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From Ayran to Dragon Fruit Smoothie: Populism, Polarization, and Social Engineering in Turkey
(USC Annenberg Press, 2020)
Food embedded with symbolic meaning has power in politics. Food as political communication is extensively studied as a nation branding and public diplomacy tool. However, academic studies seem to overlook the role that ...
Entrenching geopolitical imaginations: brand(ing) Turkey through Orhan Pamuk
(Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2020)
This study focuses on how through consumers the market reproduces a discourse that aligns with the political and the cultural spheres. By drawing on fields of production and consumption we turn to how both Turkey as a ...
“The Public Immoralist”: Discourses of Queer Subjectification in Contemporary Turkey
(University of Southern California, 2020)
This study examines the forms of queer subjectification that have been molded through regular acts of gender- and sexuality-based violence against LGBTQ+ citizens as encouraged by the dominant religious and secular discourses ...
Use of Social Media in the Struggle Surrounding Violence Against Turkish Women
(University of Southern California, 2020)
Increasingly large numbers of women in Turkey have suffered abuse or lost their lives through attacks by men. In 2019 alone, 474 women were killed by men. Based on theories of connective action and affective publics, this ...
R&D Activity and Financing Constraints: Evidence from Turkey
(Savez Ekonomista Vojvodine, 2020)
We analyze the relationship between financing constraints and firms' R&D activity using a rich and comprehensive firm-level balance sheet and income statement data set of manufacturing firms in Turkey for the period 1996 ...
Does mood affect institutional herding?
(Elsevier, 2020)
Drawing on a unique data set of daily portfolio holdings for Turkish mutual funds we investigate the relationship between mood and institutional herding on the premises of various established mood proxies (weekend effect; ...
Impacts of COVID-19 on changing patterns of household food consumption: An intercultural study of three countries
(Elsevier, 2021)
In light of COVID-19's effects on individuals' social, economic, political, and psychological values, this paper aims to investigate the pandemic's role in possible changes to people's food consumption and meal habits in ...
A Multidimensional Approach to the Gender Gap in Poverty: An Application for Turkey
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2022)
Conventional poverty measures have long been criticized as a poor gauge of quality of life. Household-level income or expenditure data used in these measures are silent on intrahousehold inequalities and capture means to ...
The Role of Legacy Media and Social Media in Increasing Public Engagement About Violence Against Women in Turkey
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2022)
Evidence that women have paid the price of what has been labeled the shadow pandemic is found in the increase in violence against them. The rates of femicide and lack of trust in the Turkish judicial system of the authoritarian ...
Managing Crisis in the Tourism Industry: How Pessimism Has Changed to Optimism?
(Inst Tourism, 2022)
This study aims to investigate how the coronavirus has resulted in harmful effects on the tourism industry and how it has most likely shaken the common traditional practices that the industry had followed for years. With ...