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Can Yasemin Okay

Anthropology
Migration, gender, intersectionality, religion, placemaking, anthropology, urbanization, architectural culture

I am a doctoral researcher in the SFB 1604: Production of Migration, exploring the production and negotiation of belonging and gender among the Turkish-German mosque communities.

I graduated with a master's degree in anthropology from Heidelberg University, with a minor in transcultural studies, where I focused on how belonging is navigated through placemaking among the Turkish-German community in Mannheim. I hold a bachelor's degree in sociology with a minor in architectural culture from the Middle East Technical University in Turkey. Previously, I worked as a project adviser at the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation, as a pollster at KONDA Research and Consultancy Company, and as an intern at the Istanbul Policy Center and Marmara Municipalities Union. Since 2022, I have been the head of the translation committee at the ‘We Will Stop Femicides Platform’ of Turkey.

Publications

Okay, Y. (2024). Yerelden İklim Eylemleri ve Paris Anlaşmasi’na Katkılar. Şehir ve Toplum 28. 87-104.

Okay, Y. (2023). Local Diplomacy for a Sustainable Future. In M. Cemil Arslan and Burcuhan Şener (Eds.), Local Diplomacy (151-166). Istanbul: MBB Kültür Yayınları.

Okay, Y. (2023). Sürdürebilir bir Gelecek için Yerel Diploması. Şehir ve Toplum 24. 91-99.

Okay, Y. (2022). MARUF21'e Sürdürülebilir Kalkınma Amaçları Merceğinden bir Bakış. Kent 07. 6–9.

Okay, Y. (2021). Converse Urban Forests as an Awareness Project on Sustainability Issues. Urban 01. 52-55.

Şener, B, Sivrikaya Ö. & Okay, Y. (2021). Cities from Mayors’ Perspectives. Urban 01. 60-63.