People

Publications

Forging fragility: Capitalogenic flows and landscapes in the Middle East

Umut Kuruüzüm co-edited with Michael Mason - Special Issue
Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 2026

Trapped Under the Orient’s Night: Blind-Sourced Child Labour in Contract Tobacco Farming

Umut Kuruüzüm - Journal Article
Journal of Agrarian Change 2026

România, țara muncii ieftine, acum importată și din Sudul global [Romania, the country of cheap labor, now imported from the Global South]

Ioana Simina Popescu Apostolescu, M-L., Gudu, A.C., Mateescu, O., and Rotaru, I-R. - Book Chapter
Editura Tact 2025

In: Epoca Iohannis? România în 2014-2025, edited by Bâlici, M., Bîrnoiu, A., Lazăr, V., Rădoi, C., and Stan, V.

Expanded extractivism, confinement, and (im)mobilized labor in city-making: a longue durée perspective

Ayşe Çağlar - Journal Article
Dialectical Anthropology 2025

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

Ayşe Çağlar - Journal Article
Dialectical Anthropology 2025

Seeing Through One Health: The Disaster Economy of Recycling in Post-Earthquake Türkiye

Umut Kuruüzüm co-authored with Ann-Christin Zuntz, Ertan Karabıyık, Afnan El-Gayar, Lisa Boden - Report
University of Edinburgh, Development Workshop 2025

Events

Workshop on (Un)Chaining Disasters: Materials, Work, and the Everyday of Re-Configuration

Ayşe Çağlar Umut Kuruüzüm - Organizer
Jun 2026 - Kobe, Japan

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

Class at Work on the Seismic Line

Umut Kuruüzüm - Presenter
Apr 2026 - American University of Cairo, Egypt

Co-authored with Ann-Christin Zuntz Conference on Spectres of the Undercommon: Inhumanities in the Wake of the Catastrophe American University of Cairo

Expanded Extractivism: Regimes of Confined Labour, Containment, and the Geographies of Displacement

Ayşe Çağlar - Speaker
Nov 2025 - Illinois, USA

Anthropology Department and Keyman Centre for Turkish Studies, Northwestern University

Extractivism Expanded: Confined Labor, Regimes of Containment, and City-making

Ayşe Çağlar - Speaker
Nov 2025 - Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Migration, Mobilities, and Social Politics Research Cluster, University of Balsillie School of International Affairs

Refugee Containment and the Political Economy of Aid at the EU Border

Danai Avgeri - Speaker
Oct 2025 - Los Angeles, USA

The Centre for the Study of International Migration, UCLA

The Humanitarian Fix: Crisis Capitalism and Refugee Containment in Greece

Danai Avgeri - Speaker
Sep 2025 - California,

Department of Anthropology, Stanford University