K. Murat Güney

Placemaking, Economy, The Political

Urbanism, Cities, Housing, Infrastructure, Development, Labor, Governance, State and Society

Europe; Turkey

K. Murat Güney is a lecturer in the sociology department at Acıbadem University in Istanbul. Previously he taught in the anthropology department at Boston University and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the City Institute at York University. His research interests include urban anthropology, anthropology of development, work and labor studies, and political economy. Güney’s research focuses on the negative side effects of the rapid yet uneven economic development in Turkey. His recent book, Massive Suburbanization: (Re)Building the Global Periphery (University of Toronto Press, 2019, coedited with Roger Keil and Murat Uçoğlu), critically examines large-scale housing and urban transformation projects in thirteen different cities with a particular focus on Istanbul. Güney is also the editor of the books Türkiye’de İktidar’ı Yeniden Düşünmek (Rethinking power and government in Turkey, Varlık, 2009); Başka Dünyalar Mümkün (Other worlds are possible, Varlık, 2007) and the political and cultural criticism journal Davetsiz Misafir (The uninvited guest).

Columbia University, PhD in Anthropology, 2016
Columbia University, MA in Anthropology, 2008
Boğaziçi University, BA in Sociology and Political Science, 2000