Essay:
“Seismicity and Loss in Anatolia.”
Visualizing Climate and Loss, Harvard University Center for History & Economics, February 2023.
I contributed a short essay to the evocative Visualizing Climate & Loss project. In the post, I attempt to grapple with some of the historical dilemmas posed by 2023’s devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.
“How to understand a disaster of this scale? With a tragedy so superlative, which tools, psychological and intellectual, suffice? Is it possible to historicize 2023's disaster, without normalizing it?”
Header photo: Taxi to Göbekli Tepe, 2014.
Gallery (clockwise):
Metalworking in Gaziantep, 2014.
A man feeds fish in Şanlıurfa’s Balıklıgöl, 2014.
A rug featuring Turkish President Erdoğan’s portrait for sale in Gaziantep, 2014.
A Şanlıurfa lahmacun shop, 2014.