Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
ABOUT
Ph.D. (2006) in social sciences at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. I teach several sociology courses and have a strong interest in sociology of place. My interest in place (making) is to understand how place itself is the outcome of past actions and at the same time permits and restricts actions to occur. So place is not only a reflection of social relations, but also contributes to the production of social relations and as such produced by and related to power, violence, politics, conflict and identity. My other main interest is the sociology and politics of resistance and reconstruction, and the way in which meaning and alternative futures are embedded in acts of resistance and reconstruction. This brought me to study the Kurdistan Workers Party PKK, among others. My principal area focus is on Turkey and Kurdistan. For a list of selected publication see the link to my personal website.
Discipline
Sociology
Sub Areas
Development
Identity/Representation
Kurdish Studies
Modernization
Nationalism
Political Economy
Turkish Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iraq
Kurdistan
Syria
Turkey
Specialties
Politics Of Place, Rural-urban Interactions
Kurdistan Workers Party PKK
Development, Political Economy And Conflict
Languages
Dutch (native)
German (intermediate)
Turkish (advanced)
English (fluent)
Education
PhD
| 2006
| Social Sciences
| Wageningen University
Abstracts
Urban Nationalists and Rural Ottomanists: Ziya Gökalp, Millî Ibrahim Pasa and the Political Strugle over Land and People in Diyarbakir at the Turn of the 20th Century
A Party Without a History?: The Kurdistan Revolutionaries (PKK) and the Left in Turkey
Trickling down or bubbling up? The politics of connectivity and the Kurdish movement in Turkey and Syria
