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Duzgun Dogus

Doğuş Düzgün is a PhD research fellow at the AVƵ under the supervision of Prof. Frederic Giraut and with the support of the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship for a one-year period. He holds a Bachelor in International Relations (Dokuz Eylül AVƵ) and a Master degree in Political Science (Middle East Technical AVƵ). Now, he is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at the Middle East Technical AVƵ.


Research

Doğuş Düzgün studies on the politics of place naming. More specifically, he is interested in the popular reception of place names and bottom-up practices in place naming processes. He is also interested in the international dimension of place names, which have traditionally been conceptualized as local or national phenomena.


Publications

  • Doğuş Düzgün, “The death of the author in place names: A Barthesian intervention into critical toponymy,” Geography Compass, 2021.
  • Doğuş Düzgün, “Toponymic Diplomacy: A New Conceptual Framework for Understanding the Geopolitics of Place Names,” Geopolitics, 2023.
  • Doğuş Düzgün, “Book Review: THE POLITICS OF PLACE NAMING: Naming the World,” Geographical Review, 2023.

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