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A critical history of the concept of progress: Salvaging the repressed normative content

Yasin, Buğra. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)

This study revisits the concept of progress for the purpose of excavating and laying bare its normative content. The critical examination of its conceptual history enables me to delineate two ideal-types of progress which ...
Coming to terms with the past: narrating the 12 September 1980 military coup

Binay, Sema. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)

This thesis is concerned with the meaning of the 12 September 1980 military coup at the present, and it aims to examine the representations and justifications of the coup, and the politics of coming to terms with it. In ...
Cooperation or abjection? a Re-conceptualization of civil society beyond liberal values and dichotomies: the ‘Islam vs. homosexuality’ debate in Turkey

Atuk, Sumru. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)

The main argument of this study is that the liberal tradition which idealizes civil society as a sphere for the cultivation of democratic values, equality, pluralism and cooperation lacks explanatory value in terms of ...
Deconstruction of the modern subject by Arendt and Levinas: the other and politics

Yılmaz, Selbin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)

This thesis examines the notion of subjectivity in the philosophies of Hannah Arendt and Emmanuel Levinas. It argues that the terms of the dichotomy between the modern and post-modern conceptualizations of the subjectivity ...
Ethics of the political realm in Hannah Arendt's thought

Gürer, Emre Çetin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)

This thesis seeks to explore the "unwritten" ethics of Hannah Arendt's political theory. It argues that even though Arendt is adamant in banishing morality from the political realm, her political theory consists of an ...
On Hannah Arendt’s conception of judgment with regard to political action: an attempt at reconciling the perspectives of actor and spectator

Menasse, Sophie. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)

This thesis explores the relation between judgment and action in Arendt’s theory and comprises four main arguments. Firstly, I challenge the argument that there is a shift in Arendt’s theory of judgment from a future-‐oriented ...
Politics of motherhood and the experience of the mothers of peace in Turkey

Aslan, Özlem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)

This thesis questions the limits of politics of motherhood in Turkey within the context of the Mothers of Peace. It focuses on the narratives of the women in the Mothers of Peace and the public discourses about motherhood ...
Post-Marxist theories of political action :|a critical review of two paradigmatic proposals

Çalkıvik, Aslı Falay. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)

This thesis aims to provide a preliminary investigation and an evaluation of Post-Marxist theories of political action in the age of globalized capitalism. Given the shifting epistemological and ontological premises, what ...
Radical democratic pluralism : an alternative

Yüksel, Ayşe Seda. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2003., 2003.)

This study will concentrate on the philosophical debate on pluralism in the last two decades, underlining in particular the radical democratic critique of liberalism through a perspective more sensitive to differences. The ...
Re-articulation of the sign of Turkish National identity through the discursive performances of the Arab "other": the case of Arabs in Batman

Moustafa, Süheyla Nil. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)

This thesis aims to provide an elaborated understanding of the concept of national identity through an exploration of the cultural identities of the Arab community in Batman and the consolidation of the Arab communal ...
The conscious of the presentness as a critical attitude towards the progress: Kant, Arendt, Benjamin

Akkanat, Salih. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)

The main purpose of this thesis is to criticize progressive time conception through highlighting the uniqueness of experience and the autonomy of political judgment. The thesis argues that the particular events cannot be ...
The constitutive role of loss in understanding Kemalism and Islamism in contemporary Turkey: A comparative look at Republic Protests and Palestine Demonstrations

Alyanak, Oğuz. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)

In the last decade, Turkey has witnessed widely attended demonstrations organized by Kemalist and Islamist NGOs and political parties. The questions regarding why these demonstrations are organized, and what they tell us ...
The human rights perspectives of two human rights organizations: Mazlum-Der and İHD

Akan, Suavi Selim. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)

An important part of the increasing debates about the civil society in Turkey has been the human rights issue. The repressive attitudes of Turkish state dominated human rights movements in the pre-1980 period. In the ...
The missing link in the Chain of oppression and resistance: last era of Kurdish banditry in modern Turkey, 1950-1980

Özcan, Ahmet. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)

Referring to the denomination of the transitory period between the massive Kurdish insurrections suppressed in the early Republic and the organized armed struggle initiated in the late 1970s as ‘the period of silence’, the ...
The policing of social discontent and the construction of the social body: mapping the expansion and militerization of the police organization in Turkey in the post-1980 period

Berksoy, Biriz Gonca. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)

The police organization in Turkey has gone through a major transformation process after the 1980 coup d’état. Within this period its personnel and budget were significantly enlarged, para-militaristic units were established, ...
Threatening security: Conflicting conceptualizations of security during the Gezi Park protests

Güngör, Mustafa Utku. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)

18 days of resistance against the destruction of Gezi Park at the heart of Istanbul opened up a new phase for the public political debate in Turkey. For a while, neither the government and its supporters nor separate ...
Victory of pleasure and defeat of place. Political implications of contemporary trends in tourism

Van Wijck, Fleur Odylle. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)

This study seeks to establish the political implications of contemporary trends in tourism assessed through a critique on capitalism. Literature on contemporary trends in tourism is linked with literature explaining and ...
Volunteers or governors? Rethinking civil society in Turkey beyond the problematic of democratization: the case of TEGV

İpek, Yasemin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)

This study basically argues that the context of neo-liberal policies and the parallel weakening of the state are considerably significant processes in interpreting civil society in post-1980 Turkey. Based on this argument, ...

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