Emre Burak Demirer
Visiting Scholar
Emre Burak Demirer is an Assistant Professor at Giresun University. He received his doctoral degree from Istanbul University, where his dissertation focused on the praxis of the left movement in Turkey and its historical and social dimensions. His academic interests encompass left movements, ideology, political sociology, and political theory. His research explores the intersections of political thought and social dynamics, centering on questions of power, subjectivity, and collective action. In his current work, he examines the political and ideological dimensions of space through the lens of Foucault’s concept of heterotopia, interrogating how space operates as a site of memory and political meaning.
Participating Years
2025–2026
Mobility: Transit and Transformation
Crises of mobility have become a key integer of social struggle in the world system. Whether one considers the explosion of different forms of movement or the production of immobility, in carcerality, wagelessness, enclosure, or via the securitization of borders, mobility and its discontents are central to radical activism across local and transnational communities.