Rather than irrational forces that distort 'rationality', emotions shape how politics is organised and in whose interest. They redraw the boundaries  between the subject of emotion, ‘us’, and its object, ‘them’.. . In doing so, emotions help sustain racialised, gendered, sexualised and classed power hierarchies. 
 
He will focus on disgust, conceptualising it as a historically and politically situated emotion closely tied to the making of white colonial masculinity, which continues to drive contemporary politics.  
 
Disgust has long functioned as a mechanism through which others are constructed as revolting, impure and morally inferior “monsters”. It is, therefore, an especially powerful mechanism of hierarchy between the morally superior subject and the inferior “disgusting” object. 
 
Building on this, he will draw on his current research on contemporary Turkey to examine how LGBTQ+ individuals are politically constructed as “disgusting” and how this process is constitutive to the consolidation of authoritarianism in Turkey.  
 
In conclusion, , and an example of his political research's reliance on arts and culture, he will turn to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to explore how the politics of disgust can be challenged and transgressed.