As part of our DFG-funded research project MediCluster, we’re organizing an internal workshop titled:“Çeliğin Çoklu Ontolojileri: Sirkülasyon, Bilgi ve Sosyo-Teknik Tahayüller” (eng. “The Multiple Ontologies of Steel: Circulation, Knowledge, and Socio-Technical Imaginaries”). Together with colleagues and guest expert Dursun Baş (Istanbul Policy Center – Sabancı University – Stiftung Mercator Initiative), we’ll explore how steel is […]
Month: November 2025
New review published: Claudia Liebelt’s Istanbul Appearances
I’m delighted to share my book review of Claudia Liebelt’s Istanbul Appearances: Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femininities in Urban Turkey, now published in Contemporary Sociology. The book opens a window onto Istanbul’s “beautyscapes”- salons, clinics, everyday routines—showing how beauty work is tightly woven into class mobility, gendered respectability, and urban transformation. Rather than […]