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“All we hope is a generous revival”: The evangelization of the ottoman christians in western anatolia in the nineteenth century
(İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi, 2020)This article examines the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions’ activities in the 1870s and 80s at the Manisa and Smyrna/İzmir stations in an attempt to evangelize Greeks and Armenians living in the region. ... -
Anthropologist Lloyd A. Fallers’ Research in Turkey during the 1960s
(Cyprus International University, 2023)Due to the influence of the modernization paradigm, as the main axis of the American social sciences during the Cold War, and since the 1950s, the field of anthropology has shown interest in the developing nation-states ... -
Armenians in 1920s Greece: Turkey’s unwanted minority, the league of nations’ Burden, Greece’s “Other” refugees
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2023)This article sheds light upon the history of an underresearched group of refugees who settled in Greece in the 1920s. It focuses on Armenians from Anatolia who fled to Greece in 1921-22, during and after the Greek-Turkish ... -
At the unsettling limits of collaborative life writing: A memoir of an ethnography-memoir
(Taylor & Francis, 2023-01-01)This chapter uses a memoir to examine the limits of anthropological collaboration. I draw on 12 years of friendship and fieldwork that culminated in my writing an ethnographic life story of a German-Turkish return migrant ... -
Ayfer Tunç'un modernizmle derdi: faillik ve iktidar
(Celal Bayar Üniversitesi, 2017)Türk edebiyatının önde gelen çağdaş yazarlarından biri olan Ayfer Tunç, romanlarında modernizmin açmazlarına vurgu yapmakta ve modernleşen dünyada, toplumdan ve doğadan yabancılaşan insanların çelişkilerine yer vermektedir. ... -
Becoming protestant: Greek Orthodox responses to conversion in 19th-century Ottoman Anatolia
(Koç Üniversitesi Suna & İnan Kıraç Akdeniz Medeniyetleri Araştırma Merkezi (AKMED), 2018)During the nineteenth century, through American missionaries’ efforts, some, albeit a small portion, of the Greek Orthodox subjects of the Ottoman sultan adopted Protestantism. This article explores various incidents of ... -
Being a forestry labourer in the late Ottoman Empire: Debt bondage, migration, and sedentarization
(Cambridge University Press, 2022-12)This article examines the survival strategies of forestry workers and craftspeople in the late Ottoman Empire. Through the example of the Tahtacl, a semi-nomadic community specialized in lumbering in the forests along the ... -
Between solidarity and conflict: Tactical biosociality of Turkish egg donors
(Springer, 2022-06-29)Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews conducted with Turkish egg donors at a Northern Cypriot clinic, this article investigates tactical biosociality of cross-border egg donors that allows them to manage social ... -
Beyond headscarf culture in Turkey's retail sector
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Beyond legal status: Exploring dimensions of belonging among forced migrants in Istanbul and Vienna
(Cogitatio Press, 2020-03-25)Migrants with precarious legal statuses experience significant structural exclusion from their host nations but may still feel partial belonging. This article explores two dimensions potentially relevant for this group’s ... -
Beyond mosque, church, and state: alternative narratives of the nation in the balkans
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Can nacar, labor and power in the late Ottoman Empire: Tobacco workers, managers, and the state, 1872-1912
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Citizenship and Intersectionality: German Feminist Debates about Headscarf and Antidiscrimination Laws
(Oxford University Press, 2008)As European nations grapple with when and how to extend inclusive citizenship to their Muslim minorities, the parameters of Muslim women's citizenship have jumped to the forefront of feminist concern. Much of the debate ... -
Citizenship ethics: German-Turkish return migrants, belonging, and justice
(Sage, 2018-08-01)This article examines citizenship for German-Turkish return migrants attending monthly meetings of the Rückkehrer Stammtisch (Returner’s Meetings) in Istanbul. Meeting attendees call themselves “world citizens” and remain ... -
Conclusion
(Springer, 2023)The findings of this in-depth case study provide insights for generalisations about how strategic temporality may operate in other refugee-hosting countries as well as specific findings about state responses to mass migration ... -
Constructions of masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa: Literature, film, and national discourse
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Convict Labor in Turkey, 1936–1953: A Capitalist Corporation in the State?
(Cambridge University Press, 2016)The article proposes the institutional analysis of convict labor as an alternative to both (profit-oriented) economic and (discipline-oriented) political explanations. The specialized labor-based prisons in Turkey from ... -
Cultivating and contesting order: 'European Turks' and negotiations of neighbourliness at 'home'
(Berghahn, 2013-12)This article examines how Turks returning from Germany to Turkey self-fashion as 'orderly neighbours'. By maintaining aesthetically pleasing homes and gardens, keeping public spaces clean, and obeying rules and laws in ... -
Cultivating membership abroad: Analyzing German pre-integration courses for Turkish marriage migrants
(Taylor & Francis, 2022)Addressing research on migration governance, this article examines German pre-integration courses offered to Turkish marriage migrants in Istanbul. The courses were implemented in response to growing concern about the ... -
Deception and violence in the ottoman empire: the people's theory of crowd behavior during the hamidian massacres of 1895
(Cambridge University Press, 2020-10)This article is an historical ethnography of the popular conceptualizations of crowd behavior during the pogroms against the Armenians in the Ottoman East in 1895-1896. It draws on contemporary sources like official ...
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