Through an online ethnographic analysis of a Facebook allergy group in Turkey, this article inves... more Through an online ethnographic analysis of a Facebook allergy group in Turkey, this article investigates how mothers carry out the daily process of managing risks and making decisions relating to the diets of babies with food allergies. Where allergymanagement advice provided clinically by doctors tends to take the form of a relatively uniform and future-oriented risk-management process, parents making dietary decisions for babies with food allergies often need immediate advice that doctors cannot provide. To meet this need, many mothers complement the advice they receive from doctors with the knowledge and expertise of strangers online in making decisions about their children's diet. Through a focus on how mothers engage with issues of allergy-related risk in an online community, this study demonstrates the different layers of temporality mothers navigate and the different strategies they employ in responding to allergy-related risk and how these co-exist, often complementarily, with the clinical management of allergies.
In 1999, two devastating earthquakes occurred in Northwestern Turkey, which claimed around 18,000... more In 1999, two devastating earthquakes occurred in Northwestern Turkey, which claimed around 18,000 lives. Since the disaster, many scientific studies and projects, both international and national, have been conducted, concluding that another earthquake at the magnitude of at least six will hit Istanbul. Even though there is a consensus among scientists that an earthquake will happen in Istanbul, there is a plethora of different theories and arguments about the anticipated earthquake. This paper is an historical account of how different technoscientific practices have enacted different North Anatolian Faults stretching across Anatolia and Marmara Sea. The multiplicity of the fault does not emerge as an epistemic problem of having different perspectives, but it is an ontological question of how plural realities are being made in different scientific practices. We argue that scientific uncertainties emerge when these different faults do not fit together in technoscientific circles and across public venues.
All the photographs, unless otherwise indicated, are taken by Tomurcuk Bilge Erzik in August 2003... more All the photographs, unless otherwise indicated, are taken by Tomurcuk Bilge Erzik in August 2003. 1. Yedikuyular Street on the southern end of Elmada¤ going down to Dolapdere. 2. and 3. Two different views of Cumhuriyet Street located between Taksim and Osmanbey. 4. Row houses built as charity houses by the Saint Esprit Church on the Harbiye Çay›r› Street and then transferred to Foundation Directory (Vak›flar Müdürlü¤ü). 5. Surp Agop Row houses on the Elmada¤ Street built in the mid-19th century. 6. and 7.
Bilimsel nesnelerin de aynen insanlarin oldugu gibi kendi hikâyeleri vardir. Bu nesnelerin biyogr... more Bilimsel nesnelerin de aynen insanlarin oldugu gibi kendi hikâyeleri vardir. Bu nesnelerin biyografilerini incelemek, farkli baglamlarda nasil donustuklerini gostermek sadece onlar hakkinda bilgi vermez, ayni zamanda onlarin etrafini saran insanlar ve toplumsal yasam hakkinda da bizi aydinlatir. Bu makalenin amaci da, Albinus’un anatomi atlasinda yer alan “The Outermost Order of the Muscle, Back View” adli gorselin uzun yolculuguna odaklanarak, bu gorselin farkli tarihsel ve toplumsal baglamlarda ugradigi donusum surecini gostermeye calismaktir. Albinus’un bu gorseli cizerken amaci, “ideal bedeni” cizmektir. Bu resim tam da dogada bircok sekilde yer alan bedenlerin standardizasyonu icin mukemmel bir referans noktasi olusturacaktir. Yazi, daha sonra, bu resmin Diderot ve d’Alembert’in buyuk yapiti Encyclopedie’de nasil ele alindigini tartisir. Felsefeciler bu gorseli baska bilim adamlari tarafindan cizilmis oteki anatomi resimleriyle yan yana getirerek, Albinus’un onerdigi tek bakis ...
This article compares the gift society to the social contract society, as discussed respectively ... more This article compares the gift society to the social contract society, as discussed respectively by Marcel Mauss and Thomas Hobbes, in an attempt to further an understanding of how sociability and social totality are constructed through gift exchanges and promises among people. Mauss, like Hobbes, suggests that the primitive order is an absence of law, in which people live under conditions of fear and hostility. Yet, for Mauss it is the gift exchange that would bring peace, while for Hobbes it is the presence of a sovereign. In both cases, peace is vastly fascilitated through gift exchange or social contract. This article argues that the self-reflexive character of gift exchange and covenant consequently reconstructs the reality of society, concluding that although there is an inherit fragility in both societies, they are being fantasized as coherent, unified and homogenous totalities through gift exchange or social contract.
Although the annual increase would be higher for Istanbul in subsequent decades, the rate of immi... more Although the annual increase would be higher for Istanbul in subsequent decades, the rate of immigration never reached that of the years between 1950 and 1965 (Işık, 1996). According to Ferhunde Özbay, even though the first wave of immigration to Istanbul in the 1950s and early 1960s was enormous compared to the later ones, the first wave "did not really alter the main characteristics of the population in the city, simply because they comprised a lesser proportion of the total province population" (Özbay, 1997, 116). She argues that, "the first wave migrants not only were dominated by the earlier inhabitants, but tended to become 'urbanized' as well" (ibid, 117).
From Seed to Smoke: The Re-Making of the Tobacco Market in Turkey by Ebru Kayaalp The dissertatio... more From Seed to Smoke: The Re-Making of the Tobacco Market in Turkey by Ebru Kayaalp The dissertation utilizes an ethnographic investigation to understand how globally standardized economic ideas, policies and institutions are put into practice in developing countries. How are institutions, laws, policies and standards being transferred from the West to developing countries? And how do they reconstruct and regulate markets? Which actors, other than states, are involved in this process, and how do they relate to each other? In an attempt to answer the foregoing questions, the dissertation examines the remaking process of the tobacco market in Turkey. Its starting point is the February 2001 Turkish financial crisis, a benchmark event, after which a series of sweeping reforms were implemented to fix the collapsed economy. The tobacco law was one of the reforms designed to bring the tobacco market in line with the standards of the Western capitalist market. Following the circulation of tob...
In 1999, two devastating earthquakes occurred in Northwestern Turkey, which claimed around 18,000... more In 1999, two devastating earthquakes occurred in Northwestern Turkey, which claimed around 18,000 lives. Since the disaster, many scientific studies and projects, both international and national, h...
THE SPıRıT of EXCHANGE AND PRoMıSE: HAU AND SoCıAL CoNTRACT This article compares the gift societ... more THE SPıRıT of EXCHANGE AND PRoMıSE: HAU AND SoCıAL CoNTRACT This article compares the gift society to the social contract society, as discussed respectively by Marcel Mauss and Thomas Hobbes, in an attempt to further an understanding of how sociability and social totality are constructed through gift exchanges and promises among people. Mauss, like Hobbes, suggests that the primitive order is an absence of law, in which people live under conditions of fear and hostility. Yet, for Mauss it is the gift exchange that would bring peace, while for Hobbes it is the presence of a sovereign. In both cases, peace is vastly fascilitated through gift exchange or social contract. This article argues that the self-reflexive character of gift exchange and covenant consequently reconstructs the reality of society, concluding that although there is an inherit fragility in both societies, they are being fantasized as coherent, unified and homogenous totalities through gift exchange or
The focus of this research is to analyze the social and spatial transformations of a bounded area... more The focus of this research is to analyze the social and spatial transformations of a bounded area, the neighborhood of Elmadağ, whose most noteworthy factor has been the perpetual migration flows since its emergence as a neighborhood in the 19th century. According to the authors, the functional transformation Elmadağ is currently going through needs the explanations history can provide in order to be apprehended in full. Interdisciplinary, the research blends sociological, anthropological and historical approaches and combines micro and macro perspectives.
Following the circulation of tobacco from fields to cigarette factories, the dissertation explore... more Following the circulation of tobacco from fields to cigarette factories, the dissertation explores how legal policies, market procedures and technical issues have transformed the tobacco market in Turkey. Decision-making processes of experts and the impacts of their decisions ...
Through an online ethnographic analysis of a Facebook allergy group in Turkey, this article inves... more Through an online ethnographic analysis of a Facebook allergy group in Turkey, this article investigates how mothers carry out the daily process of managing risks and making decisions relating to the diets of babies with food allergies. Where allergymanagement advice provided clinically by doctors tends to take the form of a relatively uniform and future-oriented risk-management process, parents making dietary decisions for babies with food allergies often need immediate advice that doctors cannot provide. To meet this need, many mothers complement the advice they receive from doctors with the knowledge and expertise of strangers online in making decisions about their children's diet. Through a focus on how mothers engage with issues of allergy-related risk in an online community, this study demonstrates the different layers of temporality mothers navigate and the different strategies they employ in responding to allergy-related risk and how these co-exist, often complementarily, with the clinical management of allergies.
In 1999, two devastating earthquakes occurred in Northwestern Turkey, which claimed around 18,000... more In 1999, two devastating earthquakes occurred in Northwestern Turkey, which claimed around 18,000 lives. Since the disaster, many scientific studies and projects, both international and national, have been conducted, concluding that another earthquake at the magnitude of at least six will hit Istanbul. Even though there is a consensus among scientists that an earthquake will happen in Istanbul, there is a plethora of different theories and arguments about the anticipated earthquake. This paper is an historical account of how different technoscientific practices have enacted different North Anatolian Faults stretching across Anatolia and Marmara Sea. The multiplicity of the fault does not emerge as an epistemic problem of having different perspectives, but it is an ontological question of how plural realities are being made in different scientific practices. We argue that scientific uncertainties emerge when these different faults do not fit together in technoscientific circles and across public venues.
All the photographs, unless otherwise indicated, are taken by Tomurcuk Bilge Erzik in August 2003... more All the photographs, unless otherwise indicated, are taken by Tomurcuk Bilge Erzik in August 2003. 1. Yedikuyular Street on the southern end of Elmada¤ going down to Dolapdere. 2. and 3. Two different views of Cumhuriyet Street located between Taksim and Osmanbey. 4. Row houses built as charity houses by the Saint Esprit Church on the Harbiye Çay›r› Street and then transferred to Foundation Directory (Vak›flar Müdürlü¤ü). 5. Surp Agop Row houses on the Elmada¤ Street built in the mid-19th century. 6. and 7.
Bilimsel nesnelerin de aynen insanlarin oldugu gibi kendi hikâyeleri vardir. Bu nesnelerin biyogr... more Bilimsel nesnelerin de aynen insanlarin oldugu gibi kendi hikâyeleri vardir. Bu nesnelerin biyografilerini incelemek, farkli baglamlarda nasil donustuklerini gostermek sadece onlar hakkinda bilgi vermez, ayni zamanda onlarin etrafini saran insanlar ve toplumsal yasam hakkinda da bizi aydinlatir. Bu makalenin amaci da, Albinus’un anatomi atlasinda yer alan “The Outermost Order of the Muscle, Back View” adli gorselin uzun yolculuguna odaklanarak, bu gorselin farkli tarihsel ve toplumsal baglamlarda ugradigi donusum surecini gostermeye calismaktir. Albinus’un bu gorseli cizerken amaci, “ideal bedeni” cizmektir. Bu resim tam da dogada bircok sekilde yer alan bedenlerin standardizasyonu icin mukemmel bir referans noktasi olusturacaktir. Yazi, daha sonra, bu resmin Diderot ve d’Alembert’in buyuk yapiti Encyclopedie’de nasil ele alindigini tartisir. Felsefeciler bu gorseli baska bilim adamlari tarafindan cizilmis oteki anatomi resimleriyle yan yana getirerek, Albinus’un onerdigi tek bakis ...
This article compares the gift society to the social contract society, as discussed respectively ... more This article compares the gift society to the social contract society, as discussed respectively by Marcel Mauss and Thomas Hobbes, in an attempt to further an understanding of how sociability and social totality are constructed through gift exchanges and promises among people. Mauss, like Hobbes, suggests that the primitive order is an absence of law, in which people live under conditions of fear and hostility. Yet, for Mauss it is the gift exchange that would bring peace, while for Hobbes it is the presence of a sovereign. In both cases, peace is vastly fascilitated through gift exchange or social contract. This article argues that the self-reflexive character of gift exchange and covenant consequently reconstructs the reality of society, concluding that although there is an inherit fragility in both societies, they are being fantasized as coherent, unified and homogenous totalities through gift exchange or social contract.
Although the annual increase would be higher for Istanbul in subsequent decades, the rate of immi... more Although the annual increase would be higher for Istanbul in subsequent decades, the rate of immigration never reached that of the years between 1950 and 1965 (Işık, 1996). According to Ferhunde Özbay, even though the first wave of immigration to Istanbul in the 1950s and early 1960s was enormous compared to the later ones, the first wave "did not really alter the main characteristics of the population in the city, simply because they comprised a lesser proportion of the total province population" (Özbay, 1997, 116). She argues that, "the first wave migrants not only were dominated by the earlier inhabitants, but tended to become 'urbanized' as well" (ibid, 117).
From Seed to Smoke: The Re-Making of the Tobacco Market in Turkey by Ebru Kayaalp The dissertatio... more From Seed to Smoke: The Re-Making of the Tobacco Market in Turkey by Ebru Kayaalp The dissertation utilizes an ethnographic investigation to understand how globally standardized economic ideas, policies and institutions are put into practice in developing countries. How are institutions, laws, policies and standards being transferred from the West to developing countries? And how do they reconstruct and regulate markets? Which actors, other than states, are involved in this process, and how do they relate to each other? In an attempt to answer the foregoing questions, the dissertation examines the remaking process of the tobacco market in Turkey. Its starting point is the February 2001 Turkish financial crisis, a benchmark event, after which a series of sweeping reforms were implemented to fix the collapsed economy. The tobacco law was one of the reforms designed to bring the tobacco market in line with the standards of the Western capitalist market. Following the circulation of tob...
In 1999, two devastating earthquakes occurred in Northwestern Turkey, which claimed around 18,000... more In 1999, two devastating earthquakes occurred in Northwestern Turkey, which claimed around 18,000 lives. Since the disaster, many scientific studies and projects, both international and national, h...
THE SPıRıT of EXCHANGE AND PRoMıSE: HAU AND SoCıAL CoNTRACT This article compares the gift societ... more THE SPıRıT of EXCHANGE AND PRoMıSE: HAU AND SoCıAL CoNTRACT This article compares the gift society to the social contract society, as discussed respectively by Marcel Mauss and Thomas Hobbes, in an attempt to further an understanding of how sociability and social totality are constructed through gift exchanges and promises among people. Mauss, like Hobbes, suggests that the primitive order is an absence of law, in which people live under conditions of fear and hostility. Yet, for Mauss it is the gift exchange that would bring peace, while for Hobbes it is the presence of a sovereign. In both cases, peace is vastly fascilitated through gift exchange or social contract. This article argues that the self-reflexive character of gift exchange and covenant consequently reconstructs the reality of society, concluding that although there is an inherit fragility in both societies, they are being fantasized as coherent, unified and homogenous totalities through gift exchange or
The focus of this research is to analyze the social and spatial transformations of a bounded area... more The focus of this research is to analyze the social and spatial transformations of a bounded area, the neighborhood of Elmadağ, whose most noteworthy factor has been the perpetual migration flows since its emergence as a neighborhood in the 19th century. According to the authors, the functional transformation Elmadağ is currently going through needs the explanations history can provide in order to be apprehended in full. Interdisciplinary, the research blends sociological, anthropological and historical approaches and combines micro and macro perspectives.
Following the circulation of tobacco from fields to cigarette factories, the dissertation explore... more Following the circulation of tobacco from fields to cigarette factories, the dissertation explores how legal policies, market procedures and technical issues have transformed the tobacco market in Turkey. Decision-making processes of experts and the impacts of their decisions ...
SALGIN HALLERİ: COVID-19 VE TOPLUMSAL EŞİTSİZLİKLER, 2021
COVID-19, hızlı bulaş riski, yayılma kapasitesi ve dirençli varyantları sebebiyle tüm dünyayı kıs... more COVID-19, hızlı bulaş riski, yayılma kapasitesi ve dirençli varyantları sebebiyle tüm dünyayı kısa sürede etkisi altına aldı. Bu beklenmedik ve endişe verici gelişme, küresel ticaret ve ulaşım ağlarındaki yoğunluk, siyasal öngörüsüzlük, sağlık hizmetleri ve altyapısındaki yetersizlikler gibi faktörlerin eklenmesiyle toplumsal hayatın her alanında giderek derinleşen bir krize dönüştü. Sadece dünyanın her köşesinden milyonlarca insanın yaşamını yitirmesine yol açmadı. Küresel ölçekte yaşanan istihdam kaybı, olağanüstü hâl kapsamında uygulanan sokağa çıkma yasağı, seyahat engeli gibi kısıtlamalar ve aksayan eğitim faaliyetleri milyarlarca insanın hayatına ket vurdu. Hal böyleyken, salgını kontrol altına alabilmenin yollarını araştırmak kamu sağlığı açısından ne kadar önemliyse, salgının sosyo-politik ve ekonomik alandaki tezahürlerini sorgulamak da bu süreçte ortaya çıkan ve pekişen toplumsal eşitsizlikleri anlamak açısından o kadar önemli. Salgın Halleri: COVID-19 ve Toplumsal Eşitsizlikler, salgının bir anda ve tüm çıplaklığıyla ortaya saçtığı bu çok katmanlı eşitsizlikleri mercek altına alıyor.
Ebru Kayaalp ile Fatih Altuğ'un derlediği Standartlar Nasıl İşler? (Küre Yayınları, 2018) kitabın... more Ebru Kayaalp ile Fatih Altuğ'un derlediği Standartlar Nasıl İşler? (Küre Yayınları, 2018) kitabının kapağı, içindekileri ve sunuşu. http://www.kureyayinlari.com/Kitap/3257/standartlar_nasil_isler
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