Murat Es

I received my PhD from the Department of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I specialize in urban studies, transnational politics of belonging, migration, religion, secularism, and multiculturalism in Europe, China, and the Middle East.

Research interests

• Ethno-national belonging, race, and multiculturalism
• Transnational migration
• Religion and secularism
• Right to the city
• Urban development

Companies

• Lecturer The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2019)
• Assistant Professor The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2015)
• Part-time Lecturer The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2014 — 2015)
• Lecturer Lingnan University (2012 — 2014)
• Visiting Assistant Professor The University of Hong Kong (2012 — 2014)

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2006 — 2012)
• MA/BA Bosphorus University (1997 — 2006)
• Bosphorus University

Selected Publications

2020 Hoyng, Rolien and Murat Es. Material politics facing post-truth: Speculation, infrastructure and ecology in Turkey. Antipode 52 (6): 1731-1750.

2018 Es, Murat and Besim Can Zirh. Alevi struggles. In Authoritarianism and resistance in Turkey: Conversations on democratic and social changes, ed. Esra Özyürek Gaye Özpinar and Emrah Altındiş (pp. 177-188). Dordrecht, Heidelberg, New York and London: Springer.

2018 Chen, Huiwei, Mee Kam Ng, Murat Es, Joanna Lee, Winnie W. S. Mak, Yuying Tong, Wu Ka Ming & Huiquan Zhou. Socio-spatial polarization and the (re-)distribution of deprived groups in world cities: A case study of Hong Kong. Urban Geography 39 (7): 969-987.

2017 Hoyng, Rolien and Murat Es. Conspiratorial webs: Media ecology and parallel realities in Turkey. International Journal of Communication 11: 4219–4238.

2016 Es, Murat. Turkish-Dutch mosques and the formation of moral subjects. Social and Cultural Geography 17 (7): 825-848.

2013 Es, Murat. Alevis in cemevis: Religion and secularism in Turkey. In Topographies of faith: Religion in urban spaces, ed. Marian Burchardt, Jose Casanova and Irene Becci (pp. 25-45). Leiden and Boston: Brill.