Irish and British Studies

Eğer bir filozofun magnum opusunu (şâheserini) okumaya niyetlendiysek basitçe onu temel iddialarıyla anlamak zorundayızdır.İster bunu söz konusu kitabı defalarca okuyarak elde edelim, ister yardımcı kitaplar üzerinden gerçekleştirelim fark etmez.Burada kitabı doğru ya da yanlış anlamak da birincil mesele değildir.Biri…

This article is a study of the contradictions of conservatism. It shows that most modern writers since Oakeshott have defined conservatism in an abstract manner. Here I argue that their definition, although not wrong, is an incomplete definition which is only coherent because it is incomplete. It is only the first sta…

• JOHN JAMES ALEXANDER

The present study aims to explore the experiences of marginalization amongst young Turkish migrants in the UK. It pays particular attention to the ways in which marginalizing experiences and practices are reproduced, normalized and resisted across different ethnic/national contexts, namely, in encounters with the Brit…

• BAHAR TANYAŞ

A reading of Golding's Lord of the Flies as an allegory of a biopolitical or postpolitical society that elevates “security” to the most sacred principle of organization as a permanent state of exception and attempts to combine it with consumerism. It is in this context that spite, an impotent and self-sacrificial viol…

Tarih boyunca yaşanan kıtlıklar insan hafızasından silinmeyen olayların başında gelmiştir. “Büyük Açlık” olarak da adlandırılan, 1845-1852 İrlanda Patates Kıtlığı’nın genişliği ve kötü ünü pek çok kıtlığı aşmıştır. İrlanda’daki bu kıtlık sırasında 1 milyon insan hayatını kaybetmiş, 2 milyon insan da başka ülkelere göç…

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Tarih boyunca yaşanan kıtlıklar insan hafızasından silinmeyen olayların başında gelmiştir. “Büyük Açlık” olarak da adlandırılan, 1845-1852 İrlanda Patates Kıtlığı’nın genişliği ve kötü ünü pek çok kıtlığı aşmıştır. İrlanda’daki bu kıtlık sırasında 1 milyon insan hayatını kaybetmiş, 2 milyon insan da başka ülkelere göç…

• KEZİBAN ACAR KAPLAN

The COP26 Climate Summit held in Glasgow in November 2021 was expected to attract mass protests. Given the climate crisis and the increase in direct action in the UK, the police anticipated huge numbers with the potential for significant disorder. Despite this, Police Scotland insisted that they were committed to faci…

• SELİN TEKİN GÜVEN

This paper examines two opposing views in terms of the construction of identity in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. First, Joyce sees the complex sense of historical forces, social institutions, culture, religion and politics as influencing both the perception and behaviors of individuals in the…

• ALİ GÜNEŞ

As a socialist feminist dramatist of the 20th century, Caryl Churchill draws attention to women’s oppression through Vinegar Tom in which she experiments Brechtian theatrical techniques. She shifts in time, from the past to the present, to illuminate the historical context of women’s oppression. She combines successfu…

• NİLAY ERDEM AYYILDIZ

Embarking on her career by imitating the Beckettian style at the end of the 1980s, Marina Carr (1964- ), a contemporary Irish female playwright, later moves to a phase in which she rewrites ancient myths, Greek tragedies and some other classical works, including those of William Shakespeare, Leo Tolstoy and Virginia W…

• KÜBRA VURAL ÖZBEY

Daldal analyses Atom Egoyan's film Ararat (2002) in terms of its ‘truth claims’ and its ostensible critique of the politics of denial of the Turkish authorities. Her essay is not an apologia for Turkish attitudes but claims that, while searching for the ‘truth’ amid denial and deception, the film creates its own ‘offi…