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Join KMTS and Coşku Çelik of Kadir Has University on April 23 beginning at 12:30PM via Zoom for “Extractivism Across Production and Social Reproduction: Classes of Labour in Rural Turkey." 

Coşku Çelik is an Assistant Professor at Kadir Has University, Istanbul. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Middle East Technical University. After completing her Ph.D., she worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor at York University, Canada, between 2019 and 2022. Her research interest lies at the intersection of labour studies, development studies, and feminist political economy. She has worked extensively on natural resource extraction, rural development, political economy of work, and social reproduction in Turkey. Her current research investigates the structural links between authoritarian neoliberal rural development, food insecurity, and women’s work in the Global South. She is an international advisory board member of the Journal of Agrarian Change. Her book, Extractivism Across Production and Social Reproduction: Classes of Labour in Rural Turkey, has recently been published by Brill.