Volkan Yılmaz
Groups
Labour and Soc. Affairs
Political Economy
Urban Studies
Career
Since 2008- Research Assistant, Boğaziçi University Social Policy Forum
2007-2008- Project Assistant, University Youth and Social Rights, Community Volunteers Foundation
2006-2007 Student Assistant of Assist. Prof. Ayşen Candaş Bilgen, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Boğaziçi University
2006- Project Assistant, Democratization programme, Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation
Academic Career
Since 2008 M.A. in Modern Turkish History, Ataturk Institute, Boğaziçi University.
2003-2008 B.A. in Sociology, Boğaziçi University
2003-2008 B.A. in Political Science & International Relations, Boğaziçi University
Publications
Yılmaz, Volkan and Yakut-Çakar, Burcu. (2009) “Sınıf ve Vatandaşlık Ekseninde Türkiye’de Sosyal Yardımı Yeniden Düşünmek” (Rethinking Social Assistance in Turkey through the Axes of Class and Citizenship), Toplum ve Demokrasi. (forthcoming)
Yılmaz, Volkan. (2009) “Siyasi örgütlenmelerde genç olmak: kurtarmaya giderken yakalandıklarımız” (Being young in political organizations), in Boyraz, C. (ed.) Gençler Tartışıyor: Siyasete Katılım, Sorunlar ve Çözüm Önerileri, TÜSES, İstanbul. (forthcoming)
Yılmaz, Volkan. (2008). “NGOs and Millenium Development Goals: Citizen Action to Reduce Poverty” Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff, Stephen C. Smith, Hildy Teegen (eds.), book review, CEU Political Science Journal, Vol. 3, Issue 4.
Conference Presentations and Papers
Yılmaz, Volkan. (2009) “All that is common melts into air: Neoliberalization of urban land regime in Turkey” poster presented at ISSC World Social Science Forum “One Planet-Worlds Apart?”, 10-12 May 2009, Bergen, Norway.
Yılmaz, Volkan. (2009) “Neoliberalizmin Kent Yüzü: TOKİ’nin Kurumsal Dönüşümü Bağlamında Hazine Arazilerinde Özel Mülkiyetin Tesisi” (Urban Face of Neoliberalism: The Consolidation of Private Property on State-own Lands in the Context of Institutional Transformation of Housing Development Administration), Aşağıdakiler ve Yukarıdakiler II. Atatürk Enstitüsü Lisansüstü Öğrenci Konferansı, 26-28 March 2009.
Yakut-Çakar, Burcu and Yılmaz, Volkan. (2009) “Social Assistance in Turkey: On the margins of redistributive justice?”, paper presented at CRSP Annual International Conference “Beyond Social Inclusion: Towards a More Equal Society?”, Loughborough, UK, January 22-23, 2009.
Yılmaz, Volkan ve Yakut-Çakar, Burcu. (2008) “Türkiye’de Merkezi Devlet Üzerinden Yürütülen Sosyal Yardım Politikaları” (State-led Social Assistance in Turkey), Siyasi İlimler Türk Derneği VI. Lisansüstü Konferansı, 1 November 2008, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi.
Internships
2005-2006 Program Intern, Democratization programme, Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation