About Me
Hi, I’m timur
I’m a cultural and urban geographer whose research and teaching examine how people develop a sense of who they are in relation to the shifting landscapes in which they live.
Learn more about my work
NEWS
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New website
It’s a work in progress, but I’m hoping to build out the website as a more stable web presence that will complement my existing sites at Syracuse University, Academia, Google Scholar, and LinkedIn.
RECENT writing
Review of Zeynep korkman, gendered fortunes
I was recently asked to write a short review of Zeynep Korkman’s fascinating ethnography of fortune telling cafes in contemporary Istanbul. As I wrote:
Approaching this practice as a form of ‘feeling labor’, Korkman helps us understand how marginalized subjects simultaneously encounter and disrupt ‘the dominant conceptions of gendered space and sociability set by the fault lines of secularism and religion in Turkey’ (p. 11). Although the book speaks most directly to an audience familiar with contemporary Turkey, the book should also interest geographers engaging questions of affect, labor, and gender.
The full review is accessible via the link below.
Timur Hammond 