Ebru Tekin Bilbil

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at Özyeğin University

This article explores the role of accounting in mitigating human-made crises. It demonstrates calculative practices subjected to measurement, monitoring, and control in a context where information is integrated into transnational initiatives and compromises. The authors focus on the accounting practices in forming and operating the Black Sea Grain...

By utilizing the concepts of field, habitus, and capital inherited from Bourdieu, this study explores publicness as a social practice. In doing this, the paper problematizes publicness concerning accountability and public value and empirically explores the organization of social support delivery in Istanbul. We posit our research question: In what...

Contingencies comprise immediate possibilities and aleatory interactions in the form of calculated responses to mutual uncertainties. While contingencies are critically important to governmental policies, yet they have been rarely considered in social analysis. The aim of this study is to analyze how the Covid-19 pandemic as a crisis has been gover...

Purpose This article examines the inaction, silencing and ignorance in ex ante disasters whilst conducting a case study analysis of the Izmir/Samos earthquake, a 6.6 Mw (moment magnitude) earthquake that occurred at a depth of 14.9 km from the ground on 30 October 2020 at 2:51 PM. The 8-floor Riza Bey Apartment in Bayrakli/Izmir was demolished in t...

Purpose - This paper explores the role of the COVID-19 pandemic in the financial and parliamentary accountability mechanisms of public-private partnership (PPP) “City Hospitals” in Turkey. Diverse and changing accountability mechanisms are explored regarding budgetary, affordability and emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/app...

Bu makale, disiplinler arası bir araştırma alanı sunan Kentsel Politik Ekoloji (KPE) literatürünün nasıl yeni fikirlere ve kavramlara açık olduğunu göstermeye çalışırken aslında bu yeni alanda karşılaştığı sorunları vurgulamayı ve bu sorunlara çözüm önermeyi amaçlar. Bu yeni sayılan KPE literatürü, şehir kavramı, kentsel-kırsal ayrımı, metodoloji s...

Booking.com ve Uber firmaları vaka analizlerine odaklanmaktadır. Bu çalışma ile, bu firmalarınfaaliyet gösterdikleri piyasaların yapısını değiştirmesi, çıkar ilişkilerini tetiklemesi ve yeni müdahalealanları yaratması irdelenirken bu alanlarda ortaya çıkan temsiliyet sorunları incelenmektedir.Booking.com ve Uber’in bu çalışma dahilinde vaka örnekle...

Bu çalışmanın amacı, yapay zekâ teknolojisinin getireceği değişim, yenilik ve dönüşüm süreçlerinin ilk evrelerinde ortaya çıkan tedirginliğin oluşturucu dinamiklerini, sebeplerini ve aynı zamanda beklentileri, algıları ve kısıtları araştırmaktır. Bu teknolojinin henüz tarihsel bir geçmişi olmadığından, bu makale izlek bağımlılığı teorisinin evrimse...

Based on a new governance theory as regulatory governance, this article analyzes how a new economy creates new transaction costs at the local level due to the lack of legal coordination based on diversity and competition. The literature focuses on how new platform technologies have decreased existing transaction costs (i.e., online platforms). Surr...

In March 2017, as a result of a precautionary interim decision made by the courts based on the case relating to ‘unfair competition practices’, Booking.com closed its platform for inbound tourism in Turkey and ceased operations. This was the first instance of an online booking platform halting access for inbound bookings for the domestic market. Th...

In March 2017, as a result of a precautionary interim decision made by the courts based on the case relating to ‘unfair competition practices’, Booking.com closed its platform for inbound tourism in Turkey and ceased operations. This was the first instance of an online booking platform halting access for inbound bookings for the domestic market. Th...

Since the 2000s, consular services have not been the only arena that fits into the government’sresponsibility. This paper examines how the state transfers visa services to private companies thatmanage millions of visa applications each year. A theoretical focus on “governmentality” was undertakenby examining the discourses that shape the meaning, p...

Employing the concept of biopolitics, this study explores noise and policy inaction as normalizing technologies of the body and as market discourse through the commercialization of a small village. Noise in Alaçatı Village, which has been increasing since 2015, is analyzed here in terms of its constitutive processes, which include mechanisms of pow...

The mainstream literature provided the main arguments of the opponents and proponents of the Net Neutrality (NN) debate materialized between internet service providers (i.e., network operators) and content and/or application providers. However, this paper provides a different classification of the literature to enable us to see the NN topic from di...

Over the past decade, the contemporary literature has addressed the emerging factors influencing the new economy of over-the-Internet and Over-The-Top (OTT). The growth of the OTT market conveyed the need for the discussion on the best possible and most appropriate regulatory approach that should be undertaken. This study emphasizes the importance...

Recent efforts to design conceptual maps and models that best outline the definition, typologies, and dimensions of cities that use Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for greater advancement have focused on the term “smart city.” To approach this subject beyond a strategical level only, this paper focused on the operationalizing aspe...

Based on the components of new media, this article focuses on the intersection between communication networks and content (media) through personal connections and cable/interactive television. First, it analyzes how connections through social networking as a communication and power maintenance strategy produce rhetorical devices through categorizat...

In the last decade, many destinations made substantial improvements in their visa rules and procedures as reflected in the reports, as prepared by the UNWTO. This article first argues that the impact of the UNWTO on state behaviour in visa liberalization has become more significant in relation to the convergence of state's interests that are constr...

In 2000, with the Agricultural Reform Implementation Project (arip) initiated by the World Bank in Turkey, the agricultural market entered a liberalization process. However, the arip policies were not implemented as envisaged. By means of a case study approach, this paper analyses the reasons for the failure of the arip policies in the hazelnut mar...

Turkey is one of the most visited countries by international tourists in the world. In 2013, the tourism receipts in the country increased by 11. 4% compared to the previous year. More than 4 million Russian tourists visited Turkey in 2013, mainly on the Mediterranean region. Utilizing a case study approach, this study examines the impacts of the p...