Browsing by Subject "Community"

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Ankara Uluslararası Protestan Kilisesi
(Bilkent University, 2020) Kadım, Cankat Anday; Koçak, Doğa; Çelik, Enes; Kaboğlu, Melisa; Ayan, Rüzgar
Şu an bulunduğu binasına 1998 yılında taşınan Ankara Uluslararası Protestan Kilisesi, bu taşınmadan önceki 8 yılda birçok farklı yerde faaliyet göstermiştir. Ankara‟da bulunan yabancılar tarafından 1990 yılında Ankara‟da bir ev topluluğu olarak başlayan ve 1998 yılına kadar bir otel ve bir depo da dahil olmak üzere birkaç farklı yere taşınmak zorunda kalmıştır. 20 Eylül 1998 tarihinde Çiğdem Mahallesi‟nde bulunan kendi binalarına taşınarak Ankara‟da resmi anlamda Türk Hükümeti‟nden izin alınarak kurulan ilk kilise olmuşlardır. Topluluk, bu tarihten beri kendi binasında düzenli olarak olarak ibadete açık haldedir.
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Building a career in English: users of English as an additional language in academia in the Arabian Gulf
(Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc., 2014) Buckingham, L.
This study investigates how a group of 30 multilingual academics, all users of English as an additional language (EAL) working at a private university in Oman, acquired discourse community membership in their disciplines through publishing in English, and the strategies they use to sustain the level of literacy needed to disseminate their research in refereed journals while working on the periphery. The participants, from the natural sciences, information technology, and economics, originate from countries in the surrounding region and, although many did not study in one of the traditional Anglophone countries, their academic literacy skills in English have been the cornerstones of their peripatetic academic careers. Participants describe their experience publishing from the periphery and perceptions of reviewer bias, and identify strategies used to overcome material shortcomings and linguistic challenges. The practice of language reuse to support the drafting of particular sections of an article is a recurring theme in many interviews. The article discusses the importance of conventional language in the sciences and the differing understandings of plagiarism among academics from the humanities and sciences. An implication from this study is the need for greater institutional support for the writing process in environments where most faculty members are EAL users.
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Communitarianism: The good, the bad, and the muddly
(1989) Ryan, Alan
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An emotional economy of mundane objects
(Routledge, 2015) Kuruoğlu, A. P.; Ger, G.
This article illuminates the affective potentialities of objects. We examine the circulation of Kurdish music cassettes in Turkey during the restrictive and strife-laden period of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. We find that the practices comprising circulation - recording, hiding, playing, and exchanging cassettes - constituted tactical resistance and generated communal imaginaries. We illuminate the "emotional economy" that is animated by a mundane object: the cassette, through its circulation, becomes saturated with emotions, establishes shared emotional repertoires, and habituates individuals and collectives into common emotional dispositions. Cassettes thus play a part in shaping and reinforcing an emotional habitus that accompanies the emergence of a sense of "us," the delineation of the "other," and the relationship between the two. We thus demonstrate the entwinement of materiality and emotions, and examine how this entwinement generates emotional structures that shape and perpetuate the imagining of community as well as the enactment of resistance.
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İndividualism, communitarianism, and docility
(1989) Kateb, George
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Multiculturalism: A big word at the presses
(1991) Stimpson, Catharine R.
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On the Place of Virtues in a Pluralistic Democracy
(1992) Etzioni, Amitai
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The rise of the shopping mall in Turkey: the use and appeal of a mall in Ankara
(Elsevier, 2005-03) Erkip, F.
The shopping mall as the site of contemporary consumption has long been attracting the attention of various researchers analyzing socio-spatial dynamics in different cultures. It is the focus of this study of recent transformations in Turkish metropolises, due to its primary influence on urban life. As an initial attempt to understand the Turkish situation, a field survey was carried out in Bilkent Shopping Center, a newly built shopping mall in a high-income suburban area of the capital city, Ankara. Some long-lasting assumptions about Western consumption trends and shopping mall development were tested to provide clues for dynamics in a developing country. In addition to statistical analyses of data obtained from structured interviews, various observations were used to enrich the survey. Although shopping mall development seems to be a part of a global trend, there exist socio-cultural influences creating local patterns in the use of the mall. These patterns differ with user characteristics, such as gender, age and occupation, as well as the time of visit. This paper suggests that shopping mall development poses a number of policy issues for planning bodies and these issues need to be addressed with an awareness of the local context.
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Well-being in Alternative Economies: the role of shared commitments in the context of a spatially-extended alternative food network
(SAGE Publications Inc., 2017) Watson, F.; Ekici, A.
Alternative economies are built on shared commitments to improve subjects’ well-being. Traditional commercial markets, premised upon growth driven by separate actors pursuing personal material gain, lead to exploitation of some actors and to negligible well-being gains for the rest. Through resocializing economic relations and expanding the recognition of interdependence among the actors in a marketing system, economic domination and exploitation can be mitigated. We define shared commitments as a choice of a course of action in common with others. We empirically demonstrate the existence of shared commitments through an in-depth study of a spatially extended alternative food network in Turkey. Finally, we offer an inductive model of how shared commitments can be developed between local and non-local actors to bring new economies into being and improve the well-being of consumers and producers, localities, markets, and society.
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Where religion, community and consumption meet : a qualitative inquiry into the consumption practices of a religious community
(2011) Karataş, Mustafa
It is well established in the consumption literature that consumption is a way that symbolically constructs and reflects the multiple identities consumers have. A part of individuals' identities has a communal nature, communicating the membership in and belonging to a particular cultural group. In the contemporary era of modernization, characterized by a sense of loss of solidarity and loneliness, consumers constantly search for belonging to a group and bring the mythic and religious into their insecure and disorderly world. Though many consumer studies have theorized the mythic and the religious in consumption communities, consumer research has not yet looked at consumption in religious communities. This study aims at filling this gap by investigating consumption practices of members of a religious community, Fethullah Gülen-inspired movement, in Turkey. The data is presented as two consequential, yet overlapping, processes of entry and settlement in the community. In the first part, motives for entry and the role of consumption during the entry process are discussed. In the second part, the relationship between consumption and the status in the hierarchical structure of the community, delineation of boundaries of legitimate consumption and adjustment of individual consumption practices accordingly are presented. The theoretical implications of these findings for the relationship Between religion, community, and consumption are also discussed.