Sedef Arat-Koç

Dr. Arat-Koç’s research interests include immigration policy and citizenship, especially as they affect immigrant women; transnational feminism; politics of imperialism; racialization and the politics of racism; and reconfiguration of social and political identities under neoliberal globalization. Currently, she is working on “whiteness” in Turkey as a cultural, political and class identity in the context of neoliberalism and post-cold war geopolitics.

Recent Publications

Arat-Koç, S. (2018). Culturalizing politics, hyper-politicizing ‘culture’: ‘White’ vs. ‘Black Turks’ and the making of authoritarian populism in Turkey. Dialectical Anthropology, 42(4), 391–408.

Arat-Koç, S. (2018). Migrant and domestic and care workers: Unfree labour, crises of social reproduction and the unsustainability of life under ‘vagabond capitalism.’ In Handbook on the International Political Economy of Gender (Vol. 1–Book, Section, pp. 411–426). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Arat-Koç, S. (2018). Power in/through Speaking of Terror: The Geopolitics and Anti-Politics of Discourses on Violence in Other Places. In S. Perera & S. Razack (Eds.), At the Limits of Justice (Vol. 1–Book, Section, pp. 356–379). University of Toronto Press.

Arat-Koc, S. (2020). Decolonizing Refugee Studies, Standing up for Indigenous Justice: Challenges and Possibilities of a Politics of Place. Studies in Social Justice, 14(2), 371.

Das Gupta, T., James, C. E., Andersen, C., Galabuzi, G.-E., Maaka, R. C. A., Arat-Koç, S., & Palmater, P. D. (2018). Race and racialization: Essential readings (Second). Canadian Scholars.

Perera, S., Razack, S., Arat-Koç, S., & Jamal, A. (2014). At the limits of justice: Women of colour on terror. University of Toronto Press.  

Sample of supervised ComCult projects:

2019 - Niki Mohrdar; Thesis: Managing Contradictions of Multiculturalism: Narratives of Belonging and Being Canadian Among Canadian Middle Eastern Women