Borders & Security

Publications

The counterinsurgent urban governance in postwar Diyarbakır: political securitisation alongside criminal insecurities

Arjin Taş - Journal Article

Justice, Power and Resistance 2026

In: Special Issue on Violence and Urban Transformation in Turkey, edited by Dölek, Ç. & Crane, N. J.

The Limbo of Post-war Sur: A Strategy of Counterinsurgent Urban Governance

Arjin Taş - Journal Article

Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City 2026

Sites of Statelessness – Laws, Cities, Seas

Ayşe Çağlar Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, Yuri Kazepov, Paolo Novak, Ranabir Samaddar

IWM Library 2026

The co-editors Ayşe Çağlar, Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, and Ranabir Samaddar discussed their book Sites of Statelessness: Laws, Cities, Seas (SUNY Press, 2024) in conversation with Paolo Novak and Yuri Kazepov. The discussion was moderated by Ayşe Çağlar. Statelessness is incessantly produced in seas, cities, and law. Building around the postcolonial experiences of this statelessness, […]

Looking through the lens of “essential workers”: a landscape of (im)mobility, labor, and social reproduction

Ayşe Çağlar - Journal Article

Dialectical Anthropology 2025

From rubble to rebuilding: Recycling scrap metal on the Iraqi Kurdistan–ISIS war frontier

Umut Kuruüzüm - Journal Article

Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology 2025

Keeping out by keeping alive: Refugee Rentierism, Racialized Containment and the Humanitarian-Development Nexus in Transit States

Danai Avgeri - Journal Article

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 2025