Zülfü Livaneli's novels and novel writing

Hakkında gazete, dergi gibi yayınlarda yazılan yazılardan, yazarla yapılan söyleşilerden yola çıkılarak hazırlanan; yazarın tüm eserlerinin incelenerek, onun popüler Türk edebiyatı içerisindeki yerinin gösterilmesinin amaçlandığı bu çalışmada “Zülfü Livaneli’nin Romanları ve Romancılığı” incelenmiştir. Giriş bölümünde 1940 sonrası Türk romanının gelişim süreci genel hatlarıyla anlatılmış ve Zülfü Livaneli’nin bu süreçteki yeri ile ilgili bilgi verilmiştir. Birinci bölümde Zülfü Livaneli’nin yaşam öyküsü, sanat yaşamı, eserleri alt başlıklarla ele alınmıştır. Nurullah Çetin’in ‘’Roman Çözümleme Yöntemi’’ adlı eseri esas alınarak ikinci bölümde roman özetlerine, üçüncü bölümde ise yazarın romanlarının anlatıcı, konu, izlek, zaman, mekân, kişiler kadrosu, olay örgüsü, olay bütünlüğü, metinler arası ilişkiler, kurgu türü, dil ve üslup olarak irdelenmesine yer verilmiştir. Sonuç kısmında ise, Zülfü Livaneli’nin romanları ve romancılığı ile ilgili olarak tespit ettiğimiz özellikler, ulaştığımız yargılar ortaya konmuştur. Zülfü Livaneli, karmaşık bir dönemde yazmaya koyulan, ilk romanını 1996’ yayımlayan, bireysel ve toplumsal sorunları bir aydın duyarlılığıyla eserlerinde dile getiren ve bunu yaparken edindiği kültürel birikimini de eserlerine mükemmel bir uyumla aktaran çok yönlü bir sanatçıdır. Romanlarında kadın, erkek, aşk, benlik arayışı, özgürlük, insan ilişkileri, savaş, tarih, dinî ve toplumsal baskı, sürgün, ekolojik denge gibi temaları modern anlatım teknikleriyle sunan Livaneli, 1980 sonrası Türk yazınında yer alan ömrünü sanata ve edebiyata adamış özgün bir sestir.In this study which aims at indicating the place in popular Turkish literature by studying all products of the author and prepared by means of the interviews and the articles written about the author in newspapers and magazines, “Zülfü Livaneli’s Novels and Novel Writing” has been investigated. In the introductory part, the progression period of Turkish novels from Tanzimat to Republic is searched and the information about Zülfü Livaneli’s status in this period is given. The first part consists of the biography, profeesional life and works of Zülfü Livaneli. Based on the book “Roman Çözümleme Yöntemi” by Nurullah Çetin, summaries of the novels have been dealt with and the third part includes the study of subjects, theme, time, location, characters, plot, plot consistency, connection between the texts, types of fiction, language and genre of the author’s novels’ .The conclusion part is about the features of the novels and the novel writing of Zülfü Livaneli that we detected and the provisions that we reached. Based on the result of the studies and observations, it is determined that the works of Zülfü Livaneli fostered by real life have broken the records in Turkish and world literature. It is deteremined that in his novels, he explains the people’s different lives, feelings and thoughts by varying them , he focuses on the problems of the people and the society affected by the charateristics of period and he sometimes explains his thoughts adhering to the litarary utterance. It is specified that the novelist who wants to be consistent about his novels is attentive both about the form and the content and he can bring them together in a perfect harmony

Beautiful, Sexy, and Happy Celebrities: Perfect Mothers or Instamoms

The development of information technologies and the Internet has created an enormous economy. In line with this digital transformation, cultural change has come about. Global companies create new trends focused on vanity and pleasure in social media that follow the patriarchal capitalist ideology. Motherhood has also been included in this process, and “perfect motherhood,” as an extension to new generation motherhood, has been popularized on social media. Perfect motherhood requires mothers who are responsible for looking after children and the home to also be successful in their professional and personal lives while looking beautiful, young, chic, sexy, and fit. Recently the celebrification of motherhood, which can be seen on Instagram, became another quality added to the requirements of being a perfect mother. Heightened during the new post-COVID times, the “Instamom” phenomenon conceals the fact that women are driven to more states of increased precarity and vulnerability, alongside unemployment, exploitation, and ecological and economic crises. This study analyzes the perfect motherhood myth through Instamom case studies and attempts to show how Instamoms are perceived by mothers and mothers-to-be. By adopting the digital ethnography method, 30 Instamom accounts (with followers ranging from 135,000 to 3.5 million) in Turkey were observed for a year via passive participant observations. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with six Instamoms and 12 follower mothers and mothers-to-be. In conclusion, it was discovered that Instamoms were perceived by their followers as exemplars of knowledge and beauty. Furthermore, the study revealed that both groups were part of the celebrification and branding process, and those who shared knowledge based on experience were considered sincere and created a bigger impression on their followers. It was also discovered that when sharing on social media, these Instamoms attempted to look their best. Moreover, Instamom accounts that prominently use children to increase viewer interaction demonstrate issues related to the “commercialization of childhood.” Tangible advice for transformative change is included at the end of the research

Evaluating the relationships among the sociodemographic variables and gender perceptions of undergraduate students in Turkey: A meta-analysis study

This study seeks to examine gender perceptions in Turkey. After completing a literature review, the research compiles and analyzes academic studies on Turkish undergraduate students and their gender perceptions. Of the 763 studies included in the literature review, 15 were included in the meta-analysis. The study uses Comprehensive Meta-Analysis (CMA) Software (Biostat Inc, 2021) for the analysis and has concluded four different sociodemographic variables to be suitable for the meta-analysis. The variables used are undergraduates’ (1) gender, (2) school year, (3) mother’s education, and (4) father’s education. The paper presents the findings for each variable separately. The results show gender assigned at birth to have the biggest effect on undergraduate students’ gender perceptions, mother’s education to have a small effect, and father’s education to have no effect. The most striking and notable result from the meta-analysis is the lack of difference between the gender perceptions of freshman and senior undergraduate students.Bu çalışmanın temel amacı Türkiye’deki lisans öğrencilerinin toplumsal cinsiyet algısını belirlemek üzere gerçekleştirilen çalışmaların bir araya toplanarak incelenmesidir. Bu çalışmada meta analiz yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Literatür taramasında toplam 763 çalışmaya ulaşılmış olup sadece 15 çalışma meta analize dâhil edilmiştir. Çalışmanın analizleri Comprehensive Meta Analysis (CMA) yazılımı ile gerçekleştirilmiştir. Verilerin analizinde sadece dört farklı sosyodemografik değişkenin meta analize tabi tutulabileceği anlaşılmıştır. Buna göre lisans öğrencilerine ait (1) cinsiyet, (2) sınıf, (3) anne eğitim düzey ve (4) baba eğitim düzeyi değişkenleri arasında bir meta analiz yapılabilmiştir. Bulgular her bir değişken özelinde paylaşılmıştır. Meta analiz sonuçlarına göre cinsiyetin toplumsal cinsiyet algısı üzerinde geniş düzeyde bir etkiye sahip olduğu anlaşılmaktadır. Buna karşın annenin eğitim düzeyi küçük düzeyde bir etkiye sahipken, babanın eğitim düzeyi ise herhangi bir etkiye sahip değildir. Bu araştırmanın en dikkat çekici ve üzerinde durulması gereken sonucu birinci sınıfta bulunan lisans öğrencileri ile son sınıfta bulunan lisans öğrencilerinin toplumsal cinsiyet algıları arasında herhangi bir farkın bulunmuyor olmasıdır

Sosyal hizmette füturizm: Transhümanizm, insan hayatının oyunlaştırılması, homo roboticus ve bakım

Bu çalışmada sanatsal bir akım olarak ortaya çıkıp toplumsal ve teknolojik bir boyut kazanan fütürizm hareketinin temelleri üzerinden sosyal çalışma disiplinine ve mesleğine yönelik bir değerlendirme yapılması amaçlanmaktadır. Böylece sosyal çalışma disiplininin ve mesleğinin gelecek yıllardaki olası ajandasına yönelik öngörülerin açıklanması planlanmaktadır. Bu çalışmada fütürizm ile sosyal hizmet arasındaki ilişki insan hakları, sosyal adalet, eşitlik, toplumsal refah, bireyin onuru ve saygınlığı gibi evrensel değerler üzerine kurulmuş olan sosyal hizmet uygulamalarının nasıl bir geleceğe doğru yol aldığını ortaya koyma çabasıyla kurulmaktadır. Bu bağlamda, yeni bir felsefi hareket olarak ortaya çıkan transhümanizm kavramı sosyal hizmetin geleceği ile ilgili olarak ele alınmaktadır. Daha sonra insan hayatının oyunlaştırılması, homo roboticus ve bakım gibi konular tartışılmaktadır. Bu konular son birkaç yıldır sosyal bilimlerin gündemindedir. Bu makalenin sosyal hizmet alanında bu konularla ilgili olarak hazırlanan ilk çalışmalardan biri olması nedeniyle bir başlangıç çalışması olarak kabul edilmesi ve gelecekteki çalışmalarla desteklenmesi beklenmektedir.This study aims at making an assessment of the social work discipline and profession on the basis of the futurism movement, which emerged as an artistic movement and gained social and technological dimensions. Therefore, predictions for a possible agenda of the future social work discipline and profession are discussed. In this study, the relationship between futurism and social work is established in an effort to reveal how social work practices, based on universal values such as human rights, social justice, equality, social prosperity and the dignity of the individual, are moving forward. In this context, the future of social work is discussed under the following three topics: (1) transhumanism, (2) gamification of human life, (3) homo roboticus and care. In fact, all these topics have been on the agenda of social sciences for the last few years. Despite this interest, to the best of the researcher’s knowledge, this article is one of the first studies on these issues in the field of social work and has raised many questions in need of further studies

Yunus Emre'de İnsan Kavramı

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Becoming-Virgin: Re-Virginisation Practices in Turkey

Re-virginisation refers to the regaining of women’s ‘technical’ virginity even though the woman might have had penile-vaginal intercourse before. While virginity takes on many different meanings that are culturally determined and socially constructed, ‘technical’ virginity refers to ‘proving’ virginity through blood and the sense of tightness of the vagina. Even though studies have shown that neither of these two can be markers of virginity, social change around this myth has not followed the research in the field. Hence, to be ‘marriageable’ again, women might either be operated on to have a so-called new hymen via hymenoplasty (sometimes accompanied by vaginal tightening surgery) or buy a product called artificial hymen (accompanied by vaginal tightening cream). Based on 55 in-depth interviews with healthcare staff, artificial hymen retailers, re-virginisers, and women and men who are not directly related to re-virginisation; as well as discourse analysis of online conversations on re-virginisation between women in Turkey and websites advertising relevant goods and services, I argue that re-virginisation is not a moment, but a process. It is not possible to pinpoint a time when a woman feels like a virgin following the operation or the use of the artificial hymen. Instead, women go through a lengthy process involving a variety of physical and emotional changes that might take years, or might never end. This thesis draws a legal and economic framework within which re-virginisation operates in Turkey, as well as arguing that the nation-state actively ignores these practices in line with its neo-conservative policies. Furthermore, it utilises the notion of “becoming” as originated by Gilles Deleuze and developed with Felix Guattari, and its feminist interpretations to discuss how women’s relationship to their body changes, how they perform their emotional and embodied pain, as well as how their perception of time and space changes affectively throughout.Cambridge Trust; Orient Institut Istanbul; Cambridge Political Economy Society; Department of Sociology, University of Cambridg

Cumhuriyet Döneminde Vakıflar ve Ekonomik ve Sosyal Problemleri Çözüm Yolları

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