urban Sociology - Review of Case Studies and Programmes

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1 OZAN KARAMAN Future Cities Laboratory Singapore ETH Centre for Global Environmental Sustainability 4 Architecture Drive, SDE1#04-1B Singapore Cell phone: karaman@arch.ethz.ch EDUCATION University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Ph.D., Geography, August 2010 Dissertation: Remaking Space for Globalization: Dispossession through Urban Renewal in Istanbul Committee: Dr. Vinay Gidwani (Adviser), Dr. Helga Leitner, Dr. Eric Sheppard, Dr. John Archer (Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature) Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey M.Arch, Architecture, September 2003 MA Thesis: Deterritorialization and New Approaches to Urban Space Committee: Dr. Güven Arif Sargın (Adviser), Dr. Helga Rittersberger-Tılıç, Dr. Ali Cengizkan, Dr. H. Tarık Şengül, Dr. Namık Erkal B.Arch, Architecture, June 2001 APPOINTMENTS Postdoctoral fellow, Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore ETH Centre for Global Environmental Sustainability. Module coordinator for Module V: Urban Sociology Mellon/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS Andrew W. Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Recent Doctoral Recipients Fellowship, ($35,000) Andrew W. Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Dissertation Completion Fellowship, ($28,000) Social Science Research Council (SSRC), International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF), ($24,000) Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship (IDF), Fall 2008, U of Minnesota O.Karaman Page 1 of 7

2 Doctoral Fellowship for International Research, The Office of International Programs (OIP), U of Minnesota, ($15,000); declined in order to accept IDRF Thesis Research Grant, U of Minnesota, Graduate School, Spring 2008 ($4,500) Antipode Graduate Student Scholarship , (honorary mention) Graduate Research Partnership Program (GRPP) award (with Dr. Vinay Gidwani), University of Minnesota, Summer 2007 ($5,000) Summer Research Support, Department of Geography, U of Minnesota, Summer 2005 and 2006 ($1,500) Travel fellowship to attend the international conference The making of global cities and the world financial crisis in Shenzhen, China, January 4-8, 2010 ($ 3000) Departmental Fellowship, Department of Geography, U of Minnesota, Archiprix Turkey, (National Competition of Architectural Graduation Projects) Incentive Award, 2001 PUBLICATIONS Karaman, O. (forthcoming) Urban renewal in Istanbul: fragmented spaces, robotic lives International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Karaman, O An immanentist approach to the urban Antipode. doi: /j x Karaman, O. & T. Islam On the dual nature of intra-urban borders: the case of a Romani neighborhood in Istanbul Cities. 29(4): Karaman, O Urban pulse (re)making space for globalization in Istanbul Urban Geography, 29 (6): Karaman, O Review of Manuel DeLanda, A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory And Social Complexity. Antipode, 40 (5): Leitner, H & O. Karaman Review of Katharyne Mitchell, Crossing the Neoliberal Line Pacific Rim Migration and the Metropolis. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 25 (2): Karaman O Marjinin Yeri [Place of the Margin], in the dossier Marjinalite ve Kent [Marginality and the City] ed. Guven A. Sargin. Arredamento Mimarlık [Arredamento Architectural Magazine], Boyut Press, Istanbul, 174: Under revision: Karaman, O. The Neoliberal-Islamic assemblage: shifting frameworks of urban policymaking Environment and Planning A. O.Karaman Page 2 of 7

3 In preparation: Karaman, O. Resisting urban renewal in Istanbul: making claims on space to be submitted Urban Geography. Karaman, O. A bottom-up approach to comparative urbanism to be submitted to International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS Disciplining the gecekondu: new spatial configurations in Istanbul presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), New York City, New York, February 27, 2012 The Neoliberal-Islamic Assemblage presented at the Brownbag series of the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (ICGC), University of Minnesota, MN. October 1, 2010 Spatialities of dispossession in Istanbul presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Washington DC, April 12, 2010 Revanchist urban development: re-crafting Istanbul s neighborhoods presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) West Lakes Division, Saint Paul, MN. October 30, 2009 Urban renewal and the politics of dispossession presented at the Brownbag series of the Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota, MN. October 7, 2009 Modalities of governance Fellows lunch presentation at the Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. April 7, 2009 Entrepreneurial urbanism and the politics of dispossession in Istanbul. presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of the American Geographers (AAG), Las Vegas, NV. March 27, 2009 Dispossession through rent redistribution in Istanbul Fellows lunch presentation at the Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. December 2, 2008 City of fissures: Urban entrepreneurialism in Istanbul presented at the 14th Annual Mini- Conference on Critical Geography, Lexington, KY. October 5, 2007 The politics of segregation in Istanbul presented at the Department of Geography Coffee Hour, Minneapolis, MN. September 27, 2007 O.Karaman Page 3 of 7

4 Urban entrepreneurialism as discourse and practice: the case of Istanbul. presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of the American Geographers (AAG), Chicago, IL. March 9, 2006 Conferences organized: Planetary Urbanization ETH Singapore, January 30-31, Sessions organized: Paper Session: (Re)Producing Poverty: urban geographies of dispossession. Paper session at the Association of the American Geographers (AAG), Las Vegas, NV. March 27, 2009 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Postdoctoral research fellow, Future Cities Laboratory, SEC, present Coordinating a comparative research on urbanization processes in large metropolitan regions across the world with a particular focus on Asia, co-advising three PhD students. Case study cities include Singapore, Hong Kong, Djakarta, Tokyo, Calcutta, Lagos, Los Angeles, Paris, and Istanbul. Main research methods are GIS aided qualitative mapping, urban policy analysis, expert interviews with state officials, and interviews with community leaders and citizens. Dissertation research, A study on urban renewal policies and the shifting dynamics of economic disenfranchisement and poor people s mobilization in Istanbul. I focused on two neighborhoods: Başıbüyük, the site of a squatter renewal project located on the Asian side of Istanbul, and the historic neighborhood of Sulukule once home to one of the oldest ethnic Roma settlements in the world dating back to the Byzantine Empire which has been completely eradicated by the Municipality s renewal project. I spent a total of 11 months in the field employing a variety of social science methods including archival work, expert-interviews, ethnography, textual analysis and GIS. Research partner with Dr.Tolga Islam (Yildiz Technical University,Istanbul, Turkey), A collaborative work questioning the nature of intra-urban borders from a politico-ethical point of view. Namely: to what extent are ethnic enclaves acceptable at a time of proliferating discourses about a borderless world, and open cities? We discuss this through a case study of the historic Roma neighborhood of Sulukule. Research partner with Dr. Vinay Gidwani (University of Minnesota), Summer 2007 A close engagement with the literature on urban neoliberalism/entrepreneurialism exploring its applicability and validity for coming to grips with urban O.Karaman Page 4 of 7

5 transformations in a non-western semi-peripheral context such as Istanbul, funded by the Graduate Research Partnership Program (GRPP) Research associate in urban Architecture research team (Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey), Spring 2002 Collaborative research on the dynamics of social mobility in the historic neighborhood of Koyunpazari, Ulus, Ankara, employed a variety of qualitative research methods including interviews, and audio-visual documentation. TEACHING EXPERIENCE National University of Singapore, Singapore Guest lecturer, February 15, 2012 GE 3204: Cities and Regions: Planning for Change ( Urban Informality ) Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore ETH Instructor, Fall 2011 Graduate pro-seminar: Urbanization: A global Perspective ; introducing first year Ph.D. students to seminal texts and contemporary debates on urban theory and comparative urbanism. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Guest lecturer, December 2, 2008 Geography 3331 Geography of the World Economy ( Identity, geography and the economy: race, gender, ethnicity ) Guest lecturer, October 30, 2008 Geography 3331 Geography of the World Economy ( Global Production Networks ) Guest lecturer, October 2, 2008 Geography 3331 Geography of the World Economy ( Uneven Geographical Development: Capitalist Production of Space ) Guest lecturer, October 9, 2007 Geography 3331 Geography of the World Economy ( The Geopolitics of Capitalism ) Guest lecturer, November 21, 2006 Geography 3331 Geography of the World Economy ( Cultural Economies ) Teaching Assistant, Fall 2007 & Fall 2006 Geography 3331 Geography of the World Economy (Prof. Eric Sheppard, Fall 2007; Prof. Vinay Gidwani, Fall 2006); assisted students with: collecting and O.Karaman Page 5 of 7

6 analyzing data on various economic and human development indicators and developing arguments for their projects on Assessing Global Inequalities ; and accessing data and preparing maps for the Commodity Chain Analysis assignment. Teaching Assistant, Fall 2007 Geography 3101 Geography of the US and Canada, (Prof. Fraser Hart, Fall 2007), assisted students with utilizing USGS quadrangle maps for their map analysis project. Teaching Assistant, Spring 2007 Geography 3373 Changing Form of the City (Prof. Roger Miller, Spring 2007), assisted students with their projects on selected issues on urban history Teaching Assistant, Fall 2006 Geography 3371W Cities, Citizens and Communities, (writing intensive course) (Inst. Tatiana Matejskova), assisted students with developing a paper topic, revising drafts and producing the final paper. Lab Instructor, Fall 2005, Spring 2006 Geography 1403 Biogeography of the Global Garden (Dr. Bryan Shuman, Fall 2005; Dr. Kurt Kipfmueller, Spring 2006), instructed two laboratory sections of 30 students. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Association of American Geographers Urban Geography Specialty Group Economic Geography Specialty group Middle East and North Africa Specialty Group Chamber of Architects, Turkey OTHER RELEVANT TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE University of Manchester, Manchester, England Fourth Summer Institute in Economic Geography (SIEG), July th, 2008 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Principles of Geographic Information Science (GIS), Fall 2007 (Geog 5561) Advanced Qualitative Methods, Fall 2007 (Geog 8301) Teaching Practicum, Spring 2007 (American Studies 8401) Practicum for Future Faculty, Fall 2008 (Graduate School 8102) O.Karaman Page 6 of 7

7 Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey International Network for Urban Research and Action (INURA) 2008 Workshop, Istanbul Turkey, March 14-20, 2008 LANGUAGES Turkish English French - native - advanced - intermediate reading O.Karaman Page 7 of 7