This thesis aims to examine Marx’s and Negri’s understandings of labor and feminist critiques of them by tracing the different interpretations of Marx’s critique of political economy and his understanding of social reality ...

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 ...

As a study of power and market-making, this thesis analyzes the political and economic dynamics of the making, maintenance, transformation, consolidation and current state of the Turkish electricity market. It examines the ...

The Sivas Incident is one of the most tragic and controversial events of the Republican history. It is a multidimensional event involving many critical issues that pertain to democratization of Turkey: the inadequate ...

With the increasing poverty and rising social injustice in Turkey, the working class’ grievances have recently become more visible in the public. In this sense, Turkish society witnessed one of the most disruptive and ...

Economic considerations are increasingly playing a role in defining Turkey’s foreign policy, and as a result, non-state actors from the economic realm like the business associations as the institutional representatives of ...

The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (the TRNC) has received a significant number of Turkish migrants after Turkey’s military intervention to Cyprus in 1974. However, academic research, so far, is unable to explain why ...

This thesis aims to discuss the relationship between civil society and democracy by examining the case of a migrant association in Istanbul founded by people comingfrom a town in the Black Sea region. In-depth interviews ...