Dr Zeynep Oguz
Job Title
Lecturer
Profile
Zeynep Oguz is Lecturer in the Anthropology of Development at the University of Edinburgh. Her research is situated at the intersection of environmental anthropology, political geology, and energy humanities. At Edinburgh, she teaches courses on sustainable development, energy transitions, resource politics, and environmental anthropology. Her articles have appeared in Cultural Anthropology, Political Geography, Journal of Cultural Economy, and Environmental Humanities. Oguz’s current book project explores the coming together of colonial politics, geopolitical imaginaries, and resistance around oil exploration and geology in Turkey's Kurdistan region. Her current research examines the geosocial frictions around energy transitions and renewable energy projects in former extraction sites and sacrifice zones in the US, UK, and Turkey.