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Dialogism and democracy
(Bilkent University, 2003)
This thesis examines the notion of democracy not as a straightforward political process
for decision-making, but as a type of dialogue. One of the main reasons for choosing this
particular approach is to reveal the ...
Transformation of Islamist political thought in Turkey from the empire to the early republic (1980-1960) : Necip Fazıl Kısakürek's political ideas
(Bilkent University, 2001)
This thesis aims at situating the transformation of Turkish Islamist thought from the
Ottoman empire to the early Republic as a case study within the contemporary analyses of
Islamism. Islamist thought in Turkey contains ...
Total quality management (TQM) in the Turkish public sector : the views of public employees on practices, impacts and problems for the implementation of TQM in two public organizations
(Bilkent University, 2002)
Total Quality Management (TQM) has become a popular management
approach and system since the 1980s. While it has been adopted by thousands of
organizations, the debate on its originality in theory and its relationship ...
Europeanization and devolution : centre-local relations in Turkey
(Bilkent University, 2008)
This thesis analyzes the impact of the EU accession process over the central
and local levels of administration in Turkey from an institutionalist framework. The
analytical tools of historical and sociological institutionalism ...
A Foucaultian reading of genetic science : archaeologizing the science of the gene
(Bilkent University, 2003)
In recent decades the problems posed by modern genetics has increasingly
become a subject of debate within the social sciences. Those debates lead us to
ask whether genetics is strictly a scientific endeavor. That begs ...
Planning for complex modernity : the Turkish case
(Bilkent University, 2003)
This thesis investigates the relationship between planning and modernity, follows the
evolution of conventional planning within epistemological shifts and globalization
processes, and searches for a communicative planning ...
Analyzing the early republican ideology with specific reference to the Turkish literature : 1930-1945
(Bilkent University, 2000)
Having taken for granted that there exists a certain but nonlinear relation between
political ideology and literature, this thesis seeks to trace the early republican political
project vis a vis development of the Turkish ...
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 ...
Looking at women's poverty in poor households
(Bilkent University, 2002)
This thesis analyzes the internal dynamics of women’s poverty, and how women
experience and cope with poverty in poor households. It mainly deals with two
points, one regarding the conceptualization of women’s poverty ...
Islamist women in the post-1980s modern Turkey: ambivalent resistence
(Bilkent University, 2001)
This thesis analyzes the situation of Islamist women in the post-1980’s Turkey.
Islamist women who have participated in the Islamist movement of the post-1980’s,
have become the objects of the struggle between the Islamist ...