Çağdaş Dedeoğlu – The Center for Critical Research on Religion

Çağdaş Dedeoğlu

Çağdaş Dedeoğlu is a posthuman scholar of political science, specializing in political ecology of religion, science, and security. Currently, he is a research associate of The Center for Critical Research on Religion. He also teaches philosophy and humanities at Yorkville University, Toronto. Previously, he worked as an assistant professor of political science at the Turkish National Defense University’s Ataturk Institute for Strategic Studies and Istanbul Arel University as well as a research scholar at the University of Florida’s Department of Religion.

Dedeoğlu’s research interests animate his involvement with research organizations including the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture and the Political Ecology Network. You can learn more about his research and publications on his website or follow him on Twitter.

Selected Publications

Articles

Dedeoğlu, Ç., and C. E. Dedeoğlu. 2020. “Information Infrastructures and the Future of Ecological Citizenship in the Anthropocene.” Sci. 9(3). https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci9010003.

Dedeoğlu, Ç. 2019. “The Ontology of Security and Its Implications for Maritime Security.” Güvenlik Stratejileri Dergisi (GDS) / Journal of Security Strategies 15(32): 631-654. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17752/guvenlikstrtj.668182

Dedeoğlu, Ç. 2019. “Cosmology of the Ergene River Pollution.” Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia (Autumn), no. 38. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/8879.

Amiero, M., Andritsos, S. Barca, R. Brás, S. R. Cauyela, Ç. Dedeoğlu, M. Di Pierri, L. de Oliveira Fernandes, F. Gravagno, L. Greco, L. Greyl, I. Iengo, J. Lindblom, F. Milanez, S. Pedro, G. Pappalardo, A. Petrillo, M. Portaluri, E. Privitera, A.C. Sarı, and G. Velegrakis. 2019. “Toxis Bios: Toxic Autobiographies–A Public Environmental Humanities Project.” Environmental Justice 12(1) : 7-11. DOI : https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2018.0019

Dedeoğlu, Ç. 2018. “Islam and Climate Engineering.” In Playing God? Multi-faith Responses to the Prospect of Climate Engineering (Forrest Clingerman et al.). Highland Park, NJ: GreenFaith. (link)

Books

Dedeoglu, C. 2013. Guvenligin Dogasi Doganin Guvenligi (The Nature of Security, the Security of Nature), ISBN: 9786055218591, Istanbul: Paraf Yayinlari.

Book Chapters

Dedeoğlu, Ç. 2020. “The Modern is not Secular: Mapping the Idea of Secularism in the Works of Steve Bruce, Charles Taylor, and Talal Asad.” In Revisiting Secularism in Theory and Practice: Genealogy and Cases, Springer, 105-125 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37456-3_5

Book Reviews

Dedeoğlu, Ç. 2020. Francesca Ferrando, Philosophical Posthumanism. The Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture (forthcoming)

Dedeoğlu, Ç. 2019. Murat Akan, The Politics of Secularism: Religion, Diversity, and Institutional Change in France and Turkey. Critical Research on Religion 7(2): 208-219. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/2050303219832357

Dedeoğlu, Ç. 2018. Alan Mikhail, Under Osman’s Tree: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2017), 336 pp., $45.00 (pbk), ISBN: 978-0-226-42717-1. The Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 12(3): 343-345. doi: http://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.36555

Dedeoğlu, Ç. 2017. Review of Azza Basarudin, Humanizing the Sacred: Sisters in Islam and the Struggle for Gender Justice in Malaysia, Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2016, 330 pp., ISBN 978-0-295-99531-1. Religion and Gender 7(2): 262–264. doi: http://doi.org/10.18352/rg.10224

Dedeoğlu, Ç. 2017. Amin Saikal, Iran: At the Crossroads, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2016, 181 pp. £45.00 (hbk). Nations and Nationalism 23: 996–998. doi: 10.1111/nana.12335

Conference Papers

Dedeoglu, C., 2015. “Nature of Knowledge and Knowledge of Nature in Islam”, The Fifth Asian Conference on Ethics, Religion & Philosophy, ISSN: 2187-476X, Osaka, Japan.

Dedeoglu, C., 2013. “From Radical Islamism to Radical Environmental Transformism”, POLITSCI’13 Conference Proceedings: New Opportunity and Impasses / Theorizing and Experiencing Politics, ISBN: 978-605-5120-74-0, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Translated Books (English-Turkish)

Said, E. 2019. Hümanizm ve Demokratik Eleştiri (Humanism and Democratic Criticism). Istanbul: Alfa Yayınları (forthcoming)

Ruggiero, V.R. 2017. Eleştirel Düşünme için Rehber (Beyond Feelings – A Guide for Critical Thinking). İstanbul: Alfa Yayınları (link)

Blog Posts

Dedeoğlu, Ç. 2017. “Myth, Religion, and Science: Politics of Framing Anthropogenic Climate Change.” The Center for Critical Research on Religion Blog (link)

Dedeoğlu, Ç. 2017. “The Theory of Evolution and Monotheism in Turkey: A Political Ecology Debate.” The Center for Critical Research on Religion Blog (link)

Dedeoglu, C. 2016. “An Undisciplined Rationality”, ENTITLE Blog (link)

Dedeoglu, C. 2015. “Homo-Religiosus and the Banalization of the Ecological Crisis”, ENTITLE Blog (link)