Umut Yıldırım
Biographic Data
| ID | 126164 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Umut Yıldırım |
| GIVEN NAMES | Umut |
| FAMILY NAME | Yıldırım |
| SIGNATURE | YILDIRIM U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Karadeniz Technical University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8989-6426 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Resistant Breathing: Ruined and Decolonial Ecologies in a Middle Eastern Heritage Site
In light of long-term ethnographic fieldwork in the Diyarbakır Hewsel Gardens, a UNESCO Heritage Site located in Kurdistan in Turkey, this article proposes the concept of "resistant breathing" as a way to theorize ecology both as the outcome of genocidal devastation and as radical praxis in the context of climate change. Inspired by the gardens' historical association with "lungs," I construct an intersectional conceptual encounter between recent…
Work-family conflict and work alienation among seafarers: The mediating role of emotional exhaustion
War-Torn Ecologies, an-Archic Fragments: Reflections from the Middle East
War-torn Ecologies: Human and More- than- Human Intersections of Ethnography and the Arts
Umut Yıldırım’s introduction combines the genres of literature review and commentary. It re-examines contemporary works on posthuman life to articulate ecological life-and-death politics within the context of colonial, imperial, and genocidal mass violence, and their entangled environmental legacies and actualities. A dissident repertoire of anthropological and artistic research is offered, which examines the ecological impact of war through the …
Mulberry Affects: Ecology, Memory, and Aesthetics on the Shores of the Tigris River in the Wake of Genocide
How can the Armenian genocide be considered in terms of its ecological roots and remnants? Umut Yıldırım explores the more-than-human flora and fauna indigenous to the banks of the Tigris river in Upper Mesopotamia — in particular, centenarian mulberry trees — as resistant roots that register the evidentiary ecologies of the Armenian genocide through the Turkish state’s denialist present and its ongoing war against the Kurds
Compensation effect of wages on decent work: A study on seafarers attitudes
Spaced-Out States: Decolonizing Trauma in a War-Torn Middle Eastern City
Against anthropological notions of "illness narratives" and "social suffering" as the responsible reception of trauma, this article formulates possible directions in which to expand trauma's conceptual framework so as to respond ethnographically to affective ways of understanding memory, critical agency, and political belonging. Building on ethnographic fieldwork with militarily displaced Kurdish communities in Diyarbakır, in Kurdistan, in Turkey…
Space, Loss and Resistance: A Haunted Pool-Map in South-Eastern Turkey
Based on ethnographic fieldwork (2005 to February 2007, and March and August 2008) in Diyarbakır, southeastern Turkey, this article explores the conceptual intersection of recent anthropological literature on space, neoliberalism and resistance to study the affective life of politics in the context of the war between the Partiye Karkêren Kurdistan and the Turkish State in the 1990s. Offering a contribution to regional studies on the neoliberal re…
Brexit Referendum: First reactions from anthropology
Brexit Referendum: first reactions from anthropologyMy immediate reaction to the results of the British Referendum on leaving or remaining in the EU was to remember Alexei Yurchak's book, Everything was forever, until it was no more (Yurchak 2006).In the book, Yurchak describes the feeling of many people in Russia when the Soviet Union broke up: it came as a complete shock because they thought it would never happen; but once it had happened, it w…
Brexit Referendum: First reactions from anthropology
Brexit Referendum: first reactions from anthropologyMy immediate reaction to the results of the British Referendum on leaving or remaining in the EU was to remember Alexei Yurchak's book, Everything was forever, until it was no more (Yurchak 2006).In the book, Yurchak describes the feeling of many people in Russia when the Soviet Union broke up: it came as a complete shock because they thought it would never happen; but once it had happened, it w…
Space, Loss and Resistance: A Haunted Pool-Map in South-Eastern Turkey
Based on ethnographic fieldwork (2005 to February 2007, and March and August 2008) in Diyarbakır, southeastern Turkey, this article explores the conceptual intersection of recent anthropological literature on space, neoliberalism and resistance to study the affective life of politics in the context of the war between the Partiye Karkêren Kurdistan and the Turkish State in the 1990s. Offering a contribution to regional studies on the neoliberal re…
Spaced-Out States: Decolonizing Trauma in a War-Torn Middle Eastern City
Against anthropological notions of "illness narratives" and "social suffering" as the responsible reception of trauma, this article formulates possible directions in which to expand trauma's conceptual framework so as to respond ethnographically to affective ways of understanding memory, critical agency, and political belonging. Building on ethnographic fieldwork with militarily displaced Kurdish communities in Diyarbakır, in Kurdistan, in Turkey…
Resistant Breathing: Ruined and Decolonial Ecologies in a Middle Eastern Heritage Site
In light of long-term ethnographic fieldwork in the Diyarbakır Hewsel Gardens, a UNESCO Heritage Site located in Kurdistan in Turkey, this article proposes the concept of "resistant breathing" as a way to theorize ecology both as the outcome of genocidal devastation and as radical praxis in the context of climate change. Inspired by the gardens' historical association with "lungs," I construct an intersectional conceptual encounter between recent…
Brexit Referendum: First reactions from anthropology
Brexit Referendum: first reactions from anthropologyMy immediate reaction to the results of the British Referendum on leaving or remaining in the EU was to remember Alexei Yurchak's book, Everything was forever, until it was no more (Yurchak 2006).In the book, Yurchak describes the feeling of many people in Russia when the Soviet Union broke up: it came as a complete shock because they thought it would never happen; but once it had happened, it w…
Space, Loss and Resistance: A Haunted Pool-Map in South-Eastern Turkey
Based on ethnographic fieldwork (2005 to February 2007, and March and August 2008) in Diyarbakır, southeastern Turkey, this article explores the conceptual intersection of recent anthropological literature on space, neoliberalism and resistance to study the affective life of politics in the context of the war between the Partiye Karkêren Kurdistan and the Turkish State in the 1990s. Offering a contribution to regional studies on the neoliberal re…
Spaced-Out States: Decolonizing Trauma in a War-Torn Middle Eastern City
Against anthropological notions of "illness narratives" and "social suffering" as the responsible reception of trauma, this article formulates possible directions in which to expand trauma's conceptual framework so as to respond ethnographically to affective ways of understanding memory, critical agency, and political belonging. Building on ethnographic fieldwork with militarily displaced Kurdish communities in Diyarbakır, in Kurdistan, in Turkey…
Compensation effect of wages on decent work: A study on seafarers attitudes
Work-family conflict and work alienation among seafarers: The mediating role of emotional exhaustion
War-Torn Ecologies, an-Archic Fragments: Reflections from the Middle East
War-torn Ecologies: Human and More- than- Human Intersections of Ethnography and the Arts
Umut Yıldırım’s introduction combines the genres of literature review and commentary. It re-examines contemporary works on posthuman life to articulate ecological life-and-death politics within the context of colonial, imperial, and genocidal mass violence, and their entangled environmental legacies and actualities. A dissident repertoire of anthropological and artistic research is offered, which examines the ecological impact of war through the …
Mulberry Affects: Ecology, Memory, and Aesthetics on the Shores of the Tigris River in the Wake of Genocide
How can the Armenian genocide be considered in terms of its ecological roots and remnants? Umut Yıldırım explores the more-than-human flora and fauna indigenous to the banks of the Tigris river in Upper Mesopotamia — in particular, centenarian mulberry trees — as resistant roots that register the evidentiary ecologies of the Armenian genocide through the Turkish state’s denialist present and its ongoing war against the Kurds
Resistant Breathing: Ruined and Decolonial Ecologies in a Middle Eastern Heritage Site
In light of long-term ethnographic fieldwork in the Diyarbakır Hewsel Gardens, a UNESCO Heritage Site located in Kurdistan in Turkey, this article proposes the concept of "resistant breathing" as a way to theorize ecology both as the outcome of genocidal devastation and as radical praxis in the context of climate change. Inspired by the gardens' historical association with "lungs," I construct an intersectional conceptual encounter between recent…
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