Browsing by Keywords "Modernity"
Now showing items 1-11 of 11
-
Abdülhak Şinasi Hisar`ın söyleminde gelenek
(Bilkent University, 2002)Abdülhak Şinasi Hisar was one of the rare writers of Republican period who kept alive the old sense of literature and traditional esthetics in his literary works. He become recognized in the 1930s which was a period ... -
Art and everydayness: popular culture and daily life in the communist Czechoslovakia
(Sage Publications Ltd., 2012)This article analyzes the interaction between art and practices of everyday life in communist Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 1980s. Discussing various forms of adaptations to the politically repressive system - from ... -
Beyond the 'billiard ball' model of the international?
(Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2016)In this review symposium, Pinar Bilgin, Ann Towns and David C. Kang discuss Barry Buzan and George Lawson’s The Global Transformation: History, Modernity and the Making of International Relations. In the book, Buzan and ... -
Conceptions of modernity in security studies: the study of security in the Global South
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)Security Studies has portrayed states in the Global South as a threat to international security and overlooked insecurities experienced by people and social groups in the Global South. In security studies, security in ... -
The evolution of tradition, and patronage
(2005)This discussion is based on recorded conversations with Aşik Mensubî concerning his father Aşik Meydanî. This material is used to discuss the evolution of the âşik tradition in the contexts of the relatively conservative ... -
Faith and reason in higher education: social scientific study of Islam at Ankara University School of Divinity
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)The purpose of this thesis is to examine how the mektep-madrasa controversy is manifested in Ankara University School of Divinity as a divide between those who see the study and teaching of Islam as a religion, and those ... -
Negotiating tradition, modernity and identity in consumer space : a study of a shopping mall and revived coffeehouse
(Bilkent University, 2001)This thesis explores the meanings consumers give to consuming two social, commercial, and cultural spaces that have predecessors in the Ottomans and that recently have become very popular among young urban modern consumers: ... -
Nurullah Ataç'ın eleştiri pratiğinde uygarlık sorunu
(Bilkent University, 2002)Modernity, which occurred first in Western Europe, paved the way for important changes in the area of aesthetics. Through the transformation that happened in the area of aesthetics, arts gained new contents and functions. As ... -
Opening up a space for women: matinees in Izmir Culture Park
(Routledge, 2018)This article explores how women’s practices transformed abstract space into lived space in the context of women’s matinees in the entertainment venues of Izmir Culture Park, a historical marker of Turkish modernity. Drawing ... -
Reading material culture: An analysis of design as cultural form
(Bilkent University, 2001)The aim of this study is to explore the possibilities of how the product form conveys meaning, and then how this meaning can be the bearer of any kind of cultural information or inscription upon the object. The reading ... -
Turkish conservatism from a comparative perspective
(Bilkent University, 2002)This thesis serves for the aim of understanding the Turkish conservatism by making comparative analysis and by focusing on the emergence of conservative attitudes. This study aimed to examine the role of conservatism in ...
