As a Cultural and Social Anthropologist focusing on River Basin , my research delves into the multi-dimensional significance of water for its inhabitants.

By examining the intersection of ecology, water management, and environmental challenges such as floods and droughts, I also explore how water issues are deeply embedded in the socio-political landscapes.

Research

Incorporating perspectives from Hydro-Feminism, I analyze how water is not only a critical ecological element but also a lens through which gendered power relations and environmental justice can be understood. Hydro-Feminism encourages a recognition of the fluid connections between bodies, ecosystems, and political structures, highlighting how access to water, its management, and its crises disproportionately affect women and marginalized communities.

By intertwining the concepts of water scarcity, ecological degradation, and feminist theory, my research reveals the cultural, ecological, and political dimensions of water in this historically significant region. This approach deepens our understanding of how the rivers that have nurtured civilizations are now central to discussions around environmental justice, resource management, and transboundary politics, while emphasizing the gendered implications of these challenges.
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Projects and Workshops

Through workshops along the rivers, I aim to strengthen water awareness. Through storytelling, I explore water and, above all, river narratives with participants—stories that are deeply rooted in the aesthetics of nature.

Together with participants we question how we can use and protect our water resources more consciously? Be it in practice when planting trees. Be it in workshops with kindergarten children, school children and advocates.
The last workshops took place on/over these rivers: Firat, Tigris, Ceq-Ceq, Zilan, Xabûr, Soran, Spree, Ruhr, Rhein, …