Esra Erdem
Biographic Data
| ID | 1258698 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Esra Erdem |
| GIVEN NAMES | Esra |
| FAMILY NAME | Erdem |
| SIGNATURE | ERDEM E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabancı University, İstanbul, Turkey |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8384-7810 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Dispositif of Academic Humanitarianism
This article argues that academic humanitarianism, characterized by an expanding infrastructure of scholar protection programs, networks, and expertise, has crystallized into an emergent dispositif. Building on a Foucauldian understanding of the dispositif as a heterogeneous ensemble of institutions, discourses, administrative techniques, and moral commitments, it shows how scholar protection in Europe operates at the intersection of humanitarian…
The Surplus Idea of the University
This “Against the Day” dossier discusses the destructive impact of authoritarian and neoliberal higher education policy regimes on universities but also underlines the surprising resilience of academic communities. This question is explored through the lens of surplus, which designates a constitutive excess rather than a residual remainder. It names the impossibility of reducing the university to any single regime of valuation—whether market, sta…
Postcapitalist Imaginaries of Finance
The essay presents an exploratory study of the equub, a form of community-based finance that is well-established in the Ethiopian diaspora in Germany.Equubs render visible the financial expertise developed in the majority world and its circulation in diasporic space.As such, equubs exemplify the power of People of African Descent in Germany to organize against financial exclusion.The essay draws on the theory of diverse economies and its method o…
Emergent Repertoires of Resistance and Commoning in Higher Education
This article addresses the current restructuring of academia in Turkey through the example of the Academics for Peace petition and the institutional mechanisms of repression it instigated. We focus on the Solidarity Academies as alternative spaces of education and a unique form of collective resistance against the academic purges. We provide an empirically informed analysis of Solidarity Academies as spaces of commoning, the collective production…
ReAct
This paper presents ReAct!, an interactive educational tool for artificial intelligence (AI) planning for robotics. ReAct! enables students to describe robots' actions and change in dynamic domains without first having to know about the syntactic and semantic details of the underlying formalism, and to solve planning problems using state-of-the-art reasoners without having to know about their input/output language or usage. In particular, ReAct! …
Introduction
This text introduces the contributions to the first part of this symposium published in memory of Julie Graham, eminent Marxist-feminist geographer and long-time member of our Rethinking Marxism collective. Focusing particularly on the seminal contributions to poststructuralist Marxism made by Graham and her colleague Katherine Gibson (writing together under the pen-name Gibson Graham), the symposium shows how their work continues to inspire curr…
Postcapitalist Encounters with Class and Community Part 1
Reading Foucault with Gibson-Graham
In recent years, Berlin has been widely acclaimed for the creative enactment of alternative urban imaginaries. This article explores how such spaces of urban alterity can be theorized from a political economy perspective. The beginning section explores the extent to which the “be berlin” campaign succeeds in representing the economic diversity embodied by these alternative sites. The middle section draws on the work of Gibson-Graham and Foucault …
Postcapitalist Encounters with Class and Community
Community and Democratic Citizenship
In the ongoing debate on immigrant integration policies, the Sinus study on migrant milieus has attracted much attention for its clear stance as a proponent of a multicultural society. Brushing aside arguments about an ethnic-religious divide in the German social fabric, the study argues that social milieus constitute much stronger markers of difference than ethnicity. This paper provides a critical appraisal of the postethnic vision articulated …
The Ambivalence of ‘Imperceptibility’ in Political Economy
This essay provides a critical appreciation of the theory of social change articulated in the book Escape Routes, particularly through the concepts of ‘escape’ and ‘imperceptibility’. It discusses the relevance of these concepts for understanding contemporary migration flows and the positionality of immigrants in the labor market. A poststructuralist Marxist interpretation is offered, linking precarious and noncapitalist work practices through th…
In der Falle einer Politik des Ressentiments. Feminismus und die Integrationsdebatte
Emergent Repertoires of Resistance and Commoning in Higher Education
This article addresses the current restructuring of academia in Turkey through the example of the Academics for Peace petition and the institutional mechanisms of repression it instigated. We focus on the Solidarity Academies as alternative spaces of education and a unique form of collective resistance against the academic purges. We provide an empirically informed analysis of Solidarity Academies as spaces of commoning, the collective production…
Postcapitalist Imaginaries of Finance
The essay presents an exploratory study of the equub, a form of community-based finance that is well-established in the Ethiopian diaspora in Germany.Equubs render visible the financial expertise developed in the majority world and its circulation in diasporic space.As such, equubs exemplify the power of People of African Descent in Germany to organize against financial exclusion.The essay draws on the theory of diverse economies and its method o…
Reading Foucault with Gibson-Graham
In recent years, Berlin has been widely acclaimed for the creative enactment of alternative urban imaginaries. This article explores how such spaces of urban alterity can be theorized from a political economy perspective. The beginning section explores the extent to which the “be berlin” campaign succeeds in representing the economic diversity embodied by these alternative sites. The middle section draws on the work of Gibson-Graham and Foucault …
In der Falle einer Politik des Ressentiments. Feminismus und die Integrationsdebatte
The Ambivalence of ‘Imperceptibility’ in Political Economy
This essay provides a critical appreciation of the theory of social change articulated in the book Escape Routes, particularly through the concepts of ‘escape’ and ‘imperceptibility’. It discusses the relevance of these concepts for understanding contemporary migration flows and the positionality of immigrants in the labor market. A poststructuralist Marxist interpretation is offered, linking precarious and noncapitalist work practices through th…
Introduction
This text introduces the contributions to the first part of this symposium published in memory of Julie Graham, eminent Marxist-feminist geographer and long-time member of our Rethinking Marxism collective. Focusing particularly on the seminal contributions to poststructuralist Marxism made by Graham and her colleague Katherine Gibson (writing together under the pen-name Gibson Graham), the symposium shows how their work continues to inspire curr…
Postcapitalist Encounters with Class and Community Part 1
Reading Foucault with Gibson-Graham
In recent years, Berlin has been widely acclaimed for the creative enactment of alternative urban imaginaries. This article explores how such spaces of urban alterity can be theorized from a political economy perspective. The beginning section explores the extent to which the “be berlin” campaign succeeds in representing the economic diversity embodied by these alternative sites. The middle section draws on the work of Gibson-Graham and Foucault …
Postcapitalist Encounters with Class and Community
Community and Democratic Citizenship
In the ongoing debate on immigrant integration policies, the Sinus study on migrant milieus has attracted much attention for its clear stance as a proponent of a multicultural society. Brushing aside arguments about an ethnic-religious divide in the German social fabric, the study argues that social milieus constitute much stronger markers of difference than ethnicity. This paper provides a critical appraisal of the postethnic vision articulated …
ReAct
This paper presents ReAct!, an interactive educational tool for artificial intelligence (AI) planning for robotics. ReAct! enables students to describe robots' actions and change in dynamic domains without first having to know about the syntactic and semantic details of the underlying formalism, and to solve planning problems using state-of-the-art reasoners without having to know about their input/output language or usage. In particular, ReAct! …
Emergent Repertoires of Resistance and Commoning in Higher Education
This article addresses the current restructuring of academia in Turkey through the example of the Academics for Peace petition and the institutional mechanisms of repression it instigated. We focus on the Solidarity Academies as alternative spaces of education and a unique form of collective resistance against the academic purges. We provide an empirically informed analysis of Solidarity Academies as spaces of commoning, the collective production…
Postcapitalist Imaginaries of Finance
The essay presents an exploratory study of the equub, a form of community-based finance that is well-established in the Ethiopian diaspora in Germany.Equubs render visible the financial expertise developed in the majority world and its circulation in diasporic space.As such, equubs exemplify the power of People of African Descent in Germany to organize against financial exclusion.The essay draws on the theory of diverse economies and its method o…
The Dispositif of Academic Humanitarianism
This article argues that academic humanitarianism, characterized by an expanding infrastructure of scholar protection programs, networks, and expertise, has crystallized into an emergent dispositif. Building on a Foucauldian understanding of the dispositif as a heterogeneous ensemble of institutions, discourses, administrative techniques, and moral commitments, it shows how scholar protection in Europe operates at the intersection of humanitarian…
The Surplus Idea of the University
This “Against the Day” dossier discusses the destructive impact of authoritarian and neoliberal higher education policy regimes on universities but also underlines the surprising resilience of academic communities. This question is explored through the lens of surplus, which designates a constitutive excess rather than a residual remainder. It names the impossibility of reducing the university to any single regime of valuation—whether market, sta…
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