The browser you are using is not supported by this website. All versions of Internet Explorer are no longer supported, either by us or Microsoft (read more here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/windows/end-of-ie-support).

Please use a modern browser to fully experience our website, such as the newest versions of Edge, Chrome, Firefox or Safari etc.

Photo of Cansu Bostan by Emma Lord.
På svenska

Cansu Bostan

Postdoctoral fellow

På svenska
Photo of Cansu Bostan by Emma Lord.
Contact details
  • Email: cansu [dot] bostan [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se
Organisation
  • Department of Sociology of Law
  • Service point: 31
Webpage

Research Areas

  • Diasporization and Mobilization
  • Postcolonialism and Late-modern Colonial Occupations
  • Ethnographic Inquiries of Law
  • Foucault and Law

Current Research

Cansu Bostan’s current postdoctoral research, a multi-sited ethnography, seeks to develop an understanding of the de-localized means of pursuing justice and the transnational social actions associated with it, focusing on the Yazidi diaspora in Sweden and Germany. It explores the role of the Yazidi diaspora in political, legal, and investigative actions in the respective countries following the Yazidi Genocide. It investigates diasporization as a form of mobilization, integrating Foucauldian insights on counter-conducts into the field of legal mobilization. This project aims to: i. Provide an ethnographic mapping of the legal strategies adopted by the Yazidis; ii. Produce a nuanced, multi-sited ethnography of diaspora mobilization; iii. Examine the compatibilities/inconsistencies between international law and lived experiences; iv. Shed light on diasporization and mobilization as a never-static, dynamic process of composition.

Publications

Displaying of publications. Sorted by year, then title.

Background

Cansu Bostan holds a doctoral degree in Sociology of Law from Lund University. Her doctoral thesis, 'Games of Justice: Ethnographic Inquiries on Space, Subjectivity, and Law in Northern Kurdistan' explores ethnographic contextualizations of law and justice in Northern Kurdistan amidst ongoing war and colonial dynamics, drawing upon Foucauldian nominalism. Currently, she serves as an International Postdoctoral Fellow funded by the Swedish Research Council at Lund University's Department of Sociology of Law and the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.

Last updated: 15 Feb 2024