EUME Berliner Seminar
Mi 12 Feb 2020 | 17:00–18:30

Ethnic Mobilization, Democratization and Intercommunal Violence: A Study of the Turkish-Kurdish Conflict

İmren Borsuk Eroğlu (EUME Fellow 2020), Chair: Zeynep Türkyilmaz (EUME Fellow 2018-20)

Forum Transregionale Studien, Wallotstr. 14, 14193 Berlin

Scholars have recently devoted large amounts of attention to how and why ethnic conflicts start and spread over the contested terrains and among the population. However, less attention has been given to precisely how the dynamics of ethnic violence change in time and space. In this project, Imren Borsuk Eroglu investigates how the forms of ethnic violence change over time and space from ethnic insurgency into intercommunal violence and discuss the mechanisms that trigger the rise of communal conflict in a context of democratic transition in Turkey.

Imren Borsuk (B.A, Galatasaray University, 2007; MA, Strasbourg University, 2008) is a postdoctoral research fellow at Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations from Koç University, Istanbul. Her research interests include nationalism, communal conflict, dynamics of societal conflicts and cooperation. She also specializes on urban studies and socio-spatial dynamics of poverty. She is a recipient of the Swedish Institute post-doc scholarship, Bourse d'Excellence by the French Government and TUBITAK (Turkish Academy of Sciences) research fellowships among others. She has published works/articles on Northern Ireland conflict, Kurdish problem, transparency in Turkey's public sector. Her most recent co-authored article “Displacement and Asset Transformation from Inner-city Squatter Settlement into Peripheral Mass Housing” (2019, European Urban and Regional Studies) investigates the changing dimensions of urban poverty and social experiences of displacement in Turkey. She is currently co-editing a special issue that analyzes the changing dynamics of societal conflicts and social cohesion in contemporary Turkey (2020, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies). From January 2020, she will be a EUME Fellow affiliated with Freie Universität Berlin.

 

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