Sociology Talks: "Contesting privatization, looking for 'normalcy': A case of Turkish hegemony-building and water privatization in northern Cyprus" by Ezgi Özdemir

About Ezgi Özdemir:

Ezgi is a trained anthropologist who has research expertise in water politics, state-society relations, and political geography in the eastern Mediterranean. She has a doctoral degree and master’s degree from Central European University in sociology and social anthropology and a bachelor’s degree from New York University in cultural anthropology. Her research interests in urban and rural politics, climate crisis impacts, and environmental grassroots movements in the region are reflected onto her academic publications as well as her intellectual engagement in non-academic venues. Her latest publication in Ethnos journal (2023) shows how the Water Supply Project is a site where Turkish Cypriot political actors reflect on their locality, region, and geography of a ‘half-island’ and grapple with a multiplicity of hegemonic powers and the many “states” of exception.