Research Fellow at the University of Milan Department of Social and Political Sciences, she is working on youth spaces in marginalized neighbourhoods. She holds a PhD in Sociology at the University of Padova focusing on urban movements and identity politics, and another PhD in Political Science at Sabanci University (Istanbul) focusing on security studies and human rights. She has worked as a visiting researcher at the University of California Santa Cruz and the University of Otago. She has also taken part in a joint European project as a post-doctoral researacher, conducted by Sabanci University and KU Leuven, entitled "Assessing interdependence between the European Union and Turkey: Policies and cooperation in regional and global governance". Among her other contributions in various academic journals, she is also the author of the monograph Counter-terrorism and the Prospects of Human Rights: Securitizing Difference and Dissent published by Palgrave Macmillan.
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Internationally renowned as the romantic setting of Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, the formulation of ‘love’ the city of Verona has come to champion is premised on traditionalist heteronormative scripts. But maybe something is going to change
