{"id":2947,"date":"2021-06-08T10:49:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T08:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/?page_id=2947"},"modified":"2021-08-16T14:35:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T12:35:08","slug":"ocakli","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/people\/current-members\/ocakli\/","title":{"rendered":"Beril Ocakl\u0131"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Beril I am a final-stage doctoral researcher at the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys) at Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin.
\nI hold a BA in International Economics from the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary (2006) and a MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE), UK (2007). I have a track record of leading international transdisciplinary cooperation projects on behalf of the German Federal Government, EU and other multinational organisations in resource governance in Eurasia.
\nChallenged by the realities on the ground, in 2015 I returned to academia. Within the framework of my research project \u201cExtractive socionatures and resistance. The un\/making of Kyrgyzstan\u2019s Gold Rush\u201d, I explore multi-scalar valuations, discourses, practices that at once push and halt Kyrgyzstan\u2019s gold rush. My multi-method research is at the intersection of critical institutional economics, geography and anthropology focusing on extractivisms and alternatives. At IRI THESys, I am a member of the Research Group on \u2018Hydrology & Society\u2019.<\/p>\n

Contact: beril.ocakli@hu-berlin.de<\/a>
\nFind me also at: IRI THESys<\/a> | Twitter<\/a> | ResearchGate<\/a> | LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Beril Ocakl\u0131, J\u00f6rg Niew\u00f6hner<\/p>

Making and unmaking gold as a resource. Resistant socionatures in Maidan, Kyrgyzstan<\/a> Journal Article<\/span> <\/p>

In: <\/span>Geoforum, <\/span>vol. 131, <\/span>pp. 151-162, <\/span>2022<\/span>.<\/p>

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\r\ntitle = {Making and unmaking gold as a resource. Resistant socionatures in Maidan, Kyrgyzstan},
\r\nauthor = {Beril Ocakl\u0131 and J\u00f6rg Niew\u00f6hner},
\r\nurl = {https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/359510612_Making_and_unmaking_gold_as_a_resource_Resistant_socionatures_in_Maidan_Kyrgyzstan},
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\r\nyear  = {2022},
\r\ndate = {2022-04-01},
\r\nurldate = {2021-12-01},
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\r\nvolume = {131},
\r\npages = {151-162},
\r\nabstract = {In October 2013, around 200 protestors from the rural settlement Maidan in Kyrgyzstan clashed violently with the representatives of the exploration company as they brought in the first excavator to construct the mining infrastructure for the 'Shambesai' gold deposit. This paper is an attempt to understand the processes and practices that have led to this escalation and that continue to sustain Maidan's rejection of the gold mine to date. Motivated by state and corporate assertions that attribute such actions primarily to material interests, we engage this resistance to gold extractivism in sociomaterial terms trying to understand more deeply the dynamics of ordinary citizens' activism. Based on multi-stage interdisciplinary research, we trace and reconstruct the socionatural conditions and practices that have culminated in Maidan's decade-long struggle to unmake gold as a resource on their territory. Focusing on resource materialities, their valuations and governance, we present an historico-geographical analysis of making and unmaking of a resource frontier. Against the backdrop of the extractive order that has prevailed in Kyrgyzstan over the last three decades, we understand Maidan's struggle to be a form of situated institutional experimentation for shaping meaningful and just more-than-human socionatures.},
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In October 2013, around 200 protestors from the rural settlement Maidan in Kyrgyzstan clashed violently with the representatives of the exploration company as they brought in the first excavator to construct the mining infrastructure for the 'Shambesai' gold deposit. This paper is an attempt to understand the processes and practices that have led to this escalation and that continue to sustain Maidan's rejection of the gold mine to date. Motivated by state and corporate assertions that attribute such actions primarily to material interests, we engage this resistance to gold extractivism in sociomaterial terms trying to understand more deeply the dynamics of ordinary citizens' activism. Based on multi-stage interdisciplinary research, we trace and reconstruct the socionatural conditions and practices that have culminated in Maidan's decade-long struggle to unmake gold as a resource on their territory. Focusing on resource materialities, their valuations and governance, we present an historico-geographical analysis of making and unmaking of a resource frontier. Against the backdrop of the extractive order that has prevailed in Kyrgyzstan over the last three decades, we understand Maidan's struggle to be a form of situated institutional experimentation for shaping meaningful and just more-than-human socionatures.<\/div>
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