"Commerce and Justice: Ottoman and Venetian Courts in Istanbul during the Seventeenth Century” analyzes legal disputes and economic transactions between Ottoman and Venetian merchants in Istanbul on a daily basis between 1600 and1620. At that time, the Venetians constituted the …
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Due to the inappropriate planning and explosive population growth in urban areas, especially in developing countries, sustainable and disaster-safe urbanization has become the most important challenge for governments. Urbanization presents benefits in different ways but has led …
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 dissertation examines the discourse generated by students and teachers at an American missionary school in Constantinople (Istanbul) between 1871, the year the school was founded, and 1923, the year of the Ottoman Empire's end and the Turkish Republic's beginning. From its …
Since the 1980s, in the context of combined processes of globalization and neoliberalization, Istanbul's integration to the global economic, political, and cultural fields has not only been intensified and redefined, but the city has also become subject to emergent global/region…
The purpose of this dissertation work is to examine the changes in the navigation regime of the Straits of Istanbul, Chanakkale, and the Sea of Marmara (commonly known as the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles) initiated in the last decade of the 20th century and the dispute brought …
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…
This dissertation studies the home-town associations from the Kurdish-populated Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia regions of Turkey and the recently formed Kurdish ethnic associations in Istanbul. In a broader context, it presents a dynamic analysis of how to study associations …
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. …
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…
“Little Manhattan,” the new international business and finance center of Istanbul, is the place where the dominant urbanization agenda, making Istanbul a world city, and the economic development agenda, financial liberalization, were strikingly articulated as two predominant dev…
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…
From the outset global cities have been primarily seen as outcomes of changes in global economic capitalism. This has led to critical responses arguing for the need to consider more centrally the role of politics in global city formation, and in particular the need to critically…
In 1479, the Venetian painter, Gentile Bellini, traveled to Istanbul to serve as a court portraitist of Sultan Mehmed II. Gentile Bellini evidently brought with him a volume of drawings, which he gave to the sultan as a gift. The book contained scores of drawings made by Gentile…
Globalisation has been a dominant theme in much social science text over the last two decades. According to this literature, although one of the most significant changes in the world economy has been a dramatic increase in the mobility of capital, globalisation is not a purely e…
This dissertation examines the relationship between medicine and social control through the lens of eugenics in 1930s Istanbul. Depending on the biographies, autobiographies, and obituaries of the doctors, the analysis starts with an inquiry into the social and professional netw…
This dissertation examines the interplay between natural disasters, vulnerability, and sustainable development. It analyzes the way natural disasters influence sustainable development, in addition to investigating how sustainability of a development shapes its vulnerability from…
This dissertation analyzes the efforts since the mid-1980s to regenerate Istanbul's centrally located waterfront area on the Golden Horn, in Turkish Haliç. More specifically, it investigates this transition by focusing on the key actors involved and their power dynamics in the p…