Arus Yumul

• Istanbul Bilgi University

Hem Don Kişot hem de Züğürt Ağa, kendilerine aşina dünyayı kökten değiştirip istikrarsız hale getiren sosyo-ekonomik ve tarihsel süreçler karşısında derin bir yabancılaşma, şaşkınlık ve yönünü şaşırma duygusu yaşayan karakterlerdir. Her ikisi de, ahlaki kesinliklerin ve geçmişin ezeli ve hazır anlamlarının büyük ölçüde ortadan kalktığı yeni bir sis...

MSGSÜ Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi-Roman-Çingene-Peripatetik Temalı Özel Sayı 2(18) MSFAU Journal of Social Sciences-Roma-Gypsy-Peripatetic Special Issue 2(18)

Dan Pagis (1930-1986), the Romanian born Israeli poet and Holocaust survivor, is best known for his short, concentrated and multilayered Holocaust poem “Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car”. This unfinished poem which carries a universal message with Biblical allusions to Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel invites its readers to complete Eve’s...

While fashion permeates almost all forms of social life, including such seemingly rationally inclined and instrumentally governed fields as science and engineering (Blumer, 1968, pp. 341–5), it has attained its comprehensive, institutionalised manifestation in dress, and above all in the dress of women (Davis, 1989, pp. 337–8). In this paper, I sha...

Conceptualising the public sphere as a form of sociability in the Sennettian sense, the paper explores the intimate connections between novel and Western forms of sociability and civility in nineteenth-century Pera – the most cosmopolitan and Westernised district of the Ottoman capital. It shows how through a distinct culture of social interaction...

The issues of ethnicity, minorities, cultural rights - all taboos for the Turkish political and social context - emerged as one of the most discussed and hotly-debated concepts during the EU accession negotiations. The representatives of the official ideology resisted any attempts to change the hegemonic understanding of the nationconceived as a ho...

Nationalism is an elusive concept, resisting all attempts at formulating an allembracing definition. Despite this Janus-faced character, however, the literature on nationalism abounds with definitions and theories designed to explain its rise. In a groundbreaking study, Michael Billig (1995) challenges the orthodox conceptions of nationalism and in...

BLDSC reference no.: D176405. Thesis (doctoral)--University of Oxford, 1992.