Turkey has been a major actor in Syria, and since 2016 its involvement has had a strong military component with three cross-border operations: Operation Euphrates Shield (August 2016-March 2017), Operation Olive Branch (January 2018-March 2018) and Operation Peace Spring (October 2019-November 2019). Turkey justified each of the three operations on the basis of terrorism, which, as the country contended, not only threatened Syria’s territorial integrity but also Turkish national security.

In this talk, Isleyen argues that Turkey’s military action in Syria exemplifies the creation of future geographies through anticipatory action, which is linked to particular logics and practices of governing the Kurds. The following questions will addressed during the talk: What future geographies were anticipated through the three cross-border military operations that Turkey has conducted in Northern Syria between 2016 and 2018? What futures were predicted and made actionable? How was geography imagined, (re-)produced or deterred in the anticipation of future Syria? And what precautionary and

Additional presentation:

While missiles fly, cement gets delivered: Reconstruction, destruction and anticipatory governance in Ukraine

by Miranda Loli:

Miranda Loli examines Ukraine's reconstruction as a contested temporal and political space, analysing how international actors navigate the paradox of rebuilding infrastructure while destruction continues.

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