African history and culture studies

This article examines gender stereotypes in Nigerian movies, which serves as a representation of the African womanhood. Drawing on a feminist critic perspective, the study analyzes how African womanhood and men are portrayed in Nollywood films, and also identifies the most commonly employed gender-stereotypical portra…

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• MEHMET RECEP TAŞ

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• KEMAL EROL

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Abstract This article examines the modes of time and work discipline that emerged through factory industry in colonial Bombay. Based on a wide range of archival sources, it shows that mechanized production did not invariably suggest a transition from task-based, irregular to clock-measured, rationally organized work p…

• HATİCE YILDIZ

(1997). The political economy of agrarian transition in Mozambique. Journal of Contemporary African Studies: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 191-218.

• ALFREDO ANTONİO SAAD FILHO

Abstract Taking as a starting point two strikes in colonial Cyprus in the 1930s—the miners' strike in 1936 in which both Greek-Cypriots and Turkish-Cypriots were involved and the all-female spinners' strike in 1938—this paper looks at how the labor movement deeply transformed the political landscape of the island. In…

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• MÜNEVVER KATKAT ÖZÇELİK

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• HAMDİ DOĞAN

After the tragic end of Democratic Party Government Turkey entered a new era with its allies. In this new era, Turkey’s responsibilities and obligations of NATO membership has not been quitely changed. In the Cold War years, Turkey still continues its stability on foreign policy. U.S. response to the threat of the Sov…

• GÖKHAN EŞEL

Abstract This article examines the 2015 art-film Necktie Youth (Sibs Shongwe-La Mer) with a view to understanding new affective, temporal and genre formations in post-transitional South Africa. A quasi-documentary portrait of ennui and depression among a circle of privileged 'born-free' youth in Johannesburg's wealthy…

The National Economy gained prominence as a dominating political and economic discourse after 1908. The National Economy was not merely a political project; it possessed significant economic and social dimensions as well. As an integral component of Muslim/Turkish nationalism, the National Economy had a social base. H…

• YUSUF DOĞAN ÇETİNKAYA