Browsing Department of Humanities and Social Sciences by Document Type "Article"
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From competitive to multidirectional memory: a literary tool for comparison
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)Recent research shows that Turkish society is very polarized and that different identities and ideological perspectives are in constant struggle with each other. In a multicultural society such as Turkey’s, the question ... -
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 ... -
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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, ... -
Imagining decent work towards a green future in a former forest village of the city of İstanbul
(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 ... -
The intersections of illness and literature in the Ottoman Empire: Figuring Émile Zola and syphilis in Halide Edib’s Mev’ut Hüküm
(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 ... -
Language learning through an intersectional lens: Gender, migrant status, and gain in symbolic capital for Syrian refugee women in Turkey
This paper sheds light on Syrian refugee women’s negotiation strategies in language learning classrooms and in their broader social contexts from an intersectional perspective. Drawing on in-depth interviews and focus ... -
(Lived) Spaces of belonging, culture, and gender: Spatial practices of home for Syrian women in Istanbul
(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 ... -
Logistification and hyper-precarity at the intersection of migration and pandemic governance: Refugees in the Turkish labour market
(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 ... -
Making property of a marsh: environment, property, and politics in nineteenth-century Ottoman Ioannina
(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
(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 ... -
Militant minority at work: a successful case of unionisation of garment workers in Istanbul
(Taylor & Francis, 2023-01-02)This article explores a successful unionisation struggle among garment workers in Istanbul. In the last four decades, Turkey has become a global showcase of authoritarian anti-labour neoliberalism and one of the world’s ... -
New approaches and challenges in Ottoman historical writing
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Post-imperial crises and liminal masculinity in Orhan Kemal’s My Father’s House–The Idle Years
(Wiley, 2012-09)My Father’s House–The Idle Years is an autobiographical novel by Orhan Kemal, one of the giants of Turkish literature. The novel’s explicit focus is on a boy who grows up pursuing self-realization in a working-class ... -
Reforming Laïcité or reforming islam? Secularism, islam, and the regulation of religion in France
(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 ... -
Sleepwalking in İstanbul: a man in anguish in A. H. Tanpinar's A Mind at Peace
(Taylor & Francis, 2009)Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar's (1901-62) novels reflect the dichotomy within early twentieth-century Turkey: a nation maintaining past tradition yet concurrently embracing modernity. Tanpınar explores the Ottoman legacy of Turkish ... -
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 ... -
Timber smuggling and forestry politics in late nineteenth-century Western Taurus
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-07)The nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire witnessed a gradual change in the forestry regime. In response to the intensifying struggle over forest resources in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Ottoman government introduced a ... -
'We always open our doors for visitors' - Hospitality as homemaking strategy for refugee women in Istanbul
(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 ... -
‘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
(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 ...
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