Consultation hours: monday, 11:30 – 13:00, thursday, 09:30 – 11:30
Onur Inal
Academic third-party funded project staff
- Department of Near Eastern Studies
Research interests
- Ottoman and post-Ottoman environmental history
- Political ecology
- History of technology
- Human-animal studies
- History of tourism
Qualifications
History, PhD, A Port and Its Hinterland: An Environmental History of Izmir in the Late-Ottoman Period, University of Arizona
1 Jan 2007 → 14 Aug 2015
Award Date: 14 Aug 2015
Anatolian Civilizations and Cultural Heritage Management, MA, Levantine Heritage in Izmir, Koc University
15 Sept 2014 → 15 Dec 2016
Award Date: 15 Dec 2006
Political Science and International Relations, BA, Yeditepe University
1 Oct 1998 → 15 Jun 2003
Award Date: 15 Jun 2003
Employment
Academic third-party funded project staff
Department of Near Eastern Studies
University of ViennaWien, Austria
1 Mar 2025 → present
Postdoc
Department of Near Eastern Studies
University of ViennaWien, Austria
1 Mar 2019 → 28 Feb 2025
Publications
Tabiat, Tahayyül ve Tahakküm: Erken Cumhuriyet Dönemi’nde İdeoloji, Su ve Ulus İnşası
Inal, O., 2023, In: Toplumsal Tarih Akademi. 1, 2, p. 90-105Faisal Husain , Rivers of Sultan. The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 264 pp.
Inal, O., Nov 2022, New Perspectives on Turkey, 67, p. 137-139.19. yüzyıl İzmir’i ve Cumhuriyet Dönemi çevre tarihi
Inal, O. (Editorial Journalist), 26 Oct 2022Authoritarianism, Populism, and the Environment in Turkey
Inal, O., 1 Oct 2022, In: Environmental history. 27, 4, p. 634-641 8 p.Antroposentrizmin Ötesinde: Türkiye Modernleşme ve Kent Tarihinde Çalışan Hayvanlar
Inal, O. & Küçük, M. E., 2022, Ekoloji: Bir Arada Yaşamın Geleceği. Yıldırım, M. & Bayındır, D. (eds.). Istanbul: Tellekt, p. 399-425İmparatorluğun Meyveleri: 19. Yüzyıl Sonunda İncir, Kuru Üzüm ve Batı Anadolu’nun Dönüşümü
Inal, O., 2022, İktidar Tohumları. Osmanlı Çevre Tarihi Üzerine İncelemeler. İnal, O. & Köse, Y. (eds.). Istanbul: İletişim Yayınları, p. 111-144Çevre Tarihi Perspektifinden Geç Dönem Osmanlı İzmiri ve Hinterlandında Göç, İskân ve İş Gücü
Inal, O., Dec 2021, İzmir ve Çevresi: Toplumsal, Ekonomik ve Kültürel Değişimin Yüz Yılı, 1850–1950. Polatel, M. & Kosukoğlu, N. (eds.). Istanbul: Hrant Dink Vakfı Yayınları, p. 191-204Carrying the Burden of the City: ‘Working Animals’ from the Ottomans to the Present Day
Inal, O. (Editorial Journalist), 16 Sept 2021Tracks of Change: Labor, Nature, and the Izmir-Aydın Railroad
Inal, O. (Editorial Journalist), 28 Apr 2021Nourishing the Soil, Feeding the Nation
Inal, O. (Editorial Journalist), Apr 2021One-Humped History: The Camel as Historical Actor in the Late Ottoman Empire
Inal, O., Feb 2021, In: International Journal of Middle East Studies. 53, 1, p. 57-72 16 p.Das Kreuzkamel als Fortbewegungs- und Transportmittel in Westanatolien: Eine nutztiergeschichtliche Perspektive
Inal, O., 2021, In: Traverse. Zeitschrift für Geschichte – Revue d’histoire . 2021, 2, p. 43-55Review of On Barak, “Powering Empire. How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization.”
Inal, O., 2021, Diyâr. Journal of Ottoman, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies, 2021, 3, p. 134-136.Review of Ayten Alkan, Ed., “Şehir ve Hayvan”
Inal, O., Dec 2020, YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies, 2, p. 214-215.Der Weg zur Republik
Inal, O., Nov 2020, Damals. Das Magazin für Geschichte, 11, p. 22-29.Andrea E. Duffy, Nomad's Land: Pastoralism and French Environmental Policy in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World
Inal, O., Oct 2020, Nomadic Peoples, 24, 2, p. 344-347 4 p.Review of Andrea E. Duffy, “Nomad’s Land: Pastoralism and French Environmental Policy in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World.”
Inal, O., 2020, Nomadic Peoples, 24, 2, p. 344-347.Fruits of Empire: Figs, Raisins, and Transformation of Western Anatolia in the Late Nineteenth Century
Inal, O., Nov 2019, In: Environment and history. 25, 4, p. 549-574 26 p.The Making of an Eastern Mediterranean Gateway City: Izmir in the Nineteenth Century
Inal, O., Sept 2019, In: Journal of Urban History. 45, 5, p. 891-907 17 p.Transforming Socio-Natures in Turkey: Landscapes, State and Environmental Movements
Inal, O. & Turhan, E. (Editor), 10 Jul 2019, London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis. (Routledge Environmental Humanities).Mount Uludağ: The Making of Turkey’s St. Moritz
Inal, O., 2018, Leisure Cultures and the Making of Modern Ski Resorts: A Transcultural Account. Strobl, P. & Podkalicka, A. (eds.). Basingstone: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 71-92 (Global Culture and Sport Series).Review: The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire by Sam White
Inal, O., Aug 2013, In: Environment and history. 19, 3, p. 374-375 2 p.Environmental History as an Emerging Field in Ottoman Studies: An Historiographical Overview
Inal, O., 2011, In: Osmanli Ara stirmalari - The Journal of Ottoman Studies. 38, p. 1-25 25 p.Women's Fashions in Transition: Ottoman Borderlands and the Anglo-Ottoman Exchange of Costumes
Inal, O., 2011, In: Journal of World History. 22, 2, p. 243-272Women's Fashions in Transition: Ottoman Borderlands and the Anglo-Ottoman Exchange of Costumes
Inal, O., 2011, From traditional attire to modern dress: modes of identification, modes of recognition in the Balkans (XVIth-XXth centuries). Vintilă-Ghiţulescu, C. (ed.). 1 ed. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, p. 144-174Activities
Turkologentag 2023
Köse, Y. (Organiser), Dilsiz Hartmuth, A. (Organiser), Prochazka-Eisl, G. (Organiser), Inal, O. (Organiser) & Dagyeli, J. (Organiser)
Cambridge University Press (Publisher)
Inal, O. (Reviewer)
Third NEHT Workshop 2021: Environmental Histories of the Ottoman and post-Ottoman World
Köse, Y. (Organiser), Inal, O. (Organiser) & Horn, E. (Organiser)
Ringvorlesung Turkologie
Köse, Y. (Organiser), Dagyeli, J. (Organiser), Schwarz, F. (Organiser), Inal, O. (Participant), Dilsiz Hartmuth, A. (Organiser), Winiwarter, V. (Participant), Gustafson, J. M. (Participant), Moon, D. (Participant), Pehlivan, Z. (Participant), Breyfogle, N. B. (Participant), Dolbee, S. (Participant), Williams, E. (Participant), Husain, F. (Participant), Féaux de la Croix, J. (Participant), Ergin, M. (Participant), Polianichev, O. (Participant), Shopov, A. (Participant) & Gratien, C. (Participant)
Travelling Practices and the Emergence of Tourism in the Middle East (16th - 20th Centuries)
Köse, Y. (Organiser), Nölle-Karimi, C. (Organiser), Inal, O. (Organiser), Walter, T. (Participant), Cobb, E. (Participant), Eshaghi, P. (Participant), Jaquier, C. (Participant), Nurgat, Y. (Participant), Farridnejad, S. (Participant), Yildiz, G. (Participant), Yolun, M. (Participant), Sbaiti, N. (Participant), Woodall, G. C. (Participant), Ecker, T. (Participant), Adak, U. (Participant), Güney, A. (Participant), E. Duffy, A. (Participant), Bentlage, B. (Participant), Koçyiğit, Ö. (Participant) & Abed, S. (Participant)
Environmental History Week
Inal, O. (Organiser)
Istanbul Unbound
Inal, O. (Organiser)
Travelling Practices and the Emergence of Tourismin the Middle East (16th-20th Centuries)
Köse, Y. (Organiser), Inal, O. (Organiser) & Nölle-Karimi, C. (Organiser)
Austrian Environmental History Cluster (External organisation)
Inal, O. (Member)
Brill (Publisher)
Inal, O. (Reviewer)
Working Group "The State Multiple II: Practices, Resources and Sites of Planning"(2020)
Köse, Y. (Participant), Becker, P. (Participant), Echterhölter, A. M. (Participant), Färber, A. (Participant), Felten, S. (Participant), Inal, O. (Participant), Tantner, A. (Participant), Möller Török, B. Z. (Participant), Weichselbraun, A. (Participant) & Wolf, B. J. (Participant)
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (Journal)
Inal, O. (Reviewer)
Turkish Historical Review (Journal)
Inal, O. (Reviewer)
Türkeibezogene Forschungen am Institut für Orientalistik
Köse, Y. (Speaker), Dilsiz Hartmuth, A. (Speaker) & Inal, O. (Speaker)
Ringvorlesung Turkologie: Türkebezogene Forschung in Österreich
Köse, Y. (Organiser), Caglar, A. (Participant), Chovanec, J. (Participant), Dirim, I. (Participant), Dilsiz Hartmuth, A. (Participant), Inal, O. (Participant), Dursun, A. E. (Participant), Posch, W. (Participant), Günay, C. (Participant), Cicek, H. (Participant), Aksünger-Kizil, H. (Participant), Aslan, E. (Participant), Yuksel Pecen, A. S. (Participant), Cakir, A. (Participant) & Kara, C. (Participant)
Second NEHT International Workshop
Inal, O. (Organiser)
Middle Eastern Animals: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Early Modern to Contemporary Times
Köse, Y. (Organiser), Inal, O. (Organiser) & Mikhail, A. (Organiser)
American Society for Environmental History (External organisation)
Inal, O. (Member)
Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities (Journal)
Inal, O. (Advisory board member)
Environment and history (Journal)
Inal, O. (Editorial board member)
Journal of Urban History (Journal)
Inal, O. (Reviewer)
Türkeiforschung im deutschsprachigen Raum
Chovanec, J. (Organiser), Inal, O. (Organiser), Wozniak, U. (Organiser) & Cloeters, G. (Organiser)
First NEHT International Workshop
Inal, O. (Organiser)
Environment and history (Journal)
Inal, O. (Reviewer)
European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) (External organisation)
Inal, O. (Member)
Press/Media
Mensch, Natur und Macht im Osmanischen Reich
Köse, Y. & Inal, O.
19/06/19
1 Media contribution
Türkeibezogene Forschungen am Institut für Orientalistik
Köse, Y. (Speaker), Dilsiz Hartmuth, A. (Speaker) & Inal, O. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
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