Pinar Dinc
Researcher
Dr. Pınar Dinç has a Ph. D. in Political Science from the Department of Government at the London School of Economics. Her research interests lie in the areas of nationalism, ethnicity, social movements, memory, diaspora and the conflict-environment nexus in the Middle East and beyond. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science. She leads the interdisciplinary Exploring Conflict- Environment Interactions for Sustainable Development and Conservation Project, ECO-Syria, since September 2023, which is funded by the Strategic Research Area: The Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW) at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University.
Nationalism, collective identity, conflict, diaspora, Turkey and Kurds, political ecology
Publications
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Satellite-based assessment of upstream regulation impacts on downstream reservoir dynamics and agricultural activity between the Turkey and Syria
Behshid Khodaei, Pinar Dinc, Mo Hamza
(2026)
AbstractRoots of destruction : exploring the genocide-ecocide nexus through the destruction of olive trees in occupied Palestine and Rojava
Pinar Dinc, Necmettin Türk
(2026) International Journal of Human Rights, 30 p.576-600
ArticleEnvironmental Politics in North and East Syria/Rojava : A Scoping and Conceptual Literature Review
Pinar Dinc, Maria Andrea Nardi, Mo Hamza
(2026) Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 26 p.74-89
ArticleWhy Kurds face an uncertain future in Ahmed Al-Shara’s rebel-led Syria
Pinar Dinc
(2025) The Conversation
Specialist publication articleThe Republic of Turkey and its Unresolved Issues: 100 Years and Beyond
(2025)
Anthology (editor)PKK leader’s call to disarm fuels hope for end to Kurdish conflict : but peace is not imminent
Pinar Dinc
(2025) The Conversation
Newspaper articleCMES Regional Outlook: The Rising Tide of Dissent in Turkey: A Call for Democracy and Justice
Pinar Dinc
(2025) CMES Regional Outlook
Web publication/Blog postWhy are Turkey and the PKK turning to peace – and can it last?
Pinar Dinc
(2025) The Conversation
Specialist publication articleDersim : A Century of State-Led Destruction and Resistance
Pınar Dinç
(2025) The Republic of Turkey and its Unresolved Issues: 100 Years and Beyond , p.53-68
Book chapterECO-Syria Workshop Report Green Transitional Justice in Post-Assad Syria
Pinar Dinc, Maria Andrea Nardi, Mo Hamza, Lina Eklund, Abdulhakim M. Abdi, et al.
(2025)
ReportHow does the PKK’s disarmament affect Turkey, Syria and Iraq?
Pinar Dinc
(2025) The Conversation
Specialist publication articleThe Drought Migration–Conflict Nexus: Was the Syrian Civil War Really Caused by Climate Change?
Pinar Dinc, Lina Eklund, Rupert von Der Kammer
(2025) UNU-INWEH Reports
ReportNature at War, Nature at Peace
Pinar Dinc, Lina Eklund, Abdulhakim M. Abdi, Mo Hamza, Maria Andrea Nardi, et al.
(2025)
Web publication/Blog postFires as collateral or means of war: challenges of environmental peacebuilding in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Lina Eklund, Pinar Dinc
(2024) Ecology & Society, 29
ArticleSyrian farmers in the midst of drought and conflict: the causes, patterns, and aftermath of land abandonment and migration
Pinar Dinc, Lina Eklund
(2024) Climate and Development, 16 p.349-362
ArticleCropland abandonment in the context of drought, economic restructuring, and migration in northeast Syria
Lina Eklund, Berit Mohr, Pinar Dinc
(2024) Environmental Research Letters, 19
Article”Studenternas aktivism visar en hoppfull strävan.”
Emma Eleonorasdotter, Dalia Abdelhady, David Bowling, Karin Zackari, Victor Pressfeldt, et al.
(2024) Sydsvenskan
Newspaper articleSyria’s self-governing democratic north-east comes under attack with country in flux
Pinar Dinc
(2024) The Conversation
Specialist publication articleCMES Regional Outlook: The Fall of the Assad Regime: Challenges and Opportunities for Rojava
Pinar Dinc
(2024) CMES Regional Outlook
ReportCMES Regional Outlook: The Turkish Elections
Pinar Dinc
(2023) CMES Regional Outlook Series
Web publication/Blog postFrom resolution to resecuritization: populist communication of the AKP’s Kurdish peace process in Turkey
Pinar Dinc, Ozge Ozduzen
(2023) New Perspectives on Turkey, 68 p.71-94
ArticleThe semantics and substance of contesting Turkishness in the diaspora
Pinar Dinc
(2023) Routledge Handbook on Middle Eastern Diasporas , p.159-170
Book chapterDrought, war and rural livelihoods in Syria’s northeast : a spatiotemporal perspective
Lina Eklund, Pinar Dinc
(2022)
AbstractThe Syrian Climate-Migration-Conflict Nexus: : An Annotated Bibliography
Gianna Angermayr, Pinar Dinc, Benedicte Anthony, Lina Eklund
(2022)
ReportIntroduction
İmren Borsuk, Pınar Dinç, Sinem Kavak, Pınar Sayan
(2022) Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Resistance in Turkey: Construction, Consolidation, and Contestation , p.1-10
Book chapterConsolidating and Contesting Authoritarian Neoliberalism in Turkey: Towards a Framework
İmren Borsuk, Pınar Dinç, Sinem Kavak, Pınar Sayan
(2022) Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Resistance in Turkey: Construction, Consolidation, and Contestation , p.11-59
Book chapterAuthoritarian Neoliberalism and Resistance in Turkey : Construction, Consolidation, and Contestation
(2022)
Anthology (editor)Dersim 1937-38 : Shifts and continuities in the state discourse and reasoning under Kemalism and Erdoğanism
Pinar Dinc
(2021) The Kurds in Erdogan's ‘New' Turkey : Domestic and International Implications
Book chapterForest Fires in Dersim and Sirnak : Conflict and Environmental Destruction
Pinar Dinc
(2021) Ecological Solidarity and the Kurdish Freedom Movement: Thought, Practice, Challenges, and Opportunities
Book chapterFighting Insurgency, Ruining the Environment : the Case of Forest Fires in the Dersim Province of Turkey
Pinar Dinc, Lina Eklund, Aiman Shahpurwala, Ali Mansourian, Augustus Aturinde, et al.
(2021) Human Ecology, 49 p.481-493
ArticleOn the Geopolitics of Fire, Conflict and Land in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Lina Eklund, Abdulhakim M. Abdi, Aiman Shahpurwala, Pinar Dinc
(2021) Remote Sensing, 13 p.1575
ArticleEuro-Who? Competition over the definition of Dersim’s collective identity in Turkey’s diasporas
Pinar Dinc
(2021) Turkish Studies, 22 p.49-73
ArticleThe content of school textbooks in (nation) states and “stateless autonomies” : A comparison of Turkey and the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (Rojava)
Pinar Dinç
(2020) Nations and Nationalism, 26 p.994-1014
ArticleThe Kurdish Movement and the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria: An alternative to the (nation-)state model?
Pinar Dinc
(2020) Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 22 p.47-67
ArticleDoğanın imhası, Türklük Sözleşmesi'nin gereği
Pinar Dinc
(2020) Yeni Özgür Politika
Newspaper articleDr. Pınar Dinç: Çatışmalar artınca yangınlar da çoğalıyor
Pinar Dinc
(2020) Evrensel
Newspaper articleAkademinin Halleri ve Akademisyenlere Reva Görülenler Üzerine
Pinar Dinc
(2020)
Web publication/Blog postÇözüm süreci sonrası Dersim'de orman yangınları ve çatışma ilişkisi
Pinar Dinc
(2020) Birikim , p.109-120
ArticleWhy is Turkey targeting Afrin?
Pinar Dinc, Kamran Matin
(2018) Red Pepper
Specialist publication articleTurkish decree on coloured uniforms for coup suspects could sow seeds of future unrest
Pinar Dinc
(2018) The Conversation
Specialist publication articleNovels and Short Stories as Products of Nationalist Competition: The Case of Dersim 1937-38 in Turkey
Pinar Dinc
(2017) Nationalities Papers, 46
ArticleCollective memory and competition over identity in a conflict zone: the case of Dersim.
Pinar Dinc
(2016)
Doctoral Thesis (compilation)LSE Middle East Centre Blog: “Will Turkey Remember the Syrian Citizenship Debate”
Pinar Dinc, Francesca Capoluongo
(2016) LSE Middle East Centre Blog
Web publication/Blog postLSE Eurocrisis Blog: “The EU-Turkey Deal: Ambiguities and Future Scenarios”
Pinar Dinc, Irem Aydemir
(2016) LSE Eurocrisis Blog
Web publication/Blog postLSE Middle East Centre Blog: “Dersim Region: The Switzerland of Turkey?”
Pinar Dinc
(2016) LSE Middle East Centre Blog
Web publication/Blog postBook review: Formation of the Turkish Nation‐State, 1920–1938
Pinar Dinc
(2015) Nations and Nationalism, 21
Review (Book/Film/Exhibition/etc.)Book review: The Alevis in Turkey and Europe: Identity and Managing Territorial Diversity
Pinar Dinc
(2014) Middle Eastern Studies, 50
Review (Book/Film/Exhibition/etc.)Discrimination and silence: minority foundations in Turkey during the Cyprus conflict of 1974
Pinar Dinc
(2012) Nations and Nationalism, 18
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Research Projects
Current Projects at CMES
Climate Stress Syria (2020-2023)
ECO-Syria: Exploring Conflict-Environment Interactions for Sustainable Development and Conservation (2023-2026), funded by the MECW Research Program
FIRE: Fighting Insurgency, Ruining the Environment (2018-ongoing)
Turkey Beyond Borders - Critical Voices, New Perspectives (2020-ongoing)