Bengi Akbulut, PhD
Assistant Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment

Office: |
S-H 1255-43 Henry F. Hall Building, 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W. |
Phone: | (514) 848-2424 ext. 2507 |
Email: | bengi.akbulut@concordia.ca |
Availability: |
Office Hours: Wed 11 am-1pm |

Teaching activities
Courses Taught
ENVS 620 Adv Topics in Env Assessment: Economics for Environmentalists
GEOG 355-A Resource Analysis and Management
GEOG 398-B Special Topics in Geography: Ecological Economics
Publications
Edited Books
Neoliberal Turkey and its Discontents: Economic Policy and the Environment in the Justice and Development Party Era (co-edited with Fikret Adaman and Murat Arsel), I.B. Tauris: London.
Book Chapters
“Commons Against the Tide: The Project of Democratic Economy”, in Adaman, F., Akbulut, B. & M. Arsel (eds) Neoliberal Turkey and its Discontents: Economic Policy and the Environment in the Justice and Development Party Era. I.B. Tauris: London, 2017.
“The Radioactive Inertia: Deciphering Turkey’s Anti-Nuclear Movement” (with Fikret Adaman and Murat Arsel), in Adaman, F.,Akbulut, B. & M. Arsel (eds) NeoliberalTurkey and its Discontents: Economic Policy and the Environment in the Justice and Development Party Era I.B. Tauris: London, 2017.
“ ‘A Few Environmentalists’? Interrogating The‘Political’ in the Gezi Park”, (with Fikret Adaman andMurat Arsel) in Adaman, F., Akbulut, B.& M. Arsel (eds) Neoliberal Turkey and its Discontents: Economic Policy and the Environment in the Justice and Development Party Era, I.B. Tauris: London, 2017.
“Commons”, In Spash, C.L. (ed) The Routledge Handbook of Ecological Economics: Nature and Society. Routledge: Abingdon,2017.
“ ‘A Few Trees’ in Gezi Park: Resisting the Spatial Politics of Neoliberalism in Turkey", In Sandberg, L. A., Bardekjian, A.& S. Butt (eds) Urban Forests, Trees,and Green Space: A Political Ecology Perspective. Earthscan/Routledge, 2014.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“The Decimation and the Displacement of Development Economics” (with Yahya M. Madra and Fikret Adaman), Development and Change, 46 (4), 2015
“Environmentalism of the Malcontent: Anatomy of an Anti-Coal Power Plant Struggle in Turkey” (with Fikret Adaman and Murat Arsel), Journal of Peasant Studies, 42 (2),2015
“Neither Poor Nor Rich But “Malcontent”: An Anotomyof Contemporary Environmentalisms”, Marmara University Journal of Political Sciences, 2 (1), 2014
“Community-Based Resource Management in Turkey: ‘Je Participe, Tu Participes, Il Participe,…Ils Profitent’”, Development and Change, 43 (5), 2012
Short Essays
“Development as Injustice: An Evaluation of Justice and Development Party’s Development Strategies”, Perspectives: Political Analysis andCommentary from Turkey, 13.15. (http://tr.boell.org/de/node/2675)
“From Global Governance to Domestic Policies, They Keep ‘Missing Women’”, Perspectives: Political Analysis and Commentary from Turkey, 12.15. (http://tr.boell.org/de/2015/05/12/global-governance-domestic-policies-they-keep-missing-women)
“Hitting the Wall: Erdoğan’s construction-based, finance-led growthregime”, (with Fikret Adaman, Yahya M. Madra and Şevket Pamuk), The Middle East in London, April-May, 2014.
“The Unbearable Charm of Modernization: Growth Fetishism and the Making of State in Turkey” (with Fikret Adaman), Perspectives: Political Analysis and Commentary from Turkey, 5.13. (https://tr.boell.org/sites/default/files/perspectives_5_toplu_eng.pdf)