Assistant Professor, Sociology
Office: STH 408
905-688-5550 x4096
gtanyildiz@brocku.ca
Education:
PhD, York University
MA, Brock University
BA, Ankara University
Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz is an interdisciplinary scholar of marxist, feminist, anti-racist, and queer thought. Through the theoretical methodology of concept formation, Gökbörü investigates the ways in which embodied social relations (i.e., race, gender, and sexuality) are conceptualized under contemporary late capitalism. He also explores the repercussions of these conceptualizations, particularly how they condition and generate cultural, performative, and political formations. His work is situated at the intersection of sociology, marxist social thought, gender studies, critical race theory, and human geography. Gökbörü has written on a range of diverse topics such as decolonization and marxism, social reproduction, the antinomies of classical sociological theory, protest cultures, the processes of urbanization, and subjectivity formation. What draws all his publications together is an analytical attention to the everyday, embodied, and lived manifestations of social, spatial, and political thought. The overarching focus of his research agenda is an examination of the ways in which subjective human praxis is negotiated through the conceptual practices of power in the process of history making.
- Phenomenological Marxism
- Social Philosophy of Gillian Rose
- Social Philosophy of Teresa Brennan
- Theoretical Methodology
- Concept Formation
- Embodied Social Relations
- Racial Capitalism
- Theories of Everyday Life
- Sociology of Literature
- Sociology of Culture
Books:
- 2024 Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz, Grounding Critique: Marxism, Concept Formation, and Embodied Social Relations. Leiden: Brill Publishers.
- 2021 Linda Peake, Elsa Koleth, Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz, Rajyashree Reddy, and darren patrick/dp (eds.), A Feminist Urban Theory For Our Time: Rethinking Social Reproduction and the Urban. London: Wiley-Blackwell Press, Antipode Book Series.
Edited Journal Issues:
- 2018 Linda Peake, Darren Patrick, Rajyashree Reddy, Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz, Sue Ruddick, and Roza Tchoukaleyska, “Planetary Urbanization” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 36(3).
Journal Articles:
- 2024 Terrell Carver and Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz, “How (not) to Decolonize Marx/ism” in Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis, in press (publishing date: Dec 2024).
- 2023 Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz, “Social Reproduction, Infrastructure, and the Everyday,” Dialogues in Human Geography, online first, n.p., 2023.
- 2018 Sue Ruddick, Linda Peake, Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz, and Darren Patrick, “Planetary urbanization: An urban theory for our time?” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 36(3): 387-404.
- 2018 Linda Peake, Darren Patrick, Rajyashree Reddy, Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz, Sue Ruddick, and Roza Tchoukaleyska, “Placing planetary urbanization in other fields of vision.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 36(3): 374-386.
Book Chapters:
- 2022 Ebru Ustundag and Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz, “Urban Citizenship and Digital Citizenship: Public Spaces and Resistance.” In Urbanization in a Global Context (2nd edition), edited by Linda Peake and Alison Bain. London and Toronto: Oxford University Press, pp.371-390.
- 2021 Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz, Linda Peake, Elsa Koleth, Rajyashree Reddy, darren patrick/dp, Sue Ruddick, “Rethinking Social Reproduction and the Urban.” In A Feminist Urban Theory For Our Time: Rethinking Social Reproduction and the Urban. Antipode Book Series. London: Wiley-Blackwell Press, pp. 1-41.
- 2017 Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz, “The Gezi Protests: The Making of the Next Left Generation in Turkey.” In Generations and Protests in the Middle East and Mediterranean, edited by Ratiba Hadj-Moussa and Mark Ayyash. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017, pp. 143-167.
Invited Book Forum Contributions:
- 2024 Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz, “Urban (theory) According to Wacquant,” Dialogues in Urban Research, online first, n.p.
- 2024 Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz, “The Conjunctural Imagination,” Small Axe Salon, No: 45.
Undergraduate Courses:
- SOCI 2P00: Foundations in Sociological Thinking
- SOCI 2P95: Troubling Identities
- SOCI 3P38: Sociology of Gender, Families, and Care
- SOCI 3P70: Social Justice Research
- SOCI 4P00: Engaging the Sociological Imagination
- SOCI 4P35: Gendered Patterns of Survival and Resistance
Graduate Courses:
- SOCI 5P50: Critical Sociologies of Gender and Sexuality
- SJES 5P21: Racial Capitalism: Emergences and Debates
- SJES 5P40: Gender, Sexuality, and Social Justice
- HUMA 7P59: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Racial Capitalism
Gökbörü teaches and supervises in three graduate programs (MA in Critical Sociology; MA in Social Justice and Equity Studies; PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities). He is enthusiastic about working with graduate students who are interested in researching different aspects of contemporary social and political problems through a variety of theoretical perspectives (including, but not limited to, marxisms, feminisms, anti-racisms, intersectionality, queer theories, phenomenology, and psychoanalysis) and methodological approaches (including, but not limited to, autoethnography, activist methodologies, institutional ethnography, and ethnomethodology).
