Volume 13, Issue 1, February 2021
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ABSTRACT. Ideally, democracies are built on the ability of all segments of society to participate in civil society to enhance their community’s well-being or to claim rights. Participation in civic and political activities is a key feature of equal citizenship. Sociopolitical features of a city may influence participation, developing different citizenship practices at the local level. Cities will differ in the types of CSOs that thrive, the particular grievances that CSOs address and the types of civic activities that prevail. This study e...
Aykut AYKUTALP: THE BIRTH OF BIOPOLITICAL CITY: METROPOLIS AS ENCOUNTERING, ANTAGONISM AND THE COMMON (Turkish)ABSTRACT. This study examines “the biopolitical city” approach by Hardt and Negri. According to Hardt and Negri, a series of changes in capitalist production have led to the overlapping of biopolitical production and wealth production along with the boundaries of urban space. Since biopolitical production is based on the production of immaterial goods, the city has become a place where material and immaterial commons are produced. In this respect, biopolitical production not only allows the birth of the biopolitical city as a new soc...
Alev ASLAN: THE DIVERSITY OF SOCIAL VOICES: ALTERNATIVE-ACTIVIST NEW MEDIA AND DEMOCRATIC "HISTORY" NARRATIVE (Turkish)ABSTRACT. Almost everyone has heard the saying, “History is written by the victors.” attributed to Churchill. Leaving aside this deep discussion, we can at least state that “history is a process that requires recording, selecting and interpreting”. For all these reasons, history is essentially a political initiative. What is addressed, how and by whom are among the tools of this political initiative. History narration is often shaped by professionals. However, today, with the new media, there has been a significant break ...
Naci DİLEKLİ, Necati ANAZ & Bruno Ferreira DA PAIXÃO: SOCIAL MEDIA USE BY ISTANBUL MAYORAL CANDIDATES IN TWO SUBSEQUENT 2019 ELECTIONSABSTRACT. We analyzed Facebook and Twitter engagements by Binali Yıldırım and Ekrem İmamoğlu, the two main candidates in the 2019 Istanbul mayoral election, spanning from December 2018 to the end of June 2019 due to the fact that the original elections were disputed and repeated. Social media analytics were used to obtain the data used in the study. We put forward four research questions that draw on the nature of social media as well as the unique Turkish political context. We rely on the discussion these questions for the bulk of our analysis....
Elif TEKTAŞ & Asuman ÖZGÜR KEYSAN: CONSERVATIVE CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS (CSOs) AND ANTI-GENDER ISSUES IN CROATIA, SLOVAKIA AND POLANDABSTRACT. The anti-gender movement has been gaining prominence since the 2000s, supporting the idea that gender theory is wrong and unscientific. Conservative civil society organizations (CSOs) have played a leading role in promoting the ideas and demands of the movement. Recent studies have elaborated on the relationship between right-wing populism, Church and anti-gender movement; however, it is still significant to further the studies focussing on the involvement of conservative CSOs in the movement. To serve this aim, this paper will analyze...
Emrah ATAR: SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF USING BIG DATA IN THE CONTEXT OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION AND REFUGEES (Turkish)ABSTRACT. Migration and refugee crises unfortunately rank first among the most heart-wrenching and vexatious humanitarian problems of this century. Especially, the ongoing civil unrest, civil war and terrorism in Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, Venezuela, Myammar, neighboring countries have reached an unprecedented level of migrant and refugees since the Second World War. According to United Nations reports, as of today, the number of international migrants have reached 280 million and the number of displaced people by force has exceeded 80 million, ...
Sezen KAYA & Aslı ILGIT: CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY: THE CASE OF TURKEYABSTRACT. Since the 1980s, in International Relations discipline the “widening” of the concept of security led to several definitions, including environmental security, and the understanding of environmental problems such as climate change as a global security issue that requires joint efforts in the international system. Given the projections of the Mediterranean Basin to be one of the most affected regions by climate change, understanding Turkey’s perception and policies regarding environmental problems and climate change is im...
Gökçe ÖZKILIÇCI & Nihal MAMATOĞLU: NOVEL CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) OUTBREAK: ATTITUDES, PERCEPTIONS, AND PREFERENCES OF POLITICAL LEADERSHIP STYLE (Turkish)ABSTRACT. This study aimed to investigate the predictor roles of identity, anxiety, and perceived social trust on preferences for political leaders, as well as various attitudes, and opinions about coronavirus in a Turkish sample in the context of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic crisis. For this purpose, a quantitative study with a sample of 283 participants (181 women, 102 men, M.age = 33.71, SD = 11.05). The findings revealed that a majority of the participants preferred task-oriented leadership style more than the charismatic an...
Sezai ZEYBEKOĞLU & Yavuz Selim ALKAN: MAX WEBER’S DILEMMA ON SCIENCE AND POLITICS: A PHILOSOPHICO-POLITICAL ANALYSISABSTRACT. Max Weber was a productive philosopher/scientist who wrote a great number of academical works in relation to divergent disciplines in social sciences. Weber embraced his own perspective of “freedom from value judgments”in the social sciences in his own works. An ideal referred by him as “value-freedom (Werturteilsfreiheit)” has methodical foundations and is the result of his attempt to justify social sciences which should not be positivist or metaphysical. Weber, however, was also an active politician who expresse...
Erol SUBAŞİ: LOUIS ALTHUSSER: IDEOLOGY, STATE APPARATUSES, AND ITS CRITIQUEABSTRACT. French philosopher Louis Althusser (1918-1990) has been one of the most influential figures in Marxist theory in the post-war period. The aim of this study is to provide a critical analysis of Althusser’s understanding of State apparatuses and ideology. The problematic is the theoretical possibilities and limitations offered by the Althusserian concepts of ideology and state apparatus conception in the field of state theory. The main argument is that although Althusser has made a significant contribution in the sense that he goes...
İlhan ERSOY: A SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP: SPACE AS A CULTURAL FIELD AND MUSICABSTRACT. Every phenomenon has a field of existence, and due to its nature, no cultural phenomenon could be completely comprehended outside this field of existence. Therefore, in order to be able to make sense of a cultural phenomenon, as in other contextualities, its field of existence as the context where it is produced, executed/presented and consumed is an important dynamic that needs to be considered. There are multiple words corresponding to field of existence such as location, space, place and area. However, in this article, the word spac...
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