Devrim Umut Aslan

Engaging in interdisciplinary research projects during and after my doctoral studies, my primary focus has been on exploring various aspects of retail and consumption within the context of the service society, from a sociocultural perspective. During these investigations, I have particularly recognized the significance of the dimensions of temporality, spatiality, materiality, and sensoriality, establishing mutually constitutive interrelationships with consumption practices. Employing a Practice Theory perspective, often combined with Actor Network Theory, Affect Theory, Phenomenology, and Feminist Theory, and utilizing visual ethnographic methods, I have conceptualized and empirically examined how retail, consumption, and service practices, in alliance with various technologies and devices, influence society, cities, and the environment at large, leading to the emergence and maintenance of interpersonal relations, commonalities, distinctions, tensions, cultural identities, and inequalities.

My teaching activities closely align with my research areas, covering a diverse range of subjects such as retailing, consumption, shopping, fashion, cultural analysis, entrepreneurship, spatiality, and markets within the context of a rapidly evolving social world and the ongoing development of the service society.