Talk
I am giving a talk at the Galatasaray University Toplumsal Araştırmalar Merkezi.
They have an awesome series of talks, titled “Kır ve Kent İlişkisine Yeniden Bakmak: Tarımsal Gıda Alanındaki Sosyo-Ekonomik Dinamikler”. I will be talking about the most recent food crisis, and whether the neo-peasant model can actually offer a sustainable solution to what we are going through.
Excited!
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I presented two papers on neo-peasants at the EISA PEC 2022. It was exciting! Lots of really interesting conversations and really good feedback! The political economy division (Political Economy Beyond Boundaries) is doing great work! I am very excited to be a part of it this year!
(Also, the conference was in Athens, and I finally got to have Galakto Boureka again! I mean, conference and all was great, BUT nothing beats the awesomeness I had in Kozmikon at Faliro!!!!)
Workshop
I presented my research on the neo-peasants at the second session of the Agrarian Live seminars.
Overall a great discussion on the increasing heterogeneity of agrarian structures in Turkey. Loads of instructive feedback!
Looking forward to the next session!
To watch the video of the discussion:
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I am excited for the upcoming European Sociology Satellite Event: Challenging Rural Studies in Turkey: Present State and New Imaginaries.
Here is the conference program!
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Agrarian Live seminars have begun!
First session was held on June 1st (after a week of delay), 2022 where Dr. Atakan Buke and Prof. Zulkuf Aydin discussed some quite difficult questions on Marxist conceptualizations of peasantry. And, I was moderating!
Next session, I will be on the hot seat. Looking forward to the discussion at the end of June!
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I am thankful to the ASFS-AFHVS conference organizers for giving us the opportunity to present our work virtually. Pandemic seems to be somewhat fizzling out, but travel is still difficult and costs are, well, unbearable! Still, thanks to the virtual route, I got to present some of my findings on factors that influence neo-peasants’ preferences when buying farm and/or land to settle. Interesting panel discussion!
Here is the conference program!
Workshop
Gastronomi’de Ne Pişiyor? is Ozyegin University Department of Gastronomy’s new monthly seminar series on the faculty’s new, cutting-edge research.
I kicked off the series with a talk on my ongoing research on neo-peasantry. Some very very lively online and face to face discussion!
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Historical Materialism Istanbul 2022 was amazing! I presented a paper on neo-peasants, and got some really good questions and feedback. Certainly food for thought! I need to work on that paper more before I send it out for publication!
Here is the conference program. Recently there seems to be quite a bit of interest on agriculture, rural communities and food systems!
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Are modern farmers cyborgs? Or have farmers always been cyborgs?
Come here me speak about neo-peasant farmers and Haraway’s cyborgs and decide for yourself! I am presenting at STS Turkey 2021!
Title: Cyborg Çiftçiler ve Yeni Agro-Ekolojik İlişkilenmeler: Çiftçilik, Tarım ve Gıdanın Instagram’daki İzdüşümleri
For the program, see below!
Conference
It’s been a while, and I missed the conference experience. So when the folks at Food Matters and Materialities said that the conference was on, I was excited. I even did an interview!
Find my conference presentation info here and my interview here! Hoping to get back to the conference scene with more presentations soon!!
Podcast
I was the guest for Ozan Zeybek & Hilal Alkan’s Havadan Sudan podcast. We talked about a whole bunch of things – food, politics, gastronomy, Istanbul, neoliberalism. Find the episode below. Happy listening!
Talk
I will be speaking on Feeding Istanbul for the Food Group of Birkbeck Institute for Social Research.
Registration is open for those who want to listen, and I think a recording will be made available later on as well.
Here is a link to the event page
Looking forward to seeing you all there!!
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For those of you who might be interested, I will be discussing biopolitics, neoliberalism and right to subsistence/right to food.
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>>> I am going to be talking to Asli Aksoy of Eli Belinde Tarim about her experiences as a woman entrepreneur in agriculture. Looking forward to the conversation! – particularly to hearing about her journey to the top as Turkey’s premium asparagus grower! Come join us for this amazing talk today (March 9th, 2021) at 3.40 PM on Zoom!!
Interview
Birgün
I did an interview with the Turkish daily Birgün on the effects of the pandemic on the food supply chains and urban provisioning. A bit depressing, but well worth the read.
TL, DR: Poverty has consequences – and food insecurity, malnutrition and hunger are among the most important. While this in itself is not news, how the economic downturn fueled by the pandemic has made all of this so much more entrenched for so many more is.
Published on 02/13/2021
Interview
>>> I talked to Eylul Senses and Can Kocak from vesaire.org on the future of our food system. We discussed whether alternative food networks can be a feasible, food system-wide solution for us all and even if not, what they can teach us (TLDR: the value of organizing, engaging and participating as citizens in politics a la food; in other words, the value of democracy!!!) . It was a slightly depressing conversation, but ended on a positive note. Read the whole interview here: https://vesaire.org/candan-turkkan-kapitalizm-salgin-gida-tedarik-zincileri/
Talk
>>> I was moderating the Webinar “Geçmişten Günümüze İstanbul’un Yemek Kültürü ve Gıda Tedariği” .
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>>> I was moderating “12th Sustainability Talks” with our guest Prof. Mustafa Koç from Ryerson University. Check out the details here!
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>>>I was talking about the “Politics of Life and Death at Istanbul’s Food Banks” in Orient Institut Istanbul (pretty depressing stuff, TBH, but interesting nonetheless!!)
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>>>I was talking about databases vis-a-vis food banks and precarity in ODTU Tekpol 2019 (Middle East Technical University) (seriously, is there/can there be a non-/dis-/a-political database??? Or are they ‘merely’ tools/technologies of domination???)
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>>> I was moderating the World Food Day Conference, 16 October 2019, Ozyeğin University. (very interesting presentations. let me know if you want to know more about it!!)
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>>> I was at 2nd International Symposium on Men and Masculinities / Masculinities: Challenges and Possibilities in Troubling Times at Ozyegin University.
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>>> I was talking about the complexities and contradictions of Slow Food, aggrandizing of ‘traditional’, ‘slow’ cuisines and the latent exploitation of women’s reproductive labour in the domestic sphere as a part of Yerel ve Kırsal Kalkınma Uzmanlık Eğitimi Sertifika Programı at the Ozyegin University.
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>>> I was talking about the uses of databases by local state agencies to grant and deny access to food banks in İstanbul Technical University Ayazağa Campus as a part of STS TURKEY 2019.
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>>> I was talking about “Sovereignty, Safety and Crisis of Food” in Ekofest 2019 Kazdağı. To see the full program:
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Association for the Study of Food and Society and the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society 2019 Conference
Theme: Finding Home in the “Wilderness”: Explorations in Belonging in Circumpolar Food Systems Explorations in Belonging in Circumpolar Food Systems
Location: Anchorage, Alaska, USA, June 26-29, 2019
Panel: Food, Hunger and Charity (Theme: The Food System: Access, Availability, and Utilization)
The Deserving Subjects: Subject-Formation in Istanbul’s Food Banks
Link: https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/academics/college-of-arts-and-sciences/programs/ASFS/schedule/ms1-food-hunger-and-charity.cshtml
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I was at the Sustainable Food Conference at Fairmont Quasar Istanbul.
Well-worth checking out!
Were you there? Have we met? Shoot me an email <candanturkkan@gmail.com> and lets get back in touch!
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Western Political Science Association 2018 Annual Meeting
Section 16: Political Thought: Historical Approaches
Panel 16.05: Rights, Foundings, and the Limits of Sovereignty
Provisioning the City, Feeding the Body Politic: Limits of Classical Sovereignty
Friday, March 30, 2018, 8:00 – 9:45 AM
Talk
An Embodied Leviathan: Conceptualizing Sovereignty through the Provisioning of Ottoman Istanbul
Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Feb. 9, 2018, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Selected Talks
An Embodied Leviathan: Conceptualizing Sovereignty through the Provisioning of Ottoman Istanbul
Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Feb. 9, 2018, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Unbounding Ethnography
University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Sociology; Nov. 4, 2016, Amherst, MA, USA
Advanced Feminist Certificate Graduate Student Conference
Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies University of Massachusetts Amherst; April 24, 2014, Amherst, MA, USA
Cultures of Resistance: Social Movements, Collective Action and Civil Society
Sociology Student Association of the New School for Social Research; April 2, 2011, New York, NY, USA
Candan Turkkan 