2025 Articles By Department Of Sociology

Re-Conquering Istanbul: Space, Time, and Resistance in the Neoliberal City by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ayşe Serdar

• In her recentGeoforumpublication titled “Production of space and time in ‘New’ Turkey: Re-conquest and resistance in the making of Istanbul Airport”, Asst. Prof. Dr. Ayşe Serdar examines the Istanbul Airport as a site where the dynamics of neoliberalism, state power, and labor intersect. The study highlights how the concept of re-conquest shapes both the material and symbolic production of space and time in Turkey’s largest infrastructure project. This research invites us to rethink Istanbul’s monumental projects as spaces of both domination and contestation.
• https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104277

   

  Ignorance, Risk, and Resistance: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ebru Yetişkin on Disaster Governance in Turkey

   

• In her recent article, Ignorance Production in National Disaster Risk Governance and Emergency Response-abilities of Commoning Collectives: The 2023 Earthquakes in Turkey, published in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ebru Yetişkin critically examines how Turkey’s disaster governance model produces ignorance. By focusing on the 2023 earthquakes, Yetişkin highlights how top-down risk management marginalizes non-state knowledge and grassroots actors. Her research emphasizes the crucial role of commoning collectives in emergency response and argues for participatory, democratic governance as the key to effective disaster risk reduction.
• https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.105114

   

  Between Empire and Faith: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Sel Turhan on Bosnian Catholics in the Ottoman Millet System

   

• In her article The Bosnian Catholics during the Nineteenth Century in the Context of the Ottoman Millet System Discussions, published in the Journal of Islamic Studies, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Sel Turhan revisits the complex relationship between the Ottoman state and the Bosnian Catholic community. Drawing on rich archival materials, the study questions whether Bosnian Catholics were officially recognized as a separate millet and explores their legal status through the Ahdname of Mehmed II. Turhan sheds light on the intricate network of negotiations, expectations, and intermediaries that shaped the Bosnian Catholics’ interactions with the Ottoman centre.
• https://doi.org/10.1093/jis/etaf019

   

   

   

  Earthquake Watchers of Byzantium: Research Asst. Kutsi Aybars Çetinalp and Prof. Dr. Celâl Şengör on the Forgotten Origins of Seismology

   

• In their article Byzantine Views on Earthquakes, Seismoskopoi, and the Origin of the Term Seismology, published in the International Journal of Earth Sciences, Research Asst. Kutsi Aybars Çetinalp and Prof. Dr. Celal Şengör challenge the widespread belief that seismology as a term and field originated in the 19th century. Drawing on historical sources, they reveal that the term seismology and the concept behind it trace back to tenth-century Constantinople. Their research uncovers the seismoskopoi, Byzantine earthquake watchers who, though not scientists in the modern sense, were regarded as experts in their time.
• https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-025-02510-5

Exploring Genre in Ḥadīth Commentary: New Insights from Prof. Dr. Nurullah Ardıç

• Prof. Dr. Nurullah Ardıç and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Macit Karagözoğlu from Marmara University’s articleGenre Analysis and Religious Texts: A Methodological Model of Ḥadīth Commentaryhas been published in theJournal of Islamic Studies. The article proposes a four-step genre analysis model for examining ḥadīth commentary texts. By analyzing 23 Sunni ḥadīth commentaries from the tenth century to the present, the study offers a systematic framework for exploring the rhetorical structures, internal organization, and discursive features of these texts, making them more accessible for scholarly research.
• https://doi.org/10.1093/jis/etae068