Kübra Hıdıroğlu

Visiting Scholar

Kübra Hıdıroğlu received her MA from Uludag University, department of sociology (2012). Her thesis was entitled “Diaspora Studies in Sociology: Visions, Theories and Concepts.” And now she is a PhD candidate at the department of Sociology at the Istanbul University, Turkey. Her work focuses on “Turkey’s Position on International Migration Flows and the Problem of Permanent Residence of Refugees.” She is currently a visiting scholar at Cuny’s Center for Place, Culture and Politics. While at Cuny, her research focuses generally on migration, refugees, social conflicts between immigrant groups, interaction between host communities and migrants.




Participating Years


2016–2017

Consciousness and Revolution

The place of consciousness in radical theory and practice is a subject of significant dispute. Marx believed that much of what we construe as consciousness is “false,” a rationalization or an ideological reflex that stands between people and the “true material needs” of their life processes. Are consciousness and revolution mediated in the same ways today?