This thesis is an attempt to conceptualize the meaning of the Annan Period (November 2002- April 2004) in understanding the contemporary identity politics in North Cyprus. It analyzes the roles of different national ...

This thesis aims at comprehending the dynamics of identity in Romeika-speaking locals of Akyayla, Trabzon, through focusing on the status of Romeika as a living memory. My analysis depicts the language as a private and ...

This thesis aims to understand the experience of living in the margin in Turkey through the accounts of the inhabitants of one of marginal districts, Okmeydanı. To achive this purpose, this work focuses on a community in ...

This thesis seeks to analyze the provincial nightlife and the relationalities that are attached to it. With this aim, firstly, I analyze the theme of ‘distance' that constitutes the province as a historical geography and ...

The aim of this study is to understand how masculinity is constructed in the way some well-educated male professionals in their early adulthood in contemporary Turkey describe love. The study is based on seven in-depth ...

This study scrutinizes the history of Topkapı porters for the sources of their class militancy and political anti-radicalism. Topkapı transport storages complex was the biggest hub of domestic land transportation in Turkey ...

This thesis suggests that, the civil welfare provision organizations and their conceptions of poverty and methods of poverty alleviation create new power relations, subjectivities, and new relations among these subjects, ...

This study aims to analyze the discursive and non-discursive practices which are centered around Atatürk as a signifier. Based on the narrative analysis of the interviews conducted during fieldwork, it intends to adress ...

This study aims to analyze the practices of the theatre of the oppressed with women in the Okmeydanı Social Center, along with women's narratives on these practices and the social center itself, in terms of women's strategies ...

This thesis scrutinizes feminist activism in the field of law in Turkey. Focusing on the litigation of court cases of male crimes against women, I aim, in this thesis, to figure out how the feminist movement challenges the ...