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Biographical Information
I am a first year graduate student
with a background in a variety of disciplines including
history, sociology and anthropology. I am interested in the
issues of power and empowerment, relations of domination and
subordination, as well as the struggles revolving around the
discourses, strategies, actors and practices that are involved
with the production of spaces. Contested processes of
definition, creation and appropriation of distinct spaces by
actors with religious orientations, the way in which religious
communities and groups articulate their identities through the
politics of space/place, and the emergence and reproduction of
new subject positions in the discursive and material space
opened up by religion constitute the focal points of departure
for my research. A comparative study of the socio-spatial
transformation of Muslim communities in Turkey and Europe is
my current research topic. I envision combining the insights
of ethnographic analysis with spatial theory in order to
examine the historical processes and situated agents of
production and appropriation of spaces as religious places.
Accordingly, I hope to contribute to the debates on a variety
of issues related to politics of modernity/secularism/identity
in Turkey and Europe.
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