare? Evidence from India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act,” Social Policy & Administration, Vol. 57, No. 5, 2023, pp. 656-678, DOI: 10.1111/spol.12899   

Burak Gürel, “The collectivist legacy and agrarian development in China since 1978,” Modern China, Vol. 49, No. 1, 2023, pp. 26-62, DOI: 10.1177/00977004221107932

​Burak Gürel and Mina Kozluca, “Chinese investment in Turkey: The Belt and Road Initiative, rising expectations, and ground realities,” European Review, Vol. 30, No. 6, 2022, pp. 806-834, DOI: 10.1017/S1062798721000296 

Burak Gürel, Bermal Küçük, and Sercan Taş, “Land occupation as a form of peasant struggle in Turkey, 1965-1980,” New Perspectives on Turkey, Vol. 67, 2022, pp. 4-31, DOI: 10.1017/npt.2022.3  
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Ali Hürriyetoğlu, Erdem Yörük, Osman Mutlu, Fırat Duruşan, Çağrı Yoltar, Deniz Yüret, Burak Gürel, “Cross-context news corpus for protest events related knowledge base construction,” Data Intelligence, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2021, pp. 1-28, DOI: 10.1162/dint_a_00092

Weigang Gong, Meng Zhu, Burak Gürel, and Tian Xie, “The lineage theory of the regional variation of individualism/collectivism in China,” Frontiers in Psychology, 2021, pp. 1-19, DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.596762 

Burak Gürel, “Semi-private landownership and capitalist agriculture in contemporary China,” Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 51, No. 4, 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, Vol. 46, No. 2, 2019, pp. 203-226. 
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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 and Deniz Pelek, “Gıda sisteminin kilit özneleri: Çiftçiler, yarı-zamanlı çiftçiler, mevsimlik işçiler ve diğerleri.” In Gıdanın politik ekolojisi, eds. Fikret Adaman and Sena Akkoç. İstanbul: Metis Yayınları, 2023, pp. 52-67. 

Burak Gürel, “Civil war and massacre in Maraş 1978.” In Turkey in turmoil: Social change and political radicalization during the 1960s, ed. Berna Pekesen. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2020, pp. 152-180.

Burak Gürel, “Çin'in yükselişinin tarihsel arka planı ve yakın geleceği.” In Çin bilmecesi: Çin’in ekonomik yükselişi, uluslararası ilişkilerde dönüşüm ve Türkiye, eds. Mustafa Yağcı and Caner Bakır. İstanbul: Koç Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2019, pp. 21-51.
 
Burak Gürel, “Theda Skocpol'un devrim kuramının eleştirel bir analizi.” In Tarihsel sosyoloji ve uluslararası ilişkiler, ed. Faruk Yalvaç. Ankara: Nika Yayınevi, 2018, pp. 95-116.

Burak Gürel, “Şefik Hüsnü (Değmer): Ekim Devrimi'nden Stalinizme TKP'nin dönüşümü.” In Türkiye solundan portreler, derleyenler: Emirali Türkmen, Ümit Özger. Ankara: Dipnot Yayınları, 2016, s. 171-184.

Burak Gürel, “İsmail Bilen: Gecikmiş yükselişten hızlandırılmış çöküşe TKP.” In Türkiye solundan portreler, derleyenler: Emirali Türkmen,  Ümit Özger. Ankara: Dipnot Yayınları, 2016, s. 235-252.

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, “Türkiye'de kırda sınıf mücadelelerinin tarihsel gelişimi" [Historical development of class struggles in rural Turkey]. In Marksizm ve sınıflar: Dünyada ve Türkiye'de sınıflar ve mücadeleleri [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. 

Burak Gürel, “İslamcılık.” Siyaset bilimi: Kavramlar, ideolojiler, disiplinler arası ilişkiler içinde, derleyenler: Gökhan Atılgan, E. Attila Aytekin. İstanbul: Yordam Kitap, 2012, s. 405-422.    

Burak Gürel and Can Nacar, “Şefik Hüsnü (Değmer).” Modern Türkiye'de siyasi düşünce, Cilt 8, Sol içinde, derleyen: Murat Gültekingil, İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 2007, s. 118-133.

Burak Gürel and Fulya Özkan, “İsmail Bilen (Laz İsmail).” In Modern Türkiye'de siyasi düşünce, Cilt 8, Sol içinde, derleyen: Murat Gültekingil, İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 2007, s. 294-309.
 
Book Reviews

Governing and Ruling: The Political Logic of Taxation in China, by Changdong Zhang (University of Michigan Press, 2021). Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 52, No. 5, 2023, pp. 486–490. 

Counterrevolution: The global rise of the far right by Walden Bello, Warwickshire, Practical Action Publishing, 2019, 196 pp., ISBN: 978-1-78853-051-4. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2020, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2020.1802817

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, 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.

Üçüncü Büyük Depresyon: Kapitalizmin alacakaranlığı [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.

"Kriz, savaş ve devrim: 21. yüzyılın ana hatları" (Extended review of Sungur Savran, Kod adı küreselleşme: 21. yüzyılda emperyalizm, Yordam Kitap, 2008), Mesele, No. 24, 2008, pp. 53-56. 

Other publications
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Burak Gürel and Mina Kozluca, “Turkey” (country profile in The People’s Map of Global China project website), 17 April 2022. 

Fırat Duruşan,  Ali Hürriyetoğlu,  Erdem Yörük,  Osman Mutlu, Çağrı Yoltar, Burak Gürel, Alvaro Comin, “Global Contentious Politics Database (GLOCON) Annotation Manuals,” 11 May 2022, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6540579  

Datasets

Erdem Yörük, Ali Hürriyetoğlu, Çağrı Yoltar, Fırat Duruşan, Aline Villavicencio, Arzucan Özgür, Deniz Yüret, Burak Gürel, Mehmet Fuat Kına, Osman Mutlu, Ali Safaya, Enes Sarı, Moutasem Abdullatif. 2021. “Global Contentious Politics Dataset.” https://glocon.ku.edu.tr/

Erdem Yörük, Gabriela Ramalho Tafoya, İbrahim Öker, Ali Bargu, Alper Şükrü Gençer, Rahmi Çemen, Fuat Kına, Çağrı Yoltar, Burak Gürel, Murat Koyuncu. 2019. “Global Welfare Dataset, Version 2019.”