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“All we hope is a generous revival”: The evangelization of the ottoman christians in western anatolia in the nineteenth century
Erol, Merih (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. ... -
Ayfer Tunç'un modernizmle derdi: faillik ve iktidar
Günay-Erkol, Çimen (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
Erol, Merih (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 ... -
Beyond headscarf culture in Turkey's retail sector
Birelma, Alpkan (Cambridge University Press, 2016) -
Beyond legal status: Exploring dimensions of belonging among forced migrants in Istanbul and Vienna
Rottmann, Susan Beth (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
Erol, Merih (Oxford University Press, 2018-02)N/A -
Citizenship ethics: German-Turkish return migrants, belonging, and justice
Rottmann, Susan Beth (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 ... -
Convict Labor in Turkey, 1936–1953: A Capitalist Corporation in the State?
Sipahi, Ali (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'
Rottmann, Susan Beth (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 ... -
Deception and violence in the ottoman empire: the people's theory of crowd behavior during the hamidian massacres of 1895
Sipahi, Ali (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 ... -
Ethnographic authority and public culture in Turkey in the 1950s
Sipahi, Ali (Taylor & Francis, 2020-06)The article is a historical study of ethnographic practices in non-academic fields of culture. It examines the practices and artefacts of cultural production in post-war Turkey and reveals that in the long 1950s popular ... -
Global cities and organized crime: the shifting urban landscape of Gotham
Travlos, Ceren Mert (Wiley, 2019-02)N/A -
Hotels and highways: The construction of modernization theory in cold war Turkey.
Sipahi, Ali (Cambridge University Press, 2019-05)N/A -
Issues of ideology and identity in Turkish literature during the Cold War
Günay-Erkol, Çimen (2013)In the Cold War era, the period from the end of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, Turkey was dominated by efforts of democratization and liberalization, economic growth and instability, intellectual and ... -
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 ... -
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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 ... -
Post-imperial crises and liminal masculinity in Orhan Kemal’s My Father’s House–The Idle Years
Günay-Erkol, Çimen (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 ... -
Sleepwalking in İstanbul: a man in anguish in A. H. Tanpinar's A Mind at Peace
Günay-Erkol, Çimen (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
Birelma, Alpkan (Springer Nature, 2018-03)N/A
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