Publications

Bozçalı, Fırat. 2020, “Probabilistic Borderwork: Oil Smuggling, Non-Illegality and Techno-legal Politics in the Kurdish Borderlands of Turkey.” American Ethnologist. Vol. 47. No. 1, pp. 72-85.

AE interviews Fırat Bozçalı about “Probabilistic Borderwork: Oil Smuggling, Nonillegality, and Techno-legal Politics in the Kurdish Borderlands of Turkey”,” American Ethnologist website, 21 September 2020, available at this link

Bozçalı, Fırat. 2019 “Money for Life: Border Killings, Compensation Claims and Life-Money Conversions in Turkey’s Kurdish Borderlands,” In Turkey’s Necropolitical Laboratory: Democracy, Violence and Resistance, edited by Banu Bargu, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Bozçalı, Fırat. 2014, “Hukuki-Maddi bir kategori olarak sınır: Türkiye-Iran sınırında kaçakçılık, mahkeme süreçleri ve sınırın ‘resmi’ temsilleri [Border as a Legal-Material Category: Smuggling in the Turkish-Iranian Border, Legal Processes, and Everyday Construction of the ‘Official’ Borders]” Toplum ve Bilim, Vol. 131: 135-162.

Bertaux, Sandrine, and Firat Bozcali. 2013, “Curbing Marriages of Convenience? Female Labor Migrants, Patriarchal Domination, and the 2003 Biopolitical Securitization of Turkish Citizenship” In X. Guillaume & J. Huysmans (Eds.) Citizenship and Security: The Constitution of Political Being, Abingdon, UK and New York: Routledge.  

Bozçalı, Fırat. 2011, “The Illegal Oil Trade Along Turkey’s Borders,” Middle East Report, Number 261, Vol. 41 No. 4: 24-29.