Zeynep Gambetti
Zeynep Gambetti is an independent scholar of political theory since Sep. 2019. She obtained a Ph. D. degree at the University of Paris VII with a dissertation entitled Lies and Politics: The Implications of Visibility in 1999. She was associate professor at the Political Science and International Relations Department at Bogazici University, Istanbul, from 2000 until 2019. She taught courses on Hannah Arendt, the history of political thought, contemporary political theory, ethics and politics, and social movements. She is currently a part-time professor at that department, but has opted to move out of institutional academia.
Her work focuses on collective agency, public space, critical and Marxist theory, and ethics in the age of neoliberal globalization. She has published several articles on Arendt, and on violence and subjectivity in the neoliberal order. She has also carried out research in Southeastern Turkey on the transformation of the conflict between the Turkish state and Kurdish separatists, the decolonization of urban space, and has compared the Kurdish movement with the Zapatistas in Mexico.
She collaborated with Joost Jongerden to edit the special issue of The Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies (vol. 13, no. 4, 2011) on the spatial dimensions of the Kurdish question in Turkey. Her co-edited books include Rhetorics of Insecurity: Belonging and Violence in the Neoliberal Era, New York, SSRC/New York University Press, 2013, The Kurdish Issue in Turkey: A Spatial Perspective, London/New York, Routledge, 2015, and Vulnerability in Resistance, Durham, NC., Duke University Press, 2016.
She is currently writing a book on labor, action and ethics through the perspective of Arendt, Marx and Deleuze.
Her work focuses on collective agency, public space, critical and Marxist theory, and ethics in the age of neoliberal globalization. She has published several articles on Arendt, and on violence and subjectivity in the neoliberal order. She has also carried out research in Southeastern Turkey on the transformation of the conflict between the Turkish state and Kurdish separatists, the decolonization of urban space, and has compared the Kurdish movement with the Zapatistas in Mexico.
She collaborated with Joost Jongerden to edit the special issue of The Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies (vol. 13, no. 4, 2011) on the spatial dimensions of the Kurdish question in Turkey. Her co-edited books include Rhetorics of Insecurity: Belonging and Violence in the Neoliberal Era, New York, SSRC/New York University Press, 2013, The Kurdish Issue in Turkey: A Spatial Perspective, London/New York, Routledge, 2015, and Vulnerability in Resistance, Durham, NC., Duke University Press, 2016.
She is currently writing a book on labor, action and ethics through the perspective of Arendt, Marx and Deleuze.
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Although analysis of Turkey’s Kurdish issue from a spatial perspective is not new, spatial analyses are still relatively scarce. More often than not, Kurdish studies consist of time-centred work. In this book, the attention is shifted from outcome-oriented analysis of transformation in time towards a spatial analysis. The authors in this book discuss the spatial production of home, identity, work, in short, of being in the world. The contributions are based on the tacit avowal that the Kurdish question, in addition to being a question of group rights, is also one of spatial relations. By asking a different set of questions, this book examines; which spatial strategies have been employed to deal with Kurds? Which spatial strategies are developed by Kurds to deal with state, and with the neo-liberal turn? How are these strategies absorbed and what counter-strategies are developed, both in cities populated by the Kurds in south-eastern Turkey and in other regions?
Emphasizing that identity or place, its particularity or uniqueness, arises from social practices and social relations, this book is essential reading for scholars and researchers working in Kurdish and Turkish Studies, Urban and Rural Studies and Politics more broadly.
Online pdf version of the book available at: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780814725481