Suna’s work situates Istanbul’s urban agricultural life within the ruptures of the late nineteenth century, tracing how technological modernity, municipal reform, demographic upheaval, and imperial anxiety reshaped both the city’s material landscape and its environmental imaginary. More specifically, she explores how Istanbul’s Greek Orthodox farmers engaged with soil, water, and animal life while navigating an increasingly precarious economic and political terrain at the end of the empire. As waves of violence targeted the city’s Christian communities, she asks what became of the lands, waters, and living ecologies they had long tended. 

Erstbetreuung: Prof. Dr. Elke S. Hartmann

Zweitbetreuung: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Freitag