Ziya Kaya

Ziya Kaya is a PhD student in the School of Anthropology interested in simultaneous, mutually-reinforcing transformations at the intersection of rural livelihoods and environmental and technological change. He has conducted research in and outside a small-scale greenhouse in western Turkey. He questions how humans (workers, owners, and villagers) and nonhumans (plants, animals, and infrastructures) negotiate social and environmental justice amidst the controlled ecology of the greenhouse and volatile market conditions. Ziya holds a Master’s degree in comparative studies in history and society from Koç University, and a bachelor’s degree in political science and international relations from Marmara University.