Muna Güvenç
Biographic Data
| ID | 5155357 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Muna Güvenç |
| GIVEN NAMES | Muna |
| FAMILY NAME | Güvenç |
| SIGNATURE | GÜVENÇ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brandeis University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9707-0934 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Research Note on the Relinquished Properties of Houses of Worship in the Greater Boston Region, 2000–2022
This research note describes the process we used to identify and build a dataset of closed houses of worship in greater Boston. Using multiple strategies to gather and cross‐check data, we compiled a list of 169 houses of worship that closed between 2000 and 2022. If the property had been formally relinquished, we were able to gather a wealth of specific details from the deeds of sale. We describe the 131 properties that sold during this time per…
Reckoning with Racial Violence
∞ How do Americans perceive public memorials that address the legacy of racial violence? What role do these commemorative spaces play in shaping collective memory within the built environment? This study presents the first nationally representative analysis of how Americans view the National Memorial for Peace and Justice (NMPJ) in Montgomery, Alabama, the most ambitious racial justice memorial in the United States. We first situate the NMPJ with…
Off the rails
Despite the Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) two-decade-long urban development campaign and its extensive control over urban governance and housing, the 2023 earthquake in Turkey resulted in over fifty thousand deaths and left hundreds of thousands homeless. What explains this paradox? This paper addresses this question by examining the AKP’s distinct pattern of urban neoliberalism. It reveals how the party’s urban development strategies fos…
Propositions for the emancipatory potential of urban spectacle
During the last few decades, the role of the spectacle within urban settings has produced groundbreaking research, mainly in Euro-American and Southeast Asian settings. However, its full potential to account for creative forms of encounter and political engagement has not by and large been part of the rich scholarship on cities, particularly with regard to regions lacking full democratic rights. Toward this end, this article investigates the eman…
Virtual Uprisings
This article analyses the geography of urban uprising during the so-called Arab Spring, with a focus on the relationship between its virtual and physical dimensions. To enhance understanding of contemporary social movements, it pays particular attention to the interwoven relationship between the social media that now organise gatherings and communicate political messages, the practices of protest in urban space and the magnifying power of global …
Virtual Uprisings
This article analyses the geography of urban uprising during the so-called Arab Spring, with a focus on the relationship between its virtual and physical dimensions. To enhance understanding of contemporary social movements, it pays particular attention to the interwoven relationship between the social media that now organise gatherings and communicate political messages, the practices of protest in urban space and the magnifying power of global …
Propositions for the emancipatory potential of urban spectacle
During the last few decades, the role of the spectacle within urban settings has produced groundbreaking research, mainly in Euro-American and Southeast Asian settings. However, its full potential to account for creative forms of encounter and political engagement has not by and large been part of the rich scholarship on cities, particularly with regard to regions lacking full democratic rights. Toward this end, this article investigates the eman…
Virtual Uprisings
This article analyses the geography of urban uprising during the so-called Arab Spring, with a focus on the relationship between its virtual and physical dimensions. To enhance understanding of contemporary social movements, it pays particular attention to the interwoven relationship between the social media that now organise gatherings and communicate political messages, the practices of protest in urban space and the magnifying power of global …
Propositions for the emancipatory potential of urban spectacle
During the last few decades, the role of the spectacle within urban settings has produced groundbreaking research, mainly in Euro-American and Southeast Asian settings. However, its full potential to account for creative forms of encounter and political engagement has not by and large been part of the rich scholarship on cities, particularly with regard to regions lacking full democratic rights. Toward this end, this article investigates the eman…
Off the rails
Despite the Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) two-decade-long urban development campaign and its extensive control over urban governance and housing, the 2023 earthquake in Turkey resulted in over fifty thousand deaths and left hundreds of thousands homeless. What explains this paradox? This paper addresses this question by examining the AKP’s distinct pattern of urban neoliberalism. It reveals how the party’s urban development strategies fos…
A Research Note on the Relinquished Properties of Houses of Worship in the Greater Boston Region, 2000–2022
This research note describes the process we used to identify and build a dataset of closed houses of worship in greater Boston. Using multiple strategies to gather and cross‐check data, we compiled a list of 169 houses of worship that closed between 2000 and 2022. If the property had been formally relinquished, we were able to gather a wealth of specific details from the deeds of sale. We describe the 131 properties that sold during this time per…
Reckoning with Racial Violence
∞ How do Americans perceive public memorials that address the legacy of racial violence? What role do these commemorative spaces play in shaping collective memory within the built environment? This study presents the first nationally representative analysis of how Americans view the National Memorial for Peace and Justice (NMPJ) in Montgomery, Alabama, the most ambitious racial justice memorial in the United States. We first situate the NMPJ with…
Politics (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Business (1 work) · Cinema and Media Studies (1 work) · Citizenship (1 work) · Civil disobedience (1 work) · Collective memory (1 work)