19. yy. Osmanlı Devleti’nde Batılılaşmanın her alanda yoğun bir biçimde hissedildiği bir dönemdir. Bu dönemde gerek toplumsal düzeyde gerekse kentin fiziksel yapısında meydana gelen değişim Osmanlı mimari anlayışına da yeni bir soluk getirmiştir. Mimarideki bu değişim birçok kay…
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This study explores and analyzes late 19th and early 20th century Ottoman-Turkish novels which were shaped by the political and social transformations of the Ottoman Empire at the time, and reveals a pattern in the formation of male identities. The novel form was introduced to T…
In my dissertation, through looking at contemporary urban queer formations and politics, I theorize about the complex ways in which power and abjection operates in the context of Turkey's post-Empire, Westernizing nation-state formation. I argue that queer formations, subjects a…
The twentieth century saw the spread of Western art music across the world as Western ideology and values acquired increasing dominance in the global order. How did this process occur in China, what complexities does it display and what are its distinctive features? This thesis …
My thesis examines the role of the Turkish-European Economic Community (EEC) integration process in Turkish self-understandings. It analyzes how Turks spoke about their integration into the predecessor of the European Union (EU) between 1959 and 1983, arguing that the horizon up…
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the degree of Westernization in advertisements published in major Kuwaiti daily newspapers over the past 21 years (1992-2012). Utilizing a quantitative content analysis, the diffusion of Westernization into the content and form of the adv…
Since the establishment of the republic in 1923 there has never been a consensus over Turkey‘s national identity, either internally or externally. Westernization was a top-down project that fostered societal resistance from the outset and which received only partial recognition …
This study focuses in, particularly, on the study of the “culture clash reading” approach to Indigenous literature and examines the conditioned nature of this approach, its limitations, and its potential for harm to Indigenous agendas.