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Citation - WoS: 41
Citation - Scopus: 52
Alevis and Alevism in the Changing Context of Turkish Politics: the Justice and Development Party's Alevi Opening
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2011) Soner, Bayram Ali; Toktas, Sule
The Justice and Development Party (JDP, Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi) has launched a rapprochement policy toward the Alevis. The JDP's Alevi Opening has presented a unique case in Turkey's latest identity politics not only because Alevi claims, for the first time, came to be involved in political processes for official recognition and accommodation, but also because the process was handled by a political party which is regarded to have retained Islamist roots in Sunni interpretation. This article explores the JDP's Alevi Opening process and tries to explain the motivations behind the party's decision to incorporate the Alevi question in its political agenda. What is more, the debate that the opening has caused is also under scrutiny with the positions and arguments held by the actors and the agencies involved in the process, e. g., the Alevis (the secularist and the conservative wings), the General Directorate of Religious Affairs, the National Security Council, the JDP leadership and the Islamist intellectuals.
An Analysis Into the Persona of Knidia
(Turk Tarih Kurumu, 2009) Durna, Gül E.
[Abstract Not Available]
Are You a Muslim?': Contested Transnational Diaspora Identity of Alevis as a Minority Within a Minority Through Alevi Organizations in the Netherlands
(Taylor & Francis inc, 2025) Sen, Seher
This article focuses on the contested process of identity formation among the Alevi diaspora through an examination of Alevi organizations in the Netherlands, by considering various actors, situations, events, and interventions or reactions within asymmetrical power relations. In doing so, it argues that over the last two decades, Alevi identity has been positioned and repositioned through such questions as 'Who are you?' and 'Are you a Muslim?' constantly asked by different actors. These questions -especially the ones asked by states- require Alevis to situate themselves to Islam and invite them to explain themselves in relation to Sunni Muslims, in both Turkey and Europe, albeit in different contexts. This study claims that both the Turkish state's direct question to Alevis, a minority in Turkey, and the Dutch state's indirect question to diaspora Alevis, a minority within a minority in the Netherlands are prominent positioning factors in the identity formation process of transnational diaspora Alevis in the Netherlands.
Articulation and Disarticulation of Kars Cheeses Within Dairy Commodity Chains
(Cambridge University Press, 2026) Tatari, M. Fatih; Nizam, Derya
There has been growing public interest in traditional cheese production and consumption over the past decade, in contrast to the 1990s and 2000s, when food safety regulations excluded traditional cheesemakers from Turkey's dairy commodity chains. This article focuses on two cheeses, Kars Ka & scedil;ar & imath; and Bo & gbreve;atepe Gravyeri, designated in 2015 with national Geographical Indication and international Slow Food Presidium labels. Drawing on archival and long-term ethnographic research, we trace the historical trajectory of commercial dairying in Kars and its articulation and disarticulation within national and international commodity chains. Against the backdrop of twentieth-century transformations, we investigate how place-based labels have contested neoliberal agricultural policies that imposed industrialization and standardization on the dairy sector. We argue that the re-articulation of Kars in the 2010s relied on community development and collective action, and practices negotiating between tradition and standardization to establish new conventions of quality. This article conceptualizes re-articulation as a transformative socio-ecological process rather than a simple reversal of disarticulation. It demonstrates how peripheral regions re-enter markets through locally negotiated strategies balancing standardization, authenticity, and solidarity. It also foregrounds material and ecological relations, recognizing the agency of non-human elements - such as pastures and artisanal tools - in shaping value and quality.
Citation - WoS: 4
Citation - Scopus: 4
The Battlefields of Leisure: Simple Forms of Labor Control in the Turkish Hospitality Sector
(Cambridge Univ Press, 2020) Erköse, Hüseyin Yener
This article is based on an ethnographic study in the Turkish hospitality sector and examines the employment of simple forms of labor control in hospitality service work from the perspective of labor process analysis. It introduces ethnographic data from two holiday villages on the southern coast of Turkey serving international customers. The two holiday villages were workplaces that employed mostly young workers for low-skill, routine tasks that demanded intense physical and emotional labor, but without due remuneration, career chances, and employment security. Data based on participant observation and in-depth interviews point to an increasing managerial reliance on simple forms of labor control. This happens as a result of intensifying competition among hospitality firms in a market with volatile demand and managerial perceptions regarding employees' lack of customer service skills due to routinization and simplification of tasks after the introduction of the all-inclusive boarding system. Such market-related developments encourage employers to use simple control mechanisms that help in adjusting staffing levels, imposing loyalty, cutting costs, and ensuring efficiency.
Citation - WoS: 2
Between the State and the World Market: Small-Scale Hazelnut Production in the Black Sea Region
(Istanbul Univ, Fac Letters, Dept Sociology, 2020) Erköse, Hüseyin Yener; Sahin, Osman; Yukseker, Deniz; Sert, Deniz H.
Turkey is the world's largest hazelnut producer and exporter, yet hazelnut farmers have been growing hazelnuts in increasingly difficult conditions even for the years when production levels and hazelnut prices are high. In this paper, we take up the contradictions in hazelnut cultivation in Turkey and seek to show that, despite the commonsense opinion that the problem stems from small-scale cultivation, the more important problem is the unequal power relations that exist in the hazelnut market. We make the following arguments in the paper based on some of the findings from the field study we carried out in the Western and Eastern Black Sea regions in 2017. Issues exist regarding productivity and profitability in hazelnut cultivation characterized by small holdings. Hazelnut farmers are often unable to meet the expenditures and investments required for raising productivity. These problems arise more from the farmers' demographic profiles and debt levels and the unequal power relations in the hazelnut market with respect to small-scale production. Therefore, resolving the problems in hazelnut cultivation might require making changes that favor small farmers' power relations in the hazelnut market rather than enlarging holdings.
Class, Migration and Masculinity Among Syrian and Turkish Youths in Working-Class Neighborhoods of Istanbul
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2024) Yükseker, Deniz; Celer, Zafer; Şahin Taşgın, Nese; Tasgin, Nese Sahin
This article describes the masculinity narratives of working-class Syrian and Turkish youths in Istanbul on their lived experiences of socio-economic inequalities, everyday violence, and discrimination. Based on qualitative fieldwork conducted in 2020 and 2021 with male youths in two districts, it emphasizes the common experiences of Syrian and Turkish male youths shaped by their working-class predicaments, but also demonstrates that certain forms of masculinity performances emerge as strategies to tackle the difficulties in their lives. Turkish youths' masculinity narratives display nationalism and anti-migrant discourses, whereas Syrian youths seek to affirm their dignity against racism through performances of masculinity.
Citation - WoS: 33
Citation - Scopus: 38
The Comparison of the Opinions of the University Students on the Usage of Blog and Wiki for Their Courses
(IEEE Computer Soc, Learning Technology Task Force, 2012) Avci, Ummuhan; Aşkar, Petek
The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of blogs and wikis as constructive tools in the computer courses of prospective teachers and compare them with respect to perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, intention, self efficacy, and anxiety. Ninty-two students who were enrolled in various teacher education programs used blog and wiki for their courses. After their experiences with blog and wiki, the data were collected by administrating the instrument developed by the researchers. The results showed that students were positive to blog and wiki usage in the teaching-learning process. However they found wiki more useful. Both perceived usefulness and self efficacy variables explain 71% of blog and wiki usage. This value points to a very high and significant correlation. Perceived usefulness has been identified as the variable that could explain intention by itself at the most.
Citation - WoS: 1
The Condition of the Ottoman Mine Labour and Its Impact on the Republican Period
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015) Kahveci̇, Erol
In the Ottoman state, mining was important for the conduct of war, mints, public works, crafts industry, and financing the centralized administration system. In the republican period, mines were also important in the state's industrialization project, and they were used to subsidize the developing industries through provision of low-cost raw materials. These policies of the Ottoman and Turkish states had serious consequences for mine labour. Analysis of the Ottoman mining industry in the classical and post-classical periods, and also during the Turkish Republican period, highlights a range of emerging patterns. These include the strict control of the production by the state, the common practice of subcontracting, the role of foreign capital in the history of mining, the village-based division of labour around the mines, the use of peasant cultivator miners, the exploitation of unfree labour, the lack of investment, and traditional labour-intensive working conditions. The concept of development and persistence' is invaluable in explaining the longevity and extent of these practices stemming from historical circumstances, and we can see the persistence of some of these practices during the Republican period, despite the changes in the political regime and economic development. Throughout, the miners have been in a vulnerable position in relation to the state, exacerbated by their ambiguous peasant-miner position as wage labourers.
Citation - WoS: 7
The Development of a Scale on Assessing Constructivist Learning Environments
(Hacettepe Univ, 2010) Arkun, Selay; Aşkar, Petek
This study attempts to develop a 7-point Liken-type scale for assessing the constructivist learning environments The scale is based on 6 factors which were developed by consulting the relevant literature These factors are student centered thought provoking collaborative life relevance concurrent learning and assessment bringing different view points With the opinions of study group and the expert some corrections were made on scale and item number decreased to 29 The scale implemented on 247 university students and analysis was made with SPSS and LISREL Alter the confirmatory factor analysis the scale became to its real version Explained variance is found to be %66 65 The cronbach alfa coefficient was found as 96 and the RMSEA value as 0 076
Citation - WoS: 6
Citation - Scopus: 7
Digital Nomadism and Global Mobility: Challenges and Suggestions for International Migration Policies
(Wiley, 2022) Sanul Diner, R Gökçe; Sanul, Gökçe
[Abstract Not Available]
Citation - WoS: 36
Citation - Scopus: 43
Disasters as an Ideological Strategy for Governing Neoliberal Urban Transformation in Turkey: Insights From Izmir/Kadifekale
(Wiley, 2014) Saracoglu, Cenk; Demirtas-Milz, Neslihan
Since the turn of the twenty-first century, Turkish cities have undergone large-scale change through a process referred to as urban transformation, involving, notably, the demolition of inner-city low-income settlements. The official authorities and business circles have resorted to various forms of discourse to justify these projects, which have led to the deportation of a significant number of people to peripheral areas. The discourse of natural disasters', for example, suggests that urban transformation is necessary to protect people from some pending event. Probably the most effective application of this discourse has occurred in Izmir, where the risk posed by landslides' has played a critical role in the settlement demolitions conducted in the huge inner-city neighbourhood of Kadifekale. By examining the case of Kadifekale, this paper provide some insights into how natural disasters' serve as a discourse with which to legitimise the neoliberal logic entrenched in the urban transformation process in Turkey.
Citation - WoS: 4
Citation - Scopus: 6
Driving Green Job Opportunities in Sustainable Waste Management Through Co-Production Strategies: Informal Recycling Workers, Municipalities, and the National Agenda-A Case Study of Izmir
(Mdpi, 2023) Kavuş, Helin Kardelen; Erköse, Hüseyin Yener; Eryar, Sıtkı Değer; Eryar, Değer; Erköse, Yener
Informal recycling workers (IRWs), including waste pickers (WPs) and waste sorters, are essential constituents of sustainable ecosystems in many cities in the Global South. Despite their valuable contributions to the economic and environmental dimensions of sustainable urban waste recycling, most IRWs work in precarious conditions. This paper examines recent efforts by local municipalities in Izmir to implement co-production design as a new institutional arrangement to generate green jobs for informal workers that provide high and stable incomes, job security, and social recognition. Using qualitative analyses of recent developments in the legal framework and in-depth interviews with key stakeholders, this paper identifies the following challenges associated with the current co-production efforts as its main findings: the lack of fiscal and legislative support from the central government; failure to include all IRWs in the co-production schemes; and the potential exclusion of marginalized communities due to the arbitrary requirements of a security clearance, which limit the inclusion of IRWs in co-production efforts.
Dubai: Gilded Cage
(Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2012) Demi̇rtaş, Neslihan
[Abstract Not Available]
Editors Introduction: Fall 2025
(Cambridge Univ Press, 2025) Dincer, Evren M.; Yukseker, Deniz; Kolluoglu, Biray
Engineering Art-Ificial Intelligence in Music Production: Art for Engineers, Engineers for Art
(Istanbul Univ, Fac Letters, Dept Sociology, 2025) Erbay, Borabay; Adas, Emin Baki
This study investigates how software engineers working on music AI systems conceptualize music, art, and creativity, and how they integrate artificial intelligence (AI) as a co-creator in music composition processes. Drawing on 35 in-depth interviews with engineers based in the USA and T & uuml;rkiye, the research explores the values, assumptions, and interpretive frameworks that shape their technical and aesthetic practices. Findings reveal that while engineers often frame AI solely in computational terms, they tend to frame artistic creativity as a quality accessible only to human beings, positioning the human as the creative force in music as an artistic field and juxtaposing AI as a collaborative tool that can be utilized to unleash musical creativity in previously unexplored ways, which represents a new, hybrid form of artistic creativity. However, this collaboration is mediated by engineers' own worldviews, which are often shaped by technocentric, efficiency-driven logics that position AI as a means, leading to a blind faith in technology and ignoring the social forces such as capitalism, imperialism and colonialism embedded in AI. The contribution of this study to the sociology of AI literature is twofold. First, by emphasizing how cultural imaginaries of art and music are being reshaped in the co-production of music, the study provides an understanding of music as a form of art created through human-machine interactions. Second, it critically evaluates how this process of co-creativity reproduces social forces such as capitalism, imperialism and colonialism.
Environmental Mobilizations Through Online Networks: An Analysis of Environmental Activism on Turkey's Twittersphere
(USC Annenberg Press, 2022) Dogu, Burak; Ozen, Hayriye; Pasin, Begum
This study explores and elucidates the nature and dynamics of environmental activism mediated via Twitter in Turkey. Drawing on the Twitter data, we show that two different forms of environmentalism are being pursued on this platform. There is, on the one hand, mainstream environmentalism of relatively established actors, and, on the other, confrontational/critical environmentalism of new actors. Unlike the former, the latter politicizes environmental issues to its full extent. While the actors pursuing mainstream environmentalism tend to act individually and use Twitter rather as a broadcast platform, the actors of confrontational/critical environmentalism form connections, interact, and engage in concerted action to voice environmental concerns, thereby incubating an environmental movement on Twitter within the increasingly authoritarian Turkish context. Our findings suggest that Twitter performs highly different functions within the same context depending on the discourses, identities, and interests of environmental actors.
Citation - WoS: 1
Evaluating Narrativization Practices in Turkish Tv Serials as a Venue of Popular Historiography
(Marmara Univ, Fac Communication, 2019) Erol Işık, Nuran
This paper aims at constructing a bridge between narratives and morality, as represented in three selected TV dramas assumed to have symbolic power over Turkish audiences: Resurrection, You are My Homeland, and Yunus Emre. The storification of historical events and personalities through TV dramas is considered to increase understanding of how different moral argumentations are related with contestations over tradition and culture. The major assumption in this article is that understanding the basic rhetorical strategies in these programs has a major impact on the way in which we analyze current ideological tensions and tactics, which are positioned on a constantly shifting ground. In this paper, the voices used in the strategies of constructing a moral argumentation will be evaluated through a model based on discourses of divinity, community, and autonomy (Sheweder, Much, Mahapra, & Park, 1997). The role of narrative transactions in TV dramas is explicated so as to make an assessment on the significance of agency as well as the politics of interpretation.
Citation - WoS: 2
Citation - Scopus: 1
An Examination of the Factor Structure of the Turkish Version of the Online Learning Environment Survey
(Turkish Education Assoc, 2011) Ozkok, Alev; Yurdugul, Halil; Aşkar, Petek
The primary aim of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of the Turkish version of the Online Learning Environment Survey (OLES) in postsecondary distance education. The OLES is a 54 item instrument for assessing social-psychological perceptions among distance education students. The second aim was to investigate empirically perception of the online learning environment in Turkish context. This paper consisted of three models explaining online learning environments in the Turkish context. Model I, based on relations of originally item-construct reported by Trinidad, Aldridge & Fraser, (2004), was analyzed with gathered data from Turkey setting by the translation, adaptation, and validation of the Online Learning Environment Survey (OLES) (Trinidad, Aldridge & Fraser, 2004) in a new Turkish-language form. In Model I, the OLES was designed to measure nine dimensions of online educational environment. The fit of the proposed multidimensional factor structure was examined with 902 post-secondary distance education students in two institutions. Model II, based on relations of emprically item-construct which were obtained with principal component analysis, was investigated with first-order confirmatory factor analysis. Model II consist of twelve subconstructs. Model III, with a higher-order construct with twelve first-order factors of OLES-TR, was perfectly represented as a general online learning environments trait rather than the OLES.
Exploring Perceptions of Algorithmic Bias Among Software Engineers: a Case Study of Software Engineers in İzmir, Türkiye
(Inst History Science & Technology, Saint Petersburg Branch, Russ Acad Sci, 2024) Erbay, Borabay; Adas, Emin Baki
This study investigates how software engineers perceive artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic bias. The study explores whether the human-like characteristics of AI influence their engineering practices, which traditionally hold a dualistic view of technology and society. Based on semi-structured interviews with software engineers in & Idot;zmir, T & uuml;rkiye, the findings reveal both similarities and differences between classical engineering and software engineering. Classical engineering views technology and society as separate entities, while software engineers adopt an ambivalent sociotechnical stance, acknowledging but neglecting their interconnectedness. Software engineers prioritize technical definitions and efficiency in assessing algorithms, often considering social dimensions secondary. However, they view algorithms not just as tools, but as codes shaping everyday life with social and cultural attributes. This departure from conventional understanding highlights the sociotechnical context in which software engineers operate. Moreover, the study shows that software engineers tend to interpret algorithmic bias through a technical lens, overlooking broader social and human contexts. These findings emphasize the urgent need to reassess the relationship between technology and society within the sociology of artificial intelligence, fostering a deeper understanding of sociality in software engineering.

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