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Koray Caliskan

Koray Caliskan is a Turkish economic sociologist and organizational designer. He is a tenured professor at Parsons School of Design, The New School,[1] Associate Editor[2] of the Journal of Cultural Economy, the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Design Strategies. He is the founder of Mamame, a social innovation project bringing together the organizational form of cooperative and limited liability company in economizing under-represented women’s labor, which won the Entrepreneurship of the Year Award in 2017 from Microsoft Turkey. He is the co-founder of The Wrong Department, an international strategic design studio with office in London and New York City. He is married and has two children, living in Brooklyn, New York City.[3]

Koray Caliskan
Born
Koray Çalışkan
NationalityTurkish
Academic career
FieldEconomics, socioeconomics
InstitutionsParsons School of Design
Alma materBoğaziçi University
New York University

Education

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He received his B.A. in Political Science, Bogazici University, Istanbul and M.A. in Politics, NYU, New York in 1999. He received his Ph.D. with distinction from NYU’s Politics Department, with which he won the Malcolm Kerr Social Science Award from MESA.

Publications

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Books

Market Threads: How Cotton Farmers and Traders Create a Global Commodity came out from Princeton University Press and focused on global commodity markets and relations of economization.[4][5][6][7]

Data Money: Inside Cryptocurrencies, Their Communities, Markets, and Blockchains (2023) came pout from Columbia University Press and drew on an award-winning research[8] on cryptocurrencies, their communities and blockchains.[9][10]

Economization: Markets, Economies and Platforms in Perspective is co-authored with Michel Callon and Donald MacKenzie,[11] coming out in 2024 by Columbia University Press.

Important Articles

2024. (Forthcoming) (with Michel Callon and Donald MacKenzie). Stacked Economization: A Research Programme for the Study of Platforms, Journal of Cultural Economy.

2022. (with Matt Wade) DARN Part 1: What is Strategic Design? Social Theory and Intangible Design in Perspective, She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation. Vol. 8, Iss. 3, Autumn 2022, pp. 299–318.[12]

2022. (with Matt Wade) DARN Part 2: An Evidence-Based Research and Prototyping Methodology for Strategic Design, She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation, Vol. 8, Iss. 3, Autumn 2022, pp. 319-335.[13][14]

2022. (with Michael Lounsbury) Entrepreneurialism as Discourse: Towards a Critical Research Agenda, Research in Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 72. Volume 81, pp. 43–53.[15]

2021. Data Money Makers: An Ethnographic Analysis of a Global Cryptocurrency Community, The British Journal of Sociology, Vol 73, 168-187.[16]

2021. Platform Works as Stack Economization: Cryptocurrency Markets and Exchanges in Perspective, Sociologica: International Journal for Sociological Debate, Vol. 14, Iss. 3, pp. 115–42.[17]

2020. Polanyi, Callon, and Amazon: Institutionalist, ANT, and DRAN Approaches to Platform Economies. Sociologica: International Journal for Sociological Debate, Vol. 14, Iss. 3, pp. 195–204.[18]

2020.  Data Money: The Socio-Technical Infrastructure of Cryptocurrency Blockchains, Economy and Society, Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 1–22.[19]

2019. A Timely Rapprochement between Design Scholarship and Economization Studies, City, Vol. 23, Iss 4-5, pp. 673–675.[20]

2018.  Towards a New Political Regime in Turkey: From Competitive towards Full Authoritarianism, New Perspectives on Turkey, Vol: 58, Iss. 1, Spring, pp. 5–33.[21]

Film projects

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He directed, produced and wrote seven fiction and documentary films, including "Esma".,[22] shown at the Cannes Film Festival.[23] He was the producer and co-writer of "In Flames", feature film. He was the director of the film "Last Villagers of Avshar", producer of "Pipelines Made up of Donkeys" film and producer of the documentary "Republic of Wonderland: Turkish TV Series in the World".

2016. Director, The Last Peasants of Avshar. Documentary, 42’26’’, English, Al Jazeera Documentary Channel.

2015. Producer and Writer, Pipeline Made up of Donkeys. Documentary. 45’, Kurdish and Turkish, Al Jazeera. (Not Released by the network).

2013. Producer, The Republic of Wonderland: Turkey. Documentary. 200’, 4 episodes, Haberturk TV.

2011. Script co-writer and Producer, In Flames, Fiction, Turkish with English Subtitles, 100’, Awards: Best Actor (Ankara Film Festival, Varna Film Festival), Best Actress (Ankara Film Festival, Varna Film Festival), Best Editor (Ankara Film Festival). Available on i-Tunes.

2009. Director and Script writer, Esma, Short Fiction, 18’, Turkish with English Subtitles, (Cannes Film Festival, Tampere Film Festival Competition).

Awards

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His last research project on cryptocurrencies, their global communities and blockchains was selected to be a winner of the Scientific Breakthrough of the Year Award in Social Sciences and Humanities by the Falling Walls Foundation.[24] Currently, on an ESRC grant, he is carrying out research with his team on the economic sociology of digital advertisements.

References

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  1. ^ "Koray Caliskan". Parsons School of Design.
  2. ^ Journal of Cultural Economy (February 2024). "Editorial Board".
  3. ^ "The Wrong Department". February 2024.
  4. ^ Quinn, Sarah (1 September 2011). "Market Threads: How Cotton Farmers and Traders Create a Global Economy by Koray Çalişkan". American Journal of Sociology. 117 (2): 686–687. doi:10.1086/661732. ISSN 0002-9602.
  5. ^ Davies, William (1 February 2013). "Book Review". Journal of Cultural Economy. 6 (1): 110–112. doi:10.1080/17530350.2012.691360. ISSN 1753-0350. S2CID 155536427.
  6. ^ Rupali (1 October 2016). "Book Review: Koray Çalıs¸kan. 2010. Market Threads: How Cotton Farmers and Traders Create a Global Commodity". Millennial Asia. 7 (2): 234–238. doi:10.1177/0976399616655044. ISSN 0976-3996. S2CID 157277105.
  7. ^ "Market Threads: How Cotton Farmers and Traders Create a Global Commodity". Princeton University Press. September 2010.
  8. ^ "People". Falling Walls. 2021.
  9. ^ Caliskan, Koray (August 2023). Data Money, Inside Cryptocurrencies, Their Communities, Markets, and Blockchains., Koray Caliskan., Columbia University Press. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-55801-3.
  10. ^ "Work, Expertise, Technology and Organisation (WETO) 2024 Events, Copenhagen Business School". February 2024.
  11. ^ Parsons School of Design (February 2024). "The New School Faculty".
  12. ^ Caliskan, Koray; Wade, Matt (2022). "DARN (Part 1): What Is Strategic Design? Social Theory and Intangible Design in Perspective". The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation. 8 (3): 299–318. doi:10.1016/j.sheji.2022.10.001 – via Science Direct.
  13. ^ Caliskan, Koray; Wade, Matt (2022). "DARN (Part 1): What Is Strategic Design? Social Theory and Intangible Design in Perspective". The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation. 8 (3): 299–318. doi:10.1016/j.sheji.2022.10.001 – via Science Direct.
  14. ^ Karnøe, Peter; Kirkegaard, Julia Kirch; Caliskan, Koray (September 2022). "Introducing the lens of markets-in-the-making to transition studies: The case of the Danish wind power market agencement". Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. 44: 79–91. Bibcode:2022EIST...44...79K. doi:10.1016/j.eist.2022.05.003 – via Science Direct.
  15. ^ Caliskan, Koray; Lounsbury, Michael (September 2022). "Entrepreneurialism as Discourse: Toward a Critical Research Agenda". Entrepreneurialism and Society: New Theoretical Perspectives (Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Research in the Sociology of Organizations. 81: 43–53. doi:10.1108/S0733-558X20220000081003. ISBN 978-1-80382-658-5 – via Emerald.
  16. ^ Caliskan, Koray (January 2022). "Data Money Makers An Ethnographic Analysis of a Global Cryptocurrency Community". The British Journal of Sociology. 73 (1): 168–187. doi:10.1111/1468-4446.12916. PMID 34961928 – via Wiley Online Library.
  17. ^ Caliskan, Koray (2021). "Platform Works as Stack Economization: Cryptocurrency Markets and Exchanges in Perspective". Power and Control in Platform Monopoly Capitalism / Essays. 14 (3). doi:10.6092/issn.1971-8853/11746 – via Sociologica.
  18. ^ Caliskan, Koray (2021). "Polanyi, Callon, and Amazon: Institutionalist, ANT, and DRAN Approaches to Platform Economies". Power and Control in Platform Monopoly Capitalism / Symposium. 14 (3). doi:10.6092/issn.1971-8853/11748 – via Sociologica.
  19. ^ Caliskan, Koray (2020). "Data money: The socio-technical infrastructure of cryptocurrency blockchains". Economy and Society. 49 (4): 540–561. doi:10.1080/03085147.2020.1774258 – via Taylor and Francis.
  20. ^ Caliskan, Koray (2019). "A timely Rapprochement Between Design Scholarship and Economization Studies". City: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action. 23 (4–5): 673–675. Bibcode:2019City...23..673C. doi:10.1080/13604813.2019.1682869 – via Taylor and Francis.
  21. ^ Çalışkan, Koray (2018). "Toward a New Political Regime in Turkey: From Competitive Toward full Authoritarianism". New Perspectives on Turkey. 58 (1): 5–33. doi:10.1017/npt.2018.10 – via Cambridge University Press.
  22. ^ "Cannes'a bir tek Esma gitti". Yeni Şafak (in Turkish). 7 May 2010.
  23. ^ "TURKISH SHORT FILM TO BE SCREENED IN CANNES FESTIVAL". Anadolu Agency.
  24. ^ "MS Faculty Koray Caliskan: Falling Walls Finalist!". Parsons School of Design. 23 July 2021.
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