Joost Jongerden is a development sociologist by training with a PhD in social sciences. His research and teaching covers three fields: rural development studies, technology studies and conflict studies. Though at face value very different areas of s
...MoreJoost Jongerden is a development sociologist by training with a PhD in social sciences. His research and teaching covers three fields: rural development studies, technology studies and conflict studies. Though at face value very different areas of study, these share with each other the fact that they have all become intrinsic features of contemporary social life – and are, at the same time, created by it. His Ph.D. thesis is an analysis of settlement and resettlement policies and practices (in times of development and war) as means for societal and social transformation, mainly focusing on Turkey and the Kurds. A fundamental assertion of this work is that modern society's concern with space is closely related to issues of governance and identity construction. A revised version of his thesis is published in 2007 by Brill Academic Publishers under the title The Settlement Issue in Turkey and the Kurds, An analysis of spatial policies, modernity and war. He published several articles and presented various papers on the organization of space, technology and the production of identities, with an emphasis on Turkey and the Kurds.
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