Our article co-authored with Prof. Ali Murat Yel entitled “Insight Islamophobia: Governing the Public Visibility of Islamic Lifestyle in Turkey” … More
Category: Cultural Anthropology
Erken Cumhuriyet Dönemi Elitlerinde "Çocukluk" ve "Gençlik" Olguları Üzerine Yorumlar
Colin Heywood Batı’da çocukluğun tarihinden bahsederken, 20. yüzyılın sonlarına doğru çeşitli sosyologlar tarafından öne sürülen çocukluk olgusuna dair üç farklı … More
Postmodern Marx: “No need for pessimism, they’ll rescue you: The Transnational Proletariat!”
I just found one of my presentation papers in the archive from 2008-2009 semester in which I comparatively discuss the … More
Questions for Discussion
1) Emily S. Apter, in her article “Saidian Humanism”, states that “humanism was integral to his (Said’s) vision of cultural … More
Starbucks İşgali ve Mutena Kampüs
Boğaziçi Üniversitesi kampüsünde açılan Starbucks’a karşı yürütülen öğrenci aktivizmi kamuoyunda ciddi yankı buldu. Protesto duyurularını yapmak için açılan blog sayfasında … More
Türkiye’de Vatandaşlık, Göçmenlik, Toplumsal Dahiliyet/Dışlanma Üzerine Bir Gözlem
Festus Okey ve Mehmet Aurelio. İkisi de Türkiye’ye futbol oynamak için geldi. Aurelio 2006’da Türkiye Cumhuriyeti vatandaşı oldu. Okey 2007’de … More
Discussions of Secularism in Turkey: Kemalist Imagination and “Laik” as Identity
In the introductory chapter of his book, Talal Asad quotes Charles Taylor’s definition of secularism, which explains the emergence of … More
“Bare Life”, “Bio-politics” and “the Camp”: An Investigation of the Death of Festus Okey
In this essay I will undertake a discussion of Giorgio Agamben’s notions of “bare life”, “the camp” and Foucauldian bio-politics … More
A Discussion on Bourdieu’s “Scholastic View”, Clifford’s “Dialogic Authority” and Haraway’s “Situated Knowledges” through an Experiment on How to Write a Dialogic Essay
Characters in the Essay Nas: The narrator whose self is split. He loves avant-gardism. A: A part of narrator’s … More
[Questions]
_ I have been recently attending one of my master’s class, in which we were discussing the relationship between anthropology, … More
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