At the Frontiers of Everyday Life

Hande Gülen is a sociologist, Ph.D. candidate, and researcher in geography at the French Institute of Geopolitics (IFG/l'Institut français de géopolitique) at Paris 8 University. She focuses on commons, commoning practices, feminist, and queer studies with an interdisciplinary perspective (geography, sociology, and anthropology) on belongings, emotions, and gender. She holds a sociology, political science and international relations BA degree from Bahçesehir University/ Istanbul and a MA degree in sociology from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University/ Istanbul. She worked as a research assistant in Turkey until being expelled from the university by decree-law, authorized by emergency rule, because of the  peace petition. She previously worked as a teaching and research assistant in universities, is involved in research projects focusing on gender, political memories, and human rights defenders, and has taken part in local and international feminist, queer, and scholar-activist networks.  Ceyda Sungur is a Ph.D. candidate at the geography department of the University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. She is a researcher engaged to Géographie-Cités research lab. She works on the labour geography of Istanbul and women cleaning workers' agency. Her research contends to tell the story of Istanbul as a site of survival via feminist institutional ethnography by looking at the everyday survival practices of women cleaning workers employed by a multinational service provider. In her bachelor's degree, she trained as an urban planner at the Middle East Technical University. While she was working as a research and teaching assistant at Istanbul Technical University she completed her master thesis on "Women cleaning workers' everyday life practices and its implications for urban design" at the same university. She is one of the co-directors of Observatoire Urbain d'Istanbul at Institut Français d'Études Anatoliennes- Istanbul since November 2022. Adem Yesilyurt is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at EHESS (Paris, France). His research interests include digital labour, future of work, political economy of media, social movements, and everyday life. He received his MS degree in 2014 from the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at METU (Ankara, Turkey) with his thesis "The Role of Reporters in Corporate Media: An Inquiry into the Labour Process of Reporters in Turkey." His doctoral research focuses on the spatiotemporal transformation of work in digital capitalism, particularly in the case of coworking spaces. He has worked as a research assistant at METU between 2011 and 2014 and then at Kocaeli University until he was dismissed by a governmental decree in September 2016 because of the "peace petition". He has been a founding member of Kocaeli Academy for Solidarity, and editorial board member of Praksis (quarterly journal of social sciences in Turkish) and Journal of Class & Culture.

Cramped spaces, w(r)iggle room and everyday politics: An introduction.- Part 1: Everyday geographies of scholar activism.- Should I stay or should I go? Academic tempered radicalism in the era of ecological crisis.- Towards 'minor' methodologies or crisis as method.- Part 2: Repertoires of research methodologies and fieldwork experiences.- The sympoietic orchard: Everyday ways of co-creating an orchard.- Researching urban coworking spaces: Everyday life and reflexivity during the fieldwork.- Beyond the club: A feminist poetic inquiry to reimagine festive spaces and practices of the electronic scene in Paris.- Mapping sifikile - A place of home: Methodological reflections on hope from a coal frontier.- Madame Ruetabaga's prefigurative politics at the urban fringes of Grenoble.- Digital practices on social media: New perspectives on the production of space and geopolitical inquiry.- Part 3: Embodied negotiations: Agency, survival, care.- Life at the margins: Women's everyday practices as resistance in a working-class neighbourhood in Barcelona.- Digitalisation of working space: Women working from home in Turkey.- Home, work and everyday life: Gender dynamics in a mining city.- Epilogue.