This study analyzes the local context of Turkey in which the reproductive technology of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) takes place. Focusing on the ways in which this global biomedical technology is understood, produced, ...

This dissertation is a study of the political debate that got generated around health reform in Turkey between 2002 and 2011, which corresponds to the formative period for the debate. Through a close examination of both ...

In Turkey, as elsewhere, statistics indicate a significant increase in household indebtedness since the beginning of the 2000s. This thesis focuses on experiences of indebtedness among a specific group, young white-collar ...

This study aims to explore how a group of Muslim and Christian women of Mersin remember and narrate their life experiences in relation to modernity, the Republican reforms and the intercommunal relations between the Mus-lims ...

This study scrutinizes the oral narratives of the mass migration of Turkey’s Jews to Israel in the late 1940s, both as memories of suppressed or ignored historical events and as traces of the contemporary identity issues ...

This thesis aims to contribute to the studies of neoliberal and postmodern subjectivity by operationalizing the concept of self-display. Self-display is analyzed as a technology of neoliberal subjectification, this latter ...

The thesis examines social justice discourse of Turkish Islamism and emergence of an anti-capitalist Muslim politics in Turkey. It looks at discourses of the Islamist parties and Islamist leaders in Turkey from 1970s to ...

This thesis, departing from the current concerns for the dissolving of the informal waste collection sector under the disturbance of neoliberal urban restructuring, focuses on the organization of the informal waste sector ...

This study focuses on the Uyghur migrants who have immigrated to Istanbul from the People‘s Republic of China during the 1950s and how they relate to their experience of migration and their experience of living in Turkey ...