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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 ...
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 ...
The case of Youth Party in the context of post-80 Turkish politics
(Bilkent University, 2003)
The fundamental purpose of this thesis is to understand the birth and rise of
Youth Party (YP) and its political stance. In order to achive this task, the
transformation process of Turkish politics in the post-80 era ...
Rearticulation of Turkish foreign policy its impacts on national/state identity and state society relations in Turkey : the Cyprus case
(Bilkent University, 2003)
The central problematic of this dissertation is how, in what ways and to what
extent ‘foreign’ political discourses and representations are instrumentalized by the state
apparatus in the constitution and maintenance of ...
Diversifying feminism in Turkey in the 1990s
(Bilkent University, 2003)
This thesis attempts to diversify feminism in Turkey with a particular reference to
Kurdish women’s relationship with the feminist movement in Turkey in the 1990s. The thesis
argues that feminism in Turkey, to a large ...
Foreign policy and the construction of modern Turkish citizenship during the national struggle period
(Bilkent University, 2003)
This dissertation is an attempt to present a different historical account of the
construction of modern national citizenship and the politics of inclusion and
exclusion that is the politics of citizenship through a ...
The peculiarities of Turkish revolutionary ideology in the 1930s : the Ülkü version of Kemalism, 1933-1936
(Bilkent University, 2003)
This dissertation analyzes a specific version of Turkish revolutionary
ideology in the 1930s, the ‹lk¸ version of Kemalism by means of textual
interpretation of ‹lk¸, the official journal of the Peopleís Houses, ...
Public use of reason in a comparative perspective : John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas
(Bilkent University, 2003)
This thesis analyzes public use of reason in a comparative perspective
concerning John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas’s approaches. Public reason is
important in constitutional democracies to define the relations between the ...
