RC48 Members’ Presentations and Talks
Dr Kaan Ağartan
RC48 Vice President (2023 – 2027)
Dr Kaan Ağartan is Associate Professor of Sociology at Framingham State University. His main areas of academic research include social movements, comparative economic and social development, and critical labor studies. His authored and co-authored publications appeared in various journals including New Global Studies, Global Labour Journal, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Sociology Compass, European Journal of Turkish Studies, New Perspectives on Turkey, and Capital and Class. He is the co-editor (with Ayşe Buğra) of Reading Karl Polanyi for the Twenty-first Century: Market Economy as a Political Project (Palgrave, 2007). His forthcoming book Gezi: Making of a New Political Community in Turkey will be published by Edinburgh University Press.
A conversation with Dr Kaan Ağartan, British Academy Visiting Fellow and ISA RC48 Vice President
In this talk, Dr Kaan Ağartan discussed the prospects and challenges for social movements and radical democracy in Turkey in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, devastating earthquakes, and a deeply polarizing election.
Dr Kaan Ağartan’s presentation regarding Social Movements and Radical Democracy in Colombia and Turkey at the XX ISA World Congress of Sociology in Melbourne, Australia (June 25 – July 1 2023)
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