• Can nacar, labor and power in the late Ottoman Empire: Tobacco workers, managers, and the state, 1872-1912 

  Kovankaya, Başak Akgül (Taylor & Francis, 2023-01-26)

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• Eating and cooking beyond the borders in Elif Shafak’s The Saint of Incipient Insanities 

  Atik, Egem (Taylor & Francis, 2023-08)

  In her novel The Saint of Incipient Insanities (2004), Elif Shafak explores the theme of alienation by portraying a group of individuals who live in the U.S. and struggle to adapt to the American lifestyle. This article ...

• Timber and forestry in Qing China. Sustaining the market 

  Kovankaya, Başak Akgül (Cambridge University Press, 2022-08)

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• Imagining decent work towards a green future in a former forest village of the city of İstanbul 

  Selçuk, Oya İklil; Nircan, Z. D.; Coşkun, B. S. (MDPI, 2023-06-09)

  This paper addresses issues pertaining to the future of work and sustainability through the lens of a case study of ecological deterioration and how it destroys and creates green jobs in a forest village of Istanbul. As ...

• (Lived) Spaces of belonging, culture, and gender: Spatial practices of home for Syrian women in Istanbul 

  Sezginalp Özçetin, Pınar; Rottmann, Susan Beth (Sage, 2022)

  Combining architectural and cultural anthropological approaches, this study explores the domestic lived spaces of Syrian women in Istanbul to understand how they create belonging in a new social and architectural setting ...

• Between solidarity and conflict: Tactical biosociality of Turkish egg donors 

  Mutlu, Burcu (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 ...

• Embracing vulnerability in writing migrant lives 

  Rottmann, Susan Beth; Sayer, R. (Taylor & Francis, 2022)

  In this paper, an anthropologist and a life writer examine the implications of an ethical and political practice of vulnerability with regards to writing migrant lives. Drawing on research with migrants in Turkey and ...

• Being a forestry labourer in the late Ottoman Empire: Debt bondage, migration, and sedentarization 

  Kovankaya, Başak Akgül (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 ...

• Reforming Laïcité or reforming islam? Secularism, islam, and the regulation of religion in France 

  Arslan, Berna Zengin; Açımuz, Hayriye Bige (Brill Academic Publishers, 2021)

  This paper focuses on management of Islam by the French State since the state of emergency declared in 2015. We analyze the legal actions of the State using a law-in-context approach and theorize secularism as the State's ...

• The making of a national city: From Mezre to Elaziğ 

  Sipahi, Ali (Taylor & Francis, 2021)

  This chapter tells the story of an imperial town’s transformation into a national city. It will start with the emergence of Mezre as a government suburb in proximity to Harput in the nineteenth century. With its Armenian ...

• Everyday agency: Rethinking refugee women’s agency in specific cultural contexts 

  Kanal, M.; Rottmann, Susan Beth (Frontiers Media, 2021-11-17)

  This article proposes an interdisciplinary approach to refugee agency – the capacity to act within structural conditions – using the example of Syrian women rebuilding family and home in Turkey. Our broader objective is ...

• 'We always open our doors for visitors' - Hospitality as homemaking strategy for refugee women in Istanbul 

  Rottmann, Susan Beth; Nimer, M. (Oxford University Press, 2021-09)

  This article examines social relations for Syrian women in Istanbul by focusing on micro-level lived relationships of hospitality. Through an ethnographic, qualitative approach to key sites of encounter, the article explores ...

• Logistification and hyper-precarity at the intersection of migration and pandemic governance: Refugees in the Turkish labour market 

  Nimer, M.; Rottmann, Susan Beth (Oxford University Press, 2022-03-23)

  This article analyses the governance of migration and the Covid-19 pandemic on precarious Syrian refugees in Istanbul. Drawing from a review of state policies and interviews with refugees before and after the pandemic, we ...

• ‘We can’t integrate in Europe. We will pay a high price if we go there’: Culture, Time and Migration Aspirations for Syrian Refugees in Istanbul 

  Rottmann, Susan Beth; Kaya, A. (Oxford University Press, 2021-03)

  In popular media, it is often assumed that Syrian refugees wish to reach Europe by any means necessary but, during field research in 2018, we found that many Syrians hoped to remain in Istanbul, despite their tenuous legal ...

• Netice-I sa’y ve kayınvalide: Şehrin emek coğrafyası 

  Günay-Erkol, Çimen (Istanbul University, 2021)

  The author Mehmet Tahir, an officer in the editorial office of the accounting section of the Customs Office, followed Ahmet Midhat's recommendation to discuss economics in fiction in order to promote commerce and ...

• A route for mind-body in fin de siecle istanbul 

  Sezen, Güneş (Istanbul University Press, 2021)

  This article focuses on Mustafa Resit's Penbe Ferace (1892), an example of the pocket novels which emerged at the end of the 19th century as a new book format. Writers of the era, with a reflectionist and a constructivist ...

• In pursuit of intellectual discovery: an interview with Michael E. Meeker 

  Sipahi, Ali (Cambridge University Press, 2021-11)

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• The intersections of illness and literature in the Ottoman Empire: Figuring Émile Zola and syphilis in Halide Edib’s Mev’ut Hüküm 

  Parker, Şima İmşir (Taylor & Francis, 2021-07-04)

  In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire began to use positivism and materialism to socially regulate and reform the empire, and Charles Darwin, Ludwig Buchner and Claude Bernard were among the names ...

• Making property of a marsh: environment, property, and politics in nineteenth-century Ottoman Ioannina 

  Akpınar, Özkan (Taylor & Francis, 2022-07-04)

  This article discusses the contested character of property rights with respect to reclaimed land from marshes in the Ottoman Empire through the reclamation project for Lake Lapsista in Ottoman Ioannina starting from 1886. ...

• Migration regime and “language part of work”: Experiences of Syrian refugees as surplus population in the Turkish labor market 

  Nimer, M.; Rottmann, Susan Beth (Sage, 2020-10)

  The literature on migration, language and employment is dominated by the human capital approach and promotes multilingualism as a universal good. This paper examines the relationship between language and work for migrants ...

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