Çağla Ay

critical agrarian studies, feminist decolonial/postcolonial science studies, political ecology, multi-sited ethnography

Çağla’s Ph.D. project investigates the discrepancies and inequalities that appear in the state, science, and capital intersections by transnationally tracing the propagation and production of an orange cultivar grown in southern Turkey. Simultaneously, she explores the possibility of creatively imagining these intersections through a decolonial praxis that addresses historical and local epistemologies. Çağla was selected as a Mellon Ph.D. fellow for 2022-23 and through this fellowship, she became a part of The World Studies Interdisciplinary Project (WSIP) which establishes an international research collective that works on decolonial paradigms. Her ongoing ethnographic research (2023-2024) is funded by Wenner Gren Foundation and the American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT).  She holds a BA and MA degrees in Sociology from Bogazici University, Turkey.