The Critical Urban Anthropology Association (CUAA) is pleased to award the 2023 Anthony Leeds Prize to Deniz Yonucu for her book, Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul (Cornell University Press, 2022). In this compelling ethnography, Yonucu queries the aims, operations, and outcomes of state-led counterinsurgency activities in an Alevi-dominated, working-class neighborhood of Istanbul with a long history of dissident political activity. Based on rigorous, long-term fieldwork, Yonucu presents a tightly argued analysis of counterinsurgency as a “productive and permanent war on politics,”
2023 Anthony Leeds Prize for Deniz Yonucu’s “Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul”
