Ozlem Goner

Faculty Fellow

Ozlem Goner is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of Staten Island and Middle Eastern Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her book, entitled Turkish National Identity and its Outsiders: Memories of State Violence in Dersim, was published by Routledge in June 2017. She has written academic and popular journal articles on themes of colonial state violence, intersectional feminist movements, anti-colonial self-determination, and internationalist solidarity. Her research and teaching aim to bridge academic and activist fields of knowledge production. She is a member of the Global Scholars’ Network for Rojava Universities, Kurdish Gender Studies Network, and the Global Prison Abolitionist Collective.

Participating Years

2026–2027

Radical Imagination: Temporalities and Geographies of Struggle

In a world of deepening crises, of socioeconomic inequities, of environmental collapse, of resurgent fascism and institutionalized authoritarianism, what is the place of radical imagination in creating more just worlds? While some think of the work of imagination as being outside of—at a distance to, or even in a different temporality than—everyday struggle, we want to shine a light on the work of radical practice as a form of imagination. We look to anticapitalist and antiracist organizing and thought, and the complex practices in time and place through which change is not only presented and represented but produced.