Erdem Evren
I studied sociology, social anthropology, and political science in Istanbul, London, and Berlin. After completing my Ph.D. at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (now the Center for Maghreb, Mashreq, and Gulf Studies) at Freie Universit?t Berlin, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz Center for Modern Oriental Studies from 2012 to 2019. From September 2016 to July 2017, with the support of the Volkswagen Fellowship for the Humanities, I spent ten months as a visiting scholar at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Most recently, I have taught anthropology courses in Berlin, Bremen, and Istanbul.
Books/Edited Volumes
(Under review) Sovereign Extractions (special issue for Anthropological Theory) (edited with Alice von Bieberstein)
2022 Bulldozer Capitalism: Accumulation, Ruination and Dispossession in Northeastern Turkey, London and New York: Berghahn Books
2016 Sudan Sebepler: Türkiye’de Su ve Enerji Politikalar? (An edited volume in Turkish on the politics of water and energy in Turkey) (with Cemil Aksu and Sinan Erensü), Istanbul: ?leti?im Yay?nlar?
Journal Articles
(Under review) Sovereignty, Speculation and Hegemony: Governing Extraction without Violence in Northeastern Turkey, Anthropological Theory.
2016 “From Aggressive Humanism to Improper Mourning: Burying the Victims of Europe’s Border Regime in Berlin.” Social Research 83(2), Special Issue on Borders and the Politics of Mourning. (with Alice von Bieberstein).
2014 “The Rise and Decline of An Anti-Dam Campaign: Yusufeli Dam Project and the Temporal Politics of Development.” Water History 6(4): 405-419.
Book Chapters
2021 “Tenses of Violence: Ruination and Accumulation along the ?oruh Valley, Turkey”, in Yael Navaro et. al. (eds.) Reverberations: Violence Across Time and Space, University of Pennsylvania Press.
2016 “Introduction.”, in Cemil Aksu, Sinan Erensü, Erdem Evren (eds.) Sudan Sebepler: Türkiye’de Su ve Enerji Politikalar?, ?leti?im. (with Cemil Aksu and Sinan Erensü)
2016 “Bir Baraj Kar??t? Mücadelenin Yükseli?i ve Dü?ü?ü: Yusufeli Baraj? Projesi ve Hidro-Kalk?nman?n Zaman-Mekan Siyaseti.”, in Cemil Aksu, Sinan Erensü, Erdem Evren (eds.) Sudan Sebepler: Türkiye’de Su ve Enerji Politikalar?, ?leti?im [A slightly revised version of “The Rise and Decline of An Anti-Dam Campaign”]
2012 “The Ones Who Walk Away: Law, Sacrifice and Conscientious Objection in Turkey.”, in ?zlem Biner, Julia Eckert et. al. (eds.) Law Against the State: Ethnographic Forays into Law's Transformations, Cambridge University Press.
Shorter Pieces
2016 “Turkey’s War and the Struggle of its Academics”, ZMO Orient Bulletin, No: 30 (with Deniz Yonucu)
2016 “(Re)valuing Natural Resources in the Middle East, Africa and Asia”, ZMO Programmatic Texts, No: 11 (with Katharina Lange et. al.)
2013 “On the Joy and Melancholy of Politics.”, in Yael Navaro-Yashin and Umut Y?ld?r?m (eds.) An Impromptu Uprising: Ethnographic Reflections on the Gezi Park Protests in Turkey, Cultural Anthropology Hot Spots, [http://www.culanth.org/fieldsights/398-on-the-joy-and-melancholy-of-politics]