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Ethnographic authority and public culture in Turkey in the 1950s
(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 ...
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 ...
Deception and violence in the ottoman empire: the people's theory of crowd behavior during the hamidian massacres of 1895
(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 ...
Beyond legal status: Exploring dimensions of belonging among forced migrants in Istanbul and Vienna
(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 ...
“All we hope is a generous revival”: The evangelization of the ottoman christians in western anatolia in the nineteenth century
(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. ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
In pursuit of intellectual discovery: an interview with Michael E. Meeker
(Cambridge University Press, 2021-11)
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Netice-I sa’y ve kayınvalide: Şehrin emek coğrafyası
(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 ...
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