Book
Bozçalı, Fırat. 2025. Smuggling Law: Unsettled Sovereignties in Turkey’s Kurdish Borderlands. Stanford University Press
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Bozçalı, Fırat. 2024. “Proving Injustice: Smuggler Killings, Impunity Work, and Vernacular Counterforensics in Turkey’s Kurdish Borderlands.” American Anthropologist 126 (4): 567–80. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.28015
Bozçalı, Fırat. 2024. Corridors of Countersovereignty: Insurgency, Smuggling, and Post-nation-state Politics in Turkey’s Kurdish Highlands. Anthropological Theory, 24(3), 325-343. https://doi.org/10.1177/14634996241232755
Bozçalı, Fırat. 2023. “Partners in Crime: Smuggling Economies (Kaçak/Qaçax) and More-than-human Collaborations in Turkey’s Kurdish Borderlands,” Journal of Cultural Economy 17 (2): 249-263. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2023.2189144
Bozçalı, Fırat. 2020. “Probabilistic Borderwork: Oil Smuggling, Nonillegality, and Techno‐legal Politics in the Kurdish Borderlands of Turkey.” American Ethnologist 47, no. 1 (2020): 72–85. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.12866.
Book Chapters
Bozçalı, Fırat. 2023. “Bir Siyaset Zemini olarak Kürt Kaçakçılık Ekonomileri [A Terrain of Politics: Kurdish Smuggling Economies],” In Kürtler ve Cumhuriyet [The Kurds and the Republic] edited by Ayhan Işık, Gülay Kılıçaslan, Behzat Hiroğlu, Kübra Sağır. Ankara: Dipnot Yayınları.
Bozçalı, Fırat, and Rebecca Galemba, 2023. “Narrative: Crossing Borders,” In Elgar Handbook on Forced Migration edited by Karen Jacobsen and Nassim Majidi, Northampton: Elgar Publishing, pp. 109-114.
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.
Book Translations
Chatterjee, Partha. 2006, Mağdurların Siyaseti: Halk Siyaseti Üzerine Düşünceler [Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World]. (Trans. V. F. Bozçalı) İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları.
Book Reviews
Bozçalı, Fırat. “Review of A Thousand tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands,” PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, May 2025. Available at https://polarjournal.org/2025/03/22/a-thousand-tiny-cuts-mobility-and-security-across-the-bangladesh-india-borderlands/
Bozcali, Firat. “Review of Remaking Politics, Markets and Citizens: Governing Through Smoke by Ebru Kayaalp,” New Perspectives on Turkey, Vol. 54 No. 1, May 2016.
Bozcali, Firat. “Review of Bazaar and the State in Iran: The Politics of the Tehran Marketplace by Arang Keshavarzian,” Arab Studies Journal, Vol. XX No. 1, Spring 2012.
Bozcali, Firat. “Review of Blood and Belief: The PKK and the Kurdish Fight for Independence by Aliza Marcus,” Arab Studies Journal, Vol. XV No. 2 / Vol. XVI No. 1, Fall 2007/Spring 2008.
Invited Articles
Bozçalı, Fırat. 2024. Türkiye'nin Ortadoğu petro-coğrafyasındaki yeri: Kürt kaçak petrol ekonomileri ve Eleştirel Petrol Çalışmaları [Turkey’s Place in the Middle East Petro-Geographies: Kurdish Contraband Oil Economies and Critical Oil Studies] Toplum ve Bilim, Vol. 169/170: 7-31.
Bozçalı, Fırat. 2023. “Kürt Meselesi: Ne oldu? Ne olabilir? [The Kurdish Issue: What has happened? What can happen?].” Birikim 406-407: 173–180
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.
Bozçalı, Fırat. 2011. “The Illegal Oil Trade Along Turkey’s Borders,” Middle East Report, Number 261, Vol. 41 No. 4: 24-29.
Bozçalı, V. F. 2008. “Türkiye'nin Kürt Sorunu: 1999-2007 [Turkey’s Kurdish Question: 1999-2007]”, Birikim, Vol. 225: 9-19.
Work published online
Bozcali, Firat. 2020. “What Can Acronyms Tell Us? Media Coverage and the Limits of Proxy War Analysis in Northeast Syria,” Ethnographic Explainers, Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR), https://polarjournal.org/2020/01/22/what-can-acronyms-tell-us-media-coverage-and-the-limits-of-proxy-war-analysis-in-northeast-syria/
Bozcali, Firat. 2015. “Turkey’s Three-Front War,” Jadaliyya. https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/32412
Bozçalı, Fırat, and Yoltar, Çağrı. "A Look at Gezi Park from Turkey’s Kurdistan." Hot Spots, Cultural Anthropology website, October 31, 2013. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/396-a-look-at-gezi-park-from-turkey-s-kurdistan
Interviews
Podcast: #FıratBozçalı, Interviewed by Armanc Yildiz, Highlights, American Anthropologist Online Content, December 17, 2024. Available at https://www.americananthropologist.org/online-content/fratbozal
TV Interview: “Egemenin Sınırını Aşmak: Kaçakçılık, Fırat Bozçalı ile Söyleşi [Crossing the Sovereign’s Border: Smuggling, An Interview with Fırat Bozçalı],” Interviewed by Namik Kemal Dinç. Artı TV, December 21, 2024. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG3YbuE-C30&ab_channel=Art%C4%B1TV
Arıcan, Alize. 2020. “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, Also available at https://americanethnologist.org/panel/pages/features/interviews/firat-bozcali-probabilistic-borderwork-oil-smuggling-nonillegality-and-techno-legal-politics-in-the-kurdish-borderlands-of-turkey/edit
Radio Interview/Podcast: “Kurdish Referendum with Dr. Firat Bozcali” Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, first broadcasted by the KPFA in Berkeley, California, 9/29/2017/
Also available at https://soundcloud.com/vomekpfa-1/vomena-9291-the-kurdistan-referendum-with-dr-firat-bozcali
Editorial Work
Co-editor. 2024. Young Anthropology, Vol 5, “Perseverance, Courage, and Curiosity” Available at https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/ya/article/view/44573