Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles by Cagdas Dedeoglu
Citizenship Studies, 2023
Citizenship and the posthuman have not been often theorized together. In this paper, I want to th... more Citizenship and the posthuman have not been often theorized together. In this paper, I want to think about their coalition both as a new episode in the efforts of politics for citizenship, including knowledge politics, and as a source of rebalancing power against governmental and corporate interests in citizenship politics. Here, I seek to address two questions: (1) What is posthuman citizenship? (2) What does posthuman citizenship bring to analysis of intersectional, complex, and multi-layered struggles of citizenship? Section I of the article addresses possible conceptual connections between citizenship and posthumanism at the posthuman political system level. Section II concentrates on a posthuman genealogy of citizenship to show why posthuman citizenship is a much-needed ontopolitical praxis. Section III details the main principles of posthuman citizenship with respect to mediation of rights, political agency, and political responsibility. The paper contributes to the understanding of politics of/for citizenship with two concepts: augmented political responsibility and posthuman deeds.
Journal of Posthumanism, 2023
This special issue is dedicated to the 1 st Metahuman Futures Forum held in Lesvos on 1-2 October... more This special issue is dedicated to the 1 st Metahuman Futures Forum held in Lesvos on 1-2 October 2022, as part of the Bodynet-Khorós project co-funded by the European Union 3 and contains part of the theoretical research of the project. The issue comprises a collection of seven papers, a book review, and the Metahuman Futures Manifesto, all of which contribute to the understanding of metahumanism and its relationship with posthumanism and transhumanism in the age of planetary holocaust.
Journal of Posthumanism, 2023
The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between posthumanism and sustainability ... more The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between posthumanism and sustainability and contribute to the interdisciplinary concept of posthuman sustainability. We conducted a scoping review of 45 peer-reviewed journal articles that met our inclusion criteria and employed co-occurrence analysis based on the clustering techniques of the VOSviewer. We identified five themes within the articles: post-humanism, post-anthropocentrism, post-dualism, post-Enlightenment, and post-technologism. Through our analysis, we found that posthumanism can offer insights into ecological issues and help promote alternative sustainable practices. We also identified three immediate concerns for post/humanities scholars: (1) fostering dialogue between critical humanist and posthumanist scholarship based on onto-epistemological plurality, (2) achieving conceptual clarity in the field, and (3) advocating for meaningful engagement with indigenous worldviews in a multidimensional and multitemporal manner. By exploring the relationship between posthumanism and sustainability, we hope to expand our knowledge of the urgent ecological issues we face and contribute to interdisciplinary efforts to address them.
Land, Jul 21, 2022
Rivers are important ecosystems, vital to the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of humans and o... more Rivers are important ecosystems, vital to the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of humans and other species. Despite their environmental, social, and economic importance, current use of rivers is unsustainable, due to a combination of solid waste and high levels of pollutants. Plastic materials are among the most predominant of such pollutants. Based on the need for additional research in this area, this study examines pressures put to rivers and explores trends related to riverine plastic pollution, with a focus on Asia. Apart from the bibliometric analysis, and relying on the collected information, examples describing the drivers of riverine plastic pollution in a sample of Asian countries are described, outlining the specific problem and its scope. Among some of the results obtained from it, mention can be made to the fact that much of the literature focuses on plastic pollution as a whole and less on one of its most significant ramifications, namely microplastics. Additionally, there is a need related to data availability on riverine plastic data and improving the understanding of transport mechanisms in relation to riverine plastic emission into the ocean. The results from this study illustrate the significance of the problems posed by plastic waste to Asian rivers and point out the fact that there are still significant gaps in respect of regulations and standards, which prevent improvements that are highlighted in this study. Based on the results of this bibliometric assessment, specific measures via which levels of riverine plastic pollution may be reduced are presented, bringing relevant new insights on this topic beyond the existing reviews.
Social Sciences, 2020
In the last two decades, the concept of ecological citizenship has become a recurrent theme in bo... more In the last two decades, the concept of ecological citizenship has become a recurrent theme in both popular and academic discussions. Discussions around the prospects of, and limitations to, ecological citizenship have mostly focused on the idea of political agency and the civic responsibility of individuals in relation to their environments, with an emphasis on environmental justice and sustainability. However, the current scholarship has yet to adequately characterize its conceptual bases and empirical applications from an information perspective. Therefore, this paper provides an overview of citizenship studies and infrastructure studies for developing more nuanced understanding(s) of epistemological models for ecological citizenship in our networked world. Drawing on the literature on information infrastructure, this paper then proposes a conceptual framework to understand ecological citizenship as constituted both discursively and techno-materially through neoliberal, anthropocentric information infrastructures.
GSD, 2019
A substantial number of state and non-state actors have published strategies for maritime securit... more A substantial number of state and non-state actors have published strategies for maritime security and governance in the last decade. These strategies have been criticized in the sense that they do not reflect the ever-changing nature of security context. The critics mostly deal with adaptation to new risks and threats from an anthropocentric perspective. This study instead focuses on the comparison of the classical and post-classical ontologies of security. It assumes that the classical ontology of security enables certain assumptions while ignoring others. Thus, an ontological critique appears to be a necessity to address the security concerns of the complex global security context adequately. With this, this paper contributes to Christian Bueger's maritime security matrix from a paradigm-oriented approach. As a result, the paper makes a case for the post-classical ontology of security and defines its main features as diffusion, interrelation, adaptation, non-linearity, and inclusiveness.
Arcadia, 2019
How to cite: Dedeoğlu, Çağdaş. “Cosmology of the Ergene River Pollution.” Environment & Society P... more How to cite: Dedeoğlu, Çağdaş. “Cosmology of the Ergene River Pollution.” Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia (Autumn 2019), no. 38. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/8879.
Environmental Justice, 2019
In this article, we present Toxic Bios, a public environmental humanities (EH) project that aims ... more In this article, we present Toxic Bios, a public environmental humanities (EH) project that aims to coproduce, gather, and make visible stories of contamination and resistance. To explain the rationale of the project and its potentialities, first we offer a brief reflection on the field of the EH and its (possible) contribution to environmental justice research, then, we illustrate the guerrilla narrative strategy experimented through the project.
Energy and Diplomacy Journal, 2015
This paper examines North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as one of the most important instru... more This paper examines North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as one of the most important instruments of the U.S. Strategy from energy security perspective. The main purpose, here, is to discuss the evolution of NATO in late 2000s and to show how it was designed in that period as a dimension of the U.S. Strategy for sustaining energy security. The paper argues that NATO has been transformed in various ways and the process was mainly managed by the U.S. Administration. Therefore, an analogy between the transformation of NATO and the U.S. Administration’s priorities about energy security in late 2000s can be made. Today, natural gas is also a key factor together with oil. Any state’s target to expand its circle and area of interest towards Middle East can be associated with distribution of oil reserves. On the other hand, when it comes to Eurosia, natural gas also becomes key element of energy activities. As a result of efforts of the late 2000s, NATO came to a position that was compatible with the U.S. Strategy. It can be said that the U.S. Strategy had produced a threat perception to unify NATO members for the purpose of influencing energy game. On the other hand, the confrontations in Georgia before or in Ukraine last year show that the Alliance cannot resolve every conflict in its own terms.
Papers by Cagdas Dedeoglu
ATASAREN Bülteni, 2020
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Playing God? Multi-Faith Responses to the Prospect of Climate Engineering, 2018
INOGOV WP Series, 2018
The latest developments in climate change science and policy counter the traditional political an... more The latest developments in climate change science and policy counter the traditional political and economic global structure. In this paper, approaching climate change as a collective action problem, I focused on adaptive co-management (ACM) as an innovative management concept. I assumed that the ACM might help us to inaugurate an inclusive social-ecological contract among humans, and between humans and other species. With the aim of enhancing the concept of adaptive co-management, I benefitted from the analytical studies conducted in the field of religion and nature. I first reviewed the literatures on adaptive co-management, and on religion and nature. Further, I elaborated the concepts of religion, religiosity, and Homo religiosus as well as the development of the religion and nature discipline. I then scrutinized the religious dimension of the ACM, and evaluated the religious challenges to it, using the findings of selected studies. Finally, I discussed the implications of the human mind’s comprehension of (ecological) reality. The conceptual discussion confirmed by the findings indicated that the hegemonic regime of truth still rests on an egocentric cosmology, and this attitude is independent of whether it relies on monotheistic faith or positivist science. In either case, human beings display the characteristics of Homo religiosus, connecting to reality in a dogmatic way.
Books by Cagdas Dedeoglu
Paraf Yayınları, Nov 2013
A monograph focusing on the concept of security from both theoretical and historical aspects; and... more A monograph focusing on the concept of security from both theoretical and historical aspects; and discussing alternatives such as environmental security and ecological security using the case study of Ergene River Basin in Turkey.
Book Chapters by Cagdas Dedeoglu
Teaching in the Post COVID-19 Era, 2021
Technology and Theology, 2020
The implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in various sectors ranging from h... more The implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in various sectors ranging from health and education to banking and insurance has changed the way we experience the world. However, the development of AI is not free from ethical and religious issues. In this chapter, I have aimed to bridge the gap between the studies of the ethics of AI with theology and AI. For this, I have employed a qualitative content analysis of interview data gathered from the four well-known AI personal assistants. I have approached the literature on religion, theology, and AI from a posthuman religious perspective as well as benefit from the studies on Natural Learning Processing and dialogue systems. I have offered a preliminary analysis showing that the programming of AI personal assistants, for belief related questions, can be biased towards commonsense knowledge shaped by humanist, dualist, and anthropocentric worldviews.
Küresel Ekolojik Güvenlik Uluslararasi Sempozyum Kitabi, 2020
Revisiting Secularism in Theory and Practice: Genealogy and Cases, 2020
This chapter attempted to do three things:
1) Discuss the idea of secularism in the exemplary wor... more This chapter attempted to do three things:
1) Discuss the idea of secularism in the exemplary works of three scholars having diverse onto-epistemologies
2) Distinguish between "secular" and "secularism"
3) Introduce the concept of Green Secularism
Devlet Doğasının Değişimi: Güvenliğin Sınırları (TASAM Yayınları), 2017
Uluslararası Politikada Suriye Krizi (Beta Yayınları), 2016
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1) Discuss the idea of secularism in the exemplary works of three scholars having diverse onto-epistemologies
2) Distinguish between "secular" and "secularism"
3) Introduce the concept of Green Secularism
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1) Discuss the idea of secularism in the exemplary works of three scholars having diverse onto-epistemologies
2) Distinguish between "secular" and "secularism"
3) Introduce the concept of Green Secularism
„After more than two years, what has remained of the Gezi Park protests?“ „Is Gezi`s critique of political power still valid?“ „What has changed after Gezi?“ These valid questions linger; not properly answered, not yet properly discussed. Perhaps Gezi`s enduring effects and legacy can be discovered in the resistances, dissents and practices of political critique that have been created since June 2013. In this book, fourteen authors discuss and elaborate on such questions from both political and quotidian perspectives.
Critique of the power of the multitude, the anthropology and ethnography of resistance, the causes, effects and continuity of the Gezi Park protests are among the issues covered in „Another Brick in the Barricade: The Gezi Resistance and Its Aftermath.“ This book does not offer all-explaining narratives of singular objective truths. It does not represent the whole of the multitude. A wide perspective of analyses ranging from political science to sociology, psychology to anthropology, economics to media studies consider Gezi resistance not only as an exceptional state of resistance, but also in terms of the new possibilities it offers for political critique. These possibilities constitute the fieldwork for academic studies, which in turn become part of social struggle.
This volume seeks to make diversity its distinguishing aspect. The phenomena it considers - Gezi and its aftermath - requires this. The interdisciplinary approach and variety of discussions in the volume provide not just critique about power and dominance in Turkey, but also inspire resistance against domination and power around the world.
In this interview, Dr. Cagdas Dedeoglu responds to a variety of questions about our pressing techno-ecological issues at the intersections of Political Ecology, Posthumanism, Security, and the Study of Religion and Nature.
Deadline: January 22, 2021
Pasajlar Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi’nin bu özel sayısı, insana dair her şeyi insanın ötesine geçen bilgiyle yeniden ele alan bir akademik yazının ortaya çıkışına katkıda bulunmayı amaçlamaktadır. Bu amaca bağlı olarak posthüman durumu dikkate alan anlayışları Türkçe literatürün gündemine taşımayı, henüz yeterince tartışılmamış kavram, ilişki ve yaklaşımları tartışmayı ve sonuçta “hangi insan” ve “nasıl bir yaşam” gibi sorulara verilebilecek yanıtların zenginliğini göstermeyi hedeflemektedir.