Dr. Umut Türem

Department of Education
Sensengasse 3a
4th floor / 04.09
A-1090 Wien

Research areas

Umut Türem is a sociologist with a PhD from the Institute for Law and Society of the New York University. He is currently a visiting researcher at the Departments of Education and Near Eastern Studies of the University of Vienna. His main areas of interest are sociology of law, international/global political economy, and "the state" as a theoretical and empirical object of research. His latest research examines authoritarian political formations and their legal and socio-economic foundations, particularly in the semi peripheries of global political economy (such as Turkey). As such he is also interested in the training/education of bureaucratic cadres in the nexus of globalization and authoritarianism.