Associating both the subject and object of this study with the dramaturgical world, Beyond the Security Drama aims to critically contextualize discourses, rhetoric, characters, behaviors, roles, performative capacities, choices, and decisions of constitutive actors of what is he…
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This dissertation is devoted to exploring Armenian Üsküdar (an Anatolian side municipality of Istanbul) and its surroundings within the lenses of “conviviality” as conceptualized by Freitag (2014). Armenian neighborhoods in Üsküdar had all its relevance within the Ottoman rule i…
“ Bilim Kurgu Sinemasında İktidar ve Teknoloji İlişkisi ” isimli bu tez çalışması, iktidar ve teknoloji arasında var olduğu düşünülen ilişkiyi ele almakta ve bu ilişkinin bilim kurgu sinemasındaki karşılığını filmlerdeki içerikler üzerinden analiz etmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Çalışmad…
Şiddet ve iktidar kavramları ilk insan topluluklarından bugüne her zaman ilişki içerisinde olmuştur. Yaşanan tarihsel süreçte iktidar ve şiddet ilişkisi farklı şekillerde tezahür etse de, varlığını her daim sürdürmüştür. Bu ilişki Thomas Hobbes’un siyaset teorisinde de kendisini…
Today, a “High-carbon Energy compleX” (HEX) of fossil-fuel enterprises and their allies hold the future captive, attempting to indefinitely preserve global reliance on carbon- emitting energy. Emergent social forces offer alternative futures, from ‘climate capitalism’ to energy …
In the context of historical marginalization of indigenous people from diverse ethnic communities in Bangladesh, this study will investigate how mainstream researches and writings, in books, research reports, newspapers, and blogs on indigenous issues have ignored women's relega…
This study is an ethnographic exploration of the Pakistani state as it implemented a number of reforms aimed at achieving conditions of good-governance and development. Based on fieldwork conducted from January to December 2006 in Islamabad city and district Kohat of the North W…
The Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453 had an overwhelming geopolitical impact on Western Europe which included a discursive shift that depended greatly on the ideological construction of this event by its contemporaries for its consequences. In other words, the nature o…
In the dissertation I explore the dynamics of production, exchange, and power in the town of Wazzan in northern Morocco. I focus on Wazzan's two salient realms of activity, its weaving trade and its religious order. I argue that underlying both domains is a similar generative se…
This thesis examines the significance of a micro-level approach to the Israeli-Palestinian water conflict. By rethinking scale of analysis and examining local insecurities, Palestinian experiences reveal how water conflict plays out in latent and discursive ways. In a step-by-st…
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…
This dissertation examines the character and consequences of the encounter between Soviet colonial authorities and southern Central Asian society during the period 1927–1941, one expressed fundamentally through the language of gender relations and family life. I focus on Uzbekis…
This dissertation is a regional study of power and authority in a West African state, Kankan-Baté, from its founding in the seventeenth century through the French colonial conquest and occupation of 1891 to 1920. Located on the banks of the Milo River in the present-day country …
Within an integrative, macrosociological framework of the political economy of the ancient agrarian state as provided by political and economic anthropology, this study incorporates sociohistorical, archaeological, textual, and ideological insights into an analysis of class diff…
This dissertation explores the transformation of property rights in Sabah, Malaysia from 1881 to present day. I untangle the complex ways in which property rights are transformed by closely analyzing the history of colonial codification of native customary law, the intricacies o…
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the unequal access to and accumulation of wealth from clove resources in Minahasa, Indonesia, in the 1990s. The dissertation asks: (1) how do specific people in a community gain access to and accumulate wealth from agricultural reso…
In July 1977 Somalia invaded the Ogaden region of Ethiopia, a land to which Somalia laid traditional and historical claim. This struggle might have remained a minor border conflict among small nations on the Horn of Africa were it not for the Cold War. The Soviet Union was heavi…
In the interests of understanding how English as a Second/Foreign Language instructors struggle for power in their professional development programs offered in English Language Preparatory Schools in Turkish universities, a narrative study of nine instructors' was conducted. The…