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Umut Yildirim
Graduate Institute, Geneva
Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact
ABOUT
In press. Breathing under Blockade: Ruined and Decolonial Ecologies in a Middle Eastern Heritage Site. Current Anthropology. In press. Affective Ecologies, Anarchic Fragments: Documenting Militarized Worlds in the Middle East. Critical Inquiry Series, ICI Press Berlin. 2021. Spaced out States: Decolonizing Trauma in a War-torn Middle Eastern Capital, Current Anthropology, fc. 2019. Space, Loss, and Resistance: A Haunted Pool-map in South-eastern Turkey, Anthropological Theory19(4): 440-469.
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
Middle East/Near East Studies
Kurdish Studies
Colonialism
Environment
Geographic Areas of Interest
Turkey
Kurdistan
Ottoman Empire
Specialties
Forced Migration And Mobility; War And Resistance; Social Movements; Political Subjectivity; Ecological Collectives, Environmental Anthropology
Languages
Turkish (native)
English (advanced)
French (advanced)
Italian (intermediate)
Kurmanji (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2011 | Anthropology | University of Cambridge
MS | 2004 | Anthropology | London School of Economics and Political Science
MA | 2003 | Institute for Modern Turkish History | Bogazici University
Abstracts
Spaced out States