Deniz Yonucu
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 915164 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Deniz Yonucu |
| PRENOMES | Deniz |
| SOBRENOME | Yonucu |
| ASSINATURA | YONUCU D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0769-7600 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Family album
Family Album follows a young university student assisting a journalist in documenting a glass workers' strike in Istanbul's Paşabahçe neighborhood during the summer of 1999. Immersed in the atmosphere of solidarity and collective struggle, she accompanies the journalist to interview Murat, a key strike organizer, in his shanty house overlooking the Bosporus. What begins as a celebration of working‐class resistance takes an unexpected turn when Mu…
Anthropology of Crime
Unlike legal frameworks that define crime strictly as the violation of the law as an established fact, anthropological approaches take a broader perspective. Anthropologists explore how different societies and cultures conceptualize crime situating it within its wider social context and examining how various communities define and interpret acts of transgression. While early anthropological approaches were shaped by colonial, racist, sexist and c…
Sectarianism as racism
Drawing on the case of state-sanctioned violence and discrimination against Alevis, a historically stigmatised and persecuted ethnosectarian community in Turkey, this article shows that sectarian identities can also be raced. The case of Alevis in Turkey not only indicates how sectarianism can function as a form of racism but also offers an example of the connection between the production of race and the politics of death. Approaching racism as a…
Directions
Beyond pseudonyms
Police ethnography, abolition, Rancière and political theology
Police, Provocation, Politics
Landscapes of otherwise
Racism and policing beyond North America
Inspirational Hauntings and a Fearless Spirit of Resistance
This article tackles the conditions of the possibility of fearlessness and the radical refusal to be docile and complicit despite the likelihood of heavy punishments. Drawing on the experiences of the racialized Kurdish and Turkish Alevi residents of a working-class space in Istanbul that is constantly under the watchful eye of undercover police agents, I propose that despite its privileged position in law enforcement in Turkey and in other autho…
Police, Provocation, Politics
Introducing Directions Section
Counterinsurgency in Istanbul
Situating the Turkish counterinsurgency within the global context of Cold War counterinsurgencies this article sheds light on counterinsurgency’s provocative and affect-generating techniques and its urban dimensions. I argue that the Gazi incidents of 1995 marked the beginning of a new counterinsurgency strategy in Istanbul that combined overt repressive state violence with urban-centred and affect-generating provocative counterinsurgency techniq…
From the Ottoman Empire to Post-1923
The author of The Armenians in Modern Turkey, historian Talin Suciyan, puts the Armenian genocide survivors at the center of her research to provide a new perspective on the history of the Turkish Republic. Suciyan analyzes the experiences and lives of its Armenian population several decades after the genocide. In this interview, Deniz Yonucu speaks with Suciyan on her research and innovative anthrohistorical approach to understanding the paths t…
Affect in the courtroom
This commentary proposes to bring an analysis of affect in the courtroom into the growing literature on performativity and the law. In analysing the judicialization of politics it is important to also draw from psychoanalytical approaches and to focus on not only what is present in courtrooms but also what is absent
Urban Vigilantism
Focusing on the case of young socialist vigilantes who were arrested and imprisoned as 'terrorists' in 2007, this article illustrates how vigilantism in working-class neighbourhoods of Istanbul with a high Alevi population evolved from an unarmed, public and participatory form of vigilantism to an armed one, and discusses the role of the anti-terror law in this transformation. The article illustrates the ways in which the anti-terror law, by narr…
The Absent Present Law
This article, which draws on the case of 10 young socialists from the urban margins of Istanbul, who were arrested as the result of an anti-terror operation in 2007, provides an ethnographically grounded analysis of Turkey’s anti-terror law by examining the threat it poses for the population. Contrary to widespread complaints about a supposed state of lawlessness in Turkey, the article suggests that law, indeed, exists as an overwhelming and ever…
The Absent Present Law
This article, which draws on the case of 10 young socialists from the urban margins of Istanbul, who were arrested as the result of an anti-terror operation in 2007, provides an ethnographically grounded analysis of Turkey’s anti-terror law by examining the threat it poses for the population. Contrary to widespread complaints about a supposed state of lawlessness in Turkey, the article suggests that law, indeed, exists as an overwhelming and ever…
Urban Vigilantism
Focusing on the case of young socialist vigilantes who were arrested and imprisoned as 'terrorists' in 2007, this article illustrates how vigilantism in working-class neighbourhoods of Istanbul with a high Alevi population evolved from an unarmed, public and participatory form of vigilantism to an armed one, and discusses the role of the anti-terror law in this transformation. The article illustrates the ways in which the anti-terror law, by narr…
Inspirational Hauntings and a Fearless Spirit of Resistance
This article tackles the conditions of the possibility of fearlessness and the radical refusal to be docile and complicit despite the likelihood of heavy punishments. Drawing on the experiences of the racialized Kurdish and Turkish Alevi residents of a working-class space in Istanbul that is constantly under the watchful eye of undercover police agents, I propose that despite its privileged position in law enforcement in Turkey and in other autho…
Counterinsurgency in Istanbul
Situating the Turkish counterinsurgency within the global context of Cold War counterinsurgencies this article sheds light on counterinsurgency’s provocative and affect-generating techniques and its urban dimensions. I argue that the Gazi incidents of 1995 marked the beginning of a new counterinsurgency strategy in Istanbul that combined overt repressive state violence with urban-centred and affect-generating provocative counterinsurgency techniq…
Sectarianism as racism
Drawing on the case of state-sanctioned violence and discrimination against Alevis, a historically stigmatised and persecuted ethnosectarian community in Turkey, this article shows that sectarian identities can also be raced. The case of Alevis in Turkey not only indicates how sectarianism can function as a form of racism but also offers an example of the connection between the production of race and the politics of death. Approaching racism as a…
Racism and policing beyond North America
The Absent Present Law
This article, which draws on the case of 10 young socialists from the urban margins of Istanbul, who were arrested as the result of an anti-terror operation in 2007, provides an ethnographically grounded analysis of Turkey’s anti-terror law by examining the threat it poses for the population. Contrary to widespread complaints about a supposed state of lawlessness in Turkey, the article suggests that law, indeed, exists as an overwhelming and ever…
Affect in the courtroom
This commentary proposes to bring an analysis of affect in the courtroom into the growing literature on performativity and the law. In analysing the judicialization of politics it is important to also draw from psychoanalytical approaches and to focus on not only what is present in courtrooms but also what is absent
Urban Vigilantism
Focusing on the case of young socialist vigilantes who were arrested and imprisoned as 'terrorists' in 2007, this article illustrates how vigilantism in working-class neighbourhoods of Istanbul with a high Alevi population evolved from an unarmed, public and participatory form of vigilantism to an armed one, and discusses the role of the anti-terror law in this transformation. The article illustrates the ways in which the anti-terror law, by narr…
From the Ottoman Empire to Post-1923
The author of The Armenians in Modern Turkey, historian Talin Suciyan, puts the Armenian genocide survivors at the center of her research to provide a new perspective on the history of the Turkish Republic. Suciyan analyzes the experiences and lives of its Armenian population several decades after the genocide. In this interview, Deniz Yonucu speaks with Suciyan on her research and innovative anthrohistorical approach to understanding the paths t…
Counterinsurgency in Istanbul
Situating the Turkish counterinsurgency within the global context of Cold War counterinsurgencies this article sheds light on counterinsurgency’s provocative and affect-generating techniques and its urban dimensions. I argue that the Gazi incidents of 1995 marked the beginning of a new counterinsurgency strategy in Istanbul that combined overt repressive state violence with urban-centred and affect-generating provocative counterinsurgency techniq…
Police, Provocation, Politics
Introducing Directions Section
Landscapes of otherwise
Racism and policing beyond North America
Inspirational Hauntings and a Fearless Spirit of Resistance
This article tackles the conditions of the possibility of fearlessness and the radical refusal to be docile and complicit despite the likelihood of heavy punishments. Drawing on the experiences of the racialized Kurdish and Turkish Alevi residents of a working-class space in Istanbul that is constantly under the watchful eye of undercover police agents, I propose that despite its privileged position in law enforcement in Turkey and in other autho…
Sectarianism as racism
Drawing on the case of state-sanctioned violence and discrimination against Alevis, a historically stigmatised and persecuted ethnosectarian community in Turkey, this article shows that sectarian identities can also be raced. The case of Alevis in Turkey not only indicates how sectarianism can function as a form of racism but also offers an example of the connection between the production of race and the politics of death. Approaching racism as a…
Directions
Beyond pseudonyms
Police ethnography, abolition, Rancière and political theology
Police, Provocation, Politics
Anthropology of Crime
Unlike legal frameworks that define crime strictly as the violation of the law as an established fact, anthropological approaches take a broader perspective. Anthropologists explore how different societies and cultures conceptualize crime situating it within its wider social context and examining how various communities define and interpret acts of transgression. While early anthropological approaches were shaped by colonial, racist, sexist and c…
Family album
Family Album follows a young university student assisting a journalist in documenting a glass workers' strike in Istanbul's Paşabahçe neighborhood during the summer of 1999. Immersed in the atmosphere of solidarity and collective struggle, she accompanies the journalist to interview Murat, a key strike organizer, in his shanty house overlooking the Bosporus. What begins as a celebration of working‐class resistance takes an unexpected turn when Mu…
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