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    (Im)moral borders in practice
    (Taylor & Francis, 2021) El Qadim, Nora; Isleyen, Beste; de Vries, Leonie Ansems; Hansen, Signe Sofie; Lisle, Debbie; Simonneau, Damien; N/A; Karadağ, Sibel; Researcher; Migration Research Program at Koç University (MIReKoç) / Göç Araştırmaları Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi (MIReKoç); N/A; N/A
    This Forum aims to push existing debates in critical border and migration studies over the featuring of morals, ethics and rights in everyday practices relating to the governance of the mobility of non-citizen populations. Its contributors steer away from the actual evaluation or advocacy of the good/just/ethical, focusing instead on the sociological examination of morals and ethics in practice, i.e. how actors understand morally and ethically the border and migration policies they implement or resist. A proliferating interest in the discursive and non-discursive materialisation of moral and ethical elements in asylum and migration policies has examined the intertwinement of care and control logics underlying the management of refugee camps, borders and borderzones, and hotspots alongside the deployment of search-and-rescue operations. Nevertheless, recent research has shown the need to unpack narratives and actions displaying values and symbols that are not necessarily encompassed within this intertwinement of compassion and repression. We argue that there is a need to pay more attention to the diversity, plurality and the operation of morality, ethics and rights in settings and geographies, and of including a diversity of actors both across and beyond EUrope.
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    A new pilgrimage site at late antique Ephesus transfer of religious ideas in Western Asia Minor
    (Brill, 2020) N/A; Sewing, Katinka; Researcher; N/A; Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) / Anadolu Medeniyetleri Araştırma Merkezi (ANAMED); N/A
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    Academic neo-colonialism in writing practices: geographic markers in three journals from Japan, Turkey and the US
    (Elsevier, 2019) Department of Sociology; N/A; Ergin, Murat; Alkan, Aybike; Faculty Member; PHD Student; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 106427; N/A
    A global academic division of labor plagues contemporary academic production. The epistemological implications assign southern knowledge to the status of "data" for the use of northern "theory." The institutional consequences affect the training and promotion of scholars, and the distribution of academic resources. The persistence of global power relations in academic production is an indicator of the achievement of the West in establishing a Eurocentric relationship with the rest of the world. This paper looks at the manifestations of the contemporary academic division of labor in scholarly writing. We examine articles published in three international academic journals, based in Japan, Turkey, and the United States, and focus on the different ways in which authors use geographic markers, words that indicate that a title, an abstract, or a sentence is written in reference to a particular location a country, a city, or another geographic entity. Scholarship in the North relies on a writing style that reflects and reproduces its privileged position in the global academic division of labor. However, southern scholars tend to write in a style that makes heavy use of geographic markers, which reflects their underprivileged position in global academic world as "case" or "data" producers for northern theory.
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    Archaeology and artifacts of the Gallipoli peninsula
    (Routledge, 2019) Department of Archeology and History of Art; Şenocak, Lucienne; Faculty Member; Department of Archeology and History of Art; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 100679
    Apart from a few years of illegal archaeological excavations in the late nineteenth century by the famed German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, and brief archaeological campaigns undertaken during and shortly after World War One by the French Expeditionary Forces, the Gallipoli peninsula was effectively off-limits to archaeologists and maintained as a Turkish military zone until 1979. Numerous references to the ancient past and topography of the peninsula can be found in the works of Herodotus, Thucydides, Strabo, Xenophon, and others. These authors describe events that occurred on the peninsula during its Classical and earlier historical eras, but historians, philologists, and archaeologists have tended until quite recently to focus their archival research and conduct their excavations on the better-known sites of the opposite shore, such as Troy or Alexandria Troas. Prior to the French excavations at Elaious, Ottoman laws forbidding the removal of antiquities from the empire had been proposed as early as February 1869.
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    Beyond the Westphalian rainbow: a dissident theory of supranational systems
    (Taylor _ Francis, 2018) Department of International Relations; Ruacan, İpek Zeynep; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics
    Beyond the Westphalian rainbow: a dissident theory of supranational systems. Territory, Politics, Governance. This article focuses on the work of Adam Watson from the English School of International Relations for two purposes. The first is to highlight the potential it contains for transcending the prejudices imposed upon international relations theory by the anarchy assumption and by the reification of independent statehood. The second and the more specific purpose is to understand the formation of legitimate supranational systems once these prejudices are removed. Watson approaches supranationalism as an extant condition in international society rather than as a deviation from a normal condition of anarchy or independent statehood, and proposes a culturalist and a moralistic framework in which supranational systems can be legitimized. As a case study to determine which framework is more valid, I analysed the convention on the future of Europe and concluded that the moralistic serves better for understanding how the European Union is legitimized. Once juxtaposed with Neo-Weberian historical sociology's insights into the state, Watson's moralistic framework can offer a foundational theory for reconsidering legitimate supranational systems and open up new research agendas in international relations theory.
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    Born in the USA: citizenship acquisition and transnational mothering in Turkey
    (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017) Balta, Evren; Department of International Relations; Olcay, Özlem Altan; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 104197
    This article explores the practice of giving birth in the U.S. for the purpose of obtaining U.S. citizenship for the newborn children, among upper and upper-middle class mothers who otherwise are permanently located in Turkey. Focusing on their motivations, anxieties and practices, we situate our analysis with respect to discussions of intensive mothering, transnational motherhood and multi-layered meanings of citizenship. We suggest that the motivations women have for traveling to and staying in the U.S. in the later stages of their pregnancy reveal a new terrain of intensive mothering, tied to locally specific perceptions of future unpredictability and restrictions on individual choice. This particular discourse of intensive mothering involves the promotion of individualistic-decision-making and individualized efforts to control macro-processes, and reveals how citizenship acquisition for the children reproduces and disguises inequalities at the transnational level. Yet, this is also an intensely emotional process, not only indicative of the pressures on mothers, but also women's multilayered conflicts of belonging and identity across spaces and scales of citizenship.
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    Brand Turkey: liminal identity and its limits
    (Taylor & Francis, 2017) Süleymanoğlu-Kürüm, Rahime; Department of International Relations; Rumelili, Bahar; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 51356
    Since the 2000s, Turkish policymakers and private sector interests have combined representations of Turkey as both Western and Eastern with a branding approach to identity in foreign policy, trade and investment promotion, and cultural sector activities. This article analyses how the commodification of its liminal identity as a dual identity allowed Turkey to invoke different aspects of its identity in the West and the East in ways that catered to both audiences and enabled the pursuit of different political and economic objectives. However, the article also notes how this branding strategy was limited by the national identity debates and dominant geopolitical discourses that continued to situate the West and East as mutually exclusive and binary opposite identity markers. Overall, the case of Turkey underscores the complex relationship between branding, identity, and discourse, which has thus far received scant attention in the literature.
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    City of shadows: slums and informal work in Bangalore
    (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2023) Uçar, Canan; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities
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    Class and passports: transnational strategies of distinction in Turkey
    (Sage, 2016) Balta, Evren; Department of International Relations; Olcay, Özlem Altan; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics
    This article analyses the process whereby members of new classes in Turkey mobilize their resources so that their children receive US citizenship at birth. Following the actors' self-perceptions and motivations, we argue that US citizenship acquisition is a new capital accumulation strategy, aimed to forestall against risks in intergenerational transmission of class privileges. With this article, we aim to contribute to cultural class studies in the following ways: we suggest that the unpredictable nature of classification struggles becomes more evident in contexts where transition to neoliberalism is accompanied by dramatic political shifts. We situate the desire for US citizenship within class anxieties in Turkey, informed by historical meanings attached to the binary of the West' versus the East'. Finally, we break down the boundaries between different country-cases by drawing on citizenship as capital, rather than as a backdrop that actors share. We explain the new ways in which class distinction strategies are transnationalized in the contemporary period.
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    Commemoration begins for the commonwealth and its allies
    (Routledge, 2019) Department of Archeology and History of Art; Şenocak, Lucienne; Faculty Member; Department of Archeology and History of Art; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 100679
    The Commonwealth War Graves Commission's interest in the peninsula was largely concentrated in the areas where the Allied graves were located and attention was paid to completing infrastructure projects such as roads, small railways, nurseries, and wells, all which were needed to facilitate the building and landscape work for the many commemorative projects envisioned for the former battlefields. Compared to the Gallipoli battlefields, war on the Western Front had stretched out for longer, and the number of casualties was far higher. The British government, therefore, had decided within the first months of the war that the state should take over the responsibility for the burial and commemoration of its war dead. Once the standards and guidelines for memorializing the war dead were decided, headstones of uniform design and dimensions were created for Gallipoli, as they were throughout the cemeteries of Europe.