I would like to say pure intentionality and meticulous planning, but, as probably with most anthropological research, that would only be the less substantial and less interesting part of the story. The long trajectory that resulted in the book is one that combi..
Ayşe Parla
Ayşe Parla received her BA from Harvard and her PhD in anthropology from New York University. Before joining the Department of Anthropology at Boston University in 2018, she taught for over a decade at Sabancı University in Istanbul and was a fellow, between 2016-2018, at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Her first book, Precarious Hope: Migration and the Limits of Belonging in Turkey was published by Stanford University Press in 2019.Parla’s work on gendered violence and the law, transnational migration, precarious labor, differentiated citizenship, and the governance of ethnic and religious diversity in Turkey and its borderlands has also appeared in such journals as Alternatives, American Ethnologist, Citizenship Studies, Differences, Feminist Studies, International Migration, History and Anthropology, and Public Culture. Most recently, her chapter on “Critique without a Politics of Hope” was published in A Time for Critique, edited by Didier Fassin and Bernard Harcourt (Columbia University Press, 2019).