Ph.D. Theses: Recent submissions

  • Tok, Alaaddin. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2017., 2017.)
    Focusing on wood fuel and coal, this dissertation examines the evolution of energy economy of the Ottoman Empire between 1750 and 1914. Ottomans depended exclusively on traditional sources of energy before the introduction ...
  • Temiz, Kadir. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2017., 2017.)
    This dissertation examines China’s cross-regional foreign policies – with a specific focus on non-Arab countries in the Middle East – within the frame-work of debates on China’s rise in the period from 2001 and 2011. The ...
  • Zeren, Barış. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2017., 2017.)
    The dissertation examines the functioning of Ottoman constitutional rule born in 1908 which aimed at forming a new body politic, an Ottoman nation, on the sociopolitical structure inherited from the "old regime.” As this ...
  • Akçalı, Hatice Selen. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2016., 2016.)
    This dissertation is about the political propaganda activities of the Turkish state during the Single-Party Regime. The purpose of this study is to draw the wide picture of the perception and organization of propaganda ...
  • Işıklı, Ebru. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2016., 2016.)
    This dissertation argues that private employment agencies have contributed to the individualization of employment with norms they have created through their practices. Employability is considered to be a panacea for ...
  • Polatel, Mehmet. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2017., 2017.)
    This dissertation examines the emergence and transformation of the land question in the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century, focusing on the extent and characteristics of land disputes concerning Armenians. Views on ...
  • Orhan, Gözde. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2017., 2017.)
    This dissertation scrutinizes space production processes in Dersim – a city culturally and politically very different from other cities in Turkey – by focusing on the actors of the city and their strategies. It claims that ...
  • Tapia, Aude Aylin de. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2016., 2016.)
    This study explores the relations between Orthodox Christians (Rums) and Muslims from the beginning of the Tanzimat (1939) to the Exchange of popu-lations between Greece and Turkey (1923). Focusing on the Turkish- and ...
  • Başer, Gülce. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2016., 2016.)
    The thesis is about the relationship between politics and Turkish poetry in the decade from 1980 to 1990. This decade is characterized by the 12 September 1980 coup d’état and the incorporation of the country to the global ...
  • Bayraktar, Uğur. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2015., 2015.)
    This dissertation examines the transformation of family estates (yurtluk-ocaklık and hükûmet) in Ottoman Kurdistan during the nineteenth century. Since these lands provided their possessors with political and economic ...
  • Birelma, Alpkan. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2016., 2016.)
    This dissertation is an urban ethnography scrutinizing workers’ subjectivities and resistance in a working class neighborhood of Istanbul, Turkey. By utiliz-ing extensive case method, it aims to listen and shed light on ...
  • Ertan, Mehmet. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2016., 2016.)
    This dissertation scrutinizes the politicization of Alevism in the 1990s. The politicization of Alevi identity as the basis of a socio-political movement is shaped by culturel turn of politics stemming from debates on ...
  • Bilgiç, Esra. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2015., 2015.)
    This dissertation examines the role of the press in the consolidation and dissemination of the Turkish national identity in the single-party era with a social constructionist approach. Within the context of press-government ...
  • Dinçer, Fahriye. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2004., 2004.)
    Semahs are the ritual dances of the Alevis, a heterodox, ethnically diverse religious community in Turkey. This dissertation concentrates on different reformulations of semahs in relation to the reconstruction processes ...
  • Fshazi, Falma. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2014., 2014.)
    This study explores the interwar Albanian state youth organizations, the National Entity “The Albanian Youth” and the Federation of Artistic and Sports Associations “The Albanian Brotherhood.” They constitute the first ...
  • Yorulmazlar, Emirhan. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2015., 2015.)
    This dissertation posits that ideas had a role in explaining change in Turkish foreign policy during the Justice and Development Party (JDP) era. It is argued this ideational change not only altered policy goals and ...
  • Genç, Fırat. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2014., 2014.)
    This study examines the processes of production of space in Diyarbakır in the period 1999-2014 so as to explore the conditions under which neoliberal urbanism, as a certain mode of politics of space, becomes hegemonic. ...
  • Kasapsaraçoğlu, İbrahim Murat. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University.Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2013., 2013.)
    This study examines Turkey’s Middle East policy in the 1950s, which was the most problematic and conflictual decade of the Cold War. The dynamics of the great power global politics and regional politics will provide the ...
  • Gürsoy, Özgür Burçak. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2014., 2014.)
    This study examines the political economy of the Turkish tobacco market between 1938 and 1984. It discusses the struggling tobacco policies of the market actors, including TEKEL, the merchants, experts, and producers. The ...
  • Papuççular, Hazal. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2015., 2015.)
    This dissertation analyzes the impact of the Dodecanese Islands on Turkish foreign and security policy between 1923 and 1947. In this respect, reflections of the military fortifications in the islands on Turkish security ...

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