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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 ... -
Some thoughts on class and class struggle as evoked by Durrenberger and Doukas’ article
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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 ... -
Subcontracted employment and the labor movement’s response in turkey
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Timber and forestry in Qing China. Sustaining the market
(Cambridge University Press, 2022-08)N/A -
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 ... -
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 ... -
'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 ... -
When local class unionism meets international solidarity: A case of union revitalisation in Turkey
(McMaster University, 2018)The article concerns the recent transformation and ensuing successes of a Turkish trade union of road transport workers called Tum Tasima Iscileri Sendikasi (TUMTIS). In the mid-2000s, TUMTIS was mainly organised in ... -
Working-class entrepreneurialism: Perceptions, aspirations, and experiences of petty entrepreneurship among male manual workers in Turkey
(Cambridge University Press, 2019-11)This article examines working-class entrepreneurialism in Turkey from a comparative perspective. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in a working-class neighborhood of Istanbul, the article focuses on the perceptions, ... -
World literature decentered: Beyond the "West" through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal
(Cambridge University Press, 2022-05)N/A
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