Projects
The Edge of State
In my current project, I examine the Turkish government’s efforts to modernize Eastern Anatolia and consolidate its authority over the region’s ethnically and religiously mixed population over the last century. I am especially interested in the expansion of the state apparatus—through the build up of institutional structures, military installations, transport & communications infrastructure, and resource extraction—and the resistance it encountered, with a view toward understanding the limits of state capacity and official ideology.
Key Publications:
“Spatializing Difference: The Making of an Internal Border in Early Republican Elazıg, Turkey” in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (forthcoming, December 2014)
ARC People: Zeynep Kezer