Murat Güney

K. Murat Güney is a social scientist and an urban researcher. He received his PhD degree in anthropology from Columbia University, and BA double major degrees in sociology and political science and international relations from Boğaziçi University. His research interests include urban resilience, earthquakes and anthropology of disasters, disaster preparedness and recovery, housing inequality, mega-projects and urban infrastructures, social policy, wealth and income inequality.

He taught courses in the anthropology departments at Boston University and Özyeğin University, and sociology departments at İstanbul Bilgi University and Acıbadem University. He also collaborated in international research projects on housing inequality as a postdoctoral researcher in the City Institute at York University.

Murat is the editor of the books Massive Suburbanization: (Re)Building the Global Periphery (co-edited with Roger Keil and Murat Üçoğlu, University of Toronto Press in 2019), Türkiye’de İktidar’ı Yeniden Düşünmek (Rethinking Power Relations in Turkey – Varlık Publishing House, 2009), Başka Dünyalar Mümkün (Other Worlds are Possible – Varlık Publishing House, 2007), and science-fiction and cultural criticism journal Davetsiz Misafir (The Uninvited Guest).