Kaan Kubilay Aşar is a doctoral student at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Central European University in Vienna. Kubilay's research focuses on the political economy of development and environmental transformations, read through an anthropological study of futurity, sovereignty, materiality, and property in urban life. His doctoral dissertation is an ethnography of the lives of housing redevelopment projects in Istanbul, examining how contractors, homeowners, and officials imagine and live through Istanbul's rebuilding within the double bind of anticipated earthquake and capitalist urbanization.
Qualification
BA in Sociology, Boğaziçi University (2017)
MA in Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University (2019)
MA in History (Global Cultures Curriculum), University of Bologna (2021)
