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Browsing M.A. Theses by Author "Ahıska, Meltem."

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An ethnography of collaboration :|reflecting on the assemblages of projects for gender mainstreaming in Turkey

İmer, Öznur İlke. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)

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. ...
Becoming individuals or the endless discovery: the reconstruction of feminine subjectivities through depression narratives in Turkey

Bakırcan, Sündüz Şule. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)

This study aims to analyze the tension between femininity and the psychology discourse in Turkey through women's narratives about the depression. This thesis aims to show that the norm of the individual self employed by ...
Building a past: Cultural heritage, imagining, and marketing memory in Adana

İlhan, Hikmet. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)

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. ...
Circular entrapment :|tracing the (in)formational contours of F-type high security prisons

Açıkalın, Mesut. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)

This thesis is a multilayered inquiry on the phenomenon of isolation; isolation understood as a distinct situation and sense of (un)reality that stems from an obsessive dictum of its ontological impossibility as the sole ...
Çatom project: field supervisors in between the state and the social

Sözer, Hande. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)

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 ...
‘Developing’ the governance of childhood: The (In)compatibility of protection and punishment in juvenile courts

Konuk, Deniz Pınar. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)

This thesis aims to analyze the changing discourses and practices of juvenile courts in Turkey with the enactment of the Child Protection Law from a critical legal perspective. By problematizing this denoted ‘development’ ...
Education for "motherhood": a case study on the subjectivities of the women participating in the mother-child education program

Bayraktar, Sevi. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)

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 ...
Historical and political encounters with the nonhuman: Habitat II, the crisis of cohabitation, and the wit(h)nessing dogs

Tarak, Eda. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)

This research addresses a set of questions regarding the agency of dogs, particularly the memory that the stray dogs of Istanbul may have historically performed during a specific episode of crisis and dislocation in the ...
Human enterprise of global capitalism and the golden collars: producing the producer

Zeybek, Sezai Ozan. (Thesis (M.S.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2006., 2006.)

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 ...
Listening to possible worlds :|the 2019 Istanbul feminist night March and its acoustic conflicts

Akdemir, Ege. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)

This thesis is about the relationship between sound and power. It takes the 2019 Istanbul Feminist Night March as a case study where women participants were accused of protesting the sound of the call to prayer that was ...
Living with the specters of the past: an insight into identity, subjectivity, and memory in Trabzon

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

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 ...
Memory as representation/memory as experience: a study on Hatırla Sevgili through the narratives of leftists’ children in Turkey

Güzel, Zeynep. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)

This study aims to analyze the experience(s) of leftists’ children through their narratives related to political past of Turkey and the television serial Hatırla Sevgili. To this end, in this thesis, within the context of ...
Militarized medical discourse on homosexuality and hegemonic masculinity in Turkey

Başaran, Oyman. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)

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 ...
Reconstituting the youth as a political category and neo-liberal reason: The case of Community Volunteers Foundation

Küçükören, Gülgün. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)

In an effort to make sense of the new currents in civil society activities in Turkey, this study strove to put a magnifier on one of the biggest youth organizations, which works with a mission of youth empowerment, Community ...
Remembering the 1992-95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina: The case of Sarajevo Roses

Imamovic, Azra. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)

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 ...
Representing and performing Laz identity ''this is not a rebel song!''

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

This study examines the process by which second generation Laz migrants have reappropriated Laz identity through music and dance performances held in the major metropolitan cities of twenty first century Turkey. The relevant ...
The local culture of in vitro fertilization in Turkey: women's narratives of "test-tube baby" technologies

Mutlu, Burcu. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)

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 ...
The lost lullaby and other stories about being an Armenian in Turkey

Bilal, Melissa. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)

This thesis tries to understand the experience of being an Armenian in Turkey today. It focuses on lullabies as a gendered medium of transmitting memories. By analyzing the change in the contexts within which lullabies are ...
Visual economies of disaster: The circulation of an image of the Van earthquake

Kaya, Funda. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)

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 ...
Voice as a space of memory and sonorous object in the dengbêj tradition

Salık, Dilan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)

Voice as a Space of Memory and Sonorous Object in the Dengbêj Tradition This thesis studies the dengbêj tradition as a space of memory where alternative interpretations of the past and present, acoustic communication of ...

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