This book started as an ethnographic study of a predominantly Alevi populated working-class neighborhood in Istanbul. Over the course of years, it turned into a much bigger project on global policing practices that are informed by the colonial school of warfare..
Deniz Yonucu
Deniz Yonucu received her PhD degree in social anthropology from Cornell University and is a lecturer (Assistant Professor) in sociology at the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University. Her first book, Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul (Cornell University Press, 2022), presents a counterintuitive analysis of policing, focusing particular attention on the incitement of counterviolence and perpetual conflict by the state security apparatus. She is Directions Section co-editor of Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR) and co-founder of the Anthropology of Surveillance Network (ANSUR). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Current Anthropology, IJURR, Social and Legal Studies, the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies,and Critical Times, among others.