#türkiye — Public Fediverse posts on home.social

Hello! New hcommons Mastodonite here.

I work on modern #Turkey / #Türkiye at the University of Copenhagen, having recently moved here from my hometown Oslo.

I research the intersection of specialist professions and state power. I've focused mostly on how Turkish #lawyers have negotiated a share in public authority during 20th-century struggles over martial law, political trials and similar forms of "exceptional" legality. My approach is wide and methodologically eclectic: I study everything from the writings of law professors to the courtroom tactics of defense attorneys.

I'm also increasingly interested in Turkish discourses of #technoscience, in particular the intersection of #cybernetics, #governance and #law.

In addition, I teach #MiddleEast studies more generally, and sometimes comment on current Turkish affairs in the media.

I am Norwegian-American, and did my PhD in Middle East Studies at the University of Washington.

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