This thesis examines the former company town of Değirmisaz, now a “ghost town” that is little known but fondly remembered by its former inhabitants. Company towns emerged during the industrialization period, growing around ...

In this study, within the scope of the "Treaty and Protocol on the Exchange of Turkish and Greek Populations" signed between Turkey and Greece on January 30, 1923, the untold stories of the Greek families who were requested ...

For many years, the lives and narratives of working women, often perceived as "quiet and uneventful," have been marginalized and deemed unremarkable. When these women's stories do receive attention, they are typically ...

This thesis focuses on how representations of disabled women in the post-2000s Turkish cinema are received by women with lived experiences of disability, what discourses they engage when interpreting these representations, ...

This study is a thematic analysis of Holocaust memory sites in Germany. The conceptual framework of the research is established around the axes of social memory, cultural memory, and memory sites. Within the scope of the ...

This study focuses on how audiences in Turkey read and interpret the representations of masculinity and violence in the films of Quentin Tarantino, one of the most popular directors of Hollywood cinema worldwide. In order ...

This study examines a political line of mourning that strives to include the mourning of those deemed unmournable in the public sphere. It challenges attempts to silence and marginalise mourners during the AIDS crisis that ...

Grassroots movements emerge when a community is powerless and facing social, economic, or political injustices. These movements occur as collective actions from the base to the top. This study aims to examine the relationship ...

Orientalism is a framework of thought and representation developed by the West to construct and dominate the East. According to Edward Said, Orientalism, which has its roots in colonialism, depicts the East as backward, ...

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 ...