About Deniz Yonucu

I am a lecturer (assistant professor) in the School of Geography, Politics, and Sociology at Newcastle University, UK. I received my Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Cornell University. My research interests lie at the intersection of anthropology, law and society studies, and urban studies. More specifically, I focus on counterinsurgency and policing, left-wing and anti-colonial resistance, coloniality, racism, and emerging digital control technologies. My book, Police, Provocation, Politics Counterinsurgency in Istanbul (Cornell University Press, 2022), presents a counterintuitive analysis of policing, focusing particular attention on the incitement of counterviolence and perpetual conflict by the state security apparatus. It demonstrates how counterinsurgency strategies from the Cold War and decolonial eras continue to inform contemporary urban policing. I am Directions Section co-editor of the Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR) and co-founder and co-convenor of the Anthropology of Surveillance Network (ANSUR).
Deniz Yonucu is a Lecturer in Sociology at the School of Geography, Politics, and Sociology, Newcastle University and the author of Police, Provocation, Politics Counterinsurgency in Istanbul (Cornell University Press, 2022).
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NBN Episodes hosted by Deniz:

Gültan Kışanak, "The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics: Women Politicians Write from Prison" (Pluto Press, 2022)

October 10, 2023

The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics

Gültan Kışanak
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The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics: Women Politicians Write from Prison (Pluto Press, 2022) is a one-of-a-kind collection of prison writings from mo…

Zoha Waseem, "Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi" (Oxford UP, 2022)

April 18, 2023

Insecure Guardians

Zoha Waseem
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The police force is one of the most distrusted institutions in Pakistan, notorious for its corruption and brutality. In both colonial and postcolonial…

David H. Price, "The American Surveillance State: How the US Spies on Dissent" (Pluto Press, 2022)

February 23, 2023

The American Surveillance State

David H. Price
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When the possibility of wiretapping first became known to Americans they were outraged. Now, in our post-9/11 world, it's accepted that corporations a…

Adam Elliott-Cooper, "Black Resistance to British Policing" (Manchester UP, 2021)

October 5, 2022

Black Resistance to British Policing

Adam Elliott-Cooper
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As police racism unsettles Britain's tolerant self-image, Black Resistance to British Policing (Manchester UP, 2021) details the activism that made mo…