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Bipolar disorder : "The West and the Rest"
(Bilkent University, 2002)he current ‘War on Terror’ has revitalized the language of friends and enemies, us and them, good and evil. The whole world has been forced to choose sides: are you with the terrorists or are you with the ‘freedom loving ... -
Critical moments of social spatialization in the neighborhood : an alternative reading of the mainstream gecekondu history
(Bilkent University, 2007)This thesis aims to expose an alternative local historical reading of the formation of a gecekondu space as a response to modernist consideration of gecekondu development in Turkey. The social construction of neighborhood ... -
Evil in Nietzsche and its reflections in the speeches of George W Bush and Osama bin Laden after September 11
(Bilkent University, 2004)In this thesis I use Nietzsche’s conception of evil and power in problematizing George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden’s statements after the September 11 event. My main argument is based on Nietzsche’s conceptualization of ... -
Exploring the possibilities for the social and the political in the public-private disctinction in Arendt
(Bilkent University, 2011)This dissertation basically asks the question of whether the public- private dichotomy in Arendt‟s theory is an absolute one. This question is a result of the fact that the intricate layers in the distinction between the ... -
Freedom and Solidarity Party (Özgürlük ve Dayanışma Partisi): on the verge of new politics (?)
(Bilkent University, 1997)This study examines the political orientations of Freedom and Solidarity Party (Özgürlük ve Dayanışma Partisi) in terms of its organizational and political aspects. The main question it addresses is the extent to which ... -
The ideology and textbooks : "Turkish Republic history of renovation and Ataturkism" textbooks (1980-1990)
(Bilkent University, 1998)This study aims to analyze the specific understanding of history in the 1980s in Turkey. It is argued that this particular historical understanding is ideologically shaped by Kemalism and Turkish-Islamic Synthesis ... -
Imagi-nation of gendered nationalism : the represantation of women as gendered national subjects in Ottoman-Turkish novels (1908-1938)
(Bilkent University, 2005)The relation between gender and nationalism has been a controversial issue since the 1980’s when the feminist analyses have brought to light different ways in which women are implicated in nationalist projects. Although ... -
National identity, citizenship and pluralism in Turkey: the turban question
(Bilkent University, 1997)The contemporary process of globalization involves a tension between cultural helerogenization and cultural homogenization which has made the relationship between the nation-state and its members a problematical issue. ...
