Sumeyye Kocaman

Sumeyye Kocaman 

DPhil Candidate

 

 

 

Affiliation: Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Expert in: Cities and migration, Global development and climate change
Geographic focus:  Ottoman and post Ottoman era Middle East and the Balkans

Sumeyye's DPhil project examines the history of motorised transportation in the central lands of the Late Ottoman State and Early Turkish Republic. New inventions in the age of industrial revolutions across the globe, from the steam engine to the internal combustion engine, accelerated social, economic, and political global connections and mobility. This required strategic responses of the states to understand and regulate new transportation technologies, their use in wars, and mobility. Looking at the Ottoman territories around the Mediterranean basin and across continents in an age of emerging international law, peace treaties, war and post-war border demarcation, Sumeyye’s research explores what cars meant in the first decades of their arrival in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman territories in the Middle East. Her research includes historical case studies regarding labour migration, forced migration, mobility regulation and memory.