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  • Nationalism and the disintegration of multi-ethnic federations in post-communist eastern Europe: |the case of Czechoslovakia 
    Bodur, Marella. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1995., 1995.)
    Since its foundation in 1918 Czechoslovakia had tried to sol ve the problems created by the association of the two different ethnic groups, namely Czechs and Slovaks. Policies pursued during the interwar and communist ...
  • 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 ...
  • Neo-liberal transformation of agriculture in Turkey? a case study with olive producers in Ayvalık 
    Aytemur, Nurcan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    Based on a close study of the olive sector in Turkey, this thesis demonstrated how neo-liberalism consists of contested political processes. Recognizing the uneven and multi-dimensional character of neo-liberalism as a ...
  • New nationalisms in Turkey in the field of popular art: the case of Kurtlar Vadisi 
    Sayan, Pınar. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    In the post-colonial and post-communist world nationalism has become a subject of great interest to academics and political commentators alike. This interest has generated by the fact that after the end of the Cold War, ...
  • 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 ...
  • Nezihe Muhiddin: |bir Osmanlı-Türk kadın hakları savunucusu 
    Zihnioğlu, Yaprak. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1998., 1998.)
    Bu çalışmada, Nezihe Muhiddin'in düşünceleri ve etkinlikleri incelenerek, ülkemizde 1934'de kadınlara siyasal hakların Kemalistler tarafindan verilmesinden önce, kadınların siyasal haklarını almak üzere harekete geçtikleri ...
  • On Hannah Arendt’s conception of judgment with regard to political action: an attempt at reconciling the perspectives of actor and spectator 
    Menasse, Sophie. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    This thesis explores the relation between judgment and action in Arendt’s theory and comprises four main arguments. Firstly, I challenge the argument that there is a shift in Arendt’s theory of judgment from a future-­‐oriented ...
  • Online streaming: a survey of online sharing and piracy 
    Baran, Şebnem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    Communication technologies have always sparked big debates about their possible effects on human life and the society. The excitement and the fear caused by the invention of television is one among many other such examples ...
  • Packaging neoliberalism: neopopulism and the case of the Justice and Development Party 
    Yağcı, Alper. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    Justice and Development Party’s continuous popularity among the lower classes despite its neoliberal economic policies has puzzled political analysts. This study attempts to sketch party’s strategies toward ‘packaging’ ...
  • Patterns of political participation in post-1980 Turkey 
    Zenginkuzucu, Dikran Migirdiç. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1998., 1998.)
    This study analyses the socio-economic dynamics of political participation in Turkey after 1980 and, in this context, tests the hypothesis of the socio-economic mobilisation theory. The project is an investigation of the ...
  • Political economy of agricultural protectionism in the EU and US 
    Saraç, Esin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    Until the Uruguay Round, agriculture was an exceptional issue in international trade talks. However, at the end of the Uruguay Round, the agricultural sector was brought under the WTO disciplines. The proponents of the ...
  • Political football: Making football fandom a symbol of political dissent 
    İncedere, Kamile Sena. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This study aims to examine the role and effects of politicization of football fandom in the Gezi Movement, which was the biggest social upheaval of Turkish political history in the 2000s. This movement brought a lot of ...
  • Political Islam and democracy :|how Islamist political parties survive in hostile settings 
    Sağlam, Kadir Barış. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    In Muslim majority countries, political parties with Islamic backgrounds often come to power after democratic openings (e.g., first democratic elections). Only some of these parties, however, manage to survive after ...
  • Political liberalism and religious discourses: An evaluation of the asymmetry objection 
    Mutaf, İbrahim Çağrı. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    John Rawls’ Political Liberalism (2005) addresses the question of enduring plurality of conflicting worldviews within societies under democratic regimes. As a theory of justification, political liberalism excludes religious ...
  • Politics and arts: The transformation of the Kurdish oppositional music in Turkey 
    Arda, Talat Balca. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This study examines the question concerning the formation of the Kurdish political identity through the works of art and the transformation of “the Kurdish Resistance” in Turkey. To develop answers to these questions I ...
  • Politics of motherhood and the experience of the mothers of peace in Turkey 
    Aslan, Özlem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis questions the limits of politics of motherhood in Turkey within the context of the Mothers of Peace. It focuses on the narratives of the women in the Mothers of Peace and the public discourses about motherhood ...
  • Politics of transit in Turkey :|analysis of bilateral energy relations with Russia and the European Union 
    Şahin, Samed. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    Turkey is a strategic transit country located on the routes of energy flow between the leading supplier and the largest market in the region, Russia and the European Union (EU). Taking advantage of this geopolitical ...
  • Positions and oppositions: Greek foreign policy towards Turkey's accession to the EC/EU (1987-2002) 
    Kitidi, Aikaterini. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2005., 2005.)
    This thesis concerns the Greek policy towards Turkey's accession to the EC/ EU. The instigation for this thesis was the observation of a complete reversion in the Greek policy during that period, from a negative to a very ...
  • Post-Marxist theories of political action :|a critical review of two paradigmatic proposals 
    Çalkıvik, Aslı Falay. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    This thesis aims to provide a preliminary investigation and an evaluation of Post-Marxist theories of political action in the age of globalized capitalism. Given the shifting epistemological and ontological premises, what ...
  • Producing confrontational alterity: urban regeneration in Tarlabaşı, Istanbul 
    Mountfort Parker, Guy Alexander. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    This thesis is concerned with large-scale urban regeneration, and its impact on the socialization and behaviour of the populations who suffer through its mechanisms of exclusion. The field research is focused on the Istanbul ...

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