Sevket AKYİLDİZ
Biographic Data
| ID | 6583086 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sevket AKYİLDİZ |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sevket |
| FAMILY NAME | AKYİLDİZ |
| SIGNATURE | AKYILDIZ S |
| AFFILIATIONS | SOAS University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9545-4432 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Myth of Normal: Illness, Health, and Healing a Toxic Culture
We live in a modern world surrounded by technological achievements and medical progress. However, chronic physical disease prevails, as do mental health and addiction problems. How can researchers analyse and better understand this situation? How can society reduce and heal these ailments? It is something that Gabor Mate’s The Myth of Normal: Illness, Health and Healing in A Toxic Culture (2022) investigates, asking questions about modern society…
A Year in the Life: Adventures in British Subcultures
A Year in the Life: Adventures in British Subcultures (2022), written by Lucy Leonelli, is an engaging journey through twenty-six British subcultures undertaken over twelve months. In doing so, Leonelli meets numerous individuals and characters from various subcultural communities, ranging from battle re-enactors to Goths, Morris Dancers to trainspotters, and ufologists to extreme sportspeople. This inquisitive author seeks to discover what divid…
Behind the Mask
In its amateur and professional formats, the sport of boxing historically has been associated with a physical and aggressive type of masculinity. The notion that a boxer might have a mental health problem was not something generally discussed in the profession. This outlook has changed in recent decades as Britain’s society re-evaluates well-being. People are more open to talking about conditions like depression. Heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (…
Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
It is surprising how one generation can be unmindful of another generation’s lived reality and challenges. How well do the Baby boomers (born between 1946 and 1964) and Generation X (or Gen X, born between 1965 and 1980) understand the lived reality of the millennials (Generation Y or Gen Y, born between 1981 and 1996)? Surely, boomers and Gen X’s would benefit from understanding millennials and their upbringing, cultural conditioning, and expect…
Our Bodies Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women
Christina Lamb’s Our Bodies Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women? explains that men’s sexual violence is designed to humiliate women and entire communities in a war context. Furthermore, Lamb’s study highlights women's testimony in fighting stigmatisation and ostracisation in conservative societies. The study also discusses the physical, psychological, legal and socio-economic problems women face because of the violence done to them. In part…
“Physical Culture and Sport Will Become Part and Parcel of Everyday Life”: Khrushchev’s Communist Sports in Central Asia’s Uzbekistan, 1953 to 1964
Lenin commenced Soviet physical culture and sports during the mid-1920s, and Stalin organised it significantly during the 1930s and 1940s. It was part of Stalin’s Cultural Revolution and the implementation of Soviet modernity. This qualitative and quantitative research paper investigates physical culture and sports 33 years after its founding when Khrushchev was the communist leader (1953 to 1964). The geographic focus is on the Central Asian rep…
Traditional Sports and Games among Central Asia’s Turkic Muslim Peoples, 1400 to 1850 AD: Training, Hunting, and Festivals
Traditional sports and recreation in Central Asia are deep-rooted and ancient. The Central Asian Turkic people participated in physical culture for different reasons; horse races, wrestling, archery, and hunting had combat training elements—while fairs, circuses, and home entertainments allowed people to be distracted from everyday issues. Sports and leisure events helped social interaction and family bonding during seasonal festivals and Islamic…
Sport in Central Asia under Gorbachev: Uzbekistan from 1985 to 1991
This paper assesses the modern and traditional sports during the last six years of the Soviet Union before its collapse in 1991. The case study is the Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan under the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU, established 1917). Central Asia is a crucial historical case because it was a Muslim-majority region that Moscow wished to transform. The study is interdisciplinary and contains primary and secondary sources f…
Raised Under Stalin. Young Communists and the Defence of Socialism
Seth Bernstein investigates the dynamic relationship between the Stalinist regime and Soviet youth in the period from 1920 until the end of World War II. He describes how Stalin, assisted by youth
Introducing Seaside Town Muslims
The majority of British Muslims live in cities such as London, Leicester, Birmingham and Bradford—and academic research thus far has reflected a city and post-manufacturing town emphasis. This paper investigates the as yet undocumented history and mosque politics of Muslims living in the small town of Eastbourne, East Sussex, using participant observation and unstructured and semi-structured interviews. Firstly, I conceptualise my case study grou…
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Introducing Seaside Town Muslims
The majority of British Muslims live in cities such as London, Leicester, Birmingham and Bradford—and academic research thus far has reflected a city and post-manufacturing town emphasis. This paper investigates the as yet undocumented history and mosque politics of Muslims living in the small town of Eastbourne, East Sussex, using participant observation and unstructured and semi-structured interviews. Firstly, I conceptualise my case study grou…
Raised Under Stalin. Young Communists and the Defence of Socialism
Seth Bernstein investigates the dynamic relationship between the Stalinist regime and Soviet youth in the period from 1920 until the end of World War II. He describes how Stalin, assisted by youth
Sport in Central Asia under Gorbachev: Uzbekistan from 1985 to 1991
This paper assesses the modern and traditional sports during the last six years of the Soviet Union before its collapse in 1991. The case study is the Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan under the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU, established 1917). Central Asia is a crucial historical case because it was a Muslim-majority region that Moscow wished to transform. The study is interdisciplinary and contains primary and secondary sources f…
Traditional Sports and Games among Central Asia’s Turkic Muslim Peoples, 1400 to 1850 AD: Training, Hunting, and Festivals
Traditional sports and recreation in Central Asia are deep-rooted and ancient. The Central Asian Turkic people participated in physical culture for different reasons; horse races, wrestling, archery, and hunting had combat training elements—while fairs, circuses, and home entertainments allowed people to be distracted from everyday issues. Sports and leisure events helped social interaction and family bonding during seasonal festivals and Islamic…
Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
It is surprising how one generation can be unmindful of another generation’s lived reality and challenges. How well do the Baby boomers (born between 1946 and 1964) and Generation X (or Gen X, born between 1965 and 1980) understand the lived reality of the millennials (Generation Y or Gen Y, born between 1981 and 1996)? Surely, boomers and Gen X’s would benefit from understanding millennials and their upbringing, cultural conditioning, and expect…
Our Bodies Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women
Christina Lamb’s Our Bodies Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women? explains that men’s sexual violence is designed to humiliate women and entire communities in a war context. Furthermore, Lamb’s study highlights women's testimony in fighting stigmatisation and ostracisation in conservative societies. The study also discusses the physical, psychological, legal and socio-economic problems women face because of the violence done to them. In part…
“Physical Culture and Sport Will Become Part and Parcel of Everyday Life”: Khrushchev’s Communist Sports in Central Asia’s Uzbekistan, 1953 to 1964
Lenin commenced Soviet physical culture and sports during the mid-1920s, and Stalin organised it significantly during the 1930s and 1940s. It was part of Stalin’s Cultural Revolution and the implementation of Soviet modernity. This qualitative and quantitative research paper investigates physical culture and sports 33 years after its founding when Khrushchev was the communist leader (1953 to 1964). The geographic focus is on the Central Asian rep…
A Year in the Life: Adventures in British Subcultures
A Year in the Life: Adventures in British Subcultures (2022), written by Lucy Leonelli, is an engaging journey through twenty-six British subcultures undertaken over twelve months. In doing so, Leonelli meets numerous individuals and characters from various subcultural communities, ranging from battle re-enactors to Goths, Morris Dancers to trainspotters, and ufologists to extreme sportspeople. This inquisitive author seeks to discover what divid…
Behind the Mask
In its amateur and professional formats, the sport of boxing historically has been associated with a physical and aggressive type of masculinity. The notion that a boxer might have a mental health problem was not something generally discussed in the profession. This outlook has changed in recent decades as Britain’s society re-evaluates well-being. People are more open to talking about conditions like depression. Heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (…
The Myth of Normal: Illness, Health, and Healing a Toxic Culture
We live in a modern world surrounded by technological achievements and medical progress. However, chronic physical disease prevails, as do mental health and addiction problems. How can researchers analyse and better understand this situation? How can society reduce and heal these ailments? It is something that Gabor Mate’s The Myth of Normal: Illness, Health and Healing in A Toxic Culture (2022) investigates, asking questions about modern society…
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