This thesis focuses on the higher education ecosystem in Turkey and analyzes the field of higher education and academic labor on the neoliberal political economy axis. As a result of neoliberal policies, universities have ...

In the 20th and 21st centuries, sports have become an important concept in the social sphere, moving away from the act of competitive performance. In the last century, as sports brought the masses together, it began to ...

Military stories based on conscription are a social phenomenon that has taken the form of traditional storytelling in Turkey. The fact that compulsory military service covers only male citizens and is carried out in a ...

News as an open or closed text has been a recurrent topic in communication studies. News as a factual text and written under professional requirements constitutes a closed structure. However, once the news is in circulation, ...

In this study, it will be discussed how and why technophobia emerged in dystopian science fiction movies produced after the year 2000. The discussion is initiated based on the assumption that the primary source of fear in ...

The subject of this thesis is the collector. In the study, the collector is approached as a social type. Social types are methodological instruments for understanding society. Therefore, in this study, collecting is not ...

This study examines the definition of queer and how it can be interpreted outside of Western contexts. Based on the traditions of New Queer Cinema and Third Cinema, it is discussed how queer films find their meanings in ...

Time, as one of the main means of organising everyday life, is disciplined for the benefit of capital. The contemporary time regime organised around capitalist values functions as an oppressive disciplinary device. The ...

This study argues that Turkish romantic comedy films made between 1970 and 1980 took their origins from the American screwball film genre of the 1930s and therefore should be termed "turco-screwball". The research emphasizes ...

In this thesis urban dystopias and dystopian cities produced in Turkish literature and cinema in the 2000s are examined through focusing Emin Alper’s movie called Frenzy (2015), Mehmet Açar’s short story “The Third Child” ...