This dissertation focuses on the subject formation processes of Muslim women who experienced the headscarf ban in universities and public institutions in Turkey from 1997 to 2010. It employs the ban as a vantage point to understand the relationships between power, discourses, an…
Republican Turkish modernization has been initiated and shaped by a reforming elite comprised of the military, bureaucracy and the intellectuals and aimed at a top-down, controlled and hegemonic transformation of state and society through a series of sweeping reforms, which had …
Based on 12 months of fieldwork in Istanbul and Ankara, my dissertation aims at providing a critical reading of Turkish modernity and its reflection in the health realm through an investigation of the illness narratives of cancer patients. It also explores the interactions betwe…
This study focuses on the cult of the peasant, advocated by the Turkish ruling elite as the most important constituent element of Kemalist populism from the early 1930s through the end of World War II. Embodied in the so-called peasantist [köycü ] ideology and practices, the adv…
The educational system in the Turkish Republic during the Atatürk period was an instrument for change in many aspects of government and society. Following the establishment of the Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the Republican elite instituted secular, nationalist reforms in…