Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Recent Submissions
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Turkish literature as world literature
(Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020-01-01)Essays covering a broad range of genres and ranging from the late Ottoman era to contemporary literature open the debate on the place of Turkish literature in the globalized literary world. Explorations of the multilingual ... -
Gender of trauma in İstanbul İstanbul
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-09-01)Burhan Sönmez’s İstanbul İstanbul (2016) is a powerful addition to contemporary prison novels in Turkey. The novel revolves around prisoners who experience systematic torture and are unable to escape the grim destruction ... -
The stubborn persistence of working-class protest in Turkey in an age of authoritarian neoliberalism
(Taylor & Francis, 2024)Under authoritarian neoliberalism, Turkey has seen the number of legal strikes plummet since the mid-1990s. Alongside deepening authoritarianism, the AKP government banned nearly all legal strikes in the 2010s. How have ... -
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 ... -
Reception
(Springer, 2023)In this Chapter, we describe the strategic temporality embedded in the Turkish reception system for Syrian refugees. First, we focus on the effect of laws and how they lead to nuances in multilevel governance on the ground ... -
Integration
(Springer, 2023)Strategic temporality permeates the integration experience of Turkey’s Syrians in a number of ways. First, given their temporary legal status, there is a grey area between reception and integration, which is highly symbolic ... -
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 ... -
Legislative, institutional and political context
(Springer, 2023)Refugee governance has legislative, institutional, political, and discursive dimensions. These components co-constitute each other and reflect the fragments of strategic temporality as a building principal. It is possible ... -
Protection
(Springer, 2023)Turkey has a highly complex structure with stratified legal statuses and multiple actors in migration and refugee governance. The chapter shows how temporality is the key encompassing characteristic of Turkey’s refugee ... -
Introduction
(Springer, 2023)Just after the local elections in 2019, irregular migrants in Istanbul faced a months-long crackdown. The Ministry of Interior from the Justice and Development Party government (known as AK Party or AKP) gave Syrians until ... -
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 ... -
Akle Tayyibe [Tasty Dish]—Cooking up belonging in the Syrian refugee foodscape in Turkey
(Taylor & Francis, 2023)This article is a study of Syrian women’s food practices in Turkey. Researchers have shown that food matters for belonging, but we need more research examining how migrants use food in memory-work; how they cook to create ... -
New approaches and challenges in Ottoman historical writing
(Societa Editrice Il Mulino, 2023-07)N/A -
Forced migration and the politics of belonging: Integration policy, national debates and migrant strategies
(Sage, 2023)This research note examines the politics of refugee belonging in Germany, Sweden, Austria, United Kingdom, Italy, Greece, and Turkey. Specifically, it explores how migrant belonging is impacted by integration policies and ... -
How to be a good guest: American ethnographers in Turkey in the long 1968
(Wiley, 2024-03)The article uncovers a forgotten chapter in the history of anthropology by revealing the experiences of American ethnographers in Turkey between 1967 and 1969. Using original archival documents and oral history interviews, ... -
Can nacar, labor and power in the late Ottoman Empire: Tobacco workers, managers, and the state, 1872-1912
(Taylor & Francis, 2023-01-26)N/A -
Eating and cooking beyond the borders in Elif Shafak’s The Saint of Incipient Insanities
(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
(Cambridge University Press, 2022-08)N/A
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