I am a Research Fellow at the University of Milan Department of Social and Political Sciences. I hold a PhD in Sociology at the University of Padova, with a focus on social movements, the city, and spatial belongings. Previously, I have also completed a PhD in Political Science and International Relations at Sabanci University (Istanbul), investigating the intersection of freedoms and security. I have had the chance to be part of University of California Santa Cruz and the University of Otago as a visiting researcher. I have worked as post-doctoral researcher in a joint project conducted by Sabanci University and KU Leuven, entitled "Assessing interdependence between the European Union and Turkey: Policies and cooperation in regional and global governance".

 

Among my contributions in various academic journals, I am also the author of the book Counter-terrorism and the Prospects of Human Rights: Securitizing Difference and Dissent published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2017. Given my interdisciplinary background, my research interests include urban sociology, social movements, human rights, democracy and pluralism, security studies, EU politics, migration studies. In my research, I employ a rich variety of qualitative research methods including discourse and frame analysis, ethnographic methods, archival research, visual methods, walking methods, qualitative interviews, cognitive mapping, and other creative methods.