Hybrid Research Collective – Istanbul

Dr. Baran Alp Uncu is a political sociologist who specializes on social movements. After receiving his MA degree at McGill University, Canada, he completed his PhD in sociology at the London School of Economics. He worked as a faculty member at Marmara University between 2007-2017. As part of the purge against the Academics for Peace in Turkey, he was expelled from Marmara University. He continues his academic work as an independent researcher in collaboration with civil society organizations and research institutions. His main fields of interest are social movements, civil society, globalization, and climate politics. He has carried out research on environmental movements, politics of climate change, and Gezi protests in Turkey as well as political and social behavior of conservatives in Turkey, and social and economic conditions of Syrian refugees in Turkey.