Dr. Beril Ocaklı

Researcher, ZOiS

• C5: From Centralized Energy Supply to Decentralized Sustainability – Workshop (with Sabine von Löwis)

Beril Ocaklı is a critical geographer and institutional economist. She has been a research associate at ZOiS since March 2022.

Beril Ocaklı studied International Economics at the Corvinus University of Budapest in Hungary and Development Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science in the UK. After her studies, she led several transdisciplinary projects on resource governance on behalf of the German government, the EU and other multilateral organisations. Before she came to ZOiS, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She also completed her PhD in Human Geography there and still maintains her connection as a guest scholar. She is currently leading the BMBF-funded project China, the EU and Economic Development in Eastern Europe and Eurasia at ZOiS.

 CV Beril Ocaklı

• Critical geopolitics and infrastructural processes in Central Asia and the South Caucasus
• Authoritarian governance and repression through resource extraction and development paradigms
• Activism and protest movements for just human-environment relations
• Interdisciplinary, multi-method co-laboration and research 

Ocakli, Beril; Niewöhner, Jörg. Making and unmaking gold as a resource. Resistant socionatures in Maidan, Kyrgyzstan. In: Geoforum, 131 (2022), pp. 151–162.

The Violence in Kyrgyz Gold. ZOiS Spotlight 32/2022

Ocakli, Beril; Krueger, Tobias; Janssen, Marco A; Kasymov, Ulan. Taking the discourse seriously: Rational self-interest and resistance to mining in Kyrgyzstan. In: Ecological Economics, 189 (2021), pp. 1-12

Ocakli, Beril; Krueger, Tobias; Niewöhner, Jörg. Shades of conflict in Kyrgyzstan: National actor perceptions and behaviour in mining. In: International Journal of the Commons, 14 (2020), 1, pp. 191–207