Fahir Yumukov is a PhD candidate in Political Science and Sociology at Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, and a member of the Center on Social Movement Studies (COSMOS). He holds a BS in Political Science and Public Administration in Middle East Technical University (METU) and an MA in Political Science and International Relations in Boğaziçi University, where he focused on studies of emotions in social movements, social and political theory as well as transformation of the welfare state. He also has experience as a research assistant in Istanbul Kent University, and as a visiting researcher in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

His current research investigates development of collective action strategies in relation to prefigurative politics, with a particular focus on contemporary social movements in Turkey between 1980-2010s. This research relies on archival research, qualitative interviews and within-case comparisons.

Research interests: prefigurative politics, collective action strategies, theories of state, and social and political theory