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The Social construction and change of consumer identity, ideology and 'spectacle': a study of credit card commercials in Turkey from 1989 to 2004

Kaya, Engin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2005., 2005.)

Starting from the liberalization period by the Ozal government in mid-1980s, the Turkish society has become increasingly dominated by consumption. Introduced around the same time, credit cards have spread exponentially and ...
The construction of space and audience in contemporary public art practices: three examples from Istanbul

Sönmez, Beril. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2005., 2005.)

Temporary art projects taking place outside conventional art institutions like museums and galleries have become common and popular practices in urban areas especially within the last decade. The selection of a public space ...
"The Entel" representations of a degenerated intellectual figure in cartoon strips

Öperli, Nadir. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)

This thesis tries to understand the emergence of the entel type, a caricature of intellectuals which became popular around the mid 80's in various Turkish cartoon magazines and newspapers. It is not an all encompassing ...
The new "integration" tests and materials in the Netherlands, Germany, Baden-Wurttemberg, and the United Kingdom: the muslim other and the change from multiculturalism to assimilation

Snyder, Loni Diane. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)

In the Netherlands, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, and the United Kingdom new “integration” tests and materials have recently been instituted. This thesis will examine these materials in an attempt to understand what their ...
Chaning conventions of landscape photography in Turkey: from Ara Güler to Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Seçil Yersel

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

This thesis aims to investigate the conventions of contemporary landscape photography in Turkey by analyzing selected work by three artists, Ara Güler, Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Seçil Yersel and discussing them in the context ...
Nietzsche and the self: the 'dissolution of the subject in The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil and disconnected by Oğuz Atay

Talay, Zeynep. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)

The thesis discusses Nietzsche’s critique of the constitution of the modern self and explores the ways in which this Nietzschean theme appears in literature. I will focus in particular on the Nietzschean theme of the ...
Animated critical theory: Nasrettin Hoca anecdotes as an animation of theories of Marx, Foucault and Simmel

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

The purpose of this study at the global level is to draw attention to points of convergence in Eastern and Western sourced tendencies of pre-modern and modern/post-modern thought, while the immediate objective is to discover ...
Bodily fluids and formless bodies: Bataille reads Küçük İskender

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

This study discusses the works of Georges Bataille and Küçük İskender by comparing the ways these two writers use “bodily fluids” as a subversive tool. A parallel reading of some of the major works of these writers ...
Resignifying the mainstream: transgender embodiment in cinema in Turkey

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

This study focuses on the mainstream representation of the transgender phenomenon in the cinema of Turkey during a forty year period starting from the 1960s. In studying these images, the main argument of this thesis is ...
The mad’ spotted? politics of mad identity through discursive themes on Mahallenin Delisi (The Mad of the Neighborhood)

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

This study primarily deals with the politics of mad identity, and specifically, it aims to explore the discursive construction of mahallenin delisi (the mad of the neighborhood), a disappearing public figure, as a social ...
Towards another ontology of performance

Akıncı, Eylül Fidan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)

This thesis focuses on the concept of performance, specifically in its artistic modality, as a reflexive event through which an ontological examination of being can be actualized. Starting from a critique of current ...
Reconstructing the city and the citizen through the İstanbul courses

Çakıroğlu, Miray. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)

This study investigates into the imagination of the city, specifically İstanbul and the projection of identity for the İstanbulite urban subject within the context of İstanbul courses. The courses, inspired by an educational ...
Formations of the body: Talal Asad and the secular

Peksöz, Ömer Faruk. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)

The present study aspires to read Talal Asad’s Genealogies of Religion and Formations of the Secular not as works of anthropology of religion, but as one major contribution to body studies. The novelty of this thesis lies ...
Fragile identities: prostitutes as signifiers of patriarchy and heteronormativity in Turkey

Sorma, Mediha Pınar. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)

'Prostitute', being a term or a stigma, both talks through the mouth of patriarchal system and deciphers it as an object, a tool and a subject created and reproduced by this very system over and over again. In a society ...
Another way is possible: looking at women‟s lives through the filter of divorce

Yıldırım, Mürüvet Esra. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)

This study primarily deals with women‟s experience of divorce in Turkey, and it aims to explore the following questions: how do the structure of marriage, the roles that women are expected to assume, and their perception ...
Fans by proxy: cross-cultural media fandom in Turkey

Yıldırım, Utku Ali (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)

A “fan” can be anyone, from a regular viewer of a TV show, to a fan fiction writer, a collector, or an obsessive consumer. “Fandom”, therefore, is a community of these myriad of fans with their myriad of ways to interact ...
“A Living Dog Is Better Than a Dead Lion”: Representations of animal otherness in post-1990s independent Turkish cinema

Şahıntürk, Zeynep. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)

Due to their social and political implications, the various cinematic and narrative aspects of independent Turkish cinema have been popular subjects of critical study for many scholars. One specific focus that has characterized ...
The role of narrative in creating the ideal woman: The case of Hayat Magazine

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

This study investigates the creation of ‘proper’ womanhood through the content analysis of celebrity women’s profiles in Hayat magazine, published between the years 1956 and 1960. The contextual framework of the study ...
The limits of pluralism: How anti-semitism figures in the oppositional imaginaries in Turkey

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

This thesis interrogates the limits of pluralism in Turkey’s left by focusing on the concessions towards the anti-Semitic discourse in this realm. Through an analysis of Birikim, the longest standing pluralist leftist ...
Authorship in the culture industry:|Azra Kohen’s series of novels Fi, Çi, and Pi

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

This study is an attempt to place the contemporary author somewhere between literature and the media culture of our day. On the best-seller shelves since 2014 when it was first published, Azra Kohen’s trilogy Fi, Çi, Pi ...

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