Tekkas Kerman, Kader; Betrus, Patricia

2019

Makale

İngilizce

What makes a man a real man?: Perspectives regarding masculinities and gender roles among young men in Turkey

ASIAN JOURNAL OF WOMENS STUDIES

10.1080/12259276.2019.1682268

25(4)

491-514

Analyzing 5 focus group interviews with 46 college-going men (18-25 years), this qualitative study specifically explores perspectives of young Turkish men about meanings and conceptualizations of masculinities and gender roles. Our study finds that they viewed masculinity as demonstrating and maintaining superior, tough, self-sufficient, exteriors. Homosocial practices, including sexual objectification, competition, and homophobia, are important for the maintenance of male dominance and masculinity. Our respondents felt that men should avoid housework so as not to be identified as feminine or ridiculed by their families or peers. In this qualitative study, we illustrate how masculinities and gender roles are shaped among college-going young men with specific examples from the interviews. The study revealed that, societal pressure stemming from cultural traditions and Islam has a significant influence on these men's understanding of acceptable gender roles and masculinity. Based on these findings, we propose strategies to reformulate a healthy gender identity and to support young men at individual, community, and societal levels.

Bozok, Mehmet; Bozok, Nihan

2019

Makale

İngilizce

The household, the street and the labour market: masculinities and homosocial solidarity networks of Afghan migrant boys in a squatter neighbourhood in Istanbul

NORMA

10.1080/18902138.2018.1519241

14(2)

96-111

This study focuses on how undocumented Afghan migrant boys construct homosocial solidarity networks in the absence of their families in a squatter neighbourhood in Istanbul, Turkey. Based on the findings of qualitative field research conducted in 2015, this study argues that the homosocial solidarity networks among young Afghan migrant boys are developed in three different spatial contexts: the household, the street and the labour market. These homosocial solidarity networks enable them to survive in a foreign country which is full of challenges. Being a part of those networks provides employment in a competitive labour market, as well as security. In that process, while trying to survive, young Afghan migrant boys engage in gender stretching in the household. At the same time, in spite of their fragility as undocumented young migrants in a foreign land, they develop stern-yet-fragile transnational migrant masculinities challenging local masculinities in the public sphere, at the cost of losing their childhood in an early age.

Sosyal Demokrasi Vakfı (SODEV)

2020

Rapor

Türkçe

Türkiye’nin Gençliği Araştırması Raporu

İstanbul : Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı

IstanPol

2020

Rapor

Türkçe

Türkiye’de Gençlerin Güvencesizliği: Çalışma, Geçim ve Yaşam Algısı Araştırma Raporu

IstanPol

Lüküslü, Demet

2020

Makale

Türkçe

İmtiyazlı bir kitleden işsizler ordusuna değişen gençlik algısı

Alternatif Politika

12(2)

336-352

Gençlik kategorisi farklı dönemlerde farklı şekilde tanımlanan, farklı misyonlar verilen dinamik bir kategoridir. Bu makale, gençlik kavramının modern anlamıyla ortaya çıktığı, modern eğitim sisteminin dikey toplumsal hareketlilik vaat ettiği ve gençlerin imtiyazlı bir kategori olarak tanımlanmasına, İkinci Dünya Savaşı sonrasında eğitimin kitleselleşmesiyle yaşanan değişime ve ardından neoliberal dönemle beraber ortaya çıkan, eğitimin vaatlerini yerine getiremediği ve genç işsizliğinin başat rol oynadığı toplumlarda genç olmaya deneyimine odaklanmaktadır. Yaşanan dönüşümle beraber “yetişkinliğe” geçişin gittikçe zorlaştığı, zorlu bir gençlik dönemi ortaya çıkmaktadır.

Şahin, Türe

2020

Makale

İngilizce

Rethinking alternative youth identities in Izmir: ‘Indifferently cool’ manifestations

European Journal of Cultural Studies

10.1177/1367549420919873

24(5)

Akkaya, Aysun Yaralı

2020

Makale

Türkçe

Eğitim Hareketliliğinin Gençliğe Etkisini Beklentiler ve Sonuçları Üzerinden Okumak: Van Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi Örneği

Alternatif Politika

https://alternatifpolitika.com/site/cilt/12/sayi/2/4-Yarali-Akkaya-Egitim-Hareketliligi.pdf

12(2)

353-381

Usanmaz, Ahmet; Kahraman, Fatih

2020

Makale

Türkçe

Güvencesizlik, Gençlik ve İnşaat: İnşaatın Eğitimli Gençleri Üzerine Bir Araştırma

Gençlik Araştırmaları Dergisi

8(20)

106-128

Imamoglu, Ekrem

2020

Makale

İngilizce

ISTANBUL'S SYRIAN CHILDREN AND YOUTH

TURKISH POLICY QUARTERLY

19(1)

11-18

The unexpected influx of Syrians to Turkey has shifted the focus in political and administrative discussions. Turkey has accepted over 3.5 million Syrians fleeing from the civil war while Istanbul alone hosts over half a million Syrians. The population influx to major urban areas has put further responsibility on the shoulders of local governments. Istanbul being the Ibremost. Given the low average age of the Syrian community Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality is specifically in a position to address the needs of Syrian children and youth from education to health and from integration to self-realization.

Tuysuz, Suat; Gurel, Melek Eryentu; Gulmez, Recep

2020

Makale

İngilizce

Politics of Space in The Context of The Right to the City and Gender: The Case of KYK Residences in Erzincan

JOURNAL OF ECONOMY CULTURE AND SOCIETY

10.26650/JECS2019-0086

61

85-105

In Turkey termination of a mixed university student residence' policy was put into practice by the Ministry of Youth and Sports in 2013. This policy has created an actual situation that proposes the placement of male students in the residences that are close to the center, and the female students in the student residences in locations that can be considered deserted and remote for women in Erzincan. The sample of this study is composed of 459 people, including both male and female students, who live in all Higher Education Student Loan and Housing Board (HESLHB) residences in the city. The surveys conducted on the sample form the data of the research. The data were analyzed with independent sample t-test and ANOVA test The findings show that the policy on the termination of mixed residences, which may be referred to as the gendering of space, creates gender inequity. The results of the study show that the visibility of female students in public-urban areas has been limited in line with conservative and patriarchal policies which delimits their right to the city. However, it shows that this results in the fact that male students are pushed into a more financially disadvantaged position.

Hakimi, Aziz A.

2020

Makale

İngilizce

Good men don't elope': Afghan migrant men's discourses on labour migration, marriage and masculinity

HISTORY AND ANTHROPOLOGY

10.1080/02757206.2020.1865342

This article explores the intersections between masculinity, migration and marital strategies through both a historical and ethnographic focus on the everyday lives of Turkmen men from Northern Afghanistan working in Turkey. While the economic rationales of migration (in response to war and poverty) have been studied previously, this is the first time the intertwined nature of the martial and migratory strategies of Afghan men have been examined in a diaspora context. This involves examining the connections between strategies of self-making as adult males through marriage and strategies of capital accumulation as migrant workers. Moreover, providing for one's family, rather than the desire for individual fulfilment, is a key signifier of a caring and loving man and one of the many ways in which men in Afghanistan assert and perform their masculinity. The argument presented in this article seeks to go beyond the notion that young Turkmen men from Afghanistan are merely conservative in their attitudes to marriage in terms of compliance to parental choice of partners. Rather, it seeks to highlight the importance of the maintenance of social networks that require the upholding of moral and material obligations towards familial and kin elders to the livelihood strategies of these men. This argument integrates Afghan men (and especially Turkmen men) into wider discussions of patriarchy and family life in globalizing contexts rather than simply treating them as an exception to broader socio-economic trends.

Bee, Cristiano

2021

Makale

İngilizce

The civic and political participation of young people in a context of heightened authoritarianism. The case of Turkey

Journal of Youth Studies

10.1080/13676261.2019.1683523

24(1)

40-61

Applying insights from research on civic and political participation, this study focuses on the effects that the recent authoritarian turn taken by Turkey had on the expression of participatory behaviours by young people. The analysis brings about a number of contentious issues and intertwines two recent dynamics. First of all recent events (such as the protests associated with the occupygezi movement) show that youth in Turkey are extremely important players and political actors. Secondly, however, the authoritarian turn taken by the country under the AKP’s governance resulted in serious and alarming limitations to the exercise of basic freedoms and hence participatory behaviours. Based on the results of 40 semi-structured interviews with young people involved in civil society organisations, the article discusses three aspects: young people’s views of active citizenship; the instruments of empowerment that stimulate participatory behaviours and the significance attributed to different means of civic and political participation. The analysis reveals the complexity of active citizenship in a context of heightened authoritarianism and underlines the constraints put on the exercise of civic and political participation by the current government. It also unpacks the alarming consequences of the AKP agenda on the expression of freedoms, with a particular focus on the repression of participatory behaviours.