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Nurhak Polat is a Researcher at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Bremen, since 2025. His work critically examines the interplay between data, politics, surveillance, and government in digital societies, with a regional focus on Turkey. He is affiliated with the Research Group 'Soft-Authoritarianism' and collaborates with interdisciplinary teams like 'Worlds of Contradiction' at Central European University.
- PhD in European Ethnology, Humboldt University of Berlin (2017)
- Magisterstudium in Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Vienna (2008)
- Bachelor in Social Anthropology, Istanbul University (2003)
His research explores how data infrastructures and digital technologies shape authoritarian networks, democratic possibilities, and social contradictions. Key themes include data-based governmentality, pandemic surveillance, and counter-data practices. He employs multi-local ethnographic methods to analyze power dynamics in digital governance and reproductive technologies.
Polat's scientific contributions include a monograph on reproductive technologies in Turkey and co-edited volumes on soft authoritarianism. He has received stipends from the Österreichische Orient-Gesellschaft Hammer-Purgstall and actively organizes academic events on digital authoritarianism and solidarity in academia.
He contributes to collaborative projects like 'YISARES' and 'Politics of Repression – Strategies and Resistances in Scholarship,' emphasizing interdisciplinary dialogue and critical engagement with authoritarian shifts in digital contexts.
