In my second book The Make-Believe Space: Affective Geography in a Postwar Polity (Duke University Press, 2012) based on this ethnographic research, I explored affect in zones of ruination, in materialities left behind and expropriated in the aftermath of war, as well as in the documents, bureaucracy, and legal practices of an unrecognized state.īetween January 2012 and December 2016, I was the Principal Investigator of the European Research Council (ERC) project entitled “ Living with Remnants: Politics, Materiality and Subjectivity in the Aftermath of Past Atrocities in Turkey” (REMNANTS). The REMNANTS project team included Dr. I conceptualised this space through a query about affect and materiality in a postwar environment. This interest led me, in further research, to study the unrecognized state in Northern Cyprus and its administration. In Faces of the State: Secularism and Public Life in Turkey (Princeton University Press, 2002), I studied the production of a state-revering public culture in Turkey through ethnographic work on the interface between secularism and Islamism. My research to date has explored affect, subjectivity and the emotions in the domains of politics, the public sphere, law, and bureaucracy. I was a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh (1997-1999) and have been teaching at the University of Cambridge since 1999. Originally from Istanbul, Turkey, I studied at Brandeis University (BA in Sociology, 1991) and Princeton University (MA in Anthropology, 1993 and PhD in Anthropology, 1998). My publications, research collaborations, and teaching also explore the politics of ethnographic and archival research, dealing with issues of representation and erasure. I have contributed to crafting an affective, spatial and material approach for the study of postwar environments, embedding social, political, and psychological anthropology through new methodologies. Regionally, my work has focused on social and political life in Turkey and Cyprus, and I have a continuing interest in ethnographically studying politics and the aftermath of violence in the everyday of the region. I am a social anthropologist who studies politics, the state, and violence and its aftermaths.
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