This thesis examines the establishment and implementation of gender mainstreaming (GM) projects enabled by the collaboration between the civil society, public and private sector in Turkey and the new dynamics they create. ...

This thesis examines the role of historical Adana Tepebağ houses in the imagination of social memory and cultural heritage by exploring how the houses are marketed as both emotional instruments and economic investments. ...

The aim of this study is to critically reflect on ÇATOM Project as a social development project in Southeastern Anatolia. Firstly, I have elaborated modes of operations of global development discourse. Secondly, I have ...

This study aims to analyze the subjectivity formations of the urban to rural migrant women who are subjected to the education programs on ‘motherhood’. Among the variety of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) the focus ...

This thesis is about the production of a specific kind of producer, i.e., "golden collars". Golden collars are the most valuable production factor in the contemporary capitalism; they are mostly assigned to tasks that ...

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 analyze the militarized medical inspections and the bureaucratic procedures underwent by gay men, who ask to be exempt from military service, in order to understand the relationship between the production ...

This work explores acts of public memory and analyzes commemoration practices surrounding the Sarajevo Roses, shell holes filled with red paint located in the streets of Sarajevo, with additional reference to the commemoration ...

This study aims to analyze the complex relationship between women and testtube baby technologies in Turkey through women’s narratives of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF). This study focuses on the ways in which how these global ...

This thesis focuses on the production and circulation of an earthquake victim’s photograph in order to see the processes behind becoming a cultural icon, a symbol of a disaster and an object of pain. It follows the ...