Eray Çaylı is Professor of Human Geography with a Focus on Violence and Security in the Anthropocene at University of Hamburg. His work interweaves geography, anthropology, and material/visual culture. Eray currently teaches the racialized, classed, and gendered politics of the Anthropocene, and urban geographies of marginalization. His major publications include the monograph Victims of Commemoration: The Architecture and Violence of Confronting the Past in Turkey(Syracuse University Press, 2022). Eray’s ongoing research explores the ways in which histories of political violence bear upon discourses and practices surrounding climate change, environmental disaster and resilience in Turkey, its environs, and their diasporas. Alongside working in Anglophone academia, he is committed to making his research accessible to his interlocutors and collaborators in Turkey—hence his recent publications in Turkish such as the special issue on Spatial Justice and Earthquakes and a collection of his essays published as a book titled İklimin Estetiği (Climate Aesthetics).
This Is Not a Case Study: Situating the Politics of the 6 February Earthquakes within Long-Standing Injustices
The disaster that has been unfolding in Turkey since the earthquakes of 6 February is a material-spatial legacy of the country’s histories of state violence.
May 9, 2023