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Eleştiri ve Kültür Araştırmaları: Recent submissions

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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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Media representation of migration to Turkey :|a diachronic perspective

Kavaklı, Sezgi Başak. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)

This thesis investigates the effects of empathic motives of the political power holders on the treatment and media representation of large groups of displaced people that arrived in Turkey between 1950 and 2017. It provides ...
Located subjecthoods :|gender and lived body in An Atlas of the Difficult World and Afiş

Yıldırım, Yaprak Damla. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)

This thesis investigates whether feminist critical discourse analysis (FCDA) could be applied to poetry via the notion of lived body (corps vivant), as opposed to the conventional methods of poetry analysis which centralize ...
Negotiating community engagements and alliances :|Queer People of Color and Turkish migrants in Berlin

Altay, Mehmet Tunay. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)

This thesis focuses on the relationship between queer people of color communities and new wave Turkish LGBTQ migrants in Berlin to understand how the perception of race/ethnicity plays a role in forming political alliances. ...
Contested landscapes of belonging at the Turkish-Syrian border :|the (re)making of Antakya and Defne

Medeiros Coelho, José Rafael. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)

Based on the new metropolitan municipality system (Law No. 6360) Hatay, a multicultural province located at the Turkish-Syrian border, has undergone major cartographic changes. During this process, Defne has been crafted ...
"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 ...
Kadıköy rock culture as an affectual environment in transition

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

This thesis takes an ecomusicological approach to analyzing Kadıköy rock culture as an affectual environment in transition. Kadıköy rock culture is examined as an ecosystem and the relationship between space, music, and ...
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 ...
Tragic thought in Oğuz Atay’s Tehlikeli Oyunlar:|Identity, culture, and histor

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

This work discusses how Oğuz Atay’s Tehlikeli Oyunlar calls the notions of identity, culture, and history into question from the standpoint of tragic thought. The term “tragic thought” is derived from Jean-Pierre Vernant ...
Views from the Varzharan :|negotiation of social identities through Armenian schools

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

Armenians in Turkey are an officially recognized minority group; however, they are unofficially (self-)regarded as 'semi-citizens' due to religious and linguistic differences from the majority of the population. There exist ...
The representation of class-inflected masculinity in contemporary Turkish cinema

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

This study aims to analyse the representation of masculinity, with a specific focus on disentangling the relationship between masculinity and class in contemporary Turkish cinema, by exploring four movies that have been ...
Gendered experiences of modern cities in the novels of Turkish and Mexican women writers

Akalın Arslanalp, Sena Hatice. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)

This thesis examines Adalet Ağaoğlu’s Lying Down to Die (1973) and María Luisa Puga’s Panic or Danger (Pánico o Peligro) (1983) to study how women writers in non-western geographies reflect upon the relationship between ...
The cosmopolitanization of culinary "Consumption" : |Steakhouses as instances of the culture industry

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

This thesis is one of the firsts in Turkish context and literature in analyzing how culture industry and transforms culinary consumption into a cosmopolitan practice through steakhouses. Using the methods of thematic ...
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 ...
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 ...

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