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Publications
The counterinsurgent urban governance in postwar Diyarbakır: political securitisation alongside criminal insecurities
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
Sites of Statelessness – Laws, Cities, Seas
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
From rubble to rebuilding: Recycling scrap metal on the Iraqi Kurdistan–ISIS war frontier
Medicalising Borders, Bordering Health: Governing Asylum-Seekers’ Mobility and Welfare at the Greek Hotspots
In: Migrant and Refugee Access to Health Systems, edited by Follis, L., Follis, K., & Burns, N.
Events
“Risky Areas” of Diyarbakır: Emergence and Expansion of Counterinsurgent Urban Governance in Post-War City
European Sociological Association (ESA) 2026, Strengthening Democracies: Social Action, Solidarity, and Sustainable Futures
Matters of Risk: Infrastructures and Technologies of (In) Security and Polarization
co-organised with Ebru Kayaalp, Tessa Diphoorn, Vidushi Kaushik European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) 2026: Possibilities in a Polarised World
Securitization of Space and Non-intervention in Crime as Strategies of Counterinsurgent Urban Governance in Turkey
RC21 Urban and Regional Development Conference: Ineuqalities and the City University of Vienna
Workshop on (Un)Chaining Disasters: Materials, Work, and the Everyday of Re-Configuration
The workshop invites case studies that examine supply chains, forms of work, and human experiences affected by disruptions such as wars and armed conflicts, industrial accidents, earthquakes, storms, wildfires, large-scale infrastructure failures, and other events involving material destruction and displacement. Kobe University
Domination Through Counterinsurgent Urban Governance: The Case of “Risky” Kaynartepe
British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) 2026 Conference SOAS, University of London
Counterinsurgent Urban Governance in Post-war Diyarbakır: Contemporary Urban Manifestations of a Colonial and Imperial Pacification Paradigm
CEUrban Research Group Seminar Central European University, Vienna