Candan Türkkan

Candan Turkkan is an assistant professor at Ozyegin University Department of Gastronomy and Culinary Arts. She has received her PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Political Science. Her work is at the intersections of political theory, political economy, and food studies, examining questions on (bio)politics, neoliberalism, urban food politics and agrarian political economy. Her book, Feeding Istanbul: Political Economy of Urban Provisioning, was published by Brill in 2021.