
People
Publications
Urban governance of the displaced and emergency rules
Ayşe Çağlar - Journal Article
Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and the City 2026
The Limbo of Post-war Sur: A Strategy of Counterinsurgent Urban Governance
Arjin Taş - Journal Article
Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City 2026
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
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
Sites of Statelessness: Laws, Cities, Seas
Ayşe Çağlar co-edited with Ranabir Samaddar and Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury - Book
State University of New York Press 2025

A Plastic Root of Toxic Survival
Umut Kuruüzüm - Journal Article
Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 2025
Events
“Risky Areas” of Diyarbakır: Emergence and Expansion of Counterinsurgent Urban Governance in Post-War City
Arjin Taş - Presenter
27 Aug 2026 - 16:30 - Warsaw, Poland
European Sociological Association (ESA) 2026, Strengthening Democracies: Social Action, Solidarity, and Sustainable Futures
An Ethnography of Conflicting Values of Urban Regeneration
Catherine Raya Polishchuk - Presenter
Jul 2026 - 14:00 - Vienna, Austria
RC21 Urban and Regional Development Conference: Inequalities and the City University of Vienna
Counterinsurgent Urban Governance in Post-war Diyarbakır: Contemporary Urban Manifestations of a Colonial and Imperial Pacification Paradigm
Arjin Taş - Speaker
May 2026 - 16:00 - Vienna, Austria
CEUrban Research Group Seminar Central European University, Vienna
The Livability Apparatus. Establishing Vienna as Most Livable in the World
Catherine Raya Polishchuk - Speaker
Jan 2026 - Vienna, Austria
Monday Lectures at ifk International Research Center for Cultural Studies University of Art and Design Linz
Shifting Ideology: When Social Inclusion Gives in to Livability in Urban Renewal Policies
Catherine Raya Polishchuk - Presenter
Oct 2025 - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Anthropology of the State Network Conference University of Amsterdam
Risky Areas’ of Diyarbakır: The Formation of Risk and (De)securitization
Arjin Taş - Presenter
Jul 2025 - Rabat, Morocco
5th ISA Forum of Sociology International Sociological Association (ISA)



