Marlene Schäfers is associate professor at the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Her work examines the impact of state violence on intimate and gendered lives, voice and memory, and the politics of death and the afterlife, with a focus on the Kurdish regions and modern Turkey. Her current research project focuses on the political afterlives of martyrs, saints, and heroes, aiming to conceptualise afterlives as a central site for the exercise, nourishment, and sustenance of sovereignty.

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