Browsing by Author "Ghosh, Candan Türkkan"

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The charity of war: Famine, humanitarian aid and world war I in the middle east

Ghosh, Candan Türkkan (Cambridge University Press, 2020-11)

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Clean foods, motherhood and alternative food networks in contemporary Istanbul

Ghosh, Candan Türkkan (Taylor & Francis, 2019-02-01)

Since the early 2000s, the numbers of alternative food networks (AFNs) in Istanbul have increased significantly. Members are usually white collar, university educated, upper middle class Istanbulites who got into the AFNs ...
From contemplation to spectacle: transformation of the way of seeing in the 19th century ottoman culture

İz, Mustafa Kemal

In this study, by suggesting two different ways of seeing as contemplative and spectatorial, which are based on the distinction made between the concepts of tefekkür (contemplation) and temaşa (spectacle), the transformation ...
The right to self-preservation? corporeal considerations in the leviathan

Ghosh, Candan Türkkan (Bogazici Universitesi, 2021)

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Screening for eligibility: access and resistance in Istanbul’s food banks

Ghosh, Candan Türkkan (Taylor & Francis, 2023)

Introduced in the 2000s as a component of social welfare reforms, the means test determines the eligibility of aid applicants based on previously set income categories. Replacing local committees that decided eligibility, ...
Wasteful or sensible? Donor imageries in İstanbul’s food banks

Ghosh, Candan Türkkan (Cambridge University Press, 2020-05)

This article investigates Alevi youth subjectivities in a neighborhood of Istanbul, Okmeydani, in which mainly Alevi people live, through the youth's self-positionings in revolutionary groups, which has deeply marked the ...
What is the ‘alternative’? Insights from Istanbul’s food networks

Ghosh, Candan Türkkan (Taylor & Francis, 2023)

Outside of the Global North, where agri-food systems have not yet consolidated into a ‘funnel shape,’ what makes an urban provisioning actor ‘alternative’ is not always clear. In this paper, I use members’ own definitions, ...
Who is "deserving" of aid? Subject-formation in Istanbul's food banks

Ghosh, Candan Türkkan (Taylor & Francis, 2021-05-27)

This paper focuses on how the food banks, in working to allocate resources appropriately, constantly generate appropriate subjects, the "deserving poor", and through processes of identification and verification, unmask the ...