Browsing by Keywords "Identity"
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Adalet Ağaoğlu`nun Dar zamanlar üçlemesinde "kimlik" sorunsalı
(Bilkent University, 2005)Adalet Ağaoğlu, since she published her first novel Lying Down to Die in 1973, has been one of the leading names of Turkish Literature thanks to her approach to the social developments and the narrative features she has ... -
The analysis and design of urban near-home environments according to psycho-social needs and behavior of human beings
(Bilkent University, 1996)In this study, the design of urban near-home environments is examined considering the social and psychological needs of human beings as well as human spatial behavior. After an introduction to the concepts such as environment, ... -
Antioch's Last Heirs: The Hatay Greek Orthodox Community between Greece, Syria and Turkey
(Cambridge University Press, 2022-10-01)This study explores the identity dynamics of the Arabic-speaking Greek Orthodox community of the Hatay province of Turkey. Citizens of Turkey, members of the Greek Orthodox church and Arabic speakers, members of this small ... -
Between ethnic group and nation: Mihail Çakir's history of the Gagauz
(Sage Publications, 2021-08)Following the 1918 annexation of Bessarabia to Romania, the Gagauz minority remained disconnected from centers of knowledge because of linguistic and institu tional barriers. In this context, Mihail Çakir, an Orthodox ... -
Constitution of Turkish self : a post-structuralist foreign policy analysis of JDP's foreign policy discourse on distant natural disasters
(Bilkent University, 2012)Identity is mostly portrayed as given in foreign policy analysis. However, the power of foreign policy discourse on identity constitution has been raised by poststructuralism for the last 30 years. As the overall objective, ... -
Consumption of modern furniture as a strategy of distinction in Turkey
(Oxford University Press, 2009-03)This study scrutinizes consumption of modern design as a strategy of distinction in Turkey. Conceptualizing taste as an acquired and dynamic medium through which inhabitants build and sustain social relationships, the ... -
Culture and the distinctiveness motive: constructing identity in individualistic and collectivistic contexts
(American Psychological Association, 2012)The motive to attain a distinctive identity is sometimes thought to be stronger in, or even specific to, those socialized into individualistic cultures. Using data from 4,751 participants in 21 cultural groups (18 nations ... -
Dismantling the self : exploring the infinite becomings in Orlan's body of work
(Bilkent University, 2010)This study is an attempt to elaborate the significance of multimedia and performance artist Orlan’s body and identity altering practices along the lines of Deleuzian theory, and to explore the points of overlap and resonances ... -
Does conflict content affect learning from simulations? A cross-national inquiry into the Israeli-Palestinian and Guatemalan conflict scenarios
(Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc., 2015)It is important to find out whether the content of a simulation has any effect on learning, whether students learn better when the simulation is about a conflict they directly experience as opposed to a conflict they have ... -
The effect of identity on the success of international military interventions
(Bilkent University, 2013)Does identity affect the success of international military interventions? This thesis examines whether one of the factors determining the success of international military interventions is identity. Knowing identity is ... -
EFL teachers’ identity (re)construction as teachers of intercultural competence: a language socialization approach
(Routledge, 2015)Adapting Norton’s (2000) notion of investment as an analytical lens along with thematic analysis, this longitudinal/narrative inquiry explores how 2 EFL teachers’ language socialization in the United States resulted in an ... -
Examining the relationship between Latinos’ English proficiency, educational degree, language preferences, and their perceptions on the Americans
(Selcuk University, 2020)Using data from the 2018 National Survey of Latinos that was conducted by The Pew Hispanic Center/Kaiser Family Foundation, the researcher in the present study reports on the perceptions of Latinos on English and ... -
An exploration of Turkish identity and comparison with the image of Turkey
(Bilkent University, 1996)Image of a product plays an important role in purchase decision. This image concept consists of the design, the performance and other attributes of the product as well as its brand name, name of its producer and its ... -
The Greek Muslim migration : rethinking the role of security and nationalism within the 1923 compulsory exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey
(Bilkent University, 2004)In my Masters Thesis, I examine the 1923 Compulsory Population Exchange between Greece and Turkey (CEOPBGT). Endorsed at a convention in Lausanne, Switzerland, the forced transfer of over one million Anatolian Greek ... -
Hesperus is phosphorus, indeed
(Springer Netherlands, 2009)Tobias Hansson Wahlberg argues in a recent article that the truth of ‘‘Hesperus is Phosphorus’’ depends on the assumption that the endurance theory of persistence is true. I argue that the premise Wahlberg’s conclusion is ... -
The identity of ‘the other’ for sexual violence victims: is there anything new in sexual violence prosecutions before the International Criminal Court?
(Routledge, 2017)Despite the spectacular development in the field of international criminal law, critical feminism stresses the narrow scope of the sex and gender crimes in the Rome Statute establishing the first permanent International ... -
Identity versus morality: conceptions of islam, modernity and politics in the writings of Necip Fazil Kisakürek and Nurettin Topçu
(Bilkent University, 2021-09)This dissertation analyzes diverging conceptions of Islam in the writings of Necip Fazıl Kısakürek (1904-1983) and Nurettin Topçu (1909-1975), and ensuing differences in their critiques of Turkish modernization and their ... -
Identity" problematique in international relations theory
(Bilkent University, 2004)This study aims to provide an assessment of ‘identity’ conceptualizations in International Relations theory generally, and in constructivism particularly. The underlying argument is that ‘identity’ takes different meanings ... -
Literacy and cultural identity
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Male nudity in ancient Mesopotamian art
(Bilkent University, 2012)This thesis attempts to study nude male representations in Mesopotamian art. It analyzes examples of male nudity in art and textual material from the Protoliterate to the Neo-Assyrian period in Northern and Southern Iraq. ...
