Author: Çiçek İlengiz

Çiçek İlengiz is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Her academic interests lie at the intersection of national and imperial legacies of state violence, cultures of commemoration and healing, and imaginations of political change. Her current research engages with questions of ownership and inheritance in the context of religious heritage sites in contemporary Turkey.

Çiçek İlengiz

Çiçek İlengiz is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Her academic interests lie at the intersection of national and imperial legacies of state violence, cultures of commemoration and healing, and imaginations of political change. Her current research engages with questions of ownership and inheritance in the context of religious heritage sites in contemporary Turkey.

Heritage out of Control Threads

Heritage out of Control: Introduction

January, 2022 / By Çiçek İlengiz, Serawit B. Debele and Annika Kirbis

Stirring the debates on what is worth preserving, what is dismissible and what needs to be dismantled, heritage has become […]

Heritage out of Control Threads

Heritage out of Control: Models of Inheriting Spiritual Love

January, 2022 / By Çiçek İlengiz

“Muslims go to Mecca once, if they are not unnecessarily wealthy (laughing), but people of all kinds come to visit

Afterlives Threads

Magical afterlives in post-genocidal Turkey

May, 2020 / By Çiçek İlengiz

One enters the city of Dersim, surrounded by the steep holy Munzur Mountains in central Anatolia, after showing one’s ID