Eray ÇayliEray Çayli, PhD (University College London, 2015), studies the spatial and visual politics of violence. Çayli is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow (2018-21) at London School of Economics and Political Science where he also teaches at postgaduate level. He is the author of Victims of Commemoration: The Architecture and Violence of ‘Confronting the Past’ in Turkey (Syracuse University Press, 2021), and guest-editor of special issues for the International Journal of Islamic Architecture (themed ‘Field as Archive / Archive as Field’) and for the Journal of Visual Culture (themed ‘Testimony as Environment: Violence, Aesthetics, Agency’). Çayli’s articles have appeared in Antipode, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, among other journals. In Turkey’s largest predominantly Kurdish inhabited city Amed/Diyarbakir, he has collaborated with the local Chamber of Architects and with the independent artist-run space Loading to coordinate free-of-charge research workshops on urban political ecology. Çayli’s first book in Turkish, Iklimin Estetigi: Antroposen Sanati ve Mimarligi Üzerine Denemeler [Climate Aesthetics: Essays on Anthropocene Art and Architecture], was published in 2020 by Everest. Read More Read Less