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- Gender Studies, Film Theory, Cultural Memory, Ethnic and Racial Studies, National Cinemas, Art and Independent Cinema, and 9 moreTransnational Cinema, New Turkish cinema, Diasporic cinema, Turkish-German Cinema, Zygmunt Bauman, Homi Bhabha (Cultural Theory), The work of Bakhtin, Film Studies, and Dystopian Literatureedit
- Ayça TUNÇ COX is an Associate Professor at İzmir Institute of Technology. She is also the Vice Dean of the Faculty of... moreAyça TUNÇ COX is an Associate Professor at İzmir Institute of Technology. She is also the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Architecture. She completed her Ph.D. at Media Arts Department, Royal Holloway College, University of London, and received her M.Sc. from Ege University in the field of Film Studies. She has published extensively on Turkish cinema and Turkish-German diasporic cinema. Among her research interests are transnational cinema, diasporic cinema, national cinemas, alternative cinema, and Turkish cinema. In 2018 she completed a research period as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at University of Pittsburgh with a project entitled "Images of Displacement: The Mediated Turkish Diaspora in Turkish and Turkish-German Films since the 1960s." She is currently conducting a research project entitled "Empowering the Other: The Turkish Roma Rewrite Their Cinematographic Images."edit
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Lebanese filmmaker, actress, and screenwriter Nadine Labaki's 2011 film Where Do We Go Now? is about the ideological manipulation that gradually results in a big conflict among people in a rural Middle Eastern village where Muslims and... more
Lebanese filmmaker, actress, and screenwriter Nadine Labaki's 2011 film Where Do We Go Now? is about the ideological manipulation that gradually results in a big conflict among people in a rural Middle Eastern village where Muslims and Christians live in a peaceful existence. Labaki is known for her politically engaged narratives which refer to the recent political past of Lebanese whilst centralizing strong female figures. Where Do We Go Now? is no exception, and thus, reflects the director's general cinematic style and political attitude. Labaki invites her audience through the comedy to question ideology which interpellates and thus constructs the individual as a subject by revealing the ways ideology creates differences, separation, and conflict among people. In this context, this article strives to analyze the film Where Do We Go Now? employing critical discourse analysis with references to Althusser's conceptualization of ideology and Subject-subject formation.
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Being diagnosed with cancer is traumatic and life-changing for children. Due to the disease and treatment, children experience suffering, pain, interruption in school and playful activities, and separation from social and familiar... more
Being diagnosed with cancer is traumatic and life-changing for children. Due to the disease and treatment, children experience suffering, pain, interruption in school and playful activities, and separation from social and familiar environments. These negatively affect their quality of life (QOL). This article reports a co-design process conducted with children with cancer to shed light on their needs with regard to the play area furniture at the hospital to recommend design ideas that might improve children’s QOL. The results have shown that a modular furniture system that can be customizable by children might contribute to their QOL – thanks to its adaptability to the needs of a wide range of age groups. In addition, there is a possible link between co-design sessions and children’s wellbeing in terms of an increased sense of control, socialization and physical activities. For designers– who are the facilitators of co-design sessions with children– actively involving caregivers in co-design processes, co-designing the generative tools and the process with participants, and conducting observations and interviews to shape and complement the co-design sessions are advised. The findings of this study are expected to assist designers, co-design practitioners and healthcare members.
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Katılımcı tasarım, kullanıcının da tasarım sürecine anlamlı katılımının sağlanması ve tasarlanan çevre veya ürünün üzerinde söz hakkına sahip olması anlamına gelir. Özellikle çocuklar tasarım süreçlerine dahil edildiğinde onlarla daha iyi... more
Katılımcı tasarım, kullanıcının da tasarım sürecine anlamlı katılımının sağlanması ve tasarlanan çevre veya ürünün üzerinde söz hakkına sahip olması anlamına gelir. Özellikle çocuklar tasarım süreçlerine dahil edildiğinde onlarla daha iyi iletişim kurarak ihtiyaçlarını daha iyi anlayabilmek adına bu süreçte dikkat edilmesi gereken birçok unsur vardır. Bu çalışma, daha da hassas bir kullanıcı grubu olan kanserle mücadele eden çocuklarla katılımcı tasarım süreci sırasında iletişimi konu almaktadır. Bunun için Dokuz Eylül Hastanesi’nde kalan çocuklarla katılımcı tasarım çalışması yürütülmüş ve iletişim konusu ile ilgili bulgular paylaşılmıştır. Sonuç olarak, aile bireylerinin katılımcı tasarım sürecine olumlu katkı sağlayabileceği, üretici tekniklerin kullanılmasının ve bu araçların yaş gruplarına hitap eder şekilde tasarlanmasının önemi ortaya çıkmıştır.
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Turkey has become the first and main transition hub for Syrian refugees. Furthermore, Turkey is spatially as well as culturally simultaneously referred to as European and Asian or Middle Eastern depending the point of view. Therefore, the... more
Turkey has become the first and main transition hub for Syrian refugees. Furthermore, Turkey is spatially as well as culturally simultaneously referred to as European and Asian or Middle Eastern depending the point of view. Therefore, the representation of refugees in the Turkish press proves significant for the knowledge produced about refugees. Accordingly, this chapter strives to investigate the coverage of Syrian refugees in newspapers, which constitutes only one aspect of the overall reception of the issue in Turkey, and therefore does not claim to be exhaustive. Yet, because daily newspapers are still among the most important media sectors in Turkey, they constitute a special case of knowledge production worth investigating.
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Parasite (Bong Joon-ho, 2019) is addressed as one of the best films of the last decade by many critics, a claim which is reinforced by the film’s international success (Four Oscars including the Best Film and Best Director, Palm d’Or,... more
Parasite (Bong Joon-ho, 2019) is addressed as one of the best films of the last decade by many critics, a claim which is reinforced by the film’s international success (Four Oscars including the Best Film and Best Director, Palm d’Or, Best Foreing Film in Golden Globe etc.). The film is a contemporary audio-visual text that problematizes the issue of class struggle with reference to global capitalism and modern society. The issue of class appears to be a central theme in all of Joon-ho’s films starting with his debut feature Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000). Having foregrounded different aspects of the issue in each film, in his recent film Parasite Joon-ho underlines the class conflict that has become unresolvable in the context of global capitalism which essentially lives on the exploitation of the underdog. The film attracts critical attention not only for its subject matter but also due to its technical finesse, its visual language and style. In this respect, this article strives to analyse the film both aesthetically by evaluating the main components of film language such as mise-en-scene, and critically by revealing how it portrays class struggle with reference to Antonio Gramsci’s concept of cultural hegemony as well as Michel Foucault’s concept of biopower.
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This article strives to investigate how the so-called Syrian refugee crisis is reflected in cinematic narratives by analyzing one of the first films on the topic by a Turkish filmmaker. Misafir (The Guest) (2017), directed and produced by... more
This article strives to investigate how the so-called Syrian refugee crisis is reflected in cinematic narratives by analyzing one of the first films on the topic by a Turkish filmmaker. Misafir (The Guest) (2017), directed and produced by Andaç Haznedaroğlu, proves to be significant as the first of its kind; a feature length fiction film dealing with the pressing issue of Syrian refugees in the Turkish context. Employing critical discourse analysis as the core methodological tool, this article includes a stylistic and thematic examination of the film. The analysis draws attention to the connection between textual and contextual properties that shape the discourse of the film. The film is analyzed within the conceptual framework of Jacques Derrida’s influential theorization of ‘hos(ti)pitality’. In line with Derrida’s discussion of hospitality, this article questions whether Syrian refugees are ‘the guests’ as claimed or ‘parasites’ in Turkey.
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Colour, like sound, has been an intrinsic part of films since the advent of cinema. Even in the early years, before the invention of colour film, filmmakers experimented with the ways to integrate colour into film such as tinting and... more
Colour, like sound, has been an intrinsic part of films since the advent of cinema. Even in the early years, before the invention of colour film, filmmakers experimented with the ways to integrate colour into film such as tinting and laboursome hand colouring. Only after the 1950s, when colour film became an established and primary shooting material, Film Studies, as an academic field, begun discussing the functions of colour in film, its aesthetic value, and its role in signification. From colour symbolism to colour naturalism this paper explores differing utilisations of colour white in a wide range of films.
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Turkish society's perception of Germany has been going through a significant transformation. This is indisputably related with the crucial role Germany played by not taking sides with Turkey in its long-lasting attempts to access to the... more
Turkish society's perception of Germany has been going through a significant transformation. This is indisputably related with the crucial role Germany played by not taking sides with Turkey in its long-lasting attempts to access to the European Union. Through critical discourse analysis, this article explores how Turkish cinematic narratives have accounted for the thorny Turkish-German relations in the last two decades. The analyzed films, which are the products of the dynamic and heterogeneous new cinema of Turkey, have contributed to the knowledge produced about Germany, Germans and Turkish-Germans in the media. Therefore, focusing on these cinematic texts should reveal alternative modes of reading the enduring Turkish-German affair. As the close textual analysis has revealed, the films in question refuse the presumed label of "subaltern" for Turkey, and instead, provides a realistic and multifaceted account of said relationship.
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This article evaluates the film La Haine (1995) directed by Mathieu Kassovitz with specific reference to the Bakhtinian concept of “heteroglossia”. The term addresses “language [as] perceived [and] stratified through and through into... more
This article evaluates the film La Haine (1995) directed by Mathieu Kassovitz with specific reference to the Bakhtinian concept of “heteroglossia”. The term addresses “language [as] perceived [and] stratified through and through into multiple social discourses each representing a specific ideological belief system” (Morris, 2003: p. 73).
The film is still socially and politically significant and relevant especially in relation to the refugee crisis, the increasing xenophobia and islamophobia that continue burdening Europe today. The film can be considered under the rubrics of diasporic cinema, beur cinema, banlieue cinema and French cinema based on its thematic concerns and
its central characters. This article, however, particularly focuses on the work itself as a heteroglot, polyglot utterance in the contexts of French film and banlieue film. Secondly, it analyses the framing of the characters as Others in the context of post-industrial, post-colonial France by focusing on their utterances and the social and cultural connotations of these utterances throughout the film. The close textual analysis reveals that there are several registers of heteroglossia detectable in this audio-visual narrative, underlying its multilayered character
The film is still socially and politically significant and relevant especially in relation to the refugee crisis, the increasing xenophobia and islamophobia that continue burdening Europe today. The film can be considered under the rubrics of diasporic cinema, beur cinema, banlieue cinema and French cinema based on its thematic concerns and
its central characters. This article, however, particularly focuses on the work itself as a heteroglot, polyglot utterance in the contexts of French film and banlieue film. Secondly, it analyses the framing of the characters as Others in the context of post-industrial, post-colonial France by focusing on their utterances and the social and cultural connotations of these utterances throughout the film. The close textual analysis reveals that there are several registers of heteroglossia detectable in this audio-visual narrative, underlying its multilayered character
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This article seeks to address one of the most problematic lacunae in Turkey’s political and academic landscape by examining the mediated images of the Roma people in Turkey. This long-neglected sub-cultural group in the Turkish context is... more
This article seeks to address one of the most problematic lacunae in Turkey’s political and academic landscape by examining the mediated images of the Roma people in Turkey. This long-neglected sub-cultural group in the Turkish context is mostly regarded as the “others” of society, who cannot speak for themselves. Their public imagination is, therefore, based heavily on narratives that are exclusively produced by non-Roma people. In order to reveal the historical construction of the popular Roma image in Turkey, we cover audiovisual material from the 1960s onward. Through a descriptive–interpretive analysis, we seek to explore how cultural and artistic narratives have contributed to and/or mirrored, and thus reproduced, the prevailing knowledge and imagination about the Roma people in Turkish society.
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The historical construction of the Roma image in Turkey, via both official and unofficial narratives, has constituted a derogatory repertoire. Their portrayal in the mainstream Turkish cinema and TV in particular has contributed to the... more
The historical construction of the Roma image in Turkey, via both official and unofficial narratives, has constituted a derogatory repertoire. Their portrayal in the mainstream Turkish cinema and TV in particular has contributed to the predominant imaginary in circulation which essentially is based on common binaries and stereotypes. In order to challenge prevailing stereotypes about the Roma, we have conducted a transformative action research project with the Roma people of the Sıra district in İzmir, Turkey, who volunteered to make their own films. This article provides an account of this community filmmaking project. Locating the Roma in the conceptual framework of subalternity, we ultimately investigate whether it is possible to talk about agency in regard to the Roma people of Turkey.
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Various cultural objects, crafts and traditional production techniques from Turkey have been research subjects in the field of design studies in recent years. During this time, definitions of tradition, culture and craft have changed and,... more
Various cultural objects, crafts and traditional production techniques from Turkey have been research subjects in the field of design studies in recent years. During this time, definitions of tradition, culture and craft have changed and, therefore, these changes need to be revisited, in particular relating to product design. This study explores these changes through a field study conducted in Istanbul, Turkey, one of the key areas of craft production. Focusing on silversmithing, a traditional craft in Turkey, the study seeks to identify new ways in which craft can be used in and lead to the design of new products. The field study was conducted with students from the Industrial Design Department of İstanbul Bilgi University during their second-year studio course. For the study, they were paired with craftsmen in the Kapalıçarşı (the Grand Bazaar) area, one of the most well-known and historic craft neighbourhoods in İstanbul. The aim was to investigate the relationship between traditional craft methods, craft knowledge and contemporary product design, specifically to find out how traditional craft knowledge and methods can be used to inform contemporary product design, and in return, how the craftspeople might benefit from this exchange.
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Popular imagination of an age-old and very common phenomenon – migration – depends on images and stories in circulation. Mediated images of migration, refugees and diasporas play an important role in ethnic and cultural identification... more
Popular imagination of an age-old and very common phenomenon – migration – depends on images and stories in circulation. Mediated images of migration, refugees and diasporas play an important role in ethnic and cultural identification processes. This article explores how Turkey has accounted for its own diasporic subjects through cinematic narratives. Focusing on two salient Turkish examples from the 1980s that contradict the dominant narrative tendencies in Turkish–German/German films of the time, this article aims to present a fresh outlook. It strives to explore how these films question stereotypes and problematize essentialist readings of Turkishness and nationhood via a descriptive-interpretive analysis.
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Today, there are lots of radio stations in Turkey broadcasting locally, nationally and even internationally by means of highly developed communication technology. Most of them are commercial ones and they evaluate the expectations of... more
Today, there are lots of radio stations in Turkey broadcasting locally, nationally and even internationally by means of highly developed communication technology. Most of them are commercial ones and they evaluate the expectations of their audiences while also considering their institutional benefits. However, the mission of many radio stations is also to offer public service programming. University radios do not have advertisement income, finance themselves by the university budget and do not make payments for their human resources because academic staff and students work voluntarily. This organizational structure determines the broadcasting content and broadcasting perspective.
It is observed that university radios form their contents including programmes, which perform the primarily functions of informing and educating, in contrast to content that is filled with entertainment and music that commercial radios use to get high ratings. However contrary to the commercial radios, the success of the university radios in meeting the expectations of their more specific target audiences, consisting mostly of university students, is an important problem to be solved in this study.
This study, by means of a case study focussing on Radyo Kampus Ege, the local radio of Ege University, is an attempt to find out the necessities of a university radio in order to respond to the expectations of the audience and to achieve harmony between institutional aims and the demands of the audience.
It is observed that university radios form their contents including programmes, which perform the primarily functions of informing and educating, in contrast to content that is filled with entertainment and music that commercial radios use to get high ratings. However contrary to the commercial radios, the success of the university radios in meeting the expectations of their more specific target audiences, consisting mostly of university students, is an important problem to be solved in this study.
This study, by means of a case study focussing on Radyo Kampus Ege, the local radio of Ege University, is an attempt to find out the necessities of a university radio in order to respond to the expectations of the audience and to achieve harmony between institutional aims and the demands of the audience.
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Bu çalışma, Doğu-Batı, merkez-çevre ve benlik-öteki ikiliği, ulusal söylem, ötekine karşı aşağılama ve arzu biçiminde geliştirilen karşıt duygululuk, örtük ve açık oryantalizm, ötekinin dil üzerinden inşası ve yabancı gibi anahtar... more
Bu çalışma, Doğu-Batı, merkez-çevre ve benlik-öteki ikiliği, ulusal söylem, ötekine karşı aşağılama ve arzu biçiminde geliştirilen karşıt duygululuk, örtük ve açık oryantalizm, ötekinin dil üzerinden inşası ve yabancı gibi anahtar kavramlar doğrultusunda, uluslar arası bağlamda öteki ve yabancı olarak tanımlananın haber medyasındaki temsili ve kurgulama biçimlerinden yola çıkarak haber, nesnellik, bilgi, etik değerler ve gerçeklik arasındaki ilişkiyi sorgulamayı ve dünyayı medya dolayımıyla algıladığımız sürece, medyayı kontrol eden egemen güçlerin beklentileri doğrultusunda, dış dünyayı ve o dünyada yaşayanları kendi zihnimizde korkulacak ‘şey’ler olarak kurgulamaya devam edeceğimizi göstermeyi amaçlamaktadır.
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Tunisian cinema is not only considered within the context of Mediterranean cinema, but also often regarded as part of African and Arabian regional cinemas. Bearing these diverse references in mind that shape various scholarly accounts of... more
Tunisian cinema is not only considered within the context of Mediterranean cinema, but also often regarded as part of African and Arabian regional cinemas. Bearing these diverse references in mind that shape various scholarly accounts of Tunisian cinema, films made by diverse Tunisian filmmakers will be critically examined to present their thematic and stylistic characteristics. A particular emphasis will be put on the socio-cultural and ideological climate of the country. In this respect, the struggle to become a “nation” after a long period of colonisation, the lack of a reliable film industry and the hegemony of politicians governing the country as de facto dictators will be taken into consideration while evaluating the films.
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In a social environment where Turkish guest workers have been depicted as isolated, incapable victims who could not speak for themselves or for their people, German directors were the first to provide portrayals of immigrants in Germany.... more
In a social environment where Turkish guest workers have been depicted as isolated, incapable victims who could not speak for themselves or for their people, German directors were the first to provide portrayals of immigrants in Germany. Then emerged the second generation of Turkish filmmakers who brought along a breakthrough for Turkish‐German cinema. These filmmakers wanted to move beyond the cinema of duty and enjoy their double occupancy by interpreting their in‐betweenness as cultural richness. The third generation filmmakers are now no longer the silenced and disadvantaged members of the host society; instead, they have been active agents who are qualified, skilled, educated and thus self‐confident.
As an Advisory Board Member: SEYMM project lays on the philosophy that social entrepreneurship education is a lifelong learning process, whereby the entrepreneur will be faced with challenges, especially since the social entrepreneurship... more
As an Advisory Board Member: SEYMM project lays on the philosophy that social entrepreneurship education is a lifelong learning process, whereby the entrepreneur will be faced with challenges, especially since the social entrepreneurship focuses on disadvantaged areas.
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As the Partner Institute Vice Coordinator: The European Researchers' Night (NIGHT), funded under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (MSCA), is a Europe-wide public event that brings researchers closer to the public. The Night provides... more
As the Partner Institute Vice Coordinator: The European Researchers' Night (NIGHT), funded under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (MSCA), is a Europe-wide public event that brings researchers closer to the public. The Night provides researchers the opportunity to showcase the diversity of science and its impact on citizens’ daily lives and stimulate interest in research careers – especially among young people. The events highlight how researchers contribute to our society by displaying their work in an interactive and engaging forum. Any activity or event that boosts public awareness of the positive role of research in society – particularly among young people – is eligible for funding. The funding covers any expenses linked to the organization of a research outreach event. The European Researchers' Night (NIGHT) takes place yearly, typically on the last Friday of the month of September (24th September 2021)
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As the Researcher: Bu projenin amacı İzmir’de bulunan Amerikan pazarlarında satılan tüketim mallarının ve buradaki alışveriş deneyimlerinin 1950’li yıllardan 2000’lere uzanan süreçte İzmirlilerin gündelik hayat pratiklerini ve modernleşme... more
As the Researcher: Bu projenin amacı İzmir’de bulunan Amerikan pazarlarında satılan tüketim mallarının ve buradaki alışveriş deneyimlerinin 1950’li yıllardan 2000’lere uzanan süreçte İzmirlilerin gündelik hayat pratiklerini ve modernleşme deneyimlerini nasıl etkilediğini analiz etmektir. Amerikan üslerinde yaşayan Amerikan askerlerinin ikinci el eşyalarını sattıkları Amerikan pazarları, Türkiyeli tüketicilerin pek çok yenilikçi teknolojyle, modern estetiğe sahip gündelik kullanım nesneleriyle ilk kez karşılaştıkları alanlardan biri olmuştur. Tüketicilerin bu pazarlarda erişebildikleri dayanıklı tüketim malları, ev elektroniği, mobilya ve kıyafet gibi farklı ürünler yeni kültürel pratiklerin oluşmasına, modern yaşam tarzlarının Türkiye’de yerleşmesine, gündelik yaşam alışkanlıklarının dönüşmesine aracılık etmiştir. Bu araştırmada Amerikan pazarlarından alınan ürünlerin kullanıcıları tarafından nasıl anlamlandırıldığı, kullanıcılarının hayatlarında ne gibi dönüşümlere yol açtığı, ürünlerin kullanıcıların mevcut yaşam koşullarına nasıl adapte edildiği ve kullanıcıların beğenilerini nasıl biçimlendirdiği soruları irdelenecektir. Böylece, Amerikan pazarları ve burada satılan ürünler üzerinden Türkiye’nin modernleşme süreci incelenecektir.
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Lebanese filmmaker, actress, and screenwriter Nadine Labaki’s 2011 film Where Do We Go Now? is about the ideological manipulation that gradually results in a big conflict among people in a rural Middle Eastern village where Muslims and... more
Lebanese filmmaker, actress, and screenwriter Nadine Labaki’s 2011 film Where Do We Go Now? is about the ideological manipulation that gradually results in a big conflict among people in a rural Middle Eastern village where Muslims and Christians live in a peaceful existence. Labaki is known for her politically engaged narratives which refer to the recent political past of Lebanese whilst centralizing strong female figures. Where Do We Go Now? is no exception, and thus, reflects the director's general cinematic style and political attitude. Labaki invites her audience through the comedy to question ideology which interpellates and thus constructs the individual as a subject by revealing the ways ideology creates differences, separation, and conflict among people. In this context, this article strives to analyze the film Where Do We Go Now? employing critical discourse analysis with references to Althusser's conceptualization of ideology and Subject-subject formation.
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Being diagnosed with cancer is traumatic and life-changing for children. Due to the disease and treatment, children experience suffering, pain, interruption in school and playful activities, and separation from social and familiar... more
Being diagnosed with cancer is traumatic and life-changing for children. Due to the disease and treatment, children experience suffering, pain, interruption in school and playful activities, and separation from social and familiar environments. These negatively affect their quality of life (QOL). This article reports a co-design process conducted with children with cancer to shed light on their needs with regard to the play area furniture at the hospital to recommend design ideas that might improve children’s QOL. The results have shown that a modular furniture system that can be customizable by children might contribute to their QOL – thanks to its adaptability to the needs of a wide range of age groups. In addition, there is a possible link between co-design sessions and children’s wellbeing in terms of an increased sense of control, socialization and physical activities. For designers– who are the facilitators of co-design sessions with children– actively involving caregivers in co-design processes, co-designing the generative tools and the process with participants, and conducting observations and interviews to shape and complement the co-design sessions are advised. The findings of this study are expected to assist designers, co-design practitioners and healthcare members.
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Turkey has become the first and main transition hub for Syrian refugees. Furthermore, Turkey is spatially as well as culturally simultaneously referred to as European and Asian or Middle Eastern depending the point of view. Therefore, the... more
Turkey has become the first and main transition hub for Syrian refugees. Furthermore, Turkey is spatially as well as culturally simultaneously referred to as European and Asian or Middle Eastern depending the point of view. Therefore, the representation of refugees in the Turkish press proves significant for the knowledge produced about refugees. Accordingly, this chapter strives to investigate the coverage of Syrian refugees in newspapers, which constitutes only one aspect of the overall reception of the issue in Turkey, and therefore does not claim to be exhaustive. Yet, because daily newspapers are still among the most important media sectors in Turkey, they constitute a special case of knowledge production worth investigating.
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Turk toplumunun Almanya algisi kayda deger bir donusumden gecmektedir. Bu donusumde, uzun yillardir suregiden Avrupa Birligi uyeligi girisimlerinde Turkiye’nin yaninda yer almayan Almanya’nin rolunun onemli oldugu inkar edilemez. Bu... more
Turk toplumunun Almanya algisi kayda deger bir donusumden gecmektedir. Bu donusumde, uzun yillardir suregiden Avrupa Birligi uyeligi girisimlerinde Turkiye’nin yaninda yer almayan Almanya’nin rolunun onemli oldugu inkar edilemez. Bu makale kapsaminda, iki ulke arasindaki sozu gecen sorunlu iliskilerin Turkiye’deki sinemasal anlatilarda nasil ele alindigi elestirel analiz yontemi kullanilarak incelenmektedir. Analize konu edilen filmler, Turkiye’deki dinamik ve heterojen yeni sinema ortaminin birer ciktisi olmalarinin yani sira, genel anlamda Almanya, Almanlar ve Turk-Almanlar’ a dair medyadaki temsil ve bilgi uretiminin de bir parcasi durumundadir. Bu nedenle, bu sinemasal metinlere odaklanan bir elestirel analiz, Turk-Alman iliskilerinin populer kultur perspektifinden alternatif bir okumasini saglamak adina onem arz etmektedir. Yapilan analizler sonucunda, incelenen filmlerin, Turkiye’ye bicilen “madun” rolunu kabul etmeyerek, Turk toplumunun Almanya’ya bakisini gercekci ve cok bo...
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The historical construction of the Roma image in Turkey, via both official and unofficial narratives, has constituted a derogatory repertoire. Their portrayal in the mainstream Turkish cinema and TV in particular has contributed to the... more
The historical construction of the Roma image in Turkey, via both official and unofficial narratives, has constituted a derogatory repertoire. Their portrayal in the mainstream Turkish cinema and TV in particular has contributed to the predominant imaginary in circulation which essentially is based on common binaries and stereotypes. In order to challenge prevailing stereotypes about the Roma, we have conducted a transformative action research project with the Roma people of the Sıra district in İzmir, Turkey, who volunteered to make their own films. This article provides an account of this community filmmaking project. Locating the Roma in the conceptual framework of subalternity, we ultimately investigate whether it is possible to talk about agency in regard to the Roma people of Turkey.
Research Interests: History, Sociology, Gender Studies, Media Studies, Transformative Learning, and 15 moreNarrative, Subaltern, Ethnic Identity, History of the Imaginary, Filmmaking, Agency, TURKISH, Language Culture and Communication, Repertoire, Community Filmmaking, Auto Ethnography, Mainstream, Ethnicities, Roma people of Turkey, and movie theater
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This article seeks to address one of the most problematic lacunae in Turkey’s political and academic landscape by examining the mediated images of the Roma people in Turkey. This long-neglected sub-cultural group in the Turkish context is... more
This article seeks to address one of the most problematic lacunae in Turkey’s political and academic landscape by examining the mediated images of the Roma people in Turkey. This long-neglected sub-cultural group in the Turkish context is mostly regarded as the “others” of society, who cannot speak for themselves. Their public imagination is, therefore, based heavily on narratives that are exclusively produced by non-Roma people. In order to reveal the historical construction of the popular Roma image in Turkey, we cover audiovisual material from the 1960s onward. Through a descriptive–interpretive analysis, we seek to explore how cultural and artistic narratives have contributed to and/or mirrored, and thus reproduced, the prevailing knowledge and imagination about the Roma people in Turkish society.
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Popular imagination of an age-old and very common phenomenon – migration – depends on images and stories in circulation. Mediated images of migration, refugees and diasporas play an important role in ethnic and cultural identification... more
Popular imagination of an age-old and very common phenomenon – migration – depends on images and stories in circulation. Mediated images of migration, refugees and diasporas play an important role in ethnic and cultural identification processes. This article explores how Turkey has accounted for its own diasporic subjects through cinematic narratives. Focusing on two salient Turkish examples from the 1980s that contradict the dominant narrative tendencies in Turkish–German/German films of the time, this article aims to present a fresh outlook. It strives to explore how these films question stereotypes and problematize essentialist readings of Turkishness and nationhood via a descriptive-interpretive analysis.
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Various cultural objects, crafts and traditional production techniques from Turkey have been research subjects in the field of design studies in recent years. During this time, definitions of tradition, culture and craft have changed and,... more
Various cultural objects, crafts and traditional production techniques from Turkey have been research subjects in the field of design studies in recent years. During this time, definitions of tradition, culture and craft have changed and, therefore, these changes need to be revisited, in particular relating to product design. This study explores these changes through a field study conducted in Istanbul, Turkey, one of the key areas of craft production. Focusing on silversmithing, a traditional craft in Turkey, the study seeks to identify new ways in which craft can be used in and lead to the design of new products. The field study was conducted with students from the Industrial Design Department of İstanbul Bilgi University during their second-year studio course. For the study, they were paired with craftsmen in the Kapalıçarşı (the Grand Bazaar) area, one of the most well-known and historic craft neighbourhoods in İstanbul. The aim was to investigate the relationship between traditional craft methods, craft knowledge and contemporary product design, specifically to find out how traditional craft knowledge and methods can be used to inform contemporary product design, and in return, how the craftspeople might benefit from this exchange.
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Tunisian cinema is not only considered within the context of Mediterranean cinema, but also often regarded as part of African and Arabian regional cinemas. Bearing these diverse references in mind that shape various scholarly accounts of... more
Tunisian cinema is not only considered within the context of Mediterranean cinema, but also often regarded as part of African and Arabian regional cinemas. Bearing these diverse references in mind that shape various scholarly accounts of Tunisian cinema, films made by diverse Tunisian filmmakers will be critically examined to present their thematic and stylistic characteristics. A particular emphasis will be put on the socio-cultural and ideological climate of the country. In this respect, the struggle to become a “nation” after a long period of colonisation, the lack of a reliable film industry and the hegemony of politicians governing the country as de facto dictators will be taken into consideration while evaluating the films.
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... were born or brought up in Germany, Fatih Akın (1973), Yüksel Yavuz (1964), Ayşe Polat (1970), Buket Alakuş (1971), Sinan Akkuş (1971), Thomas ... In addition, one of the protagonists, Dilber, played by Hülya Avşar, who is an iconic... more
... were born or brought up in Germany, Fatih Akın (1973), Yüksel Yavuz (1964), Ayşe Polat (1970), Buket Alakuş (1971), Sinan Akkuş (1971), Thomas ... In addition, one of the protagonists, Dilber, played by Hülya Avşar, who is an iconic actress and singer in Turkey, proves to be ...