Publications - Karen Barkey

Barkey, Karen, Dionigi Albera and Manoël Pénicaud, eds., Shared Sacred Sites: A Contemporary Pilgrimage, CUNY Publications. 2018.

Barkey, Karen, Sudipta Kaviraj and Vatsal Naresh, eds. Negotiating Democracy and Religious Pluralism: India, Pakistan and Turkey. Oxford University Press. Forthcoming.

Dionigi Albera, Karen Barkey, Dimitris Papadopoulos and Manoël Pénicaud, eds., Shared Sacred Sites in the Balkans and in the Mediterranean. Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art Publications, 2018.

Barkan, Elazar, and Karen Barkey, eds. 2014. Choreographies of Shared Sacred Sites: Religion, Politics, and Conflict Resolution. New York: Columbia University Press.

Barkey, Karen. 2008. Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press.

  • Barrington Moore Award: best book in the area of comparative/historical sociology 2009 American Sociological Association.

  • David Greenstone Award for the best book in politics and history 2009, American Political Science Association.

  • Translated into Greek and Turkish.

———. 1997. After Empire: Multiethnic Societies and Nation-Building: The Soviet Union And The Russian, Ottoman, And Habsburg Empires. Edited by Mark Von Hagen. Westview Press.

———. 1994. Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State Centralization. The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

  • Translated into Turkish, 1999.

  • Allan Sharlin Memorial Award for outstanding book of the year in Social Science History, 1995 Social Science History Association.

Barkey, Karen and Vatsal Naresh. “The Politics of Majoritarian Domination in Turkey and India.” In Negotiating Democracy and Religious Pluralism: India, Pakistan and Turkey, edited by Karen Barkey, Sudipta Kaviraj and Vatsal Naresh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Barkey, Karen. “Contemporary Cases of Shared Sacred Sites: Forms of Othering or Belonging?” Othering and Belonging: Expanding the Circle of Human Concern, Issue 3 Fall 2018.

———. 2017. “Le monastère de Saint-Georges et ses visiteur non chrétiens.” In Coexistences: Lieux saint partagés en Europe et en Méditerranée, edited by Dionogi Albera and Manoël Pénicaud. Arles, Musée National de L’histoire de L’immigration / Actes Sud.

Barkey, Karen. 2017. “The Ottomans and Toleration.” In Toleration in Comparative Perspective, edited by Vicki A. Spencer. Lanham, MD. Lexington Books.

Barkey, Karen. 2016. “The Ottoman Empire (1299-1923): The Bureaucratization of Patrimonial Authority.” In Empire and Bureaucracy, edited by Peter Crooks and Timothy Parsons. Cambridge University Press.

Barkey, Karen, and George Gavrilis. 2016. “The Ottoman Millet System: Non-Territorial Autonomy and Its Contemporary Legacy.” Ethnopolitics15 (1): 24–42. doi:10.1080/17449057.2015.1101845.

Barkey, Karen. 2014a. “Una Mirada SociolóGica Sobre La Tolerancia.” La Maleta de PortbouNo. 8 (Religión y Razón: Nuevas Cartas sobre la Tolerncia). http://www.lamaletadeportbou.com/articulo/una-mirada-sociologica-sobre-la-tolerancia/.

———. 2014b. “Political Legitimacy and Islam in the Ottoman Empire Lessons Learned.” Philosophy & Social Criticism40 (4-5): 469–77. doi:10.1177/0191453714525389.

———. 2014c. “Empire and Toleration: A Comparative Sociology of Toleration within Empire.” In Boundaries of Toleration, edited by Alfred Stepan and Charles Taylor. New York: Columbia University Press.

———. 2013. “Aspects of Legal Pluralism in the Ottoman Empire.” In Legal Pluralism and Empires, 1500-1850, edited by Lauren Benton and Richard J. Ross. New York: New York University Press.

Barkey, Karen, and Frédéric C. Godart. 2013. “Empires, Federated Arrangements, and Kingdoms: Using Political Models of Governance to Understand Firms’ Creative Performance.” Organization Studies 34 (1): 79–104. doi:10.1177/0170840612464754.

Barkey, Karen. 2012a. “Rethinking Ottoman Management of Diversity: What Can We Learn for Modern Turkey?” In Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey, edited by Ahmet T. Kuru and Alfred Stepan. New York: Columbia University Press.

———. 2012b. “Secularism and Its Discontents: Politics and Religion in the Modern World.” Foreign Affairs 90 (4).

Barkey, Karen, and Ira Katznelson. 2011. “States, Regimes, and Decisions: Why Jews Were Expelled from Medieval England and France.” Theory and Society 40 (5): 475–503.

Barkey, Karen, and Rudi Batzell. 2010. “Comparisons Across Empires: The Critical Social Structures of the Ottomans, Russians and Habsburgs.” In Empires in Contention: Sociology, History and Cultural Difference, edited by P.F. Bang and C.A. Bayly. Palgrave Press.

Barkey, Karen. 2010. “In the Lands of the Ottomans: Religion and Politics,” in Religion and the Political Imagination.” In Religion and the Political Imagination, edited by Ira Katznelson and Gareth Stedman Jones. Cambridge University Press.

———. 2009. “Analytic Historical Sociology.” In The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology, edited by Peter Hedström and Peter Bearman, 712–34. Oxford University Press.

———. 2007a. “Islam and Toleration: Studying the Ottoman Imperial Model.” International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society19 (1/2): 5–19.

———. 2007b. “Trajectoires impériales : histoires connectées ou études comparées ?” Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporainen° 54-4bis (5): 90–103.

———. 2006. “Changing Modalities of Empire: A Comparative Study of the Ottoman and Habsburg Decline.” In Empire to Nation: Historical Perspectives on the Making of the Modern World, edited by Joseph W. Esherick and Hasan Kayali. London: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

———. 2004. “Hegemonic Rise and Decline in Comparative Perspective: Lessons from the Early 20th Century.” In Hegemonic Decline: Present and Past, edited by Jonathan Friedman and Christopher K. Chase-Dunn. Boulder, Colorado: Paradigm Publishers.

Barkey, Karen, and Ronan Van Rossem. 2002. “Networks of Contention: Villages and Regional Structure in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire.” In Critical Concepts: Social Networks, edited by John Scott. Routledge Press.

Barkey, Karen. 2000. “Negotiated Paths to Nationhood: A Comparison of Hungary and Romania in the Early Twentieth Century.” East European Politics and Societies14 (3): 497–531.

Barkey, Karen, and Ronan Van Rossem. 1997. “Networks of Contention: Villages and Regional Structure in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire.” American Journal of Sociology102 (5): 1345–82. doi:10.1086/231086.

Barkey, Karen. 1996. “In Different Times: Scheduling and Social Control in the Ottoman Empire, 1550 to 1650.” Comparative Studies in Society and History38 (3): 460–83.

Barkey, Karen, and Sunita Parikh. 1991. “Comparative Perspectives on The State.” Annual Review of Sociology17: 523–49.

Barkey, Karen. 1991a. “Rebellious Alliances: The State and Peasant Unrest in Early 17th Century France and the Ottoman Empire.” American Sociological Review56.

———. 1991b. “The Use of Court Records in the Reconstruction of Village Networks: A Comparative Perspective.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology32 (1-2): 195–216. doi:10.1177/002071529103200110.

Barkey, Karen, and K. D. Breault. 1983. “Durkheim Scholarship and Suicidology: Different Ways of Doing Research in History of Social Thought, and Different Interpretations of Durkheim’s ‘Suicide.’” The Sociological Quarterly24 (4): 629–32.

Barkey, Karen, and Daniel Chirot. 1983. “States in Search of Legitimacy: Was There Nationalism in the Balkans of the Early Nineteenth Century?” International Journal of Comparative Sociology24 (1-2): 30–46. doi:10.1177/002071528302400103.

Barkey, Karen, and K. D. Breault. 1982. “A Comparative Analysis of Durkheim’s Theory of Egoistic Suicide.” The Sociological Quarterly23 (3): 321–31.