https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting daily 0.75 2026-03-27 https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting/expanding-imaginaries-collaborations-of-archival-ethnographic-and-performative-studies monthly 0.5 2025-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b187163d54a23c3c5c740/d6c25498-5651-4466-bc7b-262c80c2a1f1/WhatsApp+Image+2025-11-22+at+03.11.24.jpeg Blogs and News - “Expanding Imaginaries: Collaborations of Archival, Ethnographic, and Performative Studies” by Sertaç Sehlikoglu - Make it stand out Photo Credit: Christina Banapoulou https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting/why-imagination-matters-the-transformative-power-of-social-imaginaries-by-serta-sehlikoglu monthly 0.5 2025-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b187163d54a23c3c5c740/45699d27-b924-41a5-ac83-fe66cdebad87/Picture+1.png Blogs and News - “Why Imagination Matters, Why Takhayyul Matters: The Transformative Power of Social Imaginaries” by Sertaç Sehlikoglu Our recent ethnographic research in Istanbul's Balat and Fener neighbourhoods provides a striking example of how imagination shapes material reality (Sehlikoglu 2025b). In these historically Greek and Jewish neighbourhoods, we observed how different imaginative relationships to ecological heritage—specifically fig trees—reflected broader contestations over belonging, heritage, and identity. For the newer settler-residents who migrated to the area in the mid-20th century, fig trees represented a threat—seen as invasive species that could damage buildings and homes. This perspective wasn't merely practical; it was deeply embedded in a particular imaginative framework centred on the concept of fetih (conquest). The trees became proxy contestants in a broader struggle over belonging, with newer residents developing a destructive attitude toward them. As one resident explained: "They grow to burst a wall, collapse your entire house. Haven't you heard the saying 'planting a fig tree into one's household'?" This saying, meaning to cause growing destruction to a household, revealed their anxieties about these trees. Yet for former Greek and Armenian residents, fig trees held entirely different cosmological significance. They shared the same proverb, only the extended version, resulting in a contrasting position: "Those who cut a fig tree plant another into their household"—dooming anyone who destroyed these trees. For Jewish residents, too, fig trees held special significance, symbolising their own resilience and ability to thrive in challenging environments. https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting/new-series-published-fieldwork-in-the-global-south-methodology-agency-and-care monthly 0.5 2025-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b187163d54a23c3c5c740/d6a0890f-0298-4872-b139-00fe5057e809/2+-+turkish-coffee-coffee-traditional-1080x720.jpg Blogs and News - New Series Published: ‘Fieldwork in the Global South: Methodology, Agency, and Care’ - The Transformative Potential of Intimacy: Turkish Coffee Talk and Ethnographic Listening by Hazal Aydin Read the full article on Allegra Lab. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b187163d54a23c3c5c740/1dbdd06b-eb6f-4263-be59-e48f7ef69f70/4+-+Karachi-pic-by-author-810x1080.jpg Blogs and News - New Series Published: ‘Fieldwork in the Global South: Methodology, Agency, and Care’ - The Ethics of Researching the Far-Right in the Global South by Sumrin Kalia It was a hot sweltering Sunday afternoon in the bustling city of Karachi. I had come to the Bahar-e-Shariat mosque for ethnographic data collection for my research on Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan. Tehreek-e-Labbaik is an Islamist political party that has pursued an extremist, violent anti-blasphemy politics under the banner of “Sanctity of Prophethood.” It consolidated as a party in 2017 and participated in the 2018 elections in which it emerged as the 6th largest party and managed to win two provincial assembly seats. The party’s rapid emergence and success have come as a surprise to many in Pakistan. […] Read more… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b187163d54a23c3c5c740/5713a9d5-bb65-409f-814c-63467e794a35/6+-+ethicswithoutethics_fi.jpg Blogs and News - New Series Published: ‘Fieldwork in the Global South: Methodology, Agency, and Care’ - I would like to use this opportunity to reflect on the long journey of ethics that I, as the PI of a project taking place in eleven non-European countries, dealt with over several years. I raise the multiple challenges that emerged in the bureaucratic process in relation to politics of knowledge-making as native scholars. By native scholars, I do not aim to discuss nativeness – which is addressed in this collection by Mezna Qato. Instead, by using the term, I simply refer to the scholars whose expertise aligns with the geography they grew up in and the complexities this brings to the operations of ethics bureaucracies. […] Read more… https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting/expanding-research-horizons-learning-from-beyond-and-before-the-west-by-serta-sehlikoglu monthly 0.5 2025-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b187163d54a23c3c5c740/c2a3ed5d-94bb-47d9-85af-70365c2a3a09/Screenshot_20251121_133125_Instagram.jpg Blogs and News - “Expanding Research Horizons: Learning from Beyond and Before the West” by Sertaç Sehlikoglu - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting/feminist-transformative-politics-in-the-global-south-reflections-on-mays-conference-by-fatemeh-sadeghi monthly 0.5 2025-04-10 https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting/populism-strikes-back-by-sumrin-kalia monthly 0.5 2024-05-02 https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting/alternative-imaginaries-feminist-transformative-politics-in-the-global-south-panellists-announced monthly 0.5 2024-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b187163d54a23c3c5c740/494db00f-77dd-4de4-82d0-9cdaa50aa150/Event+Banner+10th+Anniversary.jpeg Blogs and News - Alternative Imaginaries: Feminist Transformative Politics in the Global South: Panellists Announced 18 May 2024, from 9:30am Lecture Theatre G22 in the North - West Wing, UCL Institute for Global Prosperity https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting/meet-the-artist monthly 0.5 2023-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b187163d54a23c3c5c740/923ec9f7-1dfc-4f99-bffb-843371a96cd3/meet+the+artist.jpg Blogs and News - Meet the Artist - Make it stand out Location: Zoom link: https://ucl.zoom.us/j/95151398811 Meeting ID: 951 5139 8811 Book your calendars for the remaining events: Digital Open Studio. June 15th, 2023 -Open Studio Event Contemporary Islamic Art Panel. June 16th, 2023 -Art Talk Series https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting/book-review-turkey-and-its-discontents-by-simon-a-waldman-and-emre-caliskan monthly 0.5 2023-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b187163d54a23c3c5c740/863716fd-04c2-4ef9-b39c-f83141c692ae/Waldman-and-Caliskan-Turkey-final-web.jpeg Blogs and News - Book Review: Simon A. Waldman and Emre Caliskan’s “Turkey and its Discontents” by Sertaç Sehlikoglu https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting/imperial-threads-the-artists-reflection monthly 0.5 2023-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b187163d54a23c3c5c740/1fe512fb-a0c9-4fea-b1b1-a01e26ada084/Screenshot+2023-05-22+at+15.01.36.png Blogs and News - Imperial Threads: The Artist’s Reflection - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting/reflections-on-imperial-threads-workshop-series-at-the-igp monthly 0.5 2026-03-27 https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting/asia-in-africa-ethics-and-intimate-interconnections-beyond-the-west monthly 0.5 2023-05-05 https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting/following-on-from-the-first-takhayyul-conference-2022 monthly 0.5 2023-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b187163d54a23c3c5c740/16873e26-ada3-47c7-8bf9-778eaba798c7/WhatsApp+Image+2022-12-03+at+23.02.36.jpg Blogs and News - Notes on the first Takhayyul Conference “Poetics and Politics of Imagination” (UCL, December’22) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting/at-the-south monthly 0.5 2022-12-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b187163d54a23c3c5c740/55d504d2-e394-42fa-88e2-ae697db73c0d/pexels-photo-12225671.jpg Blogs and News - “At the South” by Mezna Qato - Make it stand out Image Credit: Sameeh K. on Pexels https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting/conducting-ethnographic-fieldwork-in-the-global-south-a-roundtable-on-methodology-agency-and-care monthly 0.5 2022-11-20 https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting/drowning-pakistan-by-sumrin-kalia monthly 0.5 2025-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b187163d54a23c3c5c740/f50ccfd4-3984-424c-9ede-dfebee790196/thumbs_b_c_b7bfc6c3ba7d2d3281d986d8d3b77fb0.jpg Blogs and News - “Drowning Pakistan” by Sumrin Kalia - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting/iran-on-fire-once-again-women-are-on-the-vanguard-of-transformative-change-by-fatemeh-sadeghi-and-vrinda-narain monthly 0.5 2022-12-06 https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting/a-new-podcast-series-takhayyul-nativeness-and-emergent-issuesserta-sehlikoglu-fatemeh-sadeghi-sumrin-kalia-and-mezna-qato monthly 0.5 2025-04-10 https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting/poetics-and-politics-of-imagination monthly 0.5 2023-04-29 https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting/what-do-imaginations-of-haunted-landscapes-tell-us-about-everyday-politics-erol-saglam monthly 0.5 2022-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b187163d54a23c3c5c740/1d59e869-3046-40f9-bb21-920270f61f73/thumbnail_20220617_114512.jpg Blogs and News - “What do Imaginations of Haunted Landscapes Tell us about Everyday Politics?” By Erol Saglam - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting/the-populist-rage-by-sumrin-kalia monthly 0.5 2022-05-17 https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting/call-for-papers-poetics-and-politics-of-imagination-causes-and-obstacles-to-prosperity monthly 0.5 2022-06-27 https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting/women-of-the-land-of-sun-by-fatemeh-sadeghi monthly 0.5 2022-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b187163d54a23c3c5c740/bd41c851-a6e7-4886-a6e5-d3f64f87680e/Fatemeh%27s+blog+piece%2C+Women+of+the+Land+of+Sun.jpg Blogs and News - “Women of the Land of Sun” by Fatemeh Sadeghi - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting/workshop-heritage-in-the-margins-forgetting-remembering-rewriting monthly 0.5 2022-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b187163d54a23c3c5c740/b3105195-26d7-49fb-99fc-46c75608ddf1/Workshop+January+20+image.jpg Blogs and News - Workshop “Heritage in the Margins: Forgetting, remembering rewriting” - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting/empires-of-memory monthly 0.5 2022-01-25 https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting/tahayyl-seminar-sisters-in-the-mirror monthly 0.5 2022-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b187163d54a23c3c5c740/1620823559458-Q9L4YWXQ23A8IY3ELWI1/Copy+of+Template-3.png Blogs and News - Takhayyul Seminar “Sisters in the Mirror” - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting/takhayyul-seminar-the-outside-migration-as-life-in-morocco monthly 0.5 2021-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b187163d54a23c3c5c740/1620294734183-VJWHOTLBI3289HPSOS0J/May+2021+Template.jpg Blogs and News - Takhayyul Seminar ‘The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco’ https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting/a-world-not-theirs monthly 0.5 2022-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b187163d54a23c3c5c740/1618909877954-9LT7XXFLL6JQO1ZOXMHE/image+1.jpg Blogs and News - “A World not Theirs” by Fatemeh Sadeghi https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting/religion-prosperity-and-imagining-bosnian-islam monthly 0.5 2022-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b187163d54a23c3c5c740/1618909296411-3TTIHV1FMM30XMM7DRIX/20190515_144208.jpg Blogs and News - Religion, Prosperity, and Imagining Bosnian Islam https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting/tahayyl-seminar-say-what-your-heart-desires-women-prayer-and-poetry-in-iran monthly 0.5 2022-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b187163d54a23c3c5c740/1615375210694-AGGVDIGWRPHS5GZAQ0SD/April+2021+Event.png Blogs and News - Takhayyul Seminar “Say What Your Heart Desires. Women, Prayer and Poetry in Iran” https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting/takhayyul-seminar-politics-of-rightful-killing-civil-society-gender-and-sexuality-in-weblogistan monthly 0.5 2021-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b187163d54a23c3c5c740/1614762398474-OF9FHJGCKMRBTPIBN9XN/March+2021+Event.png Blogs and News - Takhayyul Seminar “Politics of Rightful Killing: Civil Society, Gender and Sexuality in weblogistan” https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting/takhayyul-seminar-the-migrant-dream-of-stability monthly 0.5 2021-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b187163d54a23c3c5c740/1612350169343-XAAF9YPV3CZ16J4ZAMQB/February+Event-2.png Blogs and News - Takhayyul Seminar: ““The migrant dream of stability” https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting/takhayyul-seminar-remembrance-of-ottoman-times-past-and-the-politics-of-the-balkan-present-notes-on-ferhadija-mosque-and-makovia-caravanserai monthly 0.5 2021-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b187163d54a23c3c5c740/1609837041296-FZVZZ31PGG2LRY6CAG9B/J.Walton+2021+Event.png Blogs and News - Takhayyul Seminar: “Remembrance of Ottoman Times Past and the Politics of the Balkan Present: Notes on Ferhadija Mosque and Maškovića Caravanserai." https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting/takhayyul-seminar-under-the-banner-of-islam-turks-kurds-and-the-limits-of-religious-unity monthly 0.5 2020-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b187163d54a23c3c5c740/1606904519767-OXLQ5EGWROP7LNAH5S54/12_2020_Gulay+poster.png Blogs and News - Takhayyul Seminar “"Under the Banner of Islam: Turks, Kurds, and the Limits of Religious Unity" https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting/blog-post-two-mz9h5 monthly 0.5 2020-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b187163d54a23c3c5c740/1602857918367-H2H4WCK24DGL87M0UZI3/Henig+poster.png Blogs and News - Takhayyul Seminar: “Remaking Muslim Lives” by David Henig https://www.takhayyulproject.com/ourwriting/blog-post-one-8r829 monthly 0.5 2020-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b187163d54a23c3c5c740/1601991994495-9KJ8X8EL5643XVVJMQRE/Darryl+Li+Poster.png Blogs and News - “The Universal Enemy” by Darryl Li and Imagining Other https://www.takhayyulproject.com/events daily 0.75 2025-11-26 https://www.takhayyulproject.com/about daily 0.75 2020-10-07 https://www.takhayyulproject.com/team daily 0.75 2025-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b187163d54a23c3c5c740/216898b8-ddad-42ba-9e62-0814e7b72c35/WhatsApp+Image+2024-02-02+at+23.12.45.jpg Research Team - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b187163d54a23c3c5c740/a1bae371-8d9d-48dc-8abb-16e423626472/Fatemeh+Sedeghi+Picture1.jpg Research Team - Make it stand out Dr Fatemeh Sadeghi Fatemeh Sadeghi is a political scientist and gender studies scholar. She recently the UCL’s Center for Global Prosperity as a researcher of Takhayyul project in 2020. Formerly, she held an O’Brien Fellowship at the Faculty of Law at McGill University. As a renown scholar and public intellectual, Sadeghi has published several books and academic articles in both English and Persian. Her full publications can be read here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b187163d54a23c3c5c740/35211c75-ffa8-46cf-a114-2369b4e3a252/thumbnail_IMG_3554+2.jpg Research Team - Dr Sumrin Kalia Sumrin Kalia Sumrin Kalia is a political anthropologist and studies political Islam and civil society while placing them in the broader framework of political culture. Her research deploys ethnographic tools to explore cultural and social processes which shape political activism in South Asia. In her PhD dissertation, she explored networks of civic engagement among Islamist associations in Pakistan. She has also worked on issues of policymaking and urban governance. Her project at Takhayyul will examine the role of imagination in generating expectations and actions for the future. Her publications can be found here: https://bgsmcs.academia.edu/SumrinKalia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b187163d54a23c3c5c740/1602076347809-JJS8GH25QXUFVPNQRCIU/Mezna%252BQato%252BHeadshot.jpg Research Team - Dr Mezna Qato Mezna Qato is historian of modern Palestine. Her research and teaching interests centre on histories and theories of social, economic and political transformation amongst refugee and stateless communities, the politics and practice of archives, and global micro-histories of movements and collectivities in the Middle East. In Takhayyul Project, Qato develops a study of everyday socialities of imagination in the long century of Palestinian liberation work. Her updates can be followed here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b187163d54a23c3c5c740/1601978106059-YVDY3Q7TOGYSE40W9NBR/thumbnail_Layli%2BUddin%2BProfile%2BPicture.jpg Research Team - Dr Layli Uddin Layli Uddinis lecturer in history of South Asia at Queen Mary University of London. She completed her PhD in History at Royal Holloway, University of London, in 2016. She is a social and intellectual historian of modern South Asia, bringing together interdisciplinary questions on religion, class, mass politics and popular cultures. She is currently working on her first book based on the PhD, Land of Eternal Eid. Her details can be found here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b187163d54a23c3c5c740/1601975991715-KYOLUAQ3R8QQNXI0NTRE/james%2Bcaron.jpg Research Team - Dr James Caron [SOAS, Senior Research Associate] James Caron is Lecturer in Islamicate South Asia, in the Department of History, Religions, and Philosophies at SOAS University of London. He specializes in borderland studies, empire, violence, and the politics of poetic knowledge, embodiment, and metaphysics. His research centers on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Persianate world from 1550 to now, and draws on Pashto, Persian, and Urdu forms of knowledge. His Departmental profile can be found here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b187163d54a23c3c5c740/8c9e135b-931a-49a2-a342-5a045c65352c/Hazal+foto.jpg Research Team - Ms Hazal Aydın Hazal Aydın is a PhD candidate in Design, Technology and Society program at Koç University, Istanbul. She received her BA from Bogazici University Sociology and her MA from Koç University’s Comparative Studies in History and Society. Her MA thesis focused on the construction of gendered subjectivities and silence culture in Turkey’s theatre industry. She is specialized in gender and sexuality, subjectivity, media studies, culture and performance studies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b187163d54a23c3c5c740/7509b14b-327a-46b3-8a8e-088e8193de3a/Laurelie%2BRae%2Bstudio%2B1.jpg Research Team - Ms Laurelie Rae Ms Laurelie Rae [Artist-in-Residence] Laurelie Rae is a teaching artist and a museum education consultant who specializes in traditional and Islamic art methods and techniques. Rae completed her master's degree in 2016 at the Prince's Foundation School of Traditional Arts before moving to Istanbul to continue her academic and practical studies of traditional and contemporary art. Her areas of interest are Islamic ceramics, drawing & illustration. She is the author of "Islamic Art & Architecture: Memories of Seljuk & Ottoman Masterpieces". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b187163d54a23c3c5c740/60df67ff-447f-4be5-a814-efeea70d0528/Pymm+Team+Picture.jpg Research Team - Mr Alexander Pymm Mr Alexander Pymm [Project Administrator] Alexander Pymm is an MSc student on the International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies programme at the London School of Economics. He has worked in the UK House of Commons for the past 2 years, providing research and communications support to Members of Parliament. 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