Cansu Bostan

Cansu Bostan

Postdoctoral fellow

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Research

  • Diasporization and Mobilization
  • Postcolonialism and Late-modern Colonial Occupations
  • Ethnograpy of Law
  • Foucault and Law

Cansu Bostan is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Sociology of Law Department at Lund University, with a visiting fellowship at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Her project, funded by the Swedish Research Council's international postdoc grant, is entitled "Seeking Justice Far from Home: A Multi-Sited Ethnographic Inquiry into Diaspora Mobilizations in Sweden and Germany in the Aftermath of the Yazidi Genocide." She holds a PhD in Sociology of Law from Lund University, where her doctoral thesis, Games of Justice, explored the ethnographic contextualization of law and justice in Northern Kurdistan amidst ongoing war and colonial dynamics, through the lens of Foucauldian nominalism. Her background also includes an MA from the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Basque Country and a BSc in Sociology from the Middle East Technical University, Turkey.

UKÄ subject classification

  • Law and Society
  • Social Anthropology

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