Research interests Political economy; globalization; political sociology; development studies; gender relations; cultural politics; Islamic politics; Turkey; Middle East, comparative perspectives on Latin America.
Dr. Yildiz Atasoy, Associate Professor of Sociology and Associate Member in the Latin American Studies Program, received her Ph. D. in Sociology from the University of Toronto in 1998. She joined the Department of Sociology and Anthropology in 2002. She is also a member of the Centre for Global Political Economy and the graduate program in Development Studies at SFU. 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. Based on her research of transnationally linked, yet locally distinct Islamist practices, Dr. Atasoy explores the process of entanglement between Islamic and Western ways which is refashioning current global transformations. She grounds her analysis in a theory of social change that links global relations of capital accumulation (including patterns of trade, investment, and labour migration), military alliances and the transnational dynamics of Islamic political 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 a transnational space. 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 journals including Studies in Political Economy, European Journal of Cultural Studies, Sociological Focus, Social Compass, Gender and Society, and Canadian Journal of Sociology. Dr. Atasoy's books include:
Dr. Atasoy's work-in-progress books include:
Recent published journal article:
Dr. Atasoy has also organized an international Hegemonic Transitions and the State conference on the post-Cold War reshaping of global capitalism (co-hosted by the Centre for Global Political Economy and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University) 23-24 February 2007. |
