- Tel: +90 312 596 44 44 - 45
- sbbf@asbu.edu.tr
Assist. Prof. Dr. Zehra YAŞIN
Historical sociology, environmental sociology, political ecology, development studies, the Middle East studies, environmental movements
zehra.yasin@asbu.edu.tr
Faculty member of ASBU Sociology Department
Biography
Education:
2014 PhD, Sociology, State University of New York at Binghamton, NY, USA
Dissertation: Capital, Nation-state and Nature: Oil and Reproducing Mosul in the Modern World Economy (Nominated for Distinguished Dissertation Award)
2008 MA, Sociology, State University of New York at Binghamton, NY, USA
2006 BA, Economics, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey
2006 BA, Business Administration (double major), Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey
Work Experience:
2021- Asisstant Professor, Sociology, ASBU, Ankara, Turkey
2010-2021 Development Specialist (with a focus on rural and social development, food and agriculture, urban farming and permaculture, grant and project management), Ankara Development Agency (public authority), Ankara, Turkey
2006-2010 Teaching Assistant and Instructor (Fall 2009), Department of Sociology, SUNY, Binghamton, NY, USA
2005-2006 Part-time Research Assistant, Department of International Relations, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey
2004-2005 Part-time Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey
Research Interests
- Environmental sociology, political ecology, socio-ecological change, (rural and urban) environmental justice movements (global, the Middle East and Turkey)
- Historical sociology of development, resource extraction and extractive frontiers (mining frontiers in Turkey and the Middle Eastern oil frontiers, global)
- Historical sociology of nation-state formation, theories of state (the Middle East)
- Social theory, comparative-historical methodology, comparative epistemologies
Work in Progress:
"The Socio-Ecological Question and The Global Environmental Justice Movement as an Antisystemic Movement", Forthcoming.
Passage to the Oil Frontier: Capital, Nature and Socio-ecological Change in Mosul, 1800-1958. Book manuscript.
Courses Taught
Ecological Change in Historical Perspective (SUNY, Binghamton)
Currently teaching: Social Theory (ASBU, Master class), Introduction to Sociology (ASBU)
Teaching assistant: Social Theory (SUNY, Binghamton), Global Social Change (SUNY, Binghamton), Macroeconomics (Koc University, Istanbul)
Galleries