Mine Yıldırım

Political scientist, urban researcher and animal rights advocate. He completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at Boğaziçi University, Department of Political Science and International Relations. In his master's thesis, he worked on Marxist and poststructuralist critiques of the understandings of subjectivity and difference underlying the Hegelian philosophy of recognition and conservative and liberal identity politics. He received his doctorate degree from the Department of Political Science at The New School University with his thesis titled "Between Care and Violence: Istanbul's Street Dogs". She is the coordinator of the Four-Legged City: City, Nature, Animal Studies Association, which carries out research on human-animal relations in urban areas of destruction and animal rescue activities in natural and climate crisis-related disasters. She works as an assistant professor at Kadir Has University. She lectures and conducts field research on critical animal studies, political ecology, climate crisis and ecological destruction, animal resilience and rescue, and geographies of isolation and confinement; organizes neighborhood and community based animal protection and rescue networks. She focuses on the relations of care and solidarity in conditions of debris, destruction and destruction, the cycles of labor exploitation, extortion and violence that accompany animal rights violations, and the unregistered violations and practices in capital accumulation processes.