Email: baris.baykan@yeditepe.edu.trTelephone: 0216 578 00 00 / 3038Office: FEAS - 647Position: Vİce Chief of DepartmentType: Tam ZamanlıAkademikResumeBarış Gençer Baykan (born 1978) is an academic. Baykan holds a Master’s degree in Political Sociology from the University of Paris X/Nanterre (FR) and a Ph.D in Sociology at the University of Kent (UK). He is currently working as an Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the University of Yeditepe, İstanbul, Turkey; teaching social movements, urbanization and environmental policy. His research interest are social movements and anti-GMO movement, climate movement, green parties and green political thought. Baykan’s recent publications include “Effect of materialism and environmental knowledge on environmental consciousness among high school students: A study conducted in Istanbul province” (co-edited/with Ahu Ergen and Seda Gökçe Turan) (2015). Courses GivenLocal Governments and UrbanizationUrban SociologyEnvironmental Policies and Local Governments PublicationsArticle Effect of materialism and environmental knowledge on environmental consciousness among high school students: A study conducted in Istanbul province Journal of Human Sciences, Vol 12 No:1 2015 (Ahu Ergen,Seda Gökçe Turan ile) From limits to growth to degrowth within French green politics” Environmental Politics ,Vol. 16, No. 3, p.513 – 517, Haziran 2007. (SSCI) “Cross-readings of the anti-globalisation movement in Turkey and beyond: Political culture in the making” International Social Science Journal, Vol. 56, No. 182, p.519, 2004 (Gulçin Erdi Lelandais ile). (SSCI) Book Chapter Türkiye'nin Çevre ve İklim Gündemi, in Türkiye Ekonomisinde Büyüme ve Yapısal Sorunlar: Betam Araştırma Notları 2008-2012 , Seyfettin Gürsel (Ed.) 2013 Gençlere Göre Çevre: Küresel Ama Satırarası Bir Sorun, in Gençler Tartışıyor: Siyasete Katılım, Sorunlar ve Çözüm Önerileri, Boyraz.C (Ed.), TÜSES Yayınları, 2009, p.251-265 (with Demet Lüküslü)