Ekin Kurtiç
@ekinkurtic.bsky.social
environmental and political anthropologist
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Ekin Kurtiç
@ekinkurtic.bsky.social
· Sep 19
Salvage work: The making of movable nature for post-submergence life
This article critically examines environmental salvage projects undertaken in northeastern Turkey by focusing on political and technoscientific actors…
www.sciencedirect.com
A highly controversial new law in Turkey allows mining in olive groves, requiring tree transplantation.
My new open-access article in @politicalgeography.bsky.social explores the making of "movable nature"— salvage work that moves nature out of the way of infrastructure and extraction projects.
My new open-access article in @politicalgeography.bsky.social explores the making of "movable nature"— salvage work that moves nature out of the way of infrastructure and extraction projects.
Join us for Vincent Guermond's @vincentguermond.bsky.social talk on the “green finance” agenda and the ways in which it exacerbates climate precarity and harm.
Tuesday, 19th at 5pm at the Centre of Development studies in the @campolis.bsky.social
Tuesday, 19th at 5pm at the Centre of Development studies in the @campolis.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Join us for Vincent Guermond's @vincentguermond.bsky.social talk on the “green finance” agenda and the ways in which it exacerbates climate precarity and harm.
Tuesday, 19th at 5pm at the Centre of Development studies in the @campolis.bsky.social
Tuesday, 19th at 5pm at the Centre of Development studies in the @campolis.bsky.social
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"People have to have a language to speak about what other possible futures are available to them,” Hall wrote. One task...is therefore to devise a language that expands the sense of what is possible"
NEW: Casey A. Williams reads Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis
www.break-down.org/reading-stua...
NEW: Casey A. Williams reads Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis
www.break-down.org/reading-stua...
Reading Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis
Stuart Hall’s politics of culture offers the left a blueprint for confronting the climate crisis.
www.break-down.org
November 14, 2025 at 8:58 AM
"People have to have a language to speak about what other possible futures are available to them,” Hall wrote. One task...is therefore to devise a language that expands the sense of what is possible"
NEW: Casey A. Williams reads Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis
www.break-down.org/reading-stua...
NEW: Casey A. Williams reads Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis
www.break-down.org/reading-stua...
I have missed you, Chicago.
This love letter makes me miss you all the more.
This love letter makes me miss you all the more.
My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together
"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.
organizingmythoughts.org
November 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I have missed you, Chicago.
This love letter makes me miss you all the more.
This love letter makes me miss you all the more.
Let’s fully and collectively celebrate this victory! Collectively, bc this is as much about NYC and New Yorkers as it is far beyond it. Fully, bc there're few things better than crying w/ happiness and radical hope. As the Gezi resistance chants: “This is only the beginning.The struggle continues!”
Zohran Mamdani had a message for President Trump on Tuesday after his win in the New York mayoral election: "New York will remain a city of immigrants: a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and, as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
November 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Let’s fully and collectively celebrate this victory! Collectively, bc this is as much about NYC and New Yorkers as it is far beyond it. Fully, bc there're few things better than crying w/ happiness and radical hope. As the Gezi resistance chants: “This is only the beginning.The struggle continues!”
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Re-upping the dedication of Mahmood Mamdani's 2020 book, 'Neither Settler nor Native'.
November 5, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Re-upping the dedication of Mahmood Mamdani's 2020 book, 'Neither Settler nor Native'.
How much we missed you! 💜
Turkey may finally release Kurdish leader Demirtaş after nine years in prison
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Turkey may finally release Kurdish leader Demirtaş after nine years in prison
The European court, whose previous rulings on the case had not been implemented by Ankara, has once again ordered Demirtaş's release. This time, however, a key government ally, Bahçeli, said his relea...
bianet.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM
How much we missed you! 💜
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I finally got to touch my book!!!! I can’t believe that it finally materialized with a masterpiece of a cover and wonderful endorsements from several esteemed colleagues who work in different disciplines!
October 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I finally got to touch my book!!!! I can’t believe that it finally materialized with a masterpiece of a cover and wonderful endorsements from several esteemed colleagues who work in different disciplines!
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The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.
Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .
sudansolidarity.com
Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .
sudansolidarity.com
Home - Sudan Solidarity Collective
Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...
sudansolidarity.com
October 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.
Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .
sudansolidarity.com
Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .
sudansolidarity.com
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We are very excited to host Jason Jackson for a seminar talk on his new book 'Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry'!
Please join us if you are in town on Tuesday, November 4!
Please join us if you are in town on Tuesday, November 4!
October 31, 2025 at 11:01 AM
We are very excited to host Jason Jackson for a seminar talk on his new book 'Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry'!
Please join us if you are in town on Tuesday, November 4!
Please join us if you are in town on Tuesday, November 4!
We are very excited to host Jason Jackson for a seminar talk on his new book 'Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry'!
Please join us if you are in town on Tuesday, November 4!
Please join us if you are in town on Tuesday, November 4!
October 31, 2025 at 11:01 AM
We are very excited to host Jason Jackson for a seminar talk on his new book 'Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry'!
Please join us if you are in town on Tuesday, November 4!
Please join us if you are in town on Tuesday, November 4!
Join us tomorrow for Evelina Gambino's talk exploring the rise of authoritarianism and popular mobilisation in Georgia through an infrastructural lens!
Her seminar will stage a dialogue between the ostensibly separate realms of transnational infrastructure projects and domestic spaces.
Her seminar will stage a dialogue between the ostensibly separate realms of transnational infrastructure projects and domestic spaces.
October 20, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Join us tomorrow for Evelina Gambino's talk exploring the rise of authoritarianism and popular mobilisation in Georgia through an infrastructural lens!
Her seminar will stage a dialogue between the ostensibly separate realms of transnational infrastructure projects and domestic spaces.
Her seminar will stage a dialogue between the ostensibly separate realms of transnational infrastructure projects and domestic spaces.
what is the burgling of a museum to the founding of one?
anyone else wondering who Napoleon stole the jewels from? Or just me??
October 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
what is the burgling of a museum to the founding of one?
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anyone else wondering who Napoleon stole the jewels from? Or just me??
October 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
anyone else wondering who Napoleon stole the jewels from? Or just me??
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Excited to share our term card for the Centre of Development Studies seminar series in @campolis.bsky.social!
Please feel free to join us if you are around.
Please feel free to join us if you are around.
October 14, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Excited to share our term card for the Centre of Development Studies seminar series in @campolis.bsky.social!
Please feel free to join us if you are around.
Please feel free to join us if you are around.
Excited to share our term card for the Centre of Development Studies seminar series in @campolis.bsky.social!
Please feel free to join us if you are around.
Please feel free to join us if you are around.
October 14, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Excited to share our term card for the Centre of Development Studies seminar series in @campolis.bsky.social!
Please feel free to join us if you are around.
Please feel free to join us if you are around.
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No bomb should’ve ever dropped on a single civilian, a single child.
If this is the end of them I’m glad.
But the loss is so so immense and the future so uncertain.
What does “peace” mean when it sits atop a genocide? What peace when the genocider dictates its terms?
If this is the end of them I’m glad.
But the loss is so so immense and the future so uncertain.
What does “peace” mean when it sits atop a genocide? What peace when the genocider dictates its terms?
October 9, 2025 at 12:33 PM
No bomb should’ve ever dropped on a single civilian, a single child.
If this is the end of them I’m glad.
But the loss is so so immense and the future so uncertain.
What does “peace” mean when it sits atop a genocide? What peace when the genocider dictates its terms?
If this is the end of them I’m glad.
But the loss is so so immense and the future so uncertain.
What does “peace” mean when it sits atop a genocide? What peace when the genocider dictates its terms?
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🌱 Join us for the first event by the 'Decolonising Plant Knowledge' research network on 15 October
This interdisciplinary seminar series explores aspects of Rau as a crucible of creative epistemic frictions between botanical narratives and colonised plant worlds
2-5pm, Pembroke College, CB2 1RF
This interdisciplinary seminar series explores aspects of Rau as a crucible of creative epistemic frictions between botanical narratives and colonised plant worlds
2-5pm, Pembroke College, CB2 1RF
October 9, 2025 at 11:32 AM
🌱 Join us for the first event by the 'Decolonising Plant Knowledge' research network on 15 October
This interdisciplinary seminar series explores aspects of Rau as a crucible of creative epistemic frictions between botanical narratives and colonised plant worlds
2-5pm, Pembroke College, CB2 1RF
This interdisciplinary seminar series explores aspects of Rau as a crucible of creative epistemic frictions between botanical narratives and colonised plant worlds
2-5pm, Pembroke College, CB2 1RF
antropologların "çipura dayağı" kavramını literatüre kazandırmalarını bekliyorum
www.diken.com.tr/bozuk-baligi...
www.diken.com.tr/bozuk-baligi...
Bozuk balığı iade etmek isteyen adama çipurayla dayak - Diken
05/10/2025 - Eskişehir'de bozuk balığı iade etmek isteyen Hamza Çetinkaya çipurayla dövüldü. Mağdur adam dava açtı.
www.diken.com.tr
October 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
antropologların "çipura dayağı" kavramını literatüre kazandırmalarını bekliyorum
www.diken.com.tr/bozuk-baligi...
www.diken.com.tr/bozuk-baligi...
Chicago ✌️ the city and its community that made me feel most at home while living in the US
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
October 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Chicago ✌️ the city and its community that made me feel most at home while living in the US
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This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman.
Amplify amplify amplify please.
Amplify amplify amplify please.
@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social tells these cops about themselves.
October 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman.
Amplify amplify amplify please.
Amplify amplify amplify please.
Mikeno sailboat from the Global Sumud Flotilla is so close to Gaza! #globalsumudflotilla
globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/
globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/
October 2, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Mikeno sailboat from the Global Sumud Flotilla is so close to Gaza! #globalsumudflotilla
globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/
globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/
#Portland city office that oversees land use and zoning notified the owner of the building that ICE had violated a conditional-use permit
Portland threatens to evict Ice from Oregon facility over permit violations
Records obtained by Street Roots and the Guardian back claim from Oregon city’s mayor that Ice violated a land-use permit to detain people overnight
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 6:24 AM
#Portland city office that oversees land use and zoning notified the owner of the building that ICE had violated a conditional-use permit
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A highly controversial new law in Turkey allows mining in olive groves, requiring tree transplantation.
My new open-access article in @politicalgeography.bsky.social explores the making of "movable nature"— salvage work that moves nature out of the way of infrastructure and extraction projects.
My new open-access article in @politicalgeography.bsky.social explores the making of "movable nature"— salvage work that moves nature out of the way of infrastructure and extraction projects.
Salvage work: The making of movable nature for post-submergence life
This article critically examines environmental salvage projects undertaken in northeastern Turkey by focusing on political and technoscientific actors…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:49 PM
A highly controversial new law in Turkey allows mining in olive groves, requiring tree transplantation.
My new open-access article in @politicalgeography.bsky.social explores the making of "movable nature"— salvage work that moves nature out of the way of infrastructure and extraction projects.
My new open-access article in @politicalgeography.bsky.social explores the making of "movable nature"— salvage work that moves nature out of the way of infrastructure and extraction projects.
A highly controversial new law in Turkey allows mining in olive groves, requiring tree transplantation.
My new open-access article in @politicalgeography.bsky.social explores the making of "movable nature"— salvage work that moves nature out of the way of infrastructure and extraction projects.
My new open-access article in @politicalgeography.bsky.social explores the making of "movable nature"— salvage work that moves nature out of the way of infrastructure and extraction projects.
Salvage work: The making of movable nature for post-submergence life
This article critically examines environmental salvage projects undertaken in northeastern Turkey by focusing on political and technoscientific actors…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:49 PM
A highly controversial new law in Turkey allows mining in olive groves, requiring tree transplantation.
My new open-access article in @politicalgeography.bsky.social explores the making of "movable nature"— salvage work that moves nature out of the way of infrastructure and extraction projects.
My new open-access article in @politicalgeography.bsky.social explores the making of "movable nature"— salvage work that moves nature out of the way of infrastructure and extraction projects.
Reposted by Ekin Kurtiç
Palestinian liberation is not simply a moral or human rights issue: it is a direct confrontation with US imperialism and fossil capitalism. Thus, Palestinian liberation must be at the core of global environmental and climate justice struggles. www.tni.org/en/article/e...
Ecocide, Imperialism and Palestine Liberation | Transnational Institute
The devastation in Gaza is not only genocide but also ecocide: the deliberate destruction of an entire social and ecological fabric. From poisoned soil and decimated farmland to collapsing water syste...
www.tni.org
September 17, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Palestinian liberation is not simply a moral or human rights issue: it is a direct confrontation with US imperialism and fossil capitalism. Thus, Palestinian liberation must be at the core of global environmental and climate justice struggles. www.tni.org/en/article/e...