Christopher Houston is Discipline Chair of Anthropology at Macquarie University, Sydney. He has carried out extensive fieldwork in Turkey on Islamic social movements, nationalism, urban processes in Istanbul, and on the Kurdish issue. His most recent book is titled Istanbul, City of the Fearless: Urban Activism, Coup d’état, and Memory in Turkey (California University Press, 2020). He was President of the Australian Anthropological Society in 2014/2015.