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Yeterlilik 2010

27 ve 29 Aralık ve 7 Ocak'ta Doktora Yeterlilik Sınavlarına girecek arkadaşlara başarılar diliyoruz!

Masal Dil Kürtçe, "Büyük Ülke" Türkiye, Yahut TRT 6*

*Bu yazı 23 Aralık 2010 tarihinde Birikim dergisi web portalında yayınlanmıştır.

Ahmet Alış

I.“Konuş, kim olduğunu söyleyeyim” (Sokrates)

Pierre Bourdieu, dilin, bir iletişim aracından öte, iktidar ve güç ilişkilerinin sürdürülmesinde önemli bir kültürel ve sembolik sermaye olduğunu haklı bir şekilde belirtmektedir. Sokrates’in iki bin dört yüz yıl önce ima ettiğine ve Bourdieu´nun söylediklerine ilaveten dil, bu kısa yazının dokunduğu boyutlarıyla bir açıdan, hayali toplumlardaki en büyük hayalet olarak da görülebilir. Ayrıca, milliyetçilik teorilerinin neredeyse hepsinde etnik farkındalık ve farklılık söylemlerinde dilin önemi oldukça fazla vurgulanmaktadır.

Artisan Entrepreneurs in Cairo and Early Modern Capitalism (1600–1800)

Nelly Hanna

Syracuse University Press

Little has been written about the economic history of Egypt prior to its incorporation into the European capitalist economy. While historians have mined archives and court documents to create a picture of the commercial activities, networks, and infrastructure of merchants during this time, few have documented a similar picture of the artisans and craftspeople. Artisans outnumbered merchants, and their economic weight was considerable, yet details about their lives, the way they carried out their work, and their role or position in the economy are largely unknown. Hanna seeks to redress this gap with Artisan Entrepreneurs in Cairo and Early Modern Capitalism (1600–1800) by locating and exploring the role of artisans in the historical process.

Offering richly detailed portraits as well as an overview of the Ottoman Empire’s economic landscape, Hanna incorporates artisans into the historical development of the period, portraying them in the context of their work, their families, and their social relations. These artisans developed a variety of capitalist practices, both as individuals and collectively in their guilds. Responding to the demands of expanding commercial environments in Egypt and Europe, artisans found ways to adapt both production techniques and the organization of production. Hanna details the ways in which artisans defied the constraints of the guilds and actively engaged in the markets of Europe, demonstrating how Egyptian artisan production was able to compete and survive in a landscape of growing European trade. 

Deftly synthesizing a wide range of economic and historical theory, Hanna reinvigorates the current scholarship on early Ottoman history and provides a persuasive challenge to the largely shallow perception of artisans’ role in Egypt’s economy.

http://www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/spring-2011/artisan-entrepreneurs.html

Sosyal Bilimci ve Dolmuş Şoförü*

*Bu yazı 11 Aralık 2010 tarihinde Bianet'te yayınlanmıştır.
Ayşecan Kartal Scifo
Sosyal bilim dışlayıcı bir dil kurmadığını zannederken bile "gerçek"le saha araştırmasında tanışmak, sokağa saha muamelesi yapmak, sokağı akademiden, sokağı diğer her yerden ayırmak başka türlü bir hiyerarşi kurmuyor mu? Peki o zaman sosyal bilim ne işe yarar?

The League of Nations' Rescue of Armenian Genocide Survivors and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism, 1920–1927

Watenpaugh, Keith David. 2010. The League of Nations' Rescue of Armenian Genocide Survivors and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism, 1920–1927. The American Historical Review 115 (5):1315-1339.

The essay centers on the efforts by the League of Nations to rescue women and children survivors of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. This rescue -- a seemingly unambiguous good -- was at once a constitutive act in drawing the boundaries of the international community, a key moment in the definition of humanitarianism, and a site of resistance to the colonial presence in the post-Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean. Drawing from a wide range of source materials in a number of languages, including Turkish, Armenian, and Arabic, the essay brings the intellectual and social context of humanitarianism in initiating societies together with the lived experience of humanitarianism in the places where the act took form. In so doing, it draws our attention to the proper place of the Eastern Mediterranean, and its women and children, in the global history of humanitarianism. The prevailing narrative of the history of human rights places much of its emphasis on the post–World War II era, the international reaction to the Holocaust, and the founding of the United Nations.

Syria and Bilad al-Sham under Ottoman Rule: Essays in honour of Abdul Karim Rafeq

Edited by Peter Sluglett with Stefan Weber
Brill

This volume honours the work of Abdul-Karim Rafeq, the foremost historian of Ottoman Syria. Rafeq’s principal contribution to the study of the social history of Syria between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries lies in his pioneering use of the resources of the Islamic court records, the sijillāt in the maḥkama al-sharʿiyya, for the writing of social and economic history. Rafeq has been the guide and mentor of many of his own contemporaries, as well as of younger scholars in the Arab world, Europe and North America. The volume attempts to follow and complement the major themes in the socio-economic history of Bilad al-Sham which have animated Rafeq’s scholarship since the 1960s.


http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=210&pid=22688

Turkey's Kurds: A Theoretical Analysis of the PKK and Abdullah Ocalan

Ali Kemal Özcan
Routledge

The Kurdish Worker's Party (PKK) is examined here in this text on Kurdish nationalism. Incorporating recent field-based research results and newly translated material on Abdullah Ocalan, the PKK's long-time leader; it explores the nature and the organizational working of the party, from its growth in the late 1970s to its recent shrinkage. A variety of issues are addressed including:

* the views and philosophy of Abdullah Ocalan

* the successes and failures of the PKK in bringing about the Kurdish opposition in Turkey

* the role of PKK's philosophy of recruitment, organizational diligence, use of arms and other contextual factors in Kurdish resistance

* factors involved in the development of the nationalism of the Kurds in Turkey.

The text also reappraises the Kurdish movement in Turkey and presents insights into the nature of Kurdish social structure, thinking, and the particularities of the Kurdish ethnic distinctness.

Kemalism in Turkish Politics: The Republican People's Party, Secularism and Nationalism

Sinan Ciddi
Routledge

This book is concerned with Turkey’s political evolution, the role of Kemalism, and why a social democratic alternative has never fully developed. Concentrating on the electoral weaknesses of the Turkish centre-left, represented by the Republican People’s Party (CHP), Sinan Ciddi examines the roles of nationalism and the political establishment and the role of Kemalist ideology.

Established by Kemal Ataturk, the CHP is seen to be the founding party of modern Turkey. Kemalism sought to create a secular and democratic society based on the principles of republicanism, populism, secularism, nationalism and revolutionism. Although this leftist ideology became an integral part of Turkish politics by the early 1960s, it has remained a comparatively weak representative movement. Its strong ideological stance advocates an authoritarian and exclusionary position, particularly in relation to matters such as multiculturalism and democratisation, fuelling many debates concerning the role of religion and nationalism within Turkey and perpetuating elements of xenophobia and intolerance.

This book will be of interest to students of politics, history and current affairs, and of Turkish politics in particular.

The Epistemology of Ibn Khaldun

Zaid Ahmad
Routledge

This is an analytical examination of Ibn Khaldun's epistemology, centred on Chapter Six of the Muqaddima. In this chapter, entitled The Book of Knowledge (Kitab al'Ilm), Ibn Khaldun sketched his general ideas about knowledge and science and its relationship with human social organisation and the establishment of a civilisation.

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415612753/

The History of the Seljuq State

Edited by Clifford Edmund Bosworth
Routledge

The Akhbar al-dawla al-saljuqiyya is one of the key primary documents on the history of Western Persia and Iraq in the 11th and 12th centuries. This book provides an accessible English translation and commentary on the text, making available to a new readership this significant work on the pre-modern history of the Middle East and the Turkish peoples.

The text is a chronicle of the Seljuq dynasty as it emerged within the Iranian lands in the 11th and 12th centuries, dominating the Middle Eastern lands, from Turkey and Syria to Iran and eastern Afghanistan. During this formative period in the central and eastern Islamic lands, they inaugurated a pattern of Turkish political and military dominance of the Middle East and beyond, from Egypt to India, in some cases well into the 20th century.

Shedding light on many otherwise obscure aspects of the political history of the region, the book provides a more detailed context for the political history of the wider area. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars of Middle Eastern history and is an important addition to the existing literature on the Seljuq dynasty.

Preface and Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Translation of the text.
Bibliography

Race and Slavery in the Middle East: Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Empire

Edited by Terence Walz and Kenneth M. Cuno
American University in Cairo Press

New sources and research illuminate the individual lives of African slaves in the Middle East In the nineteenth century hundreds of thousands of Africans were forcibly migrated northward to Egypt and other eastern Mediterranean destinations, yet relatively little is known about them. Studies have focused mainly on the mamluk and harem slaves of elite households, who were mostly white, and on abolitionist efforts to end the slave trade, and most have relied heavily on western language sources. In the past forty years new sources have become available, ranging from Egyptian religious and civil court and police records to rediscovered archives and accounts in western archives and libraries. Along with new developments in the study of African slavery these sources provide a perspective on the lives of non-elite trans-Saharan Africans in nineteenth century Egypt and beyond. The nine essays in this volume examine the lives of slaves and freed men and women in Egypt and the region. Contributors: Kenneth M. Cuno, Y. Hakan Erdem, Michael Ferguson, Emad Ahmad Helal Shams al-Din, Liat Kozma, George Michael La Rue, Ahmad A. Sikainga, Eve M. Troutt Powell, and Terence Walz.

The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914

Ilham Khuri-Makdisi

University of California Press

In this groundbreaking book, Ilham Khuri-Makdisi establishes the existence of a special radical trajectory spanning four continents and linking Beirut, Cairo, and Alexandria between 1860 and 1914. She shows that socialist and anarchist ideas were regularly discussed, disseminated, and reworked among intellectuals, workers, dramatists, Egyptians, Ottoman Syrians, ethnic Italians, Greeks, and many others in these cities. In situating the Middle East within the context of world history, Khuri-Makdisi challenges nationalist and elite narratives of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern history as well as Eurocentric ideas about global radical movements. The book demonstrates that these radical trajectories played a fundamental role in shaping societies throughout the world and offers a powerful rethinking of Ottoman intellectual and social history.

Sorrowful Shores: Violence, Ethnicity, and the End of the Ottoman Empire 1912-1923

Ryan Gingeras

Oxford University Press

The Turkish Republic was formed out of immense bloodshed and carnage. During the decade leading up to the end of the Ottoman Empire and the ascendancy of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, virtually every town and village throughout Anatolia was wracked by intercommunal violence. Sorrowful Shores presents a unique, on-the-ground history of these bloody years of social and political transformation.
Challenging the determinism associated with nationalist interpretations of Turkish history between 1912 and 1923, Ryan Gingeras delves deeper into this period of transition between empire and nation-state. Looking closely at a corner of territory immediately south of the old Ottoman capital of Istanbul, he traces the evolution of various communities of native Christians and immigrant Muslims against the backdrop of the Balkan Wars, the First World War, the Armenian Genocide, the Turkish War of Independence, and the Greek occupation of the region.

Drawing on new sources from the Ottoman archives, Gingeras demonstrates how violence was organized at the local level. Arguing against the prevailing view of the conflict as a war between monolithic ethnic groups driven by fanaticism and ancient hatreds, he reveals instead the culpability of several competing states in fanning successive waves of bloodshed.

Learning to Read in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic

Benjamin C. Fortna
Palgrave Macmillan

Learning to Read tells the story of learning to read against the background of the transition from Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic. It begins with the premise that the history of learning to read and reading, remarkably understudied for this region given its importance, can tell us much about the arrival of the modern period in general and the Ottoman-to-Republican transformation in particular. Investigating by turns the messages imparted to young readers, the experience of mastering the basic mechanics of reading, the arrival of new types of reading materials, the role of illustration, the emergence of books and magazines as commodities and the ways in which literacy changed people's lives, this book provides a multifaceted approach to reading during a period of rapid change. It demonstrates the reading's crucial importance to the modern history of Turkey.

Cities of the Mediterranean: From the Ottomans to the Present Day

Edited by Meltem Toksöz and Biray Kolluoğlu

I.B. Tauris

The Eastern Mediterranean is one of the world’s most vibrant and vital commercial centres and for centuries the region’s cities and ports have been at the heart of East-West trade. Taking a full and comprehensive look at the region as a whole rather than isolating individual cities or distinct cultures,Cities of the Mediterranean offers a fresh and original portrait of the entire region, from the 16th century to the present.

In this ambitious inter-disciplinary study, the authors examine the relationships between the Eastern Mediterranean port cities and their hinterlands as well as inland and provincial cities from many different perspectives -- political, economic, international and ecological -- without prioritizing either Ottoman Anatolia, or the Ottoman Balkans, or the Arab provinces in order to think of the Eastern Mediterranean world as a coherent whole. Through its penetrating analysis of the various networks that connected the ports and towns of the Mediterranean and their inhabitants throughout the Ottoman period, Cities of the Mediterranean presents the region as a unified and dynamic community and paves the way for a new understanding of the subject.

Untold Histories of the Middle East: Recovering Voices from the 19th and 20th Centuries

Edited by Amy Singer, Christoph Neumann, Selcuk Aksin Somel

Routledge

Much traditional historiography consciously and unconsciously glosses over certain discourses, narratives, and practices. This book examines silences or omissions in Middle Eastern history at the turn of the twenty-first century, to give a fuller account of the society, culture and politics.

With a particular focus on the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Egypt, Iran and Palestine, the contributors consider how and why such silences occur, as well as the timing and motivation for breaking them. Introducing unexpected, sometimes counter-intuitive, issues in history, chapters examine:

·         women and children survivors of the Armenian massacres in 1915

·         Greek-Orthodox subjects who supported the Ottoman empire and the formation of the Turkish republic

·         the conflicts among Palestinians during the revolt of 1936-39

·         pre-marital sex in modern Egypt

·         Arab authors writing about the Balkans

·         the economic, not national or racial, origins of anti-Armenian violence

·         the European women who married Muslim Egyptians

Drawing on a wide range of sources and methodologies, such as interviews; newly-discovered archives; fictional accounts; and memoirs, each chapter analyses a story and its suppression, considering how their absences have affected our previous understandings of the history of the Middle East.

Nomads, Migrants and Cotton in the Eastern Mediterranean: The Making of the Adana-Mersin Region, 1850-1908

Meltem Toksöz

This book discusses the transformation of southeast Anatolia during the 19th century. The analysis, which revolves around cotton production in the Adana Plain, enriches our knowledge of how people from different backgrounds came together to build a new social milieu in the late Ottoman period. Through the analysis of the dynamics between the multi-layered processes of sedentarization, Egypt’s experience with cotton cultivation, the extension of the cultivated area via large scale landholding patterns, and the establishment of the brand new port-city of Mersin, this book shows how former nomads and settlers, many of whom had arrived there only recently, created a commercially viable region almost from scratch in an age of changing state-society relations.

http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=210&pid=24483

ATA 681: Advanced Readings in Social History of the 19th Century Ottoman Empire

Advanced Readings in Social History of the 19th Century Ottoman Empire

Fall 2010

Cengiz Kırlı

ATA 621: The Young Turk Revolution and the Second Constitutional Period

The Young Turk Revolution and the Second Constitutional Period

Fall 2010

Ahmet Kuyaş

The present seminar is a survey course aiming to provide the students with a thorough understanding of the Young Turks, their seizure of power and the nature of the socio-political system they tried to establish in the decaying Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the 20^th century. Accordingly, it will present the period with a systematic coverage of its political, social, ideological, economic and diplomatic aspects. The study of a large amount of primary source material will ensure that the survey won’t suffer from the usual flaws proper to the genre.

ATA 582: State and the Economy

State and the Economy

Fall 2010

Çağlar Keyder

This is a seminar course intending to cover a diverse literature on state-economy relations. 

ATA 551: Foreign Policy of the Republic

ATA 551: Foreign Policy of the Republic

Fall 2010

Aydın Babuna

Analysis of the Turkish Foreign Policy. The goal of the course is to make the students familiar with the problems of the Turkish Foreign Policy as well as with the major developments in the Balkans, Middle East, Caucasus and Central Asia. The course will concentrate its focus on the post-Cold war period with special emphasis on the regional policies of the Turkish Republic

ATA 68B: Theorizing Neoliberalism

ATA 68B Theorizing Neoliberalism

Fall 2010

Berna Yazıcı

Neoliberalism has become one of the most significant concepts or even a buzzword in explaining contemporary socio-economic, political and cultural transformations across the globe. In Turkish studies, the concept has also been widely used in the analyses of topics as diverse as economic policy, welfare reform, urban restructuring, law, memory and consumption, just to name a few.

This course aims to provide a selective introduction into the scholarly efforts to theorize the phenomena encapsulated under the grand abstraction, “neoliberalism.”  One of our primary goals will be to explore the insights and limits neoliberalism as an explanatory device entails for understanding contemporary relations of power and inequality.

ATA 507: Historiography

Historiography

                

M. Asım Karaömerlioğlu

Fall 2010

Historiography has always been influenced, and even shaped, by the changes taking place in social and political life as well as by the developments in the natural sciences. In the age of the nationstate formations, political history became eminent. In the age of the Industrial Revolution and social differentiation, social history with all its varities took to the forefront. In the age of image, virtual reality and diverse relativity, together with the migration of the 3rd world intellectual to the 1st world, postmodernist textual analyses sprung up with unsourmountable prestige. Perhaps today’s colossal changes taking place in medicine, genetics and nanotechology with an unprecedented speed in every realm of life hitherto unseen in human history should compel us to rethink the way we think about history and the social sciences.

ATA 542: Socıal History of Republican Art and Literature

SOCIAL HISTORY OF REPUBLICAN ART AND LITERATURE

Fall 2010

Duygu Köksal

The course will run as a seminar where each week students are expected to present the major questions rising up in their readings. Students should not summarize but take a critical stance with regard to the readings. Participation in class discussions is required and is an important portion of the final grade. The course grade will be given in the following manner: Essay 1(20 %), Essay 2 (20%), Paper (30%), Reading reports, participation, attendance and presentations (30 %). The first two essays are expected to be about 6-8 pages whereas the paper is expected to be 12-15 pages. The reading reports should be between 1-2 pages. All written work should be typed with reasonable spacing and paragraphing.

http://www.ata.boun.edu.tr/Department_Webpages/courses/ATA_532_542/ATA_542.pdf

ATA 531: Economic and Social History of Modern Turkey

Economic and Social History of Modern Turkey

Fall 2010

Ayşe Buğra

This course covers some of the salient themes in the economic and social history of Turkey starting with the nineteenth century socioeconomic transformations in the Ottoman Empire. It intends to provide an overview of both the major historical developments of the period under study and the ways in which social scientists and historians have approached these developments.

ATA 594: The Politics of Taxation

THE POLITICS OF TAXATION

Fall 2010

Nadir Özbek

The seminar introduces students to issues ranging from social justice, equality, social welfare, income distribution, wealth and poverty, wealth and taxation both in history and in contemporary world. We consider tax as a social instrument, and taxing as politics. Technologies of taxation, and ideologies informing perceptions of tax in historical societies in our present are topics that we will focus on during the semester. During the first part of the semester we are going to make common readings as the basis for weekly

discussions. Each student is expected to carry out a small research project on issues that we will be discussing throughout the first part of the semester. During the second part students are going to present their projects to the classroom. Research topics may be on historical issues, as well as contemporary social problems.

Crime and Punishment in Istanbul, 1700-1800

Crime and Punishment in Istanbul, 1700-1800 (University of California Press, 2010)

This vividly detailed revisionist history exposes the underworld of the largest metropolis of the early modern Mediterranean and through it the entire fabric of a complex, multicultural society. Fariba Zarinebaf maps the history of crime and punishment in Istanbul over more than one hundred years, considering transgressions such as riots, prostitution, theft, and murder and at the same time tracing how the state controlled and punished its unruly population. Taking us through the city's streets, workshops, and houses, she gives voice to ordinary people—the man accused of stealing, the woman accused of prostitution, and the vagabond expelled from the city. She finds that Istanbul in this period remains mischaracterized—in part by the sensational and exotic accounts of European travelers who portrayed it as the embodiment of Ottoman decline, rife with decadence, sin, and disease. Linking the history of crime and punishment to the dramatic political, economic, and social transformations that occurred in the eighteenth century, Zarinebaf finds in fact that Istanbul had much more in common with other emerging modern cities in Europe, and even in America.

Symbiotic Antagonisms: Competing Nationalisms in Turkey

Symbiotic Antagonisms: Competing Nationalisms in Turkey.

University of Utah Press

Edited by Ayşe Kadıoğlu and E. Fuat Keyman

Today, nationalism and nationalist sentiments are becoming more and more pronounced, creating a global emergence of ethno-nationalist and religious fundamentalist identity conflicts. In the post-9/11 era of international terrorism, it is appropriate to suggest that nationalism will retain its central place in politics and local and world affairs for the foreseeable future. It is in this vein that there has been a recent upsurge of interest concerning the power of nationalist tendencies as one of the dominant ideologies of modern times.

Symbiotic Antagonisms looks at the state-centric mode of modernization in Turkey that has constituted the very foundation on which nationalism has acquired its ideological status and transformative power. The book documents a symposium held at Sabancı University, presenting nationalism as a multidimensional, multiactor-based phenomenon that functions as an ideology, a discourse, and a political strategy. Turkish, Kurdish, and Islamic nationalisms are systematically compared in this timely and significant work.