Aysegül Can is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Regional Studies. Her research interests include gentrification, housing financialization, urban resistance movements, spatial inequalities in marginalized areas, and precariousness in higher education. She is currently researching more equitable and green ways to access housing with regard to the housing-energy efficiency/energy poverty nexus. She is an editor in Radical Housing Journal and in PlaNext, and viewpoint editor in International Development Planning Review. She is also a member of the CITY Collective and editorial advisory board member at RGS-IBG Book Series.
Research interests
- Housing Fiancialization
- Gentrification
- Housing Studies
- Urban Studies
- Climate Change
- Energy Poverty
- Comparative Urbanism
- Spatial Inequality
- Neoliberal Authoritarian Urbanism
- Precarity in Higher Education
Professional Background
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2018-2024 |
Lecturer, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Turkey |
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2020-2022 |
International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies (IRGAC) Fellow, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Foundation, Germany |
| 2022-2022 | Visiting Postdoc (IRGAC Fellow), Leibniz Institute for Spatial Social Research (IRS), Germany |
| 2020-2021 | Visiting Postdoc (IRGAC Fellow), Arnold Bergstraesser Institute, Germany |
| 2019-2019 | Visiting Researcher, Université Paris-Est Créteil val de marne (UPEC), France |
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2016-2018 |
Social Researcher, Ministry of Education of Turkey, Turkey |
| 2015-2016 | Social Researcher, Department for Work and Pensions, The United Kingdom |
| 2013-2015 | Graduate Teaching Assistant, The University of Sheffield, The United Kingdom |
Selected Publications
- Kinikoglu, C. N. and Can, A. (2024) Between luck and stigma: gendered experiences of precarity in higher education in the UK and the US. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/09620214.2024.2383217
- Can, A., Jenns, A. and Fanton, H., (2024) State-led gentrification against the backdrop of Urban Authoritarian Practices, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13236
- Can, A. (2024) The Rise of Urban Resistance Movements and Spatialized Oppression: The Gezi Legacy. In Domaradzka, A. and Hamel, P. (Eds.) The Elgar Handbook on Urban Social Movements, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Can, A. and Fanton, H., (2023) Neo-Liberal Authoritarian Urbanism: The Dominant Contemporary Patterns of Urban Spatial Production in Istanbul and São Paulo, Globalizations, DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2022.2156237
- Can, A. (2022) Housing and Urbanization Policies of Istanbul, Turkey from Central to the Local, Urban Research & Practice, 15 (3): 454-463. DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2022.2085376
- Can, A. (2022) A Tale of Two Cities: Comparison of Istanbul and San Francisco through Right to Housing. In B. Oomen, E. Durmus, S. Miellet, J.E. Nijman, L. Roodenburg (Eds), Routledge Series ‘Cities and Global Governance’: Urban Politics and human Rights, London: Routledge
- Can, A. (2022) The Struggle for Istanbul: Authoritarianism and Resistance in Turkey. In Koch, N. (ed.), Spatializing Authoritarianism, New York: Syracuse University Press.
- Can, A. (2021), The Making and Unmaking of Tarlabasi, Istanbul: An Account of Territorial Stigmatisation, International Development Planning Review, 43, (4), 435–460, doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2021.16
- Kinikoglu, C. N. and Can, A. (2020), Negotiating the Different Degrees of Precarity in the UK Academia During the COVID-19 Pandemic, European Societies, DOI: 10.1080/14616696.2020.1839670
- Can, A., (2020) A Recipe For Conflict In The Historic Environment Of Istanbul - The Case Of Tarlabasi, ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographers, 19(1): 131-162