Begüm Özden Fırat

Begüm Özden Fırat is Professor at the Department of Sociology in Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul. She holds a BA from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences and an MA from Middle East Technical University, Department of Sociology, and received her PhD degree from the University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis). She works in the fields of visual culture, urban sociology, and social movements studies. She is the co-editor of Commitment and Complicity in Cultural Theory and Practice (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2009), Cultural Activism: Practices, Dilemmas, Possibilities (Rodopi, 2011) and Aesthetics and Resistance in the age of Global Uprisings (İletişim, 2015) and Mülkiyet ve Müşterekler, Türkiye’de Mülkiyetin İnşası, İcrası ve İhlali (Property and the Commons The Construction, Performance and Transgression of Property in Turkey, İletişim, 2023). Her book entitled Encounters with the Ottoman Miniature Contemporary Readings of an Imperial Art is published by I.B. Tauris in 2015. She is one of the directors of documentary “Welcome Lenin” (2016) and the director of the short experimental video “The Lightwell” (2020).