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Öğe Affect, Spatial Practices, and the City in Agatha Christie's "They Came to Baghdad"(Mehmet Ali YOLCU, 2020) Türe Abacı, ÖzlemThey Came to Baghdad (1951), one of Agatha Christie’s mid-career books, could be categorized as a political thriller that unravels the ideological conflicts during the early Cold War period and the fight over Iraqi oil reserves. The scenes of the novel, like an adventure movie alters from a spy hunt to an archaeological theme, then to a romance, and finally a murder story and a thriller, in which fear comes up unexpectedly. Particularly, the setting provides the grounds for the female protagonist of the novel, Victoria Jones, to cross cultural and social boundaries and explore the space as a naïve pseudo-spy working for the international forces in Baghdad. By the lens of Nigel Thrift’s concept of “affective cities” and “spatialities of feeling,” this paper aims to explore how the setting of the novel—Baghdad—creates an intensive field of conflicting cultural and social forces that inscribe the female body, which runs in parallel with the narrative tactics Christie uses in revealing the affective emplacements of fear, suspicion, increasing levels of anxiety and insecurity in the cityscape. This paper, in other words, offers a spatial analysis of the novel in order to explore how the cityscape is mobilized and altered by the shifting perceptions of it by Victoria Jones while she defies the patriarchal demarcations of space. Through her adventures, it becomes possible to comprehend how power is distributed and circulated within this Middle Eastern society.Öğe Contrasting Shadows: The Jungian Archetypes in Oscar Wilde's Salome and Dorian Gray(Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi, 2024) Karababa Ababay, Arzu CanaThis study explores the ascendancy and dominance of the unconscious over consciousness by focusing on two literary works by Oscar Wilde, Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) and Salome (1891) which will be analyzed simultaneously through a Jungian lens. This comparative analysis draws an inference between the darker aspects of human nature through binary oppositions of gender and identifies the archetypal constituents of the human psyche. Dorian Gray's feminized persona, his anima, is juxtaposed against Salome's masculine persona animus. In The Picture of Dorian Gray, the typically concealed component of the psyche, which is the shadow, is nurtured by Dorian’s narcissism and manifests itself. This ultimately leads to the demise of the character, as the artificial separation of the self from the unconscious is ultimately unsustainable. Conversely, in Salome, the excessively indulged shadow self takes over and dominates the psyche. The shadow archetype highlights diverse atypical qualities based on different genders and exerts supremacy over the psyche due to its self-centered nature. The complexity and fluidity of gender roles connected to the anima and animus, which are the contrasexual attributes in their psychic manifestations illustrated in these characters, underscore that these traits and behaviors are not inherently confined to a specific gender but are part of the broader human experienceÖğe Refugee narratives in contemporary Turkish literature: a human-centered exploration(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2025) Güngör, Bilgin; Bağlama, Sercan HamzaThe experiences of refugees have recently become a key theme in modern Turkish literature, as the refugee “crisis” has turned into a central issue for Turkey since the 2010s. This article explores contemporary Turkish literature’s engagement with the refugee experience and demonstrates how refugee narratives in Turkish literature transcend ideological divides to emphasize the human dimension of displacement. Through an analysis of three literary texts, Hakan Günday’s Daha (2013), Zülfü Livaneli’s Balıkçı ve Oğlu (2021), and Cemal Şakar’s “Kanadında Bir Kuşun” (2018), the article fleshes out the alignment of Turkish authors, both secular and conservative, in their thematic portrayal of refugees. By categorizing the selected texts as examples of contemporary refugee literature, the article also investigates their contribution to a broader literary tradition that has historically dealt with themes of displacement and suffering, thereby enriching the discourse on human dignity and social justice in the context of forced migration.Öğe Revisiting the Spirals of Silence: The Case of Intra-Faith Discrimination at Work in Two Muslim Majority Countries(Wiley, 2025) Uygur, Selçuk; Syed, Jawad; Aydın, Erhan; Özbilgin, Mustafa; Bağlama, Sercan HamzaDrawing on the spiral of silence theory, this manuscript critically explores a notably under-researched domain: the workplace experiences of individuals belonging to faith-based minority groups who encounter religious discrimination in predominantly Muslim countries, specifically T & uuml;rkiye and Pakistan. First, we outline the spirals of silence theory and examine intra-faith discrimination as an illustrative case. We locate the identity and agency of individuals from religious minorities at work, reflecting on an escalation of silence in the context of adversity, as suggested by the spirals of silence theory. Building on 38 interviews with individuals from faith-based minority groups in workplaces within Turkey and Pakistan, our analysis reveals intra-faith religious discrimination in two distinct contexts: one, a country grappling with significant pressure on its secular system, and the other, a nation where the implementation of Islamic egalitarian principles, as enshrined in its constitution, is inconsistent. The study reveals that religiously inspired discrimination is a prevalent and pernicious experience among individuals from faith-based minority groups in both countries, which consequently entrenches the spirals of silence.Öğe Formation of an academic diaspora: A study of scholars from Turkey in the higher education sector in Britain(Wiley, 2025) Özbilgin, Mustafa F.; Yıldız, Harun; Erbil, Cihat; Bağlama, Sercan HamzaThe internationalisation of higher education has revealed the importance of understanding the formation and dynamics of academic diasporas. Most studies focus on cohesive academic diasporas, overlooking fragmentation in diasporas as a central concern. In this paper, we define and theorise fragmented academic diaspora. The emergence of a highly fragmented diaspora of scholars from Turkey in the British higher education sector presents an ideal opportunity to examine the notion of a fragmented academic diaspora. Based on an online study of 20 scholars from Turkey in British academia, this paper investigates the formation of an academic diaspora fragmented across social fault lines. We examine the factors driving the formation of a fragmented academic diaspora, the boundaries defining this community and the challenges it faces. Additionally, we discuss these scholars' professional and personal experiences and investigate their integration into the academic landscape of Britain. Based on the expectations and aspirations of the participants, we propose strategies to leverage fragmentation within this academic diaspora as a pathway to fostering synergies amidst fragmentation and divisiveness.Öğe Pseudo-retranslation(Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) Yıldız, MehmetThis book presents pseudo-retranslations as a new phenomenon of translational intertextuality, revealing how pseudo-retranslations establish large networks of intertextuality across academic works, how academic authors have recourse to this procedure as they create their academic texts, and how pseudo-retranslations contribute to the dissemination of translation-distorted scholarly knowledge and lead to epistemically polluted academic ecosystems. Pseudo-retranslation can be defined as an academic author’s partial or complete exploitation of another academic author’s translation and presenting it as a retranslation of the source text. This phenomenon, first documented in Yildiz (2021), arises from academic authors’ failure to refer to or translate primary sources – particularly in English. Since there occurs no actual retranslation process, this procedure is called pseudo-retranslation. Using a range of academic texts from the Turkish context as case studies, the author presents the integral constituents of this phenomenon, and the behavioural patterns of its renderers. This book will be of particular interest to academics and postgraduates in the field of translation studies and (corpus) linguistics. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.Öğe Mindfulness of the Drift: Nomadic Formations in Peter Reading's Evagatory(Natl Taiwan Normal Univ, 2019) Türe Abacı, ÖzlemThe formal qualities and innovative aspects of Peter Reading's poetry have been largely ignored or evaluated from a limited perspective due to the pessimistic subject matter, the gloomy images of Junk Britain and the deteriorating earth. This paper attempts to revitalize his legacy within the late twentieth century by bridging a dialogue between his work and Pierre Joris's vision of nomad poetics. Joris's engagement with nomadicity in A Nomad Poetics might provide a certain critical consciousness in associating Peter Reading's trope of evagation in Evagatory with the state of linguistic homelessness, the wandering of a mind through numerous textual, cultural, spatial borders, and lastly the poem as an unfinalized construct. This paper suggests that nomadic trajectory in Evagatory is foregrounded by constantly shifting registers, crossing of poetic boundaries and transcorporeal relations. Then, it aims to analyze the non-discursive visual patterns and collage practices in Evagatory to explore the text's 'rhizomatic' relations. The trope of evagation in Reading's mid-career work foregrounds how Reading actually works at the edge of the margins of literary traditions, of linguistic comprehensibility, of the visual and the verbal, and the poetic and unpoetic materials.Öğe Imperialism and literature: An imperialism-oriented reading of modern Turkish literature(Sage Publications Ltd, 2023) Bağlama, Sercan Hamza; Güngör, BilginPostcolonial theory perceives the world as divided between the coloniser and the colonised, thus indirectly reproducing the centrality of the West. For this reason, in literary studies, postcolonial theory fails to cover the literatures of those nations which were not colonised in a typical sense but rather occupied by Western imperialism, as was the case with Ottoman Turkey. This necessitates a convergent theoretical framework that might help evaluate the fictionalisation of the intersecting dynamics of oppression, violence, exploitation, and resistance in relation to the hegemonic narratives of imperialism and shape a new perspective regarding the politico-cultural dimension of imperial discourse. This article, in this respect, will critically develop the theoretical foundations of imperialism-oriented literary theory and construct it as an interdisciplinary field that has a potential to contribute to contemporary postcolonial theory and to encompass the intersectional dimensions of imperialism and imperial discourse for the articulation of the fictionalisation of imperialism-related issues in the under-considered corpus of modern Turkish literature.Öğe “A PEREMPTORY ADIEU TO BIODIVERSICALS”: ECOLOGICAL DECLINE AND EXPERIMENTATION IN * PETER READING'S -273,15(2022) Türe Abacı, ÖzlemPronounced as “the unof?cial laureate of a decaying nation, Junk Britain” by the Irish poet and literary critic Tom Paulin, Peter Reading (1946-2011) has always been concerned with environmental deterioration, climate change, and decline of the species in many of his works from the 70s onwards. His poems of the new millennium advocate a more robust critique of the neo-liberal economic systems and human beings' involvement in the current ecological crisis. Reading's -273,15 [Absolute Zero] revisits his decades-long efforts to experiment with various poetic forms, registers and a grief-stricken tone presiding over most of his previous work regarding the complexities of anthropocenic experience. Reading's text combines his efforts not only to experiment with various poetic and non- poetic materials, registers, but also to look for ways to cope with an approaching catastrophe. The verbal and visual collage pieces as the most frequently employed procedures in Reading's poetry draw his poetry closer to the 'entropological register' Skinner puts forward and bring together the sources to show how Reading's environmental agenda is conscious of its shortcomings. Drawing on Lynn Keller's recent work on ecopoetics and the concept of the “self-conscious Anthropocene,” this paper aims to explore how Reading's ecological agenda and experimental practices in -273,15 might forge an improved understanding of the connections between contemporary poetry and environmental justice.Öğe The impact of the hidden curriculum on international students in the context of a country with a toxic triangle of diversity(John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2022) Baykut, Sibel; Erbil, Cihat; Özbilgin, Mustafa; Kamasak, Rifat; Bağlama, Sercan HamzaThe hidden curriculum, which refers to the ideologies that remain implicit in educational content, is often studied in the context of developed countries with a colonial past where there are efforts to redress the historical injustice of the colonial past. In this paper, we examine the impact of the hidden curriculum on international students in a country with a toxic triangle of diversity. The toxic triangle of diversity describes a context where there is extensive deregulation, voluntarism without responsibilisation of organisations, and absence of supportive organisational discourses for diversity. Most studies of the hidden curriculum have taken place in countries where there are national laws for equality, institutional responsibility to bias-proof the curriculum, and supportive discourses for diversity. Drawing on a field study with nineteen international students (nine in the field of business studies and ten in other subject fields), we demonstrate how the hidden curriculum remains unattended and how it is legitimised through macro-, meso- and micro-level interactions that students have. We show that the hidden curriculum serves to silence different forms of exclusion, loneliness and discrimination that international students experience in the context of a toxic triangle of diversity. We suggest ways forward for undoing the damage done through the hidden curriculum in toxic contexts.Öğe In Search of Patient Zero: Pseudo-Retranslation in Turkish Academic Works(Springer Science and Business Media B.V., 2021) Yıldız, MehmetThis is the first academic paper concerned with the description of intertranslational appropriations across non-literary works and to discuss this phenomenon from a novel conceptual perspective by suggesting the term “pseudo-retranslation”. “Drmrod”, a misspelling of (Jeanne Ellis) Ormrod, served as the benchmark of the preliminary analysis to judge on the existence of pseudo-retranslations across the works. The corpus consists of one unreviewed article, two dissertations, five master’s theses, and seven articles. To identify the initial Turkish translation, Patient Zero, to detect the pseudo-retranslations and to arrange them chronologically, “textual overlap” was operationalized as the primary parameter, while “erroneous referencing”, “typographical errors”, “publication year”, “publication media”, and “relationships between authors” to triangulate the findings concerning the primary parameter. A program, WCopyFind, was used to detect intertextual similarities and to harvest quantitative data by percentage and word count. A textual similarity of 70% (Turell The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 11(1), 1–26, 2004) was set as the threshold of significance. The author suggested a threshold of 30% to describe pseudo-retranslations in academic works and of 20% in Turkish academic papers. The unreviewed online article (Kalafat 2004) was revealed to be the first to misspell “Ormrod” as “Drmrod” and to translate Ormrod’s six metacognitive skills and the other 14 works to include its pseudo-retranslations.Öğe Access to information technology of households and secondary school students in Turkey(SAGE Publications, 2021) İra, Nejat; Yıldız, Mehmet; Yıldız, Gamze; Yalçınkaya-Önder, Eylem; Aksu, AliThe aim of the study was to investigate secondary school students’ and teachers’ access to information technologies in Turkey by making interregional comparisons. Document analysis of the qualitative research methods was employed to analyze the reports issued by the Turkish Ministry of National Education, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), and the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). The results of the research revealed the importance of access to information and communication technologies for both students and teachers: 67.9% of the participating students were found to have Internet connection and 69.1% a computer in their homes, while 80.3% of the students were observed to use a computer outside the school, but 19.7% were not. The results also showed that 64.6% of the students have Internet connection in their classrooms, but 29.2% of these students do not use the Internet in the classroom, whereas 8.9% use it in the classroom all the time. The rate of students using a digital device for reading is 38.1%, while that of those not using one is 61.9%. Some 32.1% of secondary school students were revealed not to have Internet connection at home. Additionally, 77% of teachers were not trained in online teaching prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the findings, teachers can be suggested to develop projects – i.e., of TUBITAK, E-twinning, and Erasmus – which potentially encourage students to use information and communication technologies so that both teachers and students can benefit from them. It is also suggested that the Ministry of National Education should work on improving the information communication technology competencies of teachers and students. Besides, policies should be developed to eliminate regional differences in terms of access to digital resources and technology in terms of equal opportunities and opportunities.
