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    • The Frankfurt School
      • Walter Benjamin
      • Ernst Bloch
      • Theodor W. Adorno
      • Max Horkheimer
      • Erich Fromm
      • Leo Löwenthal
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      • Ernst Bloch Assoziation
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        • Comparative Islamic Studies
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        • Crisis and Critique
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        • Historical Materialism
        • Implicit Religion
        • Islamic Perspective Journal
        • Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
        • Journal of the American Academy of Religion
        • Journal of Contemporary Religion
      • K-Z
        • Method and Theory in the Study of Religion
        • Middle East Studies Online Journal
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        • Thesis Eleven
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Çağdaş Dedeoğlu

Dr. Çağdaş Dedeoğlu currently teaches social science and humanities courses at Yorkville University in Toronto, ON (Canada). He is the founder of The Posthuman Lab and the founding co-editor of the Journal of Posthumanism. He also an affiliated researcher at the Digital Life Institute’s AI Implications Cluster hosted by Ontario Tech University, Brock University’s Posthumanism Research Institute, and the US-based Center for Critical Research on Religion. Previously, he worked as an assistant professor of political science in Istanbul, Turkey, as well as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Florida’s Department of Religion.

He specialized in security, religion, and technology with an emphasis on ecological transformation. He serves as an associate editor for “SDGs in Africa and the Middle East Region” that will be published within the Springer Major Reference Works Series, “Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals – Regional Perspectives”. He has been involved with grassroots ecological movements, as well as research organizations including the Political Ecology Network, Middle Eastern Studies Association, International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, the International Research Network for the Study of Science & Belief in Society, and the European Society for Environmental History.

You can learn more about his research and publications on his website or follow him on Twitter.

Selected Publications

Articles

Leal Filho, W., Dedeoglu, C., Dinis, M.A.P., Salvia, A.L., Barbir, J., Voronova, V., Abubakar, I.R., Iital, A., Pachel, K., Huthoff, F., Sharifi, A., Yang, P.J., Klavins. M., Emanche, V.O. (2022). Riverine Plastic Pollution in Asia: Results from a Bibliometric Assessment. Land, 11(7), 1117. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11071117

Buran Utku, S., Dedeoglu, C., Kumbet, P., & Tuncel, Y. 2021. Posthumanisms beyond disciplines. Journal of Posthumanism, 1(1), 1–4. https://doi.org/10.33182/jp.v1i1.1510

Dedeoğlu, Ç., and C. Ekmekçioğlu. 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

Dedeoglu, C. 2021. Reading (through) COVID-19: Towards a posthumanist strategy in higher education. In I. Fayed & J. Cummings (Eds.), Teaching in the post COVID-19 era (pp. 183-189). Springer. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-74088-7_18

Dedeoglu, C. 2021. “Hey Siri: Do you believe in god?” A posthuman exposé of belief bias in AI programming. In W.H.U. Anderson (Ed.), Technology and theology (pp. 77-90). ISBN: 978-1-64889-086-4. Vernon Books (link)

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

Dedeoglu, C. 2021. Tanhum S. Yoreh, Waste not: A Jewish environmental ethic. The Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 15(4), 529-530. https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.18868  

Dedeoglu, C. 2021. Francesca Ferrando, Philosophical posthumanism. The Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 15(2), 278–280. https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.40235

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

Edited Journals

Dedeoglu, C., ed. 2021. Pasajlar Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi – Posthumanizm (Pasajlar Social Sciences Journal – “Posthumanism issue” [in Turkish]) (link)

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)

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