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Banu Gökarıksel (UNC Chapel Hill) joins us for an online conversation on her book project, The Neighbor Who Might Kill You: Encounter and Difference in Urban Turkey, with commenter Kabir Tambar (Stanford University). 

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Dr. Banu Gökarıksel is Professor of Geography and the Chair of the Curriculum in Global Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She served as The Caroline H. and Thomas S. Royster Distinguished Professor for Graduate Education at The Graduate School (2018-2021) and the co-editor of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (2014-2018). Her research examines bodies, intimacy, and everyday spaces as key sites of politics and geopolitics.

Kabir Tambar is a sociocultural anthropologist, working at the intersections of political anthropology and the anthropology of religion. He is broadly interested in the politics of history, performances of public criticism, and varieties of Islamic practice in Turkey. Tambar’s first book, The Reckoning of Pluralism Political Belonging and the Demands of History in Turkey (2014), is a study of the politics of pluralism in contemporary Turkey, focusing on the ways that Alevi religious history is staged for public display. He is currently working on a new project that examines the politics and ethics of nonviolence in Turkey.