Authored and Edited Books

• Ilcan, S. & A. Lacey. 2009. Governing the Poor: Exercises of Poverty Reduction, Practices of Global Aid. McGill-Queen’s University Press. Funded by SSHRCC and SSHRCC-Canada Research Chairs Program. Forthcoming.
• Ilcan, S., ed. (In Progress). Mobilities, Knowledge, and Social Justice.
  McGill-Queen’s University Press.
• Gabriel, B. & S. Ilcan, eds. 2004. Postmodernism and the Ethical Subject. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. 359 pages.
• Ilcan, S. 2002. Longing in Belonging: The Cultural Politics of Settlement.   Westport and London: Praeger.
• Ilcan, S. & L. Phillips, eds. 1998. Transgressing Borders: Critical Perspectives on Gender, Household, and Culture. Westport: Bergin & Garvey. 288 pages.

Edited Special Journal Issues

• Basok, T., S. Ilcan, & J. Noonan, eds. 2008. Citizenship and Social Justice. Special Journal Issue of Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice.
  20(3): 261-413.
• Basok, T., S. Ilcan, & J. Noonan, eds. 2006. Citizenship, Human Rights and Social Justice. Special Journal Issue of Citizenship Studies.10(3): 267-372.
• Ilcan, S. (Guest Co-Editor). 2000. Special Journal Issue on Social Assemblages, Space and Culture. 7(1): 1-84.

Refereed Journal Articles

• Ilcan, S. and L. Phillips. In Press. “Developmentalities and Calculative Practices: The Millennium Development Goals.” Antipode. 42(4).
• Ilcan, S. 2009 “Privatizing Responsibility: Public Sector Reform under Neoliberal Government.” Canadian Review of Sociology. 46(3): 207-234.
• Ilcan, S. & L. Phillips. 2008. “Governing through Global Networks: Knowledge Mobilities and Participatory Development.” Current Sociology. 56(5): 711-734.
• Ilcan, S., M. Oliver, & D. O’Connor. 2007. “Spaces of Governance: Gender and Public Sector Restructuring in Canada.” Gender, Place and Culture.
  14(10): 75-92.
• Phillips, L. & S. Ilcan. 2007. “Responsible Expertise: Governing the Uncertain Subjects of Biotechnology.” Critique of Anthropology. 27(1): 103-126.
• Basok, T. & S. Ilcan. 2006. “In the Name of Human Rights: Global Organizations and Participating Citizens.” Citizenship Studies.
  10(3): 309-327. /PDF/
• Ilcan, S. 2006. “Global Governing Organizations: Order-Building and Waste Management.” Current Sociology. 54(6): 851-872. /PDF/
• Lacey, A. & S. Ilcan. 2006. “Volunteer Labour, Responsible Citizenship, and International NGOs.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology.
  47(1): 35-53.
• Ilcan, S. & L. Phillips. 2006. “Governing Peace: Global Rationalities of Security and UNESCO’s Culture of Peace Campaign.” Anthropologica.
  48(1): 59-71. /PDF/
• Ilcan, S. & A. Lacey. 2006. “Governing through Empowerment: Oxfam’s Global Reform and Trade Campaigns.” Globalizations. 3(2): 207-225. /PDF/
• O’Connor, D. & S. Ilcan. 2005. “The Folding of Liberal Government: Contract Governance and the Transformation of the Public Service in Canada .” Alternatives: Global, Local, Political. 30(1): 1-23. /PDF/
• Ilcan, S. & T. Basok. 2004. “Community Government: Voluntary Agencies, Social Justice, and the Responsibilization of Citizens.” Citizenship Studies. 8(2): 129-144. /PDF/
• Phillips, L. & S. Ilcan. 2004. “Capacity-Building: The Neoliberal Governance of Development.” Canadian Journal of Development Studies.
  25(3): 393-409. /PDF/
• Basok, T. & S. Ilcan, 2003. “The Voluntary Sector and the Depoliticization of Civil Society: Implications for Social Justice.” International Journal of Canadian Studies. 28: 111-129.
• Ilcan, S., D. O’Connor, & M. Oliver. 2003. “Contract Governance and the Canadian Public Sector.” Relations Industrielle/Industrial Relations.
  58(4): 620-643. /PDF/
• Phillips, L. & S. Ilcan. 2003. “‘A World Free From Hunger’: Global Imagination and Governance in the Age of Scientific Management.” Sociologia Ruralis. 43(4): 434-453. /PDF/
• Ilcan, S. & L. Phillips.  2003. “Making Food Count: Expert Knowledge and Global Technologies of Government.” Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology. 40(4): 441-462. /PDF/
• Phillips, L. & S. Ilcan. 2002. “Numerical Governance and Expertise: The Food and Agricultural Organization before WID.” Atlantis. 62(2): 33-38.
  Research Note.
• Ilcan, S. & L. Phillips. 2000. “Mapping Populations: The United Nations, Globalization, and Engendered Spaces, 1948-1960.” Alternatives.
  25(4): 467-489.
• Phillips, L. & S. Ilcan. 2000. “Domesticating Spaces in Transition: Politics and Practices in the Gender and Development Literature, 1970-1999.” Anthropologica. 42(2): 1-12.
• Ilcan, S. 1999. “Social Spaces and the Micropolitics of Differentiation: An example from Northwestern Turkey.” Ethnology. 38(3): 243-256.
• Ilcan, S. 1998. “Occupying the Margins: On Spacing Gender and Gendering Space.” Space and Culture. 3: 5-26. /PDF/
• Ilcan, S. 1996. “Fragmentary Encounters in a Moral World: Household Power Relations and Gender Politics.” Ethnology. 35(1): 33-49.
• Ilcan, S. 1994. “Peasant Struggles and Social Change: Migration, Households, and Gender in Rural Turkish Society.” International Migration Review. 28(3): 554-579.
• Ilcan, S. 1994. “Magic and Social Domination in a Rural Turkish Community.” Culture. 14(1): 55-68.
• Ilcan, S. 1994. “Marriage Regulation and the Rhetoric of Alliance in Northwestern Turkey.” Ethnology. 33(4): 273-296.

Book Chapters

• Ilcan, S. & A. Lacey. 2008. “Governing through Empowerment: Oxfam’s Global Reform and Trade Campaigns” in Barry K. Gills, Ed., Globalization and the Global Politics of Justice. London: Routledge. 113-132. Reprinted article originally published in 2006 in Globalizations 3(2): 207-225.
• Ilcan, S. & L. Phillips. 2006. “Circulations of Insecurity: Globalizing Food Standards in Historical Perspective,” in J. Bingen & L. Busch, eds. Agricultural Standards: The Shape of the Global Food and Fiber System. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. 51-72.
• Ilcan, S. 2004. “The Marginal Other: Modern Figures and Ethical Dialogues” in B. Gabriel & S. Ilcan, eds., Postmodernism and the Ethical Subject. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. 
• Shields, R., S. Ilcan , D. O’Connor & E. Taborsky . 2002. “The Impact of a Knowledge-Based Economy on Work in the Public Service: The ‘Virtual Organization’ of Expertise and Knowledge” in M. Nakamura, ed., Alliances, Cooperative Ventures and the Role of Government in the Knowledge Based Economy: Policy Issues for Canada and Beyond. The Centre for Japanese Research, Vancouver: The University of British Columbia. Pp. 143-180.
• O’Connor, D., R. Shields, S. Ilcan & E. Taborsky. 2002. “Information and Knowledge Economies: Work and Management in the Canadian Federal Public Service” in K. Liu, ed., Organizational Semiotics: An Evolving Science of Information Systems. Dordrecht , Netherlands: Kluwer. Pp. 21-40.
• Ilcan, S.  1998. “Challenging Settlement: Rural Women’s Culture of Dis-placement” in S. Ilcan & L. Phillips, eds., Transgressing Borders. Westport: Bergin & Garvey.  Pp. 55-73.
• Ilcan, S.  1996. “Moral Regulation and Microlevel Politics: Implications for Women’s Work and Struggles” in P. Ghorayshi and C. Belanger, eds., Women, Work and Gender Relations in Developing Countries: A Global Perspective. Westport: Greenwood Press. Pp. 115-131.

Recent Scholarly Presentations

• 2009. Ilcan, S. “Global Partnerships, Responsibilities, and New Regulatory Processes.” Presented before the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) Annual Conference. Paris. July 16-18.
• 2009. Ilcan, S. “The Paradoxes of Humanitarian-Development Aid.”
  Presented at the Humanitarianism, Politics and Culture Conference.
  Ottawa: Carleton University. May 20.
• 2009. Ilcan, S. “Privatizing Development and the New Responsibility.”  Invited Talk delivered before Studies in National and International Development (SNID).  Kingston, Ontario: Queen’s University. March 19.
• 2009. Ilcan, S. and A. Lacey. “Making the Poor Responsible: On Microcredit and Microfinance Programs.” Presented before the International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention. New York City, NY. February 16.
• 2008. Ilcan, S. “Camp Biopolitics and Mobile Sovereignty in Colonial Namibia.” Presented before the Security and Exclusion Conference. Centre for Studies in Social Justice. Windsor: University of Windsor. October 23.
• 2008. Ilcan, S. and L. Phillips. “Developmentalities and the New Millennium.” Presented before the annual Canadian Political Science Association meetings. Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. Vancouver: University of British Columbia. June 6.
• 2008. Lacey, A. and S. Ilcan. “Partnering the Poor?: A Case-Study of USAID Poverty Reduction Partnerships and Assemblages of the Poor.” Presented before the Canadian Political Science Association annual meetings. Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. Vancouver: University of British Columbia. June 3.
• 2007. Ilcan, S. “Gender and the Voluntary Sector in a Globalizing Era.” Invited talk presented before the Gender and Social Politics in an Era of Globalisation Conference. Ottawa: Carleton University. May.
• 2007. Ilcan, S. “Privatizing Responsibility and Citizenship.” Presented before the Citizenship, Identity, and Social Justice Conference. Centre for Studies in Social Justice. Windsor: University of Windsor. May.
• 2007. Ilcan, S. “Privatizing Responsibility in a Globalizing Era.” 38th Sorokin Public Lecture. Saskatoon: University of Saskatchewan. March 28.
• 2006. Ilcan, S. “Global Order-Building, Poverty Reduction Initiatives, and Technologies of Agency.” Presented before the International Sociology Association Meetings. 16th ISA World Congress of Sociology. Durban, South Africa. July 23.
• 2005. Ilcan, S. and T. Basok. “Global Organizations and Mobilizing Citizenship for Human Rights.” Presented at the Human Rights in a Globalizing Era Conference. Centre for Studies in Social Justice. Windsor: University of Windsor. August 4-6.
• 2005. Ilcan, S. and L. Phillips. “Global Organizations and Knowledge Networks for Development?” Presented before the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID). Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. London: University of Western Ontario. June 2.
• 2005. Phillips, L. and S. Ilcan. “Biotechnology as Narratives of Globalization.” Presented before the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association (CSAA). London: University of Western Ontario. June 3.
• 2005. Ilcan, S. and A. Lacey. “Practices of Globalization and Aid: The ‘New Aid Regime’ of Oxfam and CARE Canada.” Presented at the Panel on ‘Global Organizations and the Challenges of Social Justice.’ Global Studies Association (GSA). Knoxville, Tennessee. May 11-14.
• 2005. Ilcan, S. “Global Governing Organizations: Global Order-building and Cultivating Wasted Lives.” Presented before the Pacific Sociological Association (PSA). Portland, Oregon. April 7-10.
• 2004. Ilcan, S. and A. Lacey. “Governing the Poor: Oxfam’s Global Trade Campaigns and Issues of Social Justice.” Invited Public Address delivered before the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition. Hamilton: McMaster University. November 18.
• 2004. Ilcan, S. and T. Basok. “Volunteer Agencies, Social Justice, and Community Government.” Presented before the Bridging Communities: Community Theory and Practice in a Changing World. Wilfrid Laurier University at Brantford. Brantford, Ontario. Sept 30-Oct 2.
• 2004. Ilcan, S. “Global Agencies, Order-Building, and Questions of Social Justice.” Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association (CSAA). Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba. June.
• 2004. Lacey, A. and S. Ilcan. “Governing through Empowerment: Oxfam’s Trade and Development Campaigns.” Presented before the Global Studies Association (GSA). Boston: Brandeis University, Massachusetts. April.