Dr. Y谋ld谋z Atasoy received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Toronto in 1998. She joined the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at 大象传媒 in 2002. Prior to her position at 大象传媒, Dr. Atasoy was a Visiting Assistant Professor (2001-2002) at the University of Michigan-Flint; a Limited-Term Assistant Professor (1999-2001) at the University of Manitoba; and an Instructor (1998-1999) at Ryerson Polytechnic University. Her primary area of research deals with long-term historical changes in the world economy and the social, political, and economic dynamics that underlie them. Dr. Atasoy grounds her analysis in a theory of social change that links global relations of capital accumulation, political alliances and the transnational dynamics of social movements with the political and discursive tensions of national politics. This set of transnational processes problematizes the dichotomous conception of "global" versus "local," and thus presents a challenge to Euro-American models of economic development. Dr. Atasoy has also done research on the Islamic politics of the veil across transnational space. Her current research focuses on the political economy of food in Turkey and Brazil.

Dr. Atasoy draws her data from government documents, official statistics, national and international organizations, ethnographies, interviews, histories, and other secondary sources. Her work incorporates information from such fields as political science, economics, international relations, cultural studies, history, anthropology, and geography.

Dr. Atasoy has published in various journals including Journal of Agrarian Change, International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, Socialist Register, Studies in Political Economy, European Journal of Cultural Studies, Sociological Focus, Social Compass, Gender and Society, and Canadian Journal of Sociology.

PhD (Sociology), University of Toronto
MSc (Sociology), Middle East Technical University, Ankara-Turkey
BSc (Social Work), Academy of Social Services, Ankara-Turkey

Global political economy; political sociology; state restructuring; social change and development; political economy of agrifood systems; neoliberal urbanism; genealogies of citizenship; gender relations; Islamic politics; Turkey; comparative perspectives on Latin America.

• Conservation Policy and Its Livelihood Consequences for Indigenous Kamba Farmers in the Kibwezi Region of Kenya

Books

•  London & New York: Routledge, 2017.
  Book Reviews: New Perspectives on Turkey and International Sociology
• . London & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 (editor).
• . London & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
• . London & New York: Routledge, 2009 (editor).
• Turkey, Islamists and Democracy: Transition and Globalization in a Muslim State. London & New York: I.B. Tauris, 2005.
• Global Shaping and Its Alternatives. Aurora, ON: Garamond Press, 2003 (editor, with William K. Carroll).

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• Atasoy, Y谋ld谋z (2025). Science, Technology, & Human Values, 0(0). 
• Atasoy, Y谋ld谋z (2024). "Blame Covid-19 and Ignore the Long History of Industrial Standardisation in Agriculture: Supermarket and Global G.A.P. Standards, Exploitation of Migrant/Refugee Farmworkers, and Marginalisation of Small-Scale Farmers in Turkey." International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, 30(1): 47-67.
• Atasoy, Y谋ld谋z (2017). . Journal of Agrarian Change 17(4): 657-79.
• Atasoy, Y谋ld谋z (2013). , Journal of Agrarian Change 13(4): 547-70.
• Atasoy, Y谋ld谋z (2011). , International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society Vol. 24, N. 3, pp. 105-123. 
• Atasoy, Y谋ld谋z (2007). , Socialist Register 2008: Global Flashpoints: Reactions to Imperialism and Neoliberalism (Leo Panitch and Colin Leys, eds.), London, New York, Halifax: The Merlin Press, Monthly Review Press, Fernwood Publishing, pp. 121-140.
• Atasoy, Y谋ld谋z (2006). , European Journal of Cultural Studies Vol. 9, N. 2, pp. 203-221.
• Atasoy, Y谋ld谋z (2003/2004). 鈥楥osmopolitan Islamists in Turkey: Rethinking the Local in a Global Era鈥�,&苍产蝉辫;Studies in Political Economy Vol. 71/72, pp. 133-161.
• Atasoy, Y谋ld谋z (2003). 鈥�,&苍产蝉辫;Sociological Focus Vol. 36, N.2, pp. 143-158.
• Atasoy, Y谋ld谋z (1997). , Social Compass Vol. 44, N.1, pp. 83-99.

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

• Atasoy, Y谋ld谋z (2022). 鈥楾he Islamic Ethic and the Spirit of Turkish Capitalism: A Neoliberal History Making.鈥� Handbook of Sociology and the Middle East, eds. Gamze Evcimen and Fatma M眉ge G枚莽ek. London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 237-250.
• Atasoy, Y谋ld谋z (2021). 鈥楴eoliberalism and the Rise of Authoritarianism in Turkey under the AKP鈥�. The Global Rise of Authoritarianism in the 21^st Century: Crisis of Neoliberal Globalization and the Nationalist Response, ed. Berch Berberoglu, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 197-217.
• Atasoy, Y谋ld谋z (2017). 鈥楴eoliberalization and Homo Islameconomicus: The Politics of Women鈥檚 Veiling in Turkey鈥�. In The Routledge International Handbook of Veils and Veiling Practices, eds Anna-Mari Almila and David Inglis, 9,819 words. London: Routledge.
• Atasoy, Y谋ld谋z (2014). 鈥楾he Melding of Islam and Secularism: The Islamic Unthinking of State-Centric Politics in Turkey鈥�, in Are Knudsen and Mouin Rabbani (eds) Popular Protest, Politics and Post-Islamism in the New Middle East, London & New York: I.B. Tauris.
• Atasoy, Y谋ld谋z (2014). 鈥業ntroduction鈥�, in Yildiz Atasoy (ed.) Global Economic Crisis and the Politics of Diversity: Trans/regional Variations (In production), London and New York: Palgrave MacMillan. (11,612 words)
• Atasoy, Y谋ld谋z (2014). 鈥楥onclusion: Rethinking the Politics of Diversity鈥� in Y谋ld谋z Atasoy (ed.) Global Economic Crisis and the Politics of Diversity: Trans/regional Variations (In production), London and New York: Palgrave MacMillan. (9321 words)
• Atasoy, Y谋ld谋z (2009). 鈥業ntroduction鈥�, in Yildiz Atasoy (ed.) Hegemonic Transitions, the State and Crisis in Neoliberal Capitalism, London & New York: Routledge, pp. 1-20.
• Atasoy, Y谋ld谋z (2009). 鈥業slamic Engagement with European Universalism: State Transformation in Turkey鈥�, in Yildiz Atasoy (ed.) Hegemonic Transitions, the State and Crisis in Neoliberal Capitalism, London & New York: Routledge, pp. 166-185.
• Atasoy, Y谋ld谋z (2003). 鈥楨xplaining Globalization鈥�, in Y谋ld谋z Atasoy and William K. Carroll (eds) Global Shaping and Its Alternatives, Aurora, ON and Bloomfield, Conn.: Garamond Press and Kumarian Press, pp. 3-11.
• Atasoy, Y谋ld谋z (2003). 鈥楨xplaining Local-Global Nexus: Muslim Politics in Turkey鈥�, in Y谋ld谋z Atasoy and William K. Carroll (eds) Global Shaping and Its Alternatives, Aurora, ON and Bloomfield, Conn.: Garamond Press and Kumarian Press, pp. 57-80.
• Atasoy, Y谋ld谋z (2003). 鈥楢fterword: September 11 and the Reorganization of the World Economy鈥�, in Y谋ld谋z Atasoy and William K. Carroll (eds) Global Shaping and Its Alternatives, Aurora, ON and Bloomfield, Conn.: Garamond Press and Kumarian Press, pp. 195-206.
•  Atasoy, Y谋ld谋z (1998). 鈥楥itizenship and the Collapse of the State: The Ottoman Case鈥�, in Metta Spenser (ed.) Separatism: Democracy and Disintegration, Boulder, Colorado: Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 119-137.

Book Reviews

• Atasoy, Y谋ld谋z (2017). Review of Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism鈥檚 Stealth Revolution, Zone Books, 2015, SCTIW Review, March 7, 2017. 
• Atasoy, Y谋ld谋z (2011). Review of William Hale and Ergun Ozbudun, Islamism, Democracy and Liberalism in Turkey: The case of the AKP, London and New York: Routledge. Review of Middle East Studies, MESA Bulletin/ROMES 45(2): 237-239. 
• Atasoy, Y谋ld谋z (2005). (Invited) Review of Mansoor Moaddel, Islamic Modernism, Nationalism, and Fundamentalism: Episode and Discourse, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. Canadian Journal of Sociology Online,
• Atasoy, Y谋ld谋z (2002). (Invited) Review of Gul Ozyegin, Untidy Gender: Domestic Service in Turkey, Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Gender & Society 16(5): 755-756.

• Interview with BBC News, Turkish, on the presidential runoff election. 鈥淗ow decisive a role did voters' 'resentment' of the CHP play in the election results?鈥� . Interviewer: Merve Kara-Ka艧ka, 28 May 2023. 
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• Food, Climate Change & Migration - 
• Department of Sociology and Anthropology Fall 2020 Colloquium Series: Philip McMichael and Jason W. Moore

International Conference

• 鈥�Economic Crisis and the Reorganization of the Global Economy: Trans/regional Responses鈥�, Harbour Centre, 大象传媒, Vancouver, B.C. (9-10 September 2011) (Funded by SSHRC).
• 鈥�Hegemonic Transitions and the State鈥�, Harbour Centre, 大象传媒, Vancouver, BC. (23-24 February 2007) (Funded by SSHRC).