Month: June 2020

*EN | TR Murat Ergin is associate professor of Sociology at Koç University, Istanbul. He received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis in 2005. His research areas are culture, nationalism, race, ethnicity, crime and deviance, cultural consumption, and death. His research interests revolve broadly around the formation of cultural boundaries and identities. He contributed to the special issue of the journal of Toplum ve Bilim on science and technology studies with the article “Eugenics As a ‘Modern’ Technology and Genetic Sciences in the Twenty-First Century.” Murat Ergin, Koç Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Bölümünde doçent olarak çalışmaktadır. Doktorasını Minnesota Üniversitesinden 2005 yılında almıştır. Kültür, milliyetçilik, ırk-etnisite, suç ve sapma, kü...

*EN | TR Onur Arslan is a PhD candidate at UC Davis, in the anthropology department. He graduated from Istanbul University with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Relations in 2012. He received his MA degree in Philosophy and Social Thought program at Istanbul Bilgi University. He is interested in exploring the ways in which technoscientific practices and arrangements shape power relations. He currently writes on counter-terrorism, digital forensics, evidence-making, and preparedness. Istanbulab Footprints... He contributed to the special issue of the journal of Toplum ve Bilim on science and technology studies with an article “Science of Uncertainty: Expected Istanbul Earthquake and Epistemic Communities.” He conducted an interview with anthropologist, Mar...

*EN | TR Özgür Narin is Associate Professor of Economics at Ordu University.  He graduated from the Electrical & Electronics Engineering Department of Middle East Technical University. He completed his Ph.D. in Development Economics Department of Marmara University. He studied the capitalist production of Science and Technology, particularly innovation and the changing scientific labour process. As a visiting scholar at New York University, he studied on changing labour processes under crisis and technological development. Some of his past works address the transformation of the higher education system, the transformation of mental labour, and the history of workers’ management in Turkey. You can see some of his articles (mostly in Turkish) here: https://nyu.academia.edu/OzgurNarin...

*EN | TR Öznur Karakaş completed her undergraduate studies in Boğaziçi University, Department of Translation Studies in 2006. She has master degrees in philosophy in Galatasaray University and in Europhilosophie Master Erasmus Mundus program specialized in contemporary French and German philosophy (University of Toulouse- II Jean Jaures and Prague Charles University). She wrote two master thesis firstly on the dialectics of nature-culture in the Hegelian philosophy and secondly on the concept of sexual difference in the thought of Deleuze. In 2018, she defended her PHD dissertation on a reading of the Gezi Movement as part of the Deleuze-Guattarian concept of agencement and body politics, and graduated from the Open University of Catalunia (UOC), Department of Information and Knowledge...