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Item Open Access Autism spectrum disorders: a close-reading of four independent films(2018-12) Mostowfi, AhouBoth Hollywood and independent productions have been interested in depicting Autism Spectrum Disorders in the last thirty years. Within this period, diagnostic criteria of this developmental disorder have made dramatically progress by involving in different conditions and understandings. In parallel with this progress, it can be assumed that contemporary film and tv productions have offered diverse representations of ASD. Yet, to make such assumption, several progresses in different factors (diagnosis of ASD, representations of ASD, production models of the films) should be investigated. The current thesis aims to examine the tendency of using stereotypical representations of ASD in the contemporary independent productions. In this respect, the examination will be made through the close-readings of the following four films, Temple Grandin (2010), Life, Animated (2016), Snow Cake (2006) and Mozart and the Whale (2005).Item Open Access Beyond principles and programs: an action framework for modeling development(S. Karger AG, 2013) Allen, J. W. P.; Bickhard, M. H.Fields focuses on implementation not origins, but the origins of nativism are located in issues about the origins of representations. His narrower focus is on organization of empirical atoms - nativism argues that object representations must be innate. In contrast, Fields argues that persistence is a computational phenomenon and that programs can construct "object files," thus, nativism about object representations is not necessary. All such positions, however, assume basic empiricist atoms. Action-based approaches provide a powerful alternative to the foundationalist assumption common to both nativist and empiricist frameworks. Only an actionbased framework is able to account for the emergence of representation from a base that is not itself already representational. Accordingly, an action-based approach to representation in general and object representation in particular has implications for understanding persistence. In convergence with Piagetian theory, the interactivist model outlined above suggests that object persistence is itself a developmental phenomenon that involves increasing representational complexity over the first 2 years of an infant's life.Item Open Access The Crisis of representation in Southern Europe : Gezi Park protests and 15m movement in comparative perspective(2015) Geyikçi, Şebnem YardımcıBy analysing two different cases of popular movements in Turkey (the Gezi Park protests) and Spain (the 15M movement) that received extensive support from different segments of society in both countries, this research aims at accounting for the question of what factors brought about popular disaffection and led to mass mobilisations under different circumstances. The contention is that one of the central factors behind these mass protests has been “the crisis of representation” resulting not only from the lack of voterparty congruence, but also from the failure of political parties to meet the demands of responsiveness and responsibility – the core requisite of the party government model.Item Restricted Eski Tük büyükelçisi Ufuk Tevfik Okyayuz'un hayatı ve insanlara katkıları(Bilkent University, 2018) Coşkuner, Elif; Türk, Berra; Gökalp, Beyza; Tunç, Ahsen; Başaran, Mert1940 doğumlu Ufuk Tevfik Okyayuz, 1966 ve 2005 yılları arasında ülkemizi İsveç, Libya, Somali,Gürcistan, Hırvatistan, Hindistan büyükelçiliklerinde temsil etmiştir. Temsilcilik yaptığı ülkelere katkı sağlamak istediği için çoğunlukla gelişmemiş ülkelerde çalışmayı tercih etmiş ve bir çok insanın hayatına katkıda bulunmuştur. özellikle Gürcistan ve Hindistanda görev yaptığı dönemde birçok insanın hayatını olumlu yönde etkileyen işlere imza atmış ve Türkiye'nin diğer ülkelere örnek olarak gösterilmesine sebep olmuştur. Bu çalışmada Ufuk Tevfik Okyayuz’un gittiği ülkelere nasıl katkıda bulunduğu ve yaptıklarının sonuçlarının çalıştığı ülkelerdeki insanları nasıl yönde etkilediği anlatılmıştır.Item Open Access Figuring the orient : a discussion of orientalism within the context of Ferzan Özpetek's films(2004) Engin, EvrimThis study aims to inaugurate a thorough reading of two films by Ferzan Özpetek that employ Orient as their setting and major narrative element, Hamam (1997) and Harem Suare (1999), to examine their complicity with the Orientalist practices of representation. The discussion is informed by just as it responds to some of the crucial issues within postcolonial theory. Inspired by the deconstructive critique, the intrinsic relation between the Orientalist discourse and the general economy of Western subject formation has been elaborated through the analysis of the films. A three-fold approach has been pursued to be able to diagnose the latent Orientalism signing the films, since three constitutive moments authorize the attempt of giving a static form to the Orient. Therefore visual, aural and sexual registers of the Orientalist figuration has been explored.Item Open Access Filmic space in Turkish melodrama(1997) Gürata, AhmetThis study aims at analyzing filmic space in Turkish melodrama films that were influential between 1960-1975. In order to map the theoretical framework for such a study, different^ approaches to filmic space are reviewed and discussed. Among these approaches, some focus on the formal aspects of filmic space, regarding mise-en-scene, editing and sound. On the other hand, another group of researchers deal with the cultural and ideological preferences influencing representation of space. In the thesis, the Turkish melodrama is evaluated in terms of both approaches.Item Open Access Finding the othering in the representation of Syrian refugee women: critical discourse analysis of the Turkish newspapers Cumhuriyet, Hurriyet, Sabah, Sozcu and Yeni Safak(2021-09) Miettinen, Meri MerveAfter the outbreak of chaos in 2011 in Syria Arab Spring uprisings, Turkey implemented an open door policy for those who were subjected to forced migration. In this process, Syrians faced the consequences of being in a different country. Entering a social cohesion process with the society has brought along various policies. The representation of the media in this prescription acts as a bridge to break positive and negative prejudices between the host society and the Syrians. When Syrians are mentioned, the first men are coming to fore to mind and cause women to be forced into the background and make their lives invisible. This study focuses on how newspapers with different political views represent Syrian women in the Turkish print media. While making this analysis, critical discourse analysis was used. It is based on the fact that women are exposed to various other marginalization through the concept of dual otherness. Between 2015-2018, the news of Cumhuriyet, Sözcü, Hürriyet, Sabah and Yeni Safak newspapers about Syrian women were evaluated in the categories determined in the study. The news is categorized as death, victim, offender, mother, hero-achievement, sexual object, dependent on the service provided by the country, and others.Item Open Access From social to intellectual structures : creating subject and language in Oğuz Atay's texts(2015) Akbulut, Çağdaş YusufAn important move of Oğuz Atay, in his novels Tutunamayanlar (The Disconnected, 1971–72) and Tehlikeli Oyunlar (Dangerous Games, 1973) is his turning attention to the intellectual questions of Turkey and the dilemma of institution of authorship through the type of “the disconnected” who is overcome by his emotional contradictions but also ventures to come to terms with himself or herself. In the first part of this thesis, in order to reveal the foundational bases of Oğuz Atay’s fictional subjects, I apply to Jean-Gabriel de Tarde’s understanding of society as the determiner rules of movement of inter–mentalities, called micro-sociology, instead of Émile Durkheim’s sociology. In that respect, it is argued that Oğuz Atay constructs the subject not as the representative of the given discourses and ideologies –viz., produced in accordance with ready formulations, convictions, and abstractions – but rather as social types with a potential of intentional emotionality. Further, I argue that the type of the disconnected was produced in and by the peculiar conditions of the Turkish modernity. By the way of projecting the intellectual conflicts of the novel characters as the antagonism embedded in the social structure of the country, Oğuz Atay equips fictional subjects with an emotional content. In Oğuz Atay’s texts, the discourse is constructed in a way to overcome the impotency of linguistic representation through the application of the same very language. Therefore, in the second part of this thesis, I employ the tools of psychoanalytical method developed by Jacques Lacan (with its differences from Sigmund Freud’s) to analyse the question of meaning and representation of the subject and language. In this part, I focus the strategical methods used by Oğuz Atay to negate central signifying regimes. I also develop a frame to show how the construction of the subject and a narrative discourse produce respective themes about one another. It is argued that in these texts which open the literacy and novel writing to an investigation, meta–fictional and linguistic plays are constructed to project the cultural memory and collective reaction in the country, Turkey. In the last analysis, my survey attempts to show how Oğuz Atay, as an intellectual/writer, in these novels, reveals what he calls “Türkiye’nin ruhu” (the soul of Turkey), and its pivotal aspects and questions. In this way, I aim to contribute to discussions on the question of signification, language, representation, and the subject, both in the novels and in the social and intellectual structures of Turkey.Item Open Access Gender segregation in parliamentary committees of Turkey: intermediary spaces of women's political representation(Elsevier, 2023-02-15) Uçaray-Mangıtlı, Burcu; Yıldırım, SenemDo the Turkish parliamentary committees exhibit gendered appointment practices? If so, what are the driving factors behind women's limited representation in some committees? Previous studies find a division of labor in committees based on the perceived gender roles: women legislators are over-represented in low-prestige committees with “feminine” themes such as family, health, and education, whereas they are under-represented in strategically key policymaking committees. These studies —mostly on Western democracies— explain this gender bias with the appointment practices of the conservative right-wing parties. Using an original dataset of appointments between 2002 and 2020, this paper examines the partisan effects on the under- and over-representation of women on certain committees in the Turkish context. We find that all parties except the small left-wing Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) perform in a similarly biased way. We argue that parliamentary committees are gendered institutional spaces greatly affected by the institutional culture of political parties. Even though institutional culture is mostly shaped by ideological stances, political parties are still among institutional spaces where ideologies of masculinity are effectively shaping power relations. We conclude that institutionalizing mechanisms that enhance agential capacities and practices at the party level are vital for gender equality within the political sphere.Item Open Access The imagery of woman in nineteenth century orientalist photography(2010) Vargı, Nimet ElifThis thesis aims to examine the photographic representation of the Eastern women, in nineteenth century. The theoretical framework of this study is based upon the formation of the representation of the “Eastern women” in the context of Orientalist discourse. The emergence of Orientalist studio photography is analyzed with the thematic classifications of the Eastern women in photography. In addition, how the Western subject constitutes himself through the agency of desire in terms of the images of the Eastern women is discussed.Item Open Access An investigation of the relation among religious, aesthetic and power representations in sacred art using the examples of Tibetan Buddhist thanka paintings and Orthodox Christian icons(1998) Özgüzer, SelinThe aim of this study is to investigate the relation among religious, aesthetic and power representations in Tibetan Buddhist thankas and Orthodox Christian icons because of the sharp differences between the two religions. Common ways of representation as well as differences can be seen in these sacred art forms as their aim is to communicate the religious and spiritual truths. After the main concepts of the religions are examined, the purpose of sacred arts, their methods of communication and place of visuality in these religions are investigated. Then icons and thankas are compared in terms of representation methods of religious figures, nature, death and power.Item Open Access Legitimacy from above: the partisan foundations of support for the political system in democracies(Cambridge University Press, 2013) Anderson, C. J.; Just A.We investigate the partisan foundations of political legitimacy. We argue that the goals parties pursue shape their supporters' views about the political system via the messages they communicate about the desirability of the political system. Combining public opinion survey data collected in 15 democracies with data on the goal orientations and policy positions of 116 political parties, we find that office-seeking parties take more positive positions toward the status quo of the political regime than policy-seeking parties. Moreover, we find that these positions have consequences. Specifically, supporters of parties with more positive positions toward the system report systematically higher levels of support than supporters of parties that communicate more negative views. Taken together, these findings suggest that political parties play an active role in shaping citizens' views of the political system and that office-seeking parties in particular mobilize consent among citizens in contemporary democracies. © European Consortium for Political Research.Item Open Access Photographic image and its contextualization as art(1996) İncirlioğlu, GüvenThroughout its history, the photographic image has mostly been accepted as worthy of art status when seen within the parameters that apply to the traditional images, for example, paintings. The main theme of this study is to lay out the intrinsic characteristics of photography and to find the that ways that photographs are contextualized as art, outside and independent of these parameters. To achieve this, a considerable part of this research is devoted to the issues of representation that relate both traditional art media and the technical images like photography to production of artworks. These include pictorial techniques like perspective and abstraction as well as other modes of representation made possible by photographic technology. Following this, the argument focuses on artistic practices that contextualize photographs and utilize their advantages, like montage and conceptual art; and further, the similarities of the photographic image and common objects used in art context are analyzed. The study concludes with a discussion on the status of the artwork in our times, as the photographic image is increasingly intertwined with digital technology, scrutinizing the all important parameters of representation and art.Item Open Access Poverty in consumer culture: towards a tranformative social representation(Routledge, 2014-10-20) Hamilton, K.; Piacentini, M. G.; Banister, E.; Barrios, A.; Blocker, C. P.; Coleman, C. A.; Ekici, A.; Gorge, H.; Hutton, M.; Passerard, F.; Saatcioglu, B.In this article, we consider the representations of poverty within consumer culture. We focus on four main themes – social exclusion, vulnerability, pleasure and contentment – that capture some of the associations that contemporary understandings have made with poverty. For each theme, we consider the portrayals of poverty from the perspective of key agents (such as marketers, media, politicians) and then relate this to more emic representations of poverty by drawing on a range of contemporary poverty alleviating projects from around the world. We conclude with a set of guidelines for relevant stakeholders to bear in mind when elaborating their representations of poverty. These guidelines may act as a platform to transform marginalising representations of poverty into more empowering representations.Item Open Access Representation(s) of Topkapı Palace(2004) Seles, EmreThis thesis is based on a critical analysis of the problem of representation based on Platonic Idealism. Historically, this problem has been closely tied to the problematic opposition between notions of original and copy. In this study the assumptions behind this binary opposition and the existence of a reality that is accessible other than by its own representations are deconstructed. The notion of simulacrum is introduced to counter the original/copy argument in relation to the contemporary culture of consumerism. Within this theoretical framework the Topkapi Palace Hotel in Antalya is taken as a case study. Representations of Topkapi Palace preceding the hotel are analyzed including Ottoman miniatures, Orientalist paintings/gravures and the Topkapi Palace Museum. The basic premise of the thesis is that the notion of simulation destabilizes the model/copy binary which has significant repercussions in contemporary architectural discourse and practice.Item Open Access Representations of Syrian refugees in Turkish news media: content analysis of oppositional newspapers(2021-06) Gürbüzdal, UfukThis thesis examines the representations of Syrian refugees in online news articles broadcasted by Turkish oppositional newspapers from different ideological and political orientations. The three oppositional media outlets, Evrensel, Milli Gazete and Sözcü, each with different politico-ideological standpoints, are examined for their news content. In the study, as a reference newspaper for pro-government news media, Sabah’s news content is also scrutinized. The news content of Sabah is analyzed to politically contextualize, first and foremost, the Turkish government’s refugee policy and, then, the examined newspapers’ opposition to this policy. The time scale of content analysis is divided into two central periods. To identify the most prominent representation differences in the news articles disseminated before and after the mass settlement of Syrian refugees in Turkish cities, the reports broadcasted solely in 2011-2013 and 2016-2018 are included in the content analysis scope. For newspapers where a sufficient number of online news is publicly available and accessible, 30 news articles per newspaper per year are analyzed. In cases where it is not possible to reach 30 reports, only the accessible amount of news is analyzed.Item Open Access Representations of “Kanal İstanbul” in Turkish news media: content analysis of pro-government and oppositional newspapers(2022-09) Hamamcı, EzgiThis thesis examines the representations of the Kanal Istanbul project in online news articles published in Turkish pro-government and opposition newspapers with different political and ideological orientations. Five newspapers with different political and ideological perspectives, Sözcü, Cumhuriyet, Yeni Akit, Karar, and Sabah, are analyzed in terms of news content. In the study, news articles about Kanal Istanbul are analyzed under different categories such as the attitude of the news, the general tone of the news, the political figures in the news, the sources used in the news, and the theme of the news. The time scale of quantitative and qualitative content analysis covers the years between 2011 and 2022. Since there is not enough news text for analysis between 2011-2016, the news texts between 2016-2022 are included in the study. Focusing on the representations of the Kanal Istanbul project in the context of media framing theory, this thesis aims to reveal the ideological reflections in news representation by considering the principles of objectivity and impartiality in journalism practices.Item Open Access The simulacrum surfaced : a study on the nature of the image(2004) Erlevent, EvrenThis study aims at understanding the nature of the visual image through discussing the notion of 'simulacrum' within the philosophy of Plato, Baudrillard and Deleuze and trying to locate its importance within the representational system of models and copies. The notion of imitation and representation is found problematic in explaining the fascination within visual imagery and Deleuze’s term ‘becoming’ is suggested as more appropriate. It is discussed in this thesis how the simulacrum threatens and destabilizes model/copy relations of representation through its role in Deleuze’s ‘sensation.’Item Open Access A singular art : a theoretical and artistic survey on miniature and hybrid possibilities of traditional arts in contemporary art(2007) Şener, SevalThe aim of this study is to point out the problems which are stemmed from the use of traditional arts, particularly miniature, in contemporary art. A theoretical survey on seeing and representation of traditional arts and miniature was made. The result of the survey is that traditional arts and miniature require a different seeing than today’s seeing regime. In the artistic and practical side of the study the problem is made clearer thanks to the works produced during the process and other contemporary artists’ works who are working in similar ways.Item Open Access Undoing recognition : a critical approach to pose in photography(2006) Ertem, FulyaThis study aims to give an account of the act of posing in photography in terms of the self/image relationship in order to foreground an unexplored aspect of the pose that is its potential to question (self-)recognition and/or (self-)identification. By departing from an analysis of portrait photographs belonging to different cultures and historical periods, this thesis attempts to provide a critical approach to the act of posing through a productive communication between visual and theoretical texts and provides a new approach to the subject/image relationship.