Bengi Akbulut is an assistant professor at the department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University. She received her B.A. from Bogazici University (2004) and PhD from University of Massachusetts at Amherst (2011), both in economics. Her research is in political economy and ecological economics, focusing on developmentalism, state-society relationships, social movements and economic alternatives. Her joint and independent work appeared in the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Development and Change, Journal of Peasant Studies, Ecological Economics and Geoforum.