Browsing by Author "Kartarı, Asker"
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The Balat life is really unique - narratives of place and belonging in the historical Fener-Balat district of istanbul
Fener-Balat is one of the oldest districts of istanbul and was home to Greek-Orthodox Christians and Jews for centuries. However in the last century the demographic composition changed fundamentally. After long having been neglected recently the district has received increasing attention especially due to historical housing there. This goes along with a wider interest in istan-bul's past and former minority quarters that emerged within the last decades. Most academic literature about the Fener-Balat ...
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The commodification of hospitality An analysis of tourism encounters between interculturality and difference in regard to Turkish couchsurfing experiences
Couchsurfing emerged as a reaction to a package tourism of the masses that was increasingly perceived of as an unauthentic experience of foreign cultures and even potentially harmful to the hosts' culture and country. The new creed of Couchsurfers was thus “Authentic experience on a par with the hosts” telling of cosmopolitanism and a relationships of deeper socio-cultural value. Wondering to what extend such aspirations can retain their integrity in a mostly economy driven world i tested the ...
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“Crisis? Which crisis?“ society in a state of emergency :faces of a crisis in istanbul
This thesis is the analyses of an explorative field study on the socio-cultural perception of crises in istanbul realized from 2016 to 2017. The aim of this study is to examine how people with different (cultural) backgrounds that live in the same city deal with crises and upheavals and which coping mechanisms they develop. The main method to achieve this goal are qualitative episodic interviews. Due to the difficulty of framing and defining crises this study is using a working definition of the ...
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Doing digital news media a Turkish-German comparative anthropological study
This thesis explores German and Turkish urban undergraduate students' everyday digital news media practices as these are considered to constitute an important component of contemporary media cultures. The study examines the students' active exposure to the growing ubiquity of media and communication technologies, the increase of communicative mobility, and the condition of immediacy throughout far-reaching mediatisation and digitalisation processes. Tying in with the scholarship on media, ...
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Multicultural perspectives on the representation of muslim women ,how it influences the self-representations of young muslim women in istanbul and bremen: A comparative study
Since the turn of the century, Muslim women have been represented negatively in Western notions, as one and the same; a diverse womankind reduced to one universal image: oppressed victims who need to be saved from their religion and culture. On one hand, this thesis shows how this unfairly simplified image has a complex consequence for how Muslim women are perceived in German society and how it terrorizes their sense of belonging and influences their self-representations. On the other hand, it ...
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Museumization of migration in Bursa, Turkey
The present thesis addresses museumization of migration in Turkey referring to the particular example of the Göç Tarihi Müzesi in Bursa (Museum of Migration History in Bursa). By describing and analyzing the varied components and methods of the representation in this Turkish migration museum in a detailed way, it is the aim to portray the statements, functions, and policies underlying the exhibition. Therefore, the institution museum is understood as a vivid, social, and reciprocal organization. ...
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NİTEL DÜŞÜNCE VE ETNOGRAFİ: ETNOGRAFİK YÖNTEME DÜŞÜNSEL BİR YAKLAŞIM
Bu yazıda niteliksel düşüncenin ne olduğunu, nereden kaynaklandığını ve etnografi ile olan ilişkisini irdelemeye çalışacağım. “Bilgi”yi öznenin nesne ile kurduğu bağın ürünü olarak kabul edersek, amacım, öznenin, yani araştırmacının araştırma nesnesi ile bağ kurmak için kullandığı çıkış noktasının nesneyi anlamada ne kadar etkin olduğunu ortaya koymaktan ibarettir.
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Social movements in the 21st century: Portrait of an aftermath from subjective perspectives / 21. yüzyılda toplumsal hareketler: Kişisel bakış açılarından sonucun portresi
Gezi olaylarının ve hareketin sonrasının nasıl şekillendiği aşağıdaki araştırmanın odak noktasını oluşturacaktır. Bu araştırma tezinde Gezi sonrasında meydana gelen değişiklikler, etkiler ve kişisel yaklaşımlarla ilgili algıların ve açıklamaların soruları takip edilecektir. Protesto sonrası oluşan koşullar öznel ve öznelerarası perspektiflerden incelenecektir. Araştırma alanı sosyal ve politik hareketlerin sonuçlarına ve sonrasına odaklanmaktadır. Hareketten kaynaklanan değişen koşullarla bireylerin ...
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Sosyal medya üzerinden Türk kültürünün yorumlanması
Toplumların teknolojik gelişmelerle çağ atladıkları bu dönemde, sosyal medya, toplumlar ve insanlar arası iletişimi destekleyen önemli bir gelişme olmuştur. Özellikle son 10 sene içerisinde kendisini belli eden ve evrilen sosyal medya, bireylerin sosyal ağlara kayıt olmasıyla kendisini ayakta tutar. Sosyal medyanın gelişmesini ve sürdürülebilmesini sağlayan faktörün bireyler olduğu göz önünde bulundurulduğunda, sosyal medya platformlarda oluşturulan içerikler, bize bireylerin iç dünyaları hakkında ...