Tuna Kuyucu is Associate Professor of Sociology at Bogazici University, Istanbul. He received his PhD in sociology from the University of Washington in 2009. His research areas include economic sociology, urban sociology and the sociology of law.
Dr. Kuyucu’s has conducted extensive research on the political economy of urban regeneration and low-income housing in various Turkish cities, with a particular focus on the case of Istanbul. His work has been published in leading academic journals of the field of urban studies including Urban Studies, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Urban Affairs Review and Law&Society Review. Dr. Kuyucu spent 6 months at the University of Edinburgh as a visiting researcher in 2016. Currently Dr. Kuyucu works on the legal and institutional factors behind the failure of large-scale urban renewal programs in Istanbul.
Dr. Kuyucu has received several awards for his work including a prestigious fellowship from the Urban Studies Foundation, a competitive award from award from Kadir Has University as well as two teaching awards from Bogazici University.
RESEARCH AREAS
Urban Sociology/Studies
Economic Sociology
Sociology of Development
Sociolegal Studies
Social Theory
Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
• Kuyucu, Tuna. 2018. “Türkiye’de Kentsel Dönüşümün Dönüşümü: Hukuki ve Kurumsal Çatışmalar Üzerinden Bir Açıklama Denemesi” IdealKent Dergisi 24(9): 364-386.
• Kuyucu, Tuna. 2018 “Politics of Urban Regeneration in Turkey: Possibilities and Limits of Local Regeneration Initiatives in a Highly Centralized Country” Urban Geography 39(8): 1152-1176.
• Yıldırım, Irem and Tuna Kuyucu. 2017. “Neoliberal Penality and State Legitimacy: Politics of Amnesty in Turkey in the AKP Period” Law & Society Review 51(4): 859- 894.
• Kuyucu, Tuna. 2016. “The Paradox of Social Housing Policy in Turkey?”, Modus Operandi, sayi:4.
• Kuyucu, Tuna and Didem Danis. 2015. “Similar Processes, Divergent Outcomes: A Comparative Analysis of Urban Redevelopment Projects in Three Turkish Cities”, Urban Affairs Review 51(3): 381-413.
• Kuyucu, Tuna. 2014. “Law, Property and Ambiguity: The Uses and Abuses of Legal Ambiguity in Remaking Istanbul’s Informal Settlements”, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 38(2): 609-627.
• Kuyucu, Tuna and Özlem Ünsal. 2010. “Urban Transformation as State-Led Property Transfer: An Analysis of Two Cases of Urban Renewal in Istanbul” Urban Studies, 47(7): 1479-1499.
• Kuyucu, Tuna. 2005. “Ethno-religious ‘Unmixing’ of Turkey: 6-7 September Riots as a Case in Turkish Nationalism.” Nations and Nationalism, 11(3): 361-380.
Book Chapters
• Kuyucu, Tuna (2017) “Two Crises, Two Trajectories: The Impact of the 2001 and 2008 Economic Crises on Urban Governance in Turkey” in Adaman, Fikret, Bengü Akbulut and Murat Arsel (eds.) Neoliberal Turkey and Its Discontents: Economic Policy and the Environment under Erdoğan. London: I.B. Taurus. Pp: 44-74.
• Ünsal, Özlem and Tuna Kuyucu. 2010. “Challenging the Neoliberal Urban Regime: Regeneration and Resistance in Başıbüyük and Tarlabaşı” in Levent Soysal, Ipek Türeli and Deniz Göktürk (eds.) Orienting Istanbul: Cultural Capital of Europe? New York: Routledge. Pp: 51-70.
• Kuyucu, Tuna. 2010. “Mass Housing Adminstration and Urban Transformation Projects as Tools of Property Transfer” (in Turkish), İpek Akpınar (ed.) Osmanlı Başkentinden Küreselleşen İstanbul’a: Mimarlık ve Kent, 1910-2010. İstanbul: Osmanlı Bankası Arşiv ve Araştırma Merkezi. Pp: 122-134.
• Hechter, Michael; Tuna Kuyucu and Audrey Sacks. 2006. “Nationalism and Direct Rule” Kumar, Krishan and Gerard Delanty (eds) The Sage Handbook of Nations and Nationalism. London: Sage Publications. Pp: 84-93.
