About Yildiz Atasoy Yildiz Atasoy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia. She specializes in transnational political economy, political sociology, and gender relations. Books by Yildiz Atasoy Turkey, Islamists and Democracy Transition and Globalisation in a Muslim State by (author) Yildiz Atasoy Global Shaping and its Alternatives edited by Yildiz Atasoy & William K. Carroll