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Emrah YildizTopics of Interest: My research lies at the intersection of historiography and ethnography of borders and their states; ritual practice, saints and heresiography in Islam; as well as precious metals, paper money and contraband commerce in global political economy.
Countries/Regions of Interest: My work is a historical anthropology of routes of mobility in the tri-border area between Iran, Turkey and Syria. I have also conducted fieldwork with Turkish and Iranian diaspora youth in Germany. |
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List of Publications Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles 2014 “Fugitive Markets and Arrested Mobilities: Labor of Informality and Its Transgressions from Antep’s Iranian Bazaar across the Syria/Turkey Border,” Special issue on borders in Toplum ve Bilim: Aylik Sosyalist Kultur Dergisi, vol. 131, pp. 186-207. Istanbul: Birikim. Published in Turkish. Edited Volumes 2014 With Alessandrini, Anthony and Nazan Üstündag, co-edited ‘Resistance Everywhere:’ The Gezi Protests and Dissident Visions of Turkey, JadMag Pedagogy Publications 1:4, Fall 2014. Washington, DC: Tadween Publishing. Articles in Edited Volumes & Book Chapters 2015 “The Bazaar of Iran—Gaziantep: Notes on aKaçak Market & Its Arrested Mobilities,” in (ed. Peter Moertenboeck et al) Informal Market Worlds-- An Atlas, pp. 194-200. Rotterdam: NAI 010. 2014 “Cruising Politics: Rethinking Sexuality, Solidarity and Modularity after Gezi” in (ed. Umut Özkırımlı)The Making of a Protest Movement: #occupygezi, pp. 103-122. London: Palgrave. 2014 “A Brief Introduction to Dissident Visions of Turkey” with Anthony Alessandrini and Nazan Üstündag in (ed. Alessandrini et al) ‘Resistance Everywhere’: The Gezi Protests and Dissident Visions of Turkey, JadMag Pedagogy Publications 1:4, Fall 2014, pp. 3-10. Washington, DC: Tadween Publishing, 2014 “Alignments of Dissent and Politics of Naming: Assembling Resistance in Turkey” in (ed. Alessandrini et al) ‘Resistance Everywhere’: The Gezi Protests and Dissident Visions of Turkey, JadMag Pedagogy Publications 1:4, Fall 2014, pp. 21-28. Washington, DC: Tadween Publishing. |
Emrah Yıldız is a Joint PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, and a visiting doctoral researcher at the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University. His work is a historical anthropology of routes of mobility in the tri-border area among Iran, Turkey and Syria. His research lies at the intersection of historiography and ethnography of borders and their states; ritual practice, saints and heresiography in Islam; as well as precious metals, paper money and contraband commerce in global political economy. Emrah’s dissertation, The Ways of Zainab: Visitations and Valuations between Iran and Syria via Turkey, brings these areas of scholarship into conversation as it follows the pathways of a ziyarat (visitation) route, often referred to as Hajj-e Fuqara’ (pilgrimage of the poor) from bus stations in Iran through informal bazaars in Turkey to shrines in Syria. The Wenner-Gren Foundation, Die Zeit Stiftung Bucerius Fellowship in Migration Studies, Cora Du Bois Charitable Trust as well as by Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, among others, have supported his dissertation research and writing. He holds a BA in Anthropology and German Studies, and a MA in Cultural Anthropology from Wesleyan University, and an AM in Social Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University. Emrah was an International DAAD Research Fellow at the Institute for European Ethnology—Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin during the 2005-06 academic year, and a visiting doctoral research fellow at Bogazici University in Istanbul during the 2012-13 academic year. He is Co-Editor of Jadaliyya’s Turkey Page, and co-editor (with Anthony Alessandrini and Nazan Üstündag) of the collection Resistance Everywhere: The Gezi Protests and Dissident Visions of Turkey (2014). |
