This thesis compares and contrasts the intellectual field in the 1980s and today by examining the alternative academic structures founded in these two periods. The thesis analyzes these two contexts separately and traces ...

This thesis aims to analyze the contemporary framework and practices of disability classification and assessment in Turkey from a political anthropological perspective. The practices of assessment and classification are ...

In the last decade, the number of environmental movements that emerged in opposition to the mining projects increased dramatically following the rising pressure of the government, the amendments regarding the mining laws ...

This study deals with the expansion of the once-exclusive gated community market in Istanbul to the large segments of the middle class especially following the 2008 economic crisis. It analyses how the characteristics of ...

This study examines how the impact of neoliberalism is experienced by young gecekondu residents in Istanbul under the conditions of the changing urban economy and the restructuring of the city in accordance with neoliberal ...

This thesis examines the changes in the daily lives of the ex-gecekondu residents, who have moved to Bezirganbahçe Social Housing Project, after their houses in Tepeüstü and Ayazma neighborhoods were demolished. In Istanbul, ...

This thesis analyzes the functions of the emerging governmental field of disaster management in Turkey. By analyzing the government response after the Eynez mine incident in Soma and comparing it with the government’s ...

This thesis explores the poultry industry through an examination of its history, its inherent network of actors and institutions, its integrated processes, its joint exploitation of birds, human workers and the environment, ...