M.A. Theses: Recent submissions

  • Working with the suffering of the other through ummah activism :|performative humanitarianism in the Mahalle 
    Güney Aksoy, Esma. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis is an ethnographic attempt to ask “what happens when the world is represented through suffering of the Other” to the milieu of Ummah activism on the sufferings within Palestine and Syria based in Fatih. ...
  • Attempts at constructing counter-space :|a comparative study of two Istanbul neighborhoods 
    Dere, Doğukan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis analyzes the historical processes of counter-space experiments in two gecekondu neighborhoods of Istanbul: 1 Mayıs (Mustafa Kemal) and Küçük Armutlu. Unplanned urbanization, as a result of capitalist uneven ...
  • Human - non-human socialities in the city :|an examination of Istanbul’s multispecies histories 
    Haspolat, Zeynep Gizem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis explores the human – non-human relationships in Istanbul through the examination of particular moments of the city’s multispecies histories. To this end, my research focuses on both the 1910 Hayırsızada Event, ...
  • Sexual dimensions of the power relations which manifest violence 
    Hattatoğlu, Zeynep Dilek. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1992., 1992.)
    This study is an attempt to understand the existence ground of violence which is experienced in the power relations in daily lives of the ordinary persons who are not classified as beyond the normal according to any ...
  • Reframing freelancing for difference :|towards a post-fantasmatic politics of work and class 
    İlyas, Özlem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis studies freelancing as a distinct form of employment and provides a critical account of the reigning neoliberal discourses on freelancing, as well as of the working and living experiences of freelancers in ...
  • Governing childhood:|The juvenile justice system in Turkey 
    Sağlam, Didem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis aims to contribute to the critical approach to juvenile justice system by focusing on child imprisonment in Turkey. Even though juvenile justice system is a complex and rich topic that is able to make valuable ...
  • Academies of possibilities:|An analysis of intellectual field, social movements, and knowledge production in Turkey 
    Ünal, İnci. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis compares and contrasts the intellectual field in the 1980s and today by examining the alternative academic structures founded in these two periods. The thesis analyzes these two contexts separately and traces ...
  • Spatialization of antagonism:|Hegemonic struggles over Taksim square 
    Uzun, Ahmet. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis explores the construction of antagonistic political subjectivities through the past and ongoing hegemonic struggles over Taksim Square. Taksim Square is a political space which can help us understand how ...
  • The “Work” of caring for the elderly: Labor, value and the gift 
    Eren, Dilan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This thesis focuses on paid eldercare relations which are claimed to be “family-like.” Contrary to the scholarly tendencies that reduce the claim of being “family-like” into mere tactical usage in paid-care relations, ...
  • Sexuality politics on the football field 
    Aktan, Deniz Nihan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis explores the potentials of the football field as a site of resistance through the mobilities and alliances of gender non-conforming footballing bodies. The queer identified teams, which have emerged in the ...
  • Rethinking biopolitics today: A critical inquiry 
    Güven, Can. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This thesis is an inquiry on the subject matter of biopolitics and should be seen as an attempt for mapping out the theoretical continent that has been opened up by Michel Foucault. Throughout these pages, I have focused ...
  • Visual economies of disaster: The circulation of an image of the Van earthquake 
    Kaya, Funda. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    This thesis focuses on the production and circulation of an earthquake victim’s photograph in order to see the processes behind becoming a cultural icon, a symbol of a disaster and an object of pain. It follows the ...
  • Feminist themes after 1980 in Turkey :|a study of two magazines 
    Yenigün, Candan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1989., 1989.)
    In this study, feminist themes of 1980's in Turkey which have been largely discussed and become popular are analyzed. The feminist themes brought about through analyzing two magazines are discussed with respect to the ...
  • State-making through disaster management: The case of Soma 
    Tamer, Sumru. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    This thesis analyzes the functions of the emerging governmental field of disaster management in Turkey. By analyzing the government response after the Eynez mine incident in Soma and comparing it with the government’s ...
  • Community dissolution: Pursuing the absence of elder LGBTQ people in Turkey 
    Çağlar, Berkant. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    This research aims at comprehending two central issues. While attempting to understand transition mechanisms of the appearing LGBTQ movement in the 90’s, research also considers results of this alteration process along ...
  • The Syrian "Other" in everyday life: Perspectives on Syrian refugees in Üsküdar 
    Dursun, Nurbanu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    This thesis explores mobilization of conservative people for the refugee issue in the everyday life of Üsküdar and how they perceive the Syrian refugees arriving Turkey since the early days of the Syrian Civil War that ...
  • Building a past: Cultural heritage, imagining, and marketing memory in Adana 
    İlhan, Hikmet. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This thesis examines the role of historical Adana Tepebağ houses in the imagination of social memory and cultural heritage by exploring how the houses are marketed as both emotional instruments and economic investments. ...
  • Publishing the “Unpublishable”: The making of Kurdish publishing in Turkey 
    Mülayim, Gökhan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This thesis aims to explore the making of Kurdish publishing in Turkey by asking how that field emerged and has been developed under the conditions inimical to the use and reproduction of Kurdish literary language. My ...
  • Women’s interpretations of fetva: Guiding daily life and governing the private through Alo fetva 
    Kalpaklıoğlu Yalçın, Burcu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This study analyses women’s practice of delivering fetva in the Alo Fetva telephone line serviced by the Directorate of Religious Affairs. It is based on an ethnographic research conducted in the room where female preachers ...
  • Border building and breaking practices on the Turkish-Syrian border 
    Kıyanç, Yakup. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    This study aims to analyze border building and breaking practices at the Turkish- Syrian border in the context of the Mür itpınar-Kobanê border region. After the first chapter of this study, which explains the border theory ...

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