Murat Senturk

Visiting Scholar

Murat Senturk received his MA from Istanbul University, Department of Sociology. His MA thesis was entitled “Life Strategies of the Indigent: The Districts of Küçük Mustafa Paşa and Balat (Istanbul) as Cases in Point.” Then, at the same department, he completed his doctoral dissertation entitled: “Urban Intervention in The City of Istanbul (1980-2010).” His research interests include urban interventions, the urban and politics, gentrification, housing, poverty, media and work. He is the editor-in-chief of the Turkish Journal of Business Ethics. While at CUNY, he will be studying “Motion, Reproduction and Standardization: Modernization and Secularization of Urban Spaces.” His research will focus on spaces of consumption, their relationships and values in Istanbul.

Participating Years

2013–2014

Remaking Worlds: Insurgencies, Revolutions, Utopias

Building on the past two years of seminars devoted to the theme of “Uprisings” the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics will focus its upcoming 2013-2014 seminar on questions of insurgencies, revolutions, and utopias. We propose to examine each of these phenomena as ongoing processes rather than as singular historical, present, or forthcoming events.