Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Tezleri: Recent submissions

  • The politics of religion: State policy towards muslims in Post-Soviet Russia 
    İltekin, Sümeyye Mine. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    This thesis analyzes the state’s Muslim policy in post-Soviet Russia with a focus on Putin period. The thesis aims to make a modest contribution to the analyses of the complicated relations between state and religion in ...
  • Nezihe Muhiddin: |an Ottoman Turkish women's rights defender 
    Zihnioğlu, Yaprak. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1998., 1998.)
    This thesis has attempted to show through a study of Nezihe Muhiddin and her works that women sought their political rights before they were granted them in 1934. It has long been claimed that women were given their rights ...
  • Rethinking independent cinema: Public funding, market oligopoly and the film industry in Turkey 
    Akkaya, Ercan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    In the Turkish film industry, the term independent is mostly used for certain kinds of film to differentiate between mainstream films. Even though the terms independent and mainstream are used to refer to films’ positions ...
  • Social assistance in Turkey: an overview of seven social assistance and solidarity foundations 
    Zağralı Tunç, Fatma Nur. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    The main aim of the thesis is to scrutinize the coexistence of two different social assistance understandings in Turkey observed through the Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundations (SYDV) of seven districts. On the ...
  • Guests who drowned: Legal ambiguities behind refugee vulnerabilities 
    Sağnıç, Şevin Gülfer. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    In 2015, several thousands of Syrian refugees made the illegal journey from Izmir, Turkey to Western Europe – mainly to Sweden and Germany. This resulted in thousands of drownings in the Aegean Sea and, as many people ...
  • Systemic opposition under a tutelary regime: Reformist politics in the Iranian parliament (2000-2004) 
    Sykes, Patrick Joseph. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    This thesis asks how reformist politicians in Iran advance their interests in the face of resistance by the country’s tutelary institutions. It focuses on the Majlis (Parliament), because it sits at the intersection of the ...
  • The regeneration of poverty and exclusion after the Van earthquake 
    Eraydın, Seza. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis examines the failure of disaster management after the earthquake in Van, one of the poorest cities in the Kurdish region in Turkey. It evaluates the underlying reasons of failure and how,such failure affected ...
  • Neighborhood projects of education: the case of the Halkevi summer school in Okmeydanı 
    Murat, Ezgi. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This study aims to analyze the effects of state violence in everyday life on an alternative education program. Halkevleri has organized free Summer Schools for children at their ages of primary and secondary schools in ...
  • The relationship between secularism and democracy: The case of Turkey in the 2000s 
    Şar, Edgar. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis offers a detailed analysis of the relationship between secularism and democracy, with particular reference to the case of Turkey. At a time when secularism is often associated with states’ non-egalitarian and ...
  • The unbearable lightness of cyber: Cyberspace and state sovereignty 
    Can, Murat. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    thesis explores the relationship between the cyberspace, which has turned into an inseparable part of individual and social life in every way imaginable and state sovereignty, a fundamental concept of the political science ...
  • Core theoretical debates in the post-1980 feminist movement in Turkey: The subject of feminism and the (Im)possibilities of feminist politics 
    Sözmen, Mesadet Maria. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis examines the transformation of feminist and women‟s movements in Turkey in the post-1980 period in relation with the existing theoretical debates among scholars of feminism and gender studies. It has been ...
  • The politics of everyday life: solidarity-based organization and squatting in an Istanbul neighborhood 
    Iğdır, Zeynep Özge. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    This thesis aims to explore emerging political action repertoires that interact in both public and private arenas, through multiple forms of both institutionalized, state oriented forms of political participation and more ...
  • How popular is privatization? public attitudes towards privatization in Turkey 
    Altınöz, Meryem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    Privatization became a global phenomenon in the 1980s, and as one of the main pillars of structural adjustment programs it was promoted by international institutions, namely the International Monetary Fund and the World ...
  • Humanitarian intervention realist concerns of liberal aims: a comparative study of Somalia and Rwanda 
    Genç, Nadire Pınar. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    Humanitarian intervention, which aims to carry out one of the noblest intentions, seeking to rescue populations that are getting eradicated by their compatriots, and which is conducted via internationally legitimate actions, ...
  • Effects of the media on public opinion: |the news coverage of three French newspapers during the completion of the EU-Turkey Customs Union 
    Danacı, Özlem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute of Sociaal Sciences, 1997., 1997.)
    The aIm of this study is to investigate the position of three French newspapers, namely Le Figaro, Le Monde and Liberation, over the completion process of the EU-Turkey Customs Union and to see what kind of a position or ...
  • The impact of social trust on attitude towards the welfare state: the case of Turkey 
    Coşar, Tamer. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    The significance of the concept of social trust has increased in recent years, particularly within the context of the welfare state. This thesis examines social trust (conceptualized as generalized inter-personal trust) ...
  • The institution of work-dorms in Turkey 
    Uğur, Hande Gökşin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate the contemporary situation of the prison-labor in Turkey through adopting a political economic perspective. The significance and the new role that prison-labor gained regarding the ...
  • Clear-air turbulence: incessant regulation of deregulation in international civil aviation 
    Sönmezgil, Serkan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    International civil aviation consists of an intricate web of private and public parties. The national sovereignty on air space puts constraints on market forces. Particularly between the end of World War II and the late ...
  • Bringing agency back In: the case of Sub-Saharan African migrants in Istanbu 
    Mardesic, Sonja. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    In this thesis, I analyze the role of agency and structure in the migration process of Sub-Saharan African migrants in Istanbul, including their decision to leave their country of origin, their decision to come to Turkey ...
  • Transnational remittances and irregularity: remitting practices of Post-Soviet labor migrants in Istanbul 
    Ergünöz, Mehtap. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    This thesis examines migrants’ remitting practices, which constitute a much neglected issue in the literature, with the case of Post-Soviet irregular labor migrants in Istanbul based on the data collected through semi-structured ...