Dr. Deniz Yonucu

Deniz Yonucu received her PhD in Social Anthropology from Cornell University. Her teaching and research interests lie at the intersection of anthropology, law and society studies, and urban studies, with a focus on the Middle East and Europe. More specifically, her work focuses on urban violence, crime, anti-terror laws, counterinsurgency and policing, sectarianism, and human rights. Situating current policing practices within the wider context of the Cold War counterinsurgency tactics which are informed by colonial school of warfare, she illustrates in her first book manuscript, Police, Provocation, Politics: Revolutionaries and Counterinsurgency in Istanbul, how counterinsurgency works to inform and shape dissent. Before joining the “Social Movements, Technology, Conflicts” research group at TU- Berlin, Dr. Yonucu was a DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor (W2) in the Department of Anthropology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. She held research positions as a 2015-17 EUME Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, and as a Newton-Katip Celebi fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Deniz Yonucu’s research was funded by various institutions including the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the British Council’s Newton Fund, and SALT Research. Her work appeared in Critical Times: Interventions in Global Political Theory, the International Journal of Urban and Regional Studies, Social & Legal Studies, Berkeley Journal of Sociology, among others. She has also published various op-ed articles related to her area of research on openDemocracy, Jadaliyya, PoLAR Forum and beyond.
   

Bereich
Soziale Bewegungen, Technik, Konflikte