Sinan Erensü
Political Ecology/Economy
Environmental Sociology / Environmental Justice
Urban Studies
Water and Energy Infrastructures
Climate Change
Social Movements
Soc 360 Environment and Society; Soc 453 Social Movements; Soc 224 Urban Sociology; Soc 324 Power and Inequality.
"Title Deeds and Passports: Changing Ownership, Mobility, and Urban Connections in Light of Residence and Citizenship Applications Through Investment," TÜBİTAK 1001 (Project led by Dr. Aslı İkizoğlu) (2025–2027)
"Turkey Social Values Survey," TÜBİTAK 1001 (Project led by Dr. Ceylan Engin) (2024–2026)
"Urban Revolution and the Political” 2021-2023 / H2020 ERC Starting Grant (680313) Research Collaboration with Host Institution: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.
"When Locals Generate: Limits and Potentials of Energy Cooperatives for a Democratic Energy Transition" 2018-2019 / Istanbul Policy Center, Mercator-IPC Program, Climate Change Cluster.
“Unbanking Urban Real Estate: Experiments in Purgatory”, Finance and Space (2024) (co-authored with James Christopher Mizes, Martine Drozdz, Ozan Karaman and Mathilde
Moaty) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/2833115X.2024.2350420 (2024)
“Kaçak and Amnesty: Politics of Unlicensed Construction and the Making of Urban Economy in Istanbul”, Journal of Cultural Economy (2024) DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2023.2179651 (2024) (SSCI)
“From the Occupied Parks to the Gardens of the Nation: Politics and Aesthetics of Urban Greenery in the Post-Gezi Istanbul”, Social Text.
40(1). (2022). (with B. İne & Y. A. Adanalı). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9495146 (ESCI).
“The Contradictions of Turkey’s Rush for Energy”, Middle East Report. 288. (2018)
“Powering Neoliberalization: Energy and Politics in the Making of a New Turkey”, Energy Research and Social Science, 41: 148-157. (2018) DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2018.04.037 (SSCI).
“Dialectics of Reform and Repression: Unpacking Turkey’s Authoritarian Turn”, the Review of Middle Eastern Studies, 52(1): 16-28. (2018)
(co-authored with A. Alemdaroğlu) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/rms.2018.8 (SSCI).
“The Work of a Few Trees: Gezi, Politics, and Space” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 41(1) (2017). (co-authored with
O. Karaman). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12387 (SSCI).
Book Chapters:
“Urbanization in Turkey”, In Alpaslan Özerdem and Erdi Öztürk (eds.) A Companion to Modern Turkey's Centennial: Political, Sociological, Economic and Institutional Transformations since 1923, Edinburgh University Press. (2023). ISBN: 9781474492515
“Neoliberal Economics in Turkey”, In Güneş Murat Tezcür (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Turkish Politics, Oxford University Press. January
2022. (with Yahya Madra). DOI:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190064891.013.17.
“Turkey’s Hydropower Renaissance: Nature, Neoliberalism and Development in the Cracks of Infrastructure” In F. Adaman et al. (eds.) Neoliberal
Modernization and Economic Growth in Turkey, London: I.B. Tauris. (2017). DOI: 10.5040/9781350987326.ch-005.
Policy Papers:
“İklim Politikalarında Biden Etkisi: İnkar Çağının Sonu mu?” İstanbul Politikalar Merkezi Politika Notu. 2021. (With Ümit Şahin)
https://ipc.sabanciuniv.edu/Content/Images/CKeditorImages/20210421-23040808.pdf
“Covid-19 Pandemisini İklim Krizi ile Beraber Okumak” İstanbul Politikalar Merkezi Politika Notu. 2020. (With Ümit Şahin)
https://ipc.sabanciuniv.edu/Content/Images/CKeditorImages/20201220-23125968.pdf
