M.A. Theses: Recent submissions

  • 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 ...
  • From the place of the "dangerous classes" to the place of danger: emergence of new youth subjectivities in Zeytinburnu 
    Yonucu, Deniz. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2005., 2005.)
    This thesis examines the emergence of new subjectivities among the youth of Zeytinburnu as "imitators" of the middle classes, petty criminals, drug dealers, drug addicts and clubbers under the sway of neoliberal "consumer ...
  • Between desire and truth: the narrative resolution of modern-traditional dichotomy in Asmalı Konak 
    Akınerdem, Zeyneb Feyza. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2005.)
    This thesis seeks to analyze a television serial Asmalı Konak, which has been aired in Turkey for two years and become the most popular television serial during this period. Asmalı Konak is worth examining as a cultural ...
  • 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 ...
  • Social space, leisure time and changing youth cultures in Boğaziçi University since the 70s 
    Şenoğuz, Hatice Pınar. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    The aim of the thesis is to contribute to the discussions on the current neo-liberal restructuring of higher education in Turkish context. The neo-liberal restructuring not only implies the institutional changes, but it ...
  • Virilities for rent: navigating masculinity, sexuality, and class in İstanbul 
    Özbay, Cenk, 1980- (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2005., 2005.)
    This thesis is an endeavour to understand the encountering dynamics of different masculinities of varoş youth and gay men in the context of male prostitution. On the one side, there are the young rent boys of poor, tough, ...
  • Men who desire to conquer: romantic love and masculinity among some young professionals 
    Sarı, Umut. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    The aim of this study is to understand how masculinity is constructed in the way some well-educated male professionals in their early adulthood in contemporary Turkey describe love. The study is based on seven in-depth ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • "Interpretative" approaches to explanation of human action 
    Kocaoluk, Hülya. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1983., 1983.)
  • Belonging to Imbros: citizenship and sovereignty in the Turkish Republic 
    Babül, Elif Müyesser. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2003., 2003.)
    This study aims to analyse the narratives and practices of belonging in Imbros, and the implications of those narratives and practices of belonging related to the larger issues of governmentality and sovereignty in Turkey ...
  • Performance as a strategy for women's liberation: practices of the theatre of the oppressed in Okmeydanı Social Center 
    Karabekir, Jale. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2003.)
    This study aims to analyze the practices of the theatre of the oppressed with women in the Okmeydanı Social Center, along with women's narratives on these practices and the social center itself, in terms of women's strategies ...
  • Turkish medical doctors: |historical experience and self-narratives 
    Terzioğlu, Ayşecan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1998., 1998.)
    This thesis addresses a broadly fonnulated question: Why do medical doctors in Turkey conceive themselves as the voice of authority on a broad range of social and political issues which extend beyond their professionalmedical ...
  • The iconography of Taksim square: competing claims on a public space 
    Baykal, Güldem. (Thesis (M.A.)- Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 2000., 2000.)
    This thesis focuses on Taksim Square in istanbul, which is one of the most significant public places in Turkey. What lends the site significance is the multitude of meanings and readings that have been attached to it. The ...
  • Walking in-between memories :|everyday and affective encounters in the memory walks and facing the past 
    Barın, Damla. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    This thesis is about the everyday experiences of facing the past through memorialization practices. It takes the Memory Walks as a case study where the participants encounter histories and memories through collective ...
  • The making and unmaking of the Zonguldak Coal Basin :|deindustrialization as a process 
    Tokel, Mustafa Kerem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    This thesis investigates the social, economic, and political construction of the deindustrialization of the Zonguldak Coal Basin. For more than a century, the Zonguldak Coal Basin has been associated with coal mining, ...
  • 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. ...
  • Singing together every night :|novel forms of muslim womanhood in Turkey 
    Esmer, Ece. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    This thesis is a case study that examines how the cultural practices, engagement, and identities of young pious Muslim women are shaped as they build their own cultural settings within the context of Turkey's cultural ...
  • The poultry supply chain and the case of H5N1 avian influenza outbreak in Turkey 
    Diler, Deniz. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    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, ...
  • An ethnographic study of social bonds In collective confinement 
    Ulutaş, Mete. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    This thesis explores the everyday life of political prisoners and the effects of incarceration after their release. In order to achieve this aim, the study employs the ethnographic data collected in the Silivri Prison and ...

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