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Deniz Yonucu

Deniz Yonucu received her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Cornell University. Her background is in anthropology and sociology and her teaching and research interests lie at the intersection of anthropology, law and society studies, and urban studies. More specifically, she focuses on counterinsurgency, policing and security, surveillance, the criminalization of working-class youth, left-wing and anti-colonial resistance, coloniality, racism, and emerging digital control technologies. Her book, Police, Provocation, Politics Counterinsurgency in Istanbul (Cornell University Press, 2022), presents a counterintuitive analysis of policing, focusing particular attention on the incitement of counterviolence and perpetual conflict by state security apparatus.

 

Dr. Yonucu  is Directions Section co-editor of the Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR)  and co-founder and co-convenor of the Anthropology of Surveillance Network (ANSUR).

Her recent work appeared or is forthcoming in Current Anthropology, IJUUR, Social and Legal Studies, the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies and Critical Times.

Dr Yonucu has also published various op-ed articles related to her area of research on openDemocracy, Jadaliyya, PoLAR Forum, and beyond