Canay Ozden is interested in the political economy of international technological development projects taking place in the Middle East. Focusing mainly on the making of energy networks, she seeks to trace the new ethical criteria that determine the plausibility of incipient development projects, the way these criteria are standardized and circulated, the metrological processes that entitle some privileged actors to measure these criteria, how activists and local residents formulate their case so as to partake in these processes, and how the human and the technical are assembled so as to transform the entire ecosystem.
Canay holds an M.A. in Near Eastern Studies from New York University and a B.A. in Political Science from Bogazici University, Istanbul. She is a speaker of French and Turkish, and an advanced student of Arabic. She practices photography and frequently contributes to periodicals.
political economy; energy; development; the Middle East
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