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Mehmet Eroğlu

@mehmeteroglu.bsky.social
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PhD Candidate in Geography at Michigan State University. Interested in labor, informality, extractive industries, landscapes, etc.

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Mehmet Eroğlu @mehmeteroglu.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
If you haven’t read this yet, you should! An excellent article by @katbrown22.bsky.social and her colleagues!
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Mehmet Eroğlu @mehmeteroglu.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Focusing on a geopark project in Turkey, we argue that turning landscapes into commemorative sites reveals how power shapes what is remembered and what is forgotten, with material consequences for communities that have long lived and worked in these landscapes.
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Mehmet Eroğlu @mehmeteroglu.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Excited to share a new open-access article co-authored with @sprzybylinski.bsky.social in Social & Cultural Geography! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Constructing social memories by restructuring landscapes: transforming Turkey’s industrial centre into a geopark
From the mid-nineteenth century until the 1980s, the coal industry was the dominant economic sector in Zonguldak, Turkey. Since then, the industry has experienced a steady decline. Despite and beca...
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Katie Brown @katbrown22.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Heading to IMGS this summer? Consider submitting your abstract to our special session: Environmental (In)justice. If you’d like to participate, please email your abstract to one of the session organizers—Kirsten Beyer, Amber Pearson, or myself— by March 27. See you in Toronto!
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Katie Brown @katbrown22.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
So extremely thrilled that this review is out!! I hope it can help us recognize the dynamic relationship that exists between green gentrification and mental health. Also, props to my fantastic co-authors (Alessandro Rigolon, Piper Zdrodowski, and Amber Pearson)!
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Stephen Przybylinski @sprzybylinski.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Publication day! The Injustice of Property is available from the great @ugapress.bsky.social. The book details how property in liberalism constrains common attempts at ending homelessness, despite land use practices of un/precariously housed people rejecting the proprietarian logic of liberalism.
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Mehmet Eroğlu @mehmeteroglu.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Thanks Stephen!
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Mehmet Eroğlu @mehmeteroglu.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Focusing on the Zonguldak basin during early republican Turkey, I argue that the resource-making of Zonguldak's coal reserves and state formation were dialectically linked. State elites leveraged coal reserves for state-building, while these efforts, in turn, shaped extraction policies/practices.
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Mehmet Eroğlu @mehmeteroglu.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
At the risk of it seeming like I joined Bluesky just to share this, I’m excited to announce that my paper is now published in the Journal of Historical Geography. "Coal, state, and society: Resource-making and state formation in early republican Turkey" doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...
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