Koray Caliskan
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| Born | Koray Çalışkan |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Turkish |
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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. Caliskan is the founder of Mamame, a social innovation project that combines the organizational forms of cooperatives and limited liability companies to economize under-represented women's labor, winning the Entrepreneurship of the Year Award in 2017 from Microsoft Turkey. He is also the co-founder of The Wrong Department, an international strategic design studio with offices in London and New York City. Caliskan is married with two children and resides in Brooklyn, New York City.[3]
Education
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.
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 out from Columbia University Press and is about cryptocurrencies, their communities and blockchains.[8]
Film projects
He directed, produced and wrote seven fiction and documentary films, including "Esma".,[9] shown at the Cannes Film Festival.[10] 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
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.[11] Currently, on an ESRC grant, he is carrying out research with his team on the economic sociology of digital advertisements.
References
- ↑ "Koray Caliskan". Parsons School of Design.
- ↑ Journal of Cultural Economy (February 2024). "Editorial Board".
- ↑ "The Wrong Department". February 2024.
- ↑ Quinn, Sarah (1 September 2011). "Review of Market Threads". American Journal of Sociology. 117 (2): 686–687. doi:10.1086/661732. ISSN 0002-9602.
- ↑ Davies, William (1 February 2013). "Review of Market Threads". Journal of Cultural Economy. 6 (1): 110–112. doi:10.1080/17530350.2012.691360. ISSN 1753-0350. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Rupali (1 October 2016). "Review of Market Threads". Millennial Asia. 7 (2): 234–238. doi:10.1177/0976399616655044. ISSN 0976-3996. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Gemici, Kurtuluş (January 2012). "Review of Market Threads". Contemporary Sociology. 41 (1): 68–70. JSTOR 23212017.
- ↑ Abhiram, AH (March 2024). "Review of Data Money". International Sociology. SAGE Publications. 39 (2): 174–177. doi:10.1177/02685809241236844a.
- ↑ "Cannes'a bir tek Esma gitti". Yeni Şafak (in Türkçe). 7 May 2010.
- ↑ "TURKISH SHORT FILM TO BE SCREENED IN CANNES FESTIVAL". Anadolu Agency.
- ↑ "MS Faculty Koray Caliskan: Falling Walls Finalist!". Parsons School of Design. 23 July 2021.[permanent dead link]
External links
- Koray Caliskan publications indexed by Google Scholar
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