• China’s shifting position in the global climate change 

  Elmalı, Burak. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2023., 2022)

  Over the past two decades, China has emerged as a rising economic power with excessive amounts of carbon emissions that directly contribute to global climate change. Being a part of the international regime for global ...
• 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 ...
• Rethinking the Kurdish movement: the role of the neighborhood assemblies in Diyarbala.r 

  Tuncel, Deniz. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)

  Based on the judicial violence of the Turkish state against the Kurds after 2009 and the attempts of the Kurdish political movement for the implementation of participatory politics at a local level since 2005, this thesis ...
• Formation of a majoritarian democracy discourse in Turkey: an examination of the Democratic Party, 1946-1960 

  Geliş, Naz. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)

  This thesis aims to study the formation of a majoritarian democracy discourse in Turkish politics, which has become the main trend in Turkish political life starting with the Democratic Party (DP) that ruled the country ...
• Media and democracy in Turkey: the 2011 Turkish national election coverage 

  Bieber, Selina Denise. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)

  This thesis aims to examine the ability of the Turkish media to fulfil its democratic role for the Turkish public by case studying the 2011 national Turkish elections. Given the limited number of previous studies existing ...
• 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 ...
• Compliance and negotiation: the role of Turkish Diyanet in the production of Friday Khutbas 

  Saçmalı, Muhammet Habib. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)

  Friday khutbas are important instruments for reaching the public in Turkey, since approximately twenty million men could be addressed through the khutbas in the mosques every week. These khutbas are written by officials ...
• Kurdish urban politics in the neoliberal era: cases of Diyarbakir and Van mobilized under BDP 

  Sümer, Bilgesu (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)

  This thesis explores why urban politics became integral for Kurdish movement and how Kurdish movement mobilizes municipalities by examining the cases of Diyarbakir and Van whose municipalities are run by the political party ...
• Contesting the terrain of the' Ambiguous': the struggle of gender migration and the issue of sex reassignment in Turkey 

  Şahin, Deniz. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)

  This thesis aims to analyze the puzzle that the sex reassignment is an officially recognized right; however it is regulated in a sense that the applicant individual should confirm his/her adaptation to an archetypal ...
• Cooperation or abjection? a Re-conceptualization of civil society beyond liberal values and dichotomies: the ‘Islam vs. homosexuality’ debate in Turkey 

  Atuk, Sumru. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)

  The main argument of this study is that the liberal tradition which idealizes civil society as a sphere for the cultivation of democratic values, equality, pluralism and cooperation lacks explanatory value in terms of ...
• The impact of foreign nationals on state policy: refugees and asylum seekers, European Court of Human Rights case law and Turkish asylum law 

  Yılmaz, Gökçen. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)

  This thesis addresses the question of how an individual who is foreign and in a vulnerable position can affect state policy. Considering recent developments as preparation of a draft asylum law and increasing European Court ...
• The impact of Turkey's natiolistic culture on Turkish foreign policymaking as observed in Turkey's relations with the central Asian Turkic Republics 

  Mersin Alıcı, Didem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1995., 1995.)

  The emergence of independent Turkic states in former Soviet Central Asia and Azerbaijan has triggered off the latent Turkish nationalistic culture in Turkey. Indeed, it has been lying dormant since the last days of the ...
• 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 ...
• The Imaginary Ottoman: an examination of “Ottomanism” among the Islamic elites in today’s Turkey as an intellectual bridge between the local and the global 

  Kabaağaç, Deniz. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)

  The aim of this work was to shed light on the emergence of the idea of the Ottoman in modern Turkey and its importance in Turkish politics. It was argued that this new idea of the Ottoman was a representation of a social ...
• The philosophical sources of contemporary politics of identity in G.W. F. Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: a critical reading of Charles Taylor and Jean Hyppolite 

  Yıldırım, Mine. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)

  This thesis addresses the question of the subject that is supposed to underline the prevalent understanding of “identity” in contemporary politics of identity and recognition. There are two aims of the thesis: First, is ...
• 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 ...
• Investigative journalism in corporate media: reporters' perceptions of investigative journalism in Turkey 

  Kaya, Ezgi. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)

  This study aims at analysing the practice of investigative journalism as a political instrument during the recent political developments in Turkey with a focus on the perceptions of the main agents of the newsmaking process, ...
• Ethics of the political realm in Hannah Arendt's thought 

  Gürer, Emre Çetin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)

  This thesis seeks to explore the "unwritten" ethics of Hannah Arendt's political theory. It argues that even though Arendt is adamant in banishing morality from the political realm, her political theory consists of an ...
• The Resistance of states system against nonstate violence: International cooperation to preserve state monopoly of force 

  Kaya, Erdem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)

  With the combined impact of the phenomena of state failure and globalization in the post-Cold War period, violent nonstate actors (warlords, militias, terrorist organizations, insurgents, pirates, transnational criminal ...
• Contemporary women's movement in Turkey: production of different knowledges 

  Şeylan, Dilşah. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)

  This thesis attempts to understand how experiences of women from diverse backgrounds and politicization processes shape the articulations of their positions on gender issues and constitute differences and similarities with ...

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