Asli Yuruk

Asli is a PhD researcher working at the intersection of critical political economy, economic geography, and infrastructure studies. Her broad interest lies in the political–economic mechanisms through which urban infrastructure projects are constituted as investable objects through state regulation, policy discourse, and forms of expert knowledge. She examines how these arrangements depoliticise distributive conflicts, redistribute risk onto public institutions and socio-ecological systems, and normalise infrastructure as a vehicle for development and growth.

Her PhD thesis focuses on how digital infrastructures (particularly hyperscale and colocation data centres) reorganise energy, water and land governance across territories. She examines the legal, financial and discursive arrangements that enable digital infrastructure to function as an asset class while producing new forms of socio-ecological inequality.

Prior to her PhD, she completed a BSc in Economics and Management (jointly conferred by Istanbul BILGI University and the London School of Economics), an MA in Global Markets and Development (University of Glasgow and University of Barcelona) and an MA in History of the Global Markets (University of Göttingen).