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İstanbul 1980'den beri önemli bir değişim sürecinden geçiyor. Elbette İstanbul gibi idari, ticari... more İstanbul 1980'den beri önemli bir değişim sürecinden geçiyor. Elbette İstanbul gibi idari, ticari ve siyasi anlamda merkezi bir konuma sahip bir şehrin kabuğunu değiştiriyor olması şaşırtıcı değil; ancak 1980'den beri yaşanan bu değişimin belki de en temel ayırt edici özelliği son derece hızlı olmasıdır. Bu baş döndürücü değişim hepimizin gözü önünde hem çok hızlı cereyan ediyor, hem de bazı unsurlarıyla kaygı veriyor. Örneğin İstanbul'un beş yıldızlı otel
New Perspectives on Turkey, 2020
Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies
This article studies the educational choices that secular and religious professional and manageri... more This article studies the educational choices that secular and religious professional and managerial middle-class parents in Istanbul make for their children. It explores the ways in which class intersects with religion in Turkey where, politics, culture, social, and even economic life are marked by a deep divide among the religious and the secular. Focusing on a particular segment of the middle classes, that with higher economic and social capital, the article brings to fore the ways in which religiosity and secularity structure the processes of transforming privileges into acquired rights in the form of educational qualifications and extracurricular skills. It explores the current sociological conjuncture that bereaves both groups, albeit in different ways, of their ability to fully mobilize their accumulated economic, social, and cultural capitals in reproducing their class position in their children. The article argues that exploring the parenting of education along the secular and the religious divide can unravel the foundational elements of the ongoing competition and conflict in Turkey and enables a deeper understanding of the current divide and the potential for a future reconciliation. The study relies on a qualitative study that entails interviews with thirty families and two focus groups.
The Introduction to the volume Cities of the Mediterranean, From the Ottomans to the Present Day
Social classes are fading away. They are fading away as forms of identity with which groups assoc... more Social classes are fading away. They are fading away as forms of identity with which groups associate themselves; they are fading away as anchors of social movements; and they are fading away as objects of study from social scientists' agenda. This was the shared opinion of one of our Editorial Board meetings in 2009. No t having much power to intervene on the first two accounts, we decided that we still could do something about bringing social class back onto the agenda of social scientists. We could organize a conference and invite scholars to share their work on social classes or to rethink their work through the prism of social class. Hence a conference entitled "Urban Classes and Politics in the Neoliberal Era: Turkey in Comparison" was held in October 2010. The objective was to instigate a scholarly debate on social classes in urban Turkey, in comparison to other regions such as South Asia and Latin America. In the conference announcement, as the editors, we argu...
Osmanlı Arastırmaları, 2012
New Perspectives on Turkey, 2020
Nations and Nationalism, 2013
This article studies 1923 compulsory population exchange between Greece and Turkey through a case... more This article studies 1923 compulsory population exchange between Greece and Turkey through a case study of its experience in Izmir. It traces the ways the early Republican state engaged in the project of reshaping the population by eliminating the non-Muslims who were rendered as 'excesses' in the spatial and discursive matrices of the nation-state. Through the experience of the exchange in Izmir, it argues that the process of the accommodation and assimilation of the exchangees played a significant role in shaping the modalities of Turkish nationalism by creating new lines and fissures, further dividing the 'Muslim brethren' into ever restrictive constructions of Turkishness. It also underlines that this forced displacement is not just a significant episode in Greek and Turkish histories but that it represents a turning point in the project of nation formation in general.
New …, Jan 1, 2008
‹stanbul has undergone a neoliberal restructuring over the past two decade. In this paper, we foc... more ‹stanbul has undergone a neoliberal restructuring over the past two decade. In this paper, we focus on two urban spaces that we argue to have emerged as part of this process-namely Göktürk, a gated town, and Bezirganbahçe, a public housing project. We examine these spaces as showcases of new forms of urban wealth and poverty in ‹stanbul, demonstrating the workings of the neoliberalization process and the forms of urbanity that emerge within this context. These are the two margins of the city whose relationship with the center is becoming increasingly tenuous in qualitatively different yet parallel forms. In Göktürk's segregated compounds, where urban governance is increasingly privatized, non-relationality with the city, seclusion into the domestic sphere and the family, urban fear and the need for security, and social and spatial isolation become the markers of a new urbanity. In Bezirganbahçe, involuntary isolation and insulation, and non-relationality with the city imposed through the reproduction of poverty create a new form of urban marginality marked by social exclusion and ethnic tensions. The new forms of wealth and poverty displayed in these two urban spaces, accompanied by the social and spatial segregation of these social groups, compel us to think about future forms of urbanity and politics in ‹stanbul.
CR: The New Centennial Review, Jan 1, 2003
United States President George W. Bush's 2002 State of the Union speech, following the a... more United States President George W. Bush's 2002 State of the Union speech, following the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11 the previous year, represents the solidification of a discourse marked by naked aggression against the "un-civilized" ...
History Workshop Journal, Jan 1, 2005
Overcoming the two cultures: science versus …, Jan 1, 2004
Books and some chapters by Biray Kolluoglu
Osmanlılardan Günümüze Doğu Akdeniz Kentleri, 2015
Cities of the Mediterranean, From the Ottomans to the Present Day, 2010
The Introduction to the volume Cities of the Mediterranean, From the Ottomans to the Present Day
İstanbul 1980'den beri önemli bir değişim sürecinden geçiyor. Elbette İstanbul gibi idari, ticari... more İstanbul 1980'den beri önemli bir değişim sürecinden geçiyor. Elbette İstanbul gibi idari, ticari ve siyasi anlamda merkezi bir konuma sahip bir şehrin kabuğunu değiştiriyor olması şaşırtıcı değil; ancak 1980'den beri yaşanan bu değişimin belki de en temel ayırt edici özelliği son derece hızlı olmasıdır. Bu baş döndürücü değişim hepimizin gözü önünde hem çok hızlı cereyan ediyor, hem de bazı unsurlarıyla kaygı veriyor. Örneğin İstanbul'un beş yıldızlı otel
New Perspectives on Turkey, 2020
Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies
This article studies the educational choices that secular and religious professional and manageri... more This article studies the educational choices that secular and religious professional and managerial middle-class parents in Istanbul make for their children. It explores the ways in which class intersects with religion in Turkey where, politics, culture, social, and even economic life are marked by a deep divide among the religious and the secular. Focusing on a particular segment of the middle classes, that with higher economic and social capital, the article brings to fore the ways in which religiosity and secularity structure the processes of transforming privileges into acquired rights in the form of educational qualifications and extracurricular skills. It explores the current sociological conjuncture that bereaves both groups, albeit in different ways, of their ability to fully mobilize their accumulated economic, social, and cultural capitals in reproducing their class position in their children. The article argues that exploring the parenting of education along the secular and the religious divide can unravel the foundational elements of the ongoing competition and conflict in Turkey and enables a deeper understanding of the current divide and the potential for a future reconciliation. The study relies on a qualitative study that entails interviews with thirty families and two focus groups.
The Introduction to the volume Cities of the Mediterranean, From the Ottomans to the Present Day
Social classes are fading away. They are fading away as forms of identity with which groups assoc... more Social classes are fading away. They are fading away as forms of identity with which groups associate themselves; they are fading away as anchors of social movements; and they are fading away as objects of study from social scientists' agenda. This was the shared opinion of one of our Editorial Board meetings in 2009. No t having much power to intervene on the first two accounts, we decided that we still could do something about bringing social class back onto the agenda of social scientists. We could organize a conference and invite scholars to share their work on social classes or to rethink their work through the prism of social class. Hence a conference entitled "Urban Classes and Politics in the Neoliberal Era: Turkey in Comparison" was held in October 2010. The objective was to instigate a scholarly debate on social classes in urban Turkey, in comparison to other regions such as South Asia and Latin America. In the conference announcement, as the editors, we argu...
Osmanlı Arastırmaları, 2012
New Perspectives on Turkey, 2020
Nations and Nationalism, 2013
This article studies 1923 compulsory population exchange between Greece and Turkey through a case... more This article studies 1923 compulsory population exchange between Greece and Turkey through a case study of its experience in Izmir. It traces the ways the early Republican state engaged in the project of reshaping the population by eliminating the non-Muslims who were rendered as 'excesses' in the spatial and discursive matrices of the nation-state. Through the experience of the exchange in Izmir, it argues that the process of the accommodation and assimilation of the exchangees played a significant role in shaping the modalities of Turkish nationalism by creating new lines and fissures, further dividing the 'Muslim brethren' into ever restrictive constructions of Turkishness. It also underlines that this forced displacement is not just a significant episode in Greek and Turkish histories but that it represents a turning point in the project of nation formation in general.
New …, Jan 1, 2008
‹stanbul has undergone a neoliberal restructuring over the past two decade. In this paper, we foc... more ‹stanbul has undergone a neoliberal restructuring over the past two decade. In this paper, we focus on two urban spaces that we argue to have emerged as part of this process-namely Göktürk, a gated town, and Bezirganbahçe, a public housing project. We examine these spaces as showcases of new forms of urban wealth and poverty in ‹stanbul, demonstrating the workings of the neoliberalization process and the forms of urbanity that emerge within this context. These are the two margins of the city whose relationship with the center is becoming increasingly tenuous in qualitatively different yet parallel forms. In Göktürk's segregated compounds, where urban governance is increasingly privatized, non-relationality with the city, seclusion into the domestic sphere and the family, urban fear and the need for security, and social and spatial isolation become the markers of a new urbanity. In Bezirganbahçe, involuntary isolation and insulation, and non-relationality with the city imposed through the reproduction of poverty create a new form of urban marginality marked by social exclusion and ethnic tensions. The new forms of wealth and poverty displayed in these two urban spaces, accompanied by the social and spatial segregation of these social groups, compel us to think about future forms of urbanity and politics in ‹stanbul.
CR: The New Centennial Review, Jan 1, 2003
United States President George W. Bush's 2002 State of the Union speech, following the a... more United States President George W. Bush's 2002 State of the Union speech, following the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11 the previous year, represents the solidification of a discourse marked by naked aggression against the "un-civilized" ...
History Workshop Journal, Jan 1, 2005
Overcoming the two cultures: science versus …, Jan 1, 2004
Osmanlılardan Günümüze Doğu Akdeniz Kentleri, 2015
Cities of the Mediterranean, From the Ottomans to the Present Day, 2010
The Introduction to the volume Cities of the Mediterranean, From the Ottomans to the Present Day