Authors

Ömür Harmanşah

 

Ömür Harmanşah is an assistant professor of archaeology and ancient Western Asian studies at Brown University. He works and teaches on the archaeology, architectural history, and material culture of the Middle East. He is the author of Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the Ancient Near East (Cambridge, 2013). His academic interests involve intersections of place and landscape, bodily performance, local knowledge, collective memory, and political ecology. He is currently working on a cultural biography of rock reliefs and spring monuments in Anatolia and a critical archaeology of place.

ARTICLES BY Ömür Harmanşah

  • Urban Utopias and How They Fell Apart

    Urban Utopias and How They Fell Apart

    Taksim: A Political Ecology

    The uprising that started with Taksim Square’s Gezi Park in Istanbul on 28 May emerged as a unique movement of resistance in Turkey’s history and has continued without interruption in the last several weeks. The Gezi Park Movement will be remembered as a ..