Anarchism and Radical Politics

With the wave of violent jihadist activities in recent years, the world's attention has shifted away from a traditional prioritizing of state forms of formal violence toward one focusing on an apparently “new” phenomenon of transnational violence. Yet transnational violence itself is not a new phenomenon; it in fact p…

• ERSEL AYDINLI

Abstract The pastoral tends to offer a retreat from modern life, but Harriet Martineau and Elizabeth Gaskell reverse this pattern. They both turn to the colonies to reconcile the pastoral mode with capitalism, and, in their pastoral depictions of colonial life, we witness that mode’s peculiar capacity to narrate what…

• AYŞE ÇELİKKOL

Conflicts over citizenship and military service became a central issue in Italian-American relations in the early twentieth century. The United States and Italy founded their concepts of citizenship on two different bases,jus soliandjus sanguinis. As a consequence of this difference and the swelling number of Italian…

• BAHAR GÜRSEL

Abstract This article introduces a bottom-up perspective to the history of the Revolution of 1908 in the Ottoman Empire by focusing on the experiences of workers in the Imperial Naval Arsenal (Tersâne-i Âmire) in Istanbul. Drawing mainly on primary documents, the article explores, from a class-formation perspective, t…

• AKIN SEFER

Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman dramatizes the interrogation and torture of a horror fiction writer, Katurian, whose stories have been re-enacted in ‘real’ life without his knowledge. The audience gradually finds out that the murders are the crimes of Michal, Katurian's mentally retarded brother, who had been physical…

• MAHİNUR AKŞEHİR

The impact of the Second World War on the soul of western man and society had been particularly violent, and a number of English writers and poets were, during the post-war years, searching for new ways of establishing the shaken foundations and lost values of western civilization. Among the writers who distinguished…

This article focuses on two different styles of profanation in Spinoza and Badiou. Notwithstanding the significant differences between them, their shared desire for profanation testifies to an interesting convergence. I deal with this convergence in divergence as a case of disjunctive synthesis through a comparison of…

Marxist long-wave theoretical frameworks, such as Mandel’s works, the social structure of accumulation (SSA) theory, the world-system approach, and the regulation school, are epistemologically separate from the Kondratieff waves. After the econometric analysis of Kondratieff became famous, however, all long-wave theor…

• SADIK KILIÇ

Magic Seeds, bir toplumun değer yargılarının sıfırlansa bile, o toplumun yeniden inşasında bu değer yargılarının sadece şekil değiştirerek başladıkları yere döndüğü kurgusal ama aynı zamanda gerçek dünyanın bir yansımasıdır. Kimlik ve bir ev arayışında olan Willie, çareyi Gerilla düzenine katılmakta bulur. Ama burada…

• HACER ÇİFTSÜREN

Magic Seeds, bir toplumun değer yargılarının sıfırlansa bile, o toplumun yeniden inşasında bu değer yargılarının sadece şekil değiştirerek başladıkları yere döndüğü kurgusal ama aynı zamanda gerçek dünyanın bir yansımasıdır. Kimlik ve bir ev arayışında olan Willie, çareyi Gerilla düzenine katılmakta bulur. Ama burada…

• TİMUÇİN BUĞRA EDMAN

Women’s literary activity during the first two decades of the twentieth century, fuelled by the progressive spirit, served as a form of cultural lobbying through which they could articulate social and political problems and propose solutions. This article focuses on the struggle that enfranchised women by examining tw…

• EMİNE GEÇGİL

The philosophical, moral and political discourses that determine human relations sometimes attain a different meaning transcending the bodily existence of mankind. Typically, concepts and notions such as God, humankind, the Fatherland, the Emperor, the Pope, church and so on are of this nature. These concepts, which h…

• MUHAMMET HANİFİ MACİT