Guest Researcher - Özge Altin
Today we welcome Özge Altin from İstanbul Şehir University, Turkey as our new guest researcher. We hope that you will enjoy your time here at the Centre for Gender Research!
Disciplinary background:
Sociology (BA), Sociology (MA)
Areas of expertise and research areas:
- Gender Studies
- Urban Studies
- Space and Gender
- Body
Why did you choose to come to the Centre for Gender Research?
The relevancy of the Center’s research areas to my study have encouraged me to apply for the projects of the Center. I believe the Center’s projects would provide me to extend my theoretical and methodological background on gender studies.
Shortly describe your current research project:
As my master’s thesis, I have been working on gendered spatial practices in urban spaces of Istanbul as a case study. My research question is “How do people produce public, semi-public, semi-private, and private spaces of urban by daily life practices in the context of gender?”
Publications:
Gendered Spatial Practices in a Gentrifying Neighborhood in Istanbul: The Tophane Case Study, in R. Seyfarth and F. Eckardt (eds.) Urban Minorities. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2015 (in press).