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Güldem Baykal Büyüksaraç

Country of origin: Republic of Türkiye Currently in: Republic of Türkiye, Istanbul General field of specialization: Social and Economic Sciences
Academic Background

Degrees

2010 Doctorate Social and Economic Sciences
2000 Master Social and Economic Sciences
1997 Undergraduate Social and Economic Sciences
1997 Undergraduate Social and Economic Sciences
Research and Profession

Current Research Activities

Social and Economic Sciences

Dr. Büyüksaraç is teaching at Istanbul University. She is engaged with research topics such as heritage and conservation, space and landscape, identity/post-identity politics, and posthuman anthropology. She is currently working towards a monograph, tentatively entitled Landscapes in the Making: Claims to Land, Heritage, and Livelihood in Southwest Rural Turkey.


Publications resulting from Research: 


Forthcoming. “Destructive Developmentalism and Precarious Heritage in Turkey.” In Alexandra Vukovich and Milan Vukašinović, eds. Inventing Heritage: Dialogues on the Politics of Medievalism between the Balkans and the World. Penn State University Press.


Forthcoming. “Acting with the Community: Applied Anthropology in a New Perspective.” Grazer Beiträge für Europäische Ethnologie, Special Issue: Transformation of European Universities, edited by Katharina Eisch-Angus et al.

2020b. “Türkiye’de koruma siyaseti ve yerel topluluklar: Köprülü Kanyon Millî Parkı örneği (The Politics of Conservation and Local Communities in Turkey: The Case of Koprulu Canyon National Park).” Antropoloji 40: 14-36. [Refereed article]

2020a. “Sıradan şeylerin belleği: Türkiye’de bir koruma alanında yerleşme, maddi dünya, peyzaj (Memory of the ordinary things: Dwelling, material world, landscape in a conservation area in Turkey).” Toplum ve Bilim 154: 5-35. [ISI Database]

2020. Özkan, Derya & Güldem Baykal Büyüksaraç, eds. Commoning the City: Empirical Perspectives on Urban Ecology, Economics, and Ethics. London: Routledge.

2019b. “Informal Tourism at the Edge of a Tangible Heritage: Feminized Performances of Street Vending in Aspendos/Belkıs.” In Işılay Gürsu ed. Public Archaeology: Theoretical Considerations and Current Practices, 93-102. London: The British Institute at Ankara (Monograph 52).

2017. “Trans-border Minority Activism and Kin-State Politics: The Case of Iraqi Turkmen and Turkish Interventionism.” Anthropological Quarterly, Vol 90, Issue 1: 17-54. [SSCI, Q3]

(With Jonathan Glasser). 2017. “Introduction to the Special Collection: Inhabiting the Margins: Middle Eastern Minorities Revisited.” Anthropological Quarterly, Vol 90, Issue 1: 5-16 (special collection ed. by Güldem Baykal Büyüksaraç & Jonathan Glasser). [SSCI, Q3]

2016. “All Dominion Belongs to Allah... Capital Get Out: The Issue of Social Justice and Muslim Anti-Capitalists in Turkey.” CrossCurrents, Vol 66, Issue 2: 239-251. [ESCI]

2015. “Unheard Voices: State-making and Popular Participation in Post-Ottoman Iraq.” Ethnic and Racial Studies (Special Issue: Minority Politics in the Middle East and North Africa: the Prospects for Transformative Change, guest edited by Will Kymlicka and Eva Pfoestl), Vol 38, Issue 14: 2551-2568. [SSCI, Q2]

2004. “Conquering Istanbul: The Controversy over the Taksim Mosque Project.” Anthropology in Action: Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice, Vol. 11, Number 2/3: 22-31. [ESCI]



Current profession

Current professional activities type: 
Research
Teaching
Güldem Baykal Büyüksaraç is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Istanbul University. In the academic year of 2019-2020, she was a senior fellow at the Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (Istanbul). The most recent research projects she has conducted and collaborated on are as follows: 1 January 2020 – 30 September 2021: Co-Investigator. Historical Memory, Heritage, and Cultural Identification among Displaced Communities in Cilicia and the Northern Levant (AHRC-The Nahrein Network Collaborative Research Grant). 16 September 2019 – 16 June 2020: Principal Investigator: Landscapes in the Making: Claims to Land, Heritage, and Livelihood in Southwest Rural Turkey (Koç University, ANAMED Research Fellowship). 1 October 2016 – 1 April 2018: Co-applicant. Living Amid the Ruins: Archaeological Sites as Hubs of Sustainable Development for Local Communities in Southwest Turkey. Funded by British Academy GCRF Sustainable Development Programme. 1 January 2013 – 30 April 2016: Researcher. The Aspendos Cultural Heritage Management Project (Antalya, Turkey). Dr. Işılay Gürsu, PI. Funded by BIAA & The Headley Trust.

Prizes, Grants and Awards

Other Awards

Mar 2020
Arts & Humanities Research Council (UK), The Nahrein Network Collaborative Research Grant
Co-Investigator. Project Title: Historical Memory, Heritage and Cultural Identification among Displaced Communities in Cilicia and the Northern Levant
Sep 2019
Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) Senior Research Fellowship
Principal Investigator. Individual Project Title: Landscapes in the Making: Claims to Land, Heritage, and Livelihood in Southwest Rural Turkey
Jun 2017
British Academy GCRF Sustainable Development Programme
Co-Applicant. Project Title: Living Amid the Ruins: archaeological sites as hubs of sustainable development for local communities in Southwest Turkey. Ref: GF160041
Sep 2011
George Washington University, Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute for Middle East Studies, Washington DC, USA (9-month residency)
Individual Project Title: Reading Modernity from the Margins: Symbolic Dissonance and the Politics of Loss
Sep 2001
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), Faculty Fellowship, 2001-2009
PhD Scholarship

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