M.A. Theses: Recent submissions

  • Village close enough : a study of the changing character of rural space in Turkey 
    Taşyürek, Elif Hatice. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    This thesis aims to investigate movements occurring at a close distance between rural and urban areas and the changing character of the rural space in Turkey. Within the scope of the ethnographic field research I conducted ...
  • Educational strategies of the conservative bourgeoisie: Cultural capital, family and schooling 
    Anbar, Ahenk. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    Over the past decades, the rise of the conservative bourgeoisie has been discussed in many aspects; however, the relation between such upward social mobility and education has not been problematized. This study is concerned ...
  • Post-fordist affects, times and images: An ethnography of circulation in a digital advertising agency in Istanbul 
    Atıcı, Selim Gökçe. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis follows the making and unmaking of commodity images, boundaries of embodied selves and emotional investments to work: cultivations regarding desiring and laboring, in relation to spatial-temporal dynamics between ...
  • Governing Turkey's internet: Cyber security as a strategy of power 
    Zerin, Deniz. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This study investigates expansion of the field of cyber security in relation to governing of the Internet in Turkey within the last decade. It argues that security rationality is becoming the dominant diagrmn in evaluating ...
  • Unmaking and remaking everyday life in Diyarbakır: free schools as a decolonizing practice 
    Dölek, Hazal Ilgaz. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis is grounded on my fieldwork in Diyarbakır carried out between October 2015 and April 2016. Considering the city as a space of colonial occupation, it examines the broad scale dynamics of the ongoing war as well ...
  • Shifting geographies of subversive politics in Istanbul 
    Gül, Zeynel. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis aims to understand the shifts in the spaces of radical left politics and the effects of these shifts on the discourses and modalities of political actions in Istanbul since the mid-1990s. In order to achieve ...
  • The dilemma of amnesty politics in the AKP era: balancing the questions of legitimacy and instrumentality 
    Yıldırım, İrem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    The Ankara Bar Association Human Rights Commission (Ankara Barosu İnsan Hakları Komisyonu) underlines that 158 amnesties in total, except for the 1999 Conditional Release Law, were legislated in Turkey before the AKP period, ...
  • A comparative study on the reputational trajectories of Turkish women intellectuals from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic 
    Şaşmaz, Hale. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    How do woman intellectuals go beyond the sexism of intellectual field and achieve fame? To answer this question, this thesis examines the reputational trajectories of Turkish woman intellectuals from the late nineteenth ...
  • Masculinities at night in the provinces 
    Özarslan, Osman. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    This thesis seeks to analyze the provincial nightlife and the relationalities that are attached to it. With this aim, firstly, I analyze the theme of ‘distance' that constitutes the province as a historical geography and ...
  • The spatial imaginary and politics of democratic autonomy: a neighborhood assembly experience in Beyoğlu 
    Bakar, Cansu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    This thesis studies Kurdish Movement’s Democratic Autonomy Project both in the ways that it is articulated in textual materials and materialized in the organizational forms of the movement, as well as in the manner in which ...
  • Hilmi Ziya's life and thought from 1928 to 1960, in relation to the political and religious developments in the republic of Turkey 
    Özberki, Ayşe R. (Thesis (M.A.)- Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Scieences, 1986., 1986.)
    This is the study of Hilmi Ziya tllken's (1901-1974) thought in relation to the political and religious development in the Republic of Turkey. Hilmi Ziya Ulken is a representative example of the very first intellectuals ...
  • Living waste: making a life in wasted spaces 
    Kutlu, Yusuf. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    This thesis traces a case of how internally displaced Kurds make a life after being forced to migrate to the cities of western Turkey. The research was conducted with internally displaced Kurdish waste pickers living in ...
  • The organization of white-collars in Istanbul: intimacy, labor and politics 
    Tatari, Mehmet Fatih. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    This thesis aims to analyze the recent mobilization of white-collars in Istanbul after the 2008 economic crisis, by placing it within the context of the institutionalization of a precarious labor regime for lower level ...
  • The show in the restaurant: performing affective labor through culinary fantasies in Istanbul 
    Özdemir, Didem Derya. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    In this thesis, I aim to make a contribution to the post-Fordist literature by exploring the neo-liberal transformation in the fine-dining sector in 2000s in Istanbul in order to rethink the concepts of immaterialization ...
  • Patrimonial governing and community formation: power relations within and without the Süryani Orthodox community in İstanbul 
    Kırılmaz, Selim. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    By critically examining the parameters of the relative visibility of the Süryani community in Turkey within the past two decades, this thesis attempts to problematize the power relations regulating the community today. It ...
  • 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 ...
  • The student centered education and knowledge economy 
    Canlı, Gamze. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    This thesis investigates the implications and assumptions of the student-centered education model, which was embarked at the primary school level in 2005. The reforms and policies regarding the education models attempt to ...
  • Gated communities and the “Middle Class” in Istanbul 
    Aydın, Seda. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    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 ...
  • Ülkücü community in Zeytinburnu: violence around words and encounters 
    Atalay, Fırat Ulaş. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    This thesis aims at comprehending the dynamics of hostility and violence against Kurds in ülkücü community in Zeytinburnu, Istanbul, through focusing on the violent attacks against Kurds that took place in Zeytinburnu. My ...
  • Bargaining between Islam and Kemalism: an investigation of official Islam through Friday sermons 
    Kenar, Ceren. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    The main objective of this thesis is to explore the Turkish state‟s attempt to regulate Islam through an analysis of the regulation of Friday sermons in Turkey. Drawing on the records of disciplinary measures implemented ...

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