Browsing by Subject "1980s"

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Constructing morality for Turkey : the moral campaign of the 1980s as a novel technique of governing
(2010) Keçeli, Öncü
Political history of Turkey of the 1980s usually narrates the institutional reorganization of state structure and legislative changes introduced by the military regime established after the September 12, 1980 coup d’état and demilitarization efforts of the following civilian governments. However, the military regime did not simply apply institutional changes; one of its aims was to infiltrate society at every level, through “conduct of conduct.” Everyday life was targeted and governed by both the military regime, following civilian governments and non-state actors in the 1980s in order to restructure socio-political space and establish hegemony of a life style by setting new standards of normalcy. Morality, as a constitutive element of everyday life, had a peculiar place in efforts to reconstruct the distinction between the normal and the abnormal, since it was believed that decay of moral values was among the primary reasons of social collapse in the pre-coup period. This study, hence, analyzes the moral campaign of the 1980s, as a hegemonic project which problematized the conduct and values of others and attempted to dominate everyday practices. The dissertation studies the Intellectuals’ Hearth and a peculiar reading of history and society, the Turkish Islamic Synthesis, as the intellectual background of the moral campaign and as an exemplary discourse of moralist thinking. It later focuses on three of everyday domains that were targeted in the 1980s to institute the proper life style for the society and the individual: education of morality, politics of non – heterosexuality and censorship of obscenity. This study, then, rewrites the history of Turkey of the 1980s, as a story of efforts to develop new standards of moral norms in everyday life.
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Doğuşu ve yükselişi: Ankara’da metal müzik sahnesi
(Bilkent University, 2025) Korlas, Eren; Kiliç, Hazar Ahmet; Şeker, İrem Ülkü; Mülayim, Mevlüt; Erdem, Nur Neva
Metal müzik her ne kadar dünya genelinde 60’ların sonunda başlamış olsa da Türkiye’de 80’lerin başında icra edilmeye başlanmıştır. Ankara, metal müzik ve metal müzik kitlesi için bir kültür başkenti olarak bu gelişim sürecinde kendisine özel bir yer bulmaktadır. Türkiye ve Ankara’da metal müziğin doğuşu anlatıldıktan sonra ülke genelinde yer alan haberlerden, metal müzik kitlesinin ve daha da spesifik olarak Ankara’daki metal müzik kitlesinin bu durumlardan nası etkilendiğinden bahsedilecektir. Metal müzik konserlerinden, ilk metal gruplarından ve metal müziğin gençlerde nasıl bir yaşam tarzı olarak yer bulduğundan bahsedilecektir.
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Neoliberalism and surveillance in Turkey: the international political economy of banking sector reform in the 1980s
(2022-07) Kaptan, Deniz
This thesis analyzes the impact of various banking sector policy reforms in Turkey in the 1980s from the critical perspective offered by surveillance studies. I argue that, with the proliferation of retail banking services, data on the economic assets of individuals in Turkey became increasingly transmitted to the national and international data vortex, creating advantages for power centers that had access to this data. I show the power hierarchies at the bank, state, and international levels through a wide range of qualitative sources. Neoliberal reforms were leading society to consume more, as well as enabling the collection of data on an individual basis. At all levels of analysis, I have found that surveillance mechanisms were mainly used for two purposes: to ensure transparency necessary for the functioning of the economy and to reinforce existing hierarchies. While the latter target is less visible at the corporate level, I have observed that information is collected and disseminated at the state level to remind people of their consumer identity and at the international level to position Turkey within the global economic system.