Dr Ethemcan Turhan

Small Group Project 2027

BEACON: Bordering, Ecologies, and Climate Observatory & Network

With Anna Casaglia, Giovanni Bettini, Andrew Baldwin, Lise Benoist, Hanna Musiol & Marco Armiero

BEACON will consolidate and advance research on right-wing political ecologies of climate change, security and migration, and right-wing populism, contributing to monitoring and countering tendencies towards ecobordering and eco-fascism through academic-activist collaborations.

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Biography

Ethemcan is an assistant professor of environmental planning at the Department of Spatial Planning and Environment, University of Groningen. His research and teaching interests are situated in the broadly defined field of political ecology with empirical attention to environmental conflicts, energy infrastructures, social movements, and climate mobilities. He co-edited Transforming Socio-Natures in Turkey: Landscapes, State and Environmental Movements (Routledge, 2019) and Urban Movements and Climate Change: Loss, Damage and Radical Adaptation (Amsterdam University Press, 2024).

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