The purpose of this study was to learn about Turkish mothers. parental attitudes toward childrearing practices. In particular, Turkish mothers. (1) attitudes toward overparenting, (2) democratic parental attitudes, (3) attitudes toward hostility and rejection, (4) attitudes towa…
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This study draws on a historical perspective on the evolution of a certain form that I call the "Istanbul canon," in which the city has always been associated with loss. Tracing the genealogy of loss in the literary representations of Istanbul by both western and local writers i…
In recent years, the nature of cultural mediation in colonial and imperial settings has attracted renewed scholarly attention. This dissertation expands the chronological, geographical, and analytical framework for understanding mediation by focusing on trans-imperial subjects, …
After evaluating a series of sociolinguistic interviews and translation exercises conducted among the Spanish-speaking Sephardic community in Istanbul, Turkey, I examine the morphological and syntactic changes present across several generations of informants (ages 19-95). The st…
This dissertation is an interdisciplinary investigation of the indeterminate political role played by the inhabitants' spatial practices of misuse in the social production of urban space in contemporary Istanbul. My argument is that both established and emerging hegemonic repres…
The city has an identity, which cannot be reduced to the identity of those currently living in the city. The link between city and identity can be explored outside the city, in the diaspora of the city, by looking at how the former residents relate to it as a source of identity.…
This dissertation focuses on defining, describing and analyzing the music and context of the gazino, a type of nightclub found primarily in Istanbul, Turkey. Dating back to the beginning of the Republican era, gazino music is drawn from many sources that make up the Turkish musi…
The purpose of this descriptive dissertation is to explore the concept of medical pluralism, as it relates to a sample of Turkish migrants residing in one of the squatter settlements in Istanbul. To garner this data 119 short interview schedules were conducted primarily among wo…
The design of cities formed an important part of the programme of the new Turkish nation-state. Initially, the Republic built a new capital at Ankara, but increasingly in the 1930s the attention of politicians and city planners shifted back to the old Ottoman capital, Istanbul. …
This study examines the ways in which the janissaries were part of civic society in early seventeenth-century Istanbul. It is based on the premise that investigation of the relationship between military cadres and civilians in Ottoman cities will reveal how hitherto unnoticed or…
This thesis challenges the nature of current diplomatic buildings constructed abroad by the United States. The United States embassy and consulate, driven by fear of terrorism and the resulting requisite for security, has regressed from a dignified diplomatic center to an imposi…
The focus of this dissertation is Turkish women of "Generation 1980" (born in the late 1960s and early 1970s), a cohort of urban, middle-class, and secular women who came of age in the 1980s in Istanbul, and their struggles with and against "traditional" and "modern" gender ideo…
This dissertation examines Istanbul's municipally displaced weekly periodic markets (PMs) to investigate the complexity of the neoliberal re-configuring of urban subjects and their social and material access to key livelihood resources in the city. Drawing on the food-biographie…
Throughout the centuries, writers, artists and travelers from around the globe have marveled at the great city of Istanbul. A historical metropolis and an elaborate interface of cultures and religions, it comes as no surprise that the city would inspire those who entered its con…
This study is about "place making" in a gecekondu neighborhood in Istanbul--both in the literal and metaphorical sense. Place making unveils the migrants' multiple meanings of "home." It is a polyvalent activity realized through home, work, stories, and ceremonies. Gecekondu mea…
Generative development processes adapt to existing conditions and unfold over time. Generative urban design theory proposes that successful communities must be planned and built incrementally, with current and future users participating throughout the process. The theory critiqu…
This thesis investigates the discourse production of the media in Turkey; the role of the mainstream media in legitimizing urban transformation policies of the Turkish government and the social agency of alternative media in raising public awareness about the concept of urban tr…
This study combines an exploration of citizenship practices in and around the legal domain with an examination of the ways in which everyday interactions between the urban poor and various agents of the legal profession reproduce social hierarchies and inequalities. The thesis i…
This dissertation is on the role and the context of coffeehouses in Istanbul, the capital of Ottoman Empire, in the late eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth century. It examines the place of coffeehouses in the larger society and their functions in various social network…