Speaker:
Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Brock University
Speaker Bio:
Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz is an interdisciplinary scholar of marxist, feminist, anti-racist, and queer thought. Through the theoretical methodology of concept formation, Gökbörü investigates the ways in which embodied social relations (i.e., race, gender, and sexuality) are conceptualized under contemporary late capitalism. He also explores the repercussions of these conceptualizations, particularly how they condition and generate cultural, performative, and political formations. His work is situated at the intersection of sociology, marxist social thought, gender studies, critical race theory, and human geography. Gökbörü has written on a range of diverse topics such as decolonization and marxism, social reproduction, the antinomies of classical sociological theory, protest cultures, the processes of urbanization, and subjectivity formation. What draws all his publications together is an analytical attention to the everyday, embodied, and lived manifestations of social, spatial, and political thought. The overarching focus of his research agenda is an examination of the ways in which subjective human praxis is negotiated through the conceptual practices of power in the process of history making.
This is hybrid event hosted in Geog 229 and on zoom.
