Onder is a PhD student in the Social and Cultural Analysis program at Concordia University in Montréal. He holds a B.A. in Political Science and Public Administration from Ankara University, Turkey. He completed his Master of Science and his first PhD in Sociology at Middle East Technical University, Turkey. His research interests are situated at the intersection of political anthropology, organizational anthropology, social movements, legal anthropology and ethnographic research. He has been working as the Coordinator of Concordia Ethnography Lab since 2017. Currently he is studying on the politics and the ethnography of environmental organizations; i.e., how and in which ways these organizations establish relations with environmental social movements, how they deal with governments and bureaucracies, and how they perceive the concept of “activism”.