Başak Can
Biographic Data
| ID | 92204 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Başak Can |
| GIVEN NAMES | Başak |
| FAMILY NAME | Can |
| SIGNATURE | CAN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Koç University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4441-2272 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Unesco Gastronomi Şehri Afyonkarahisar Yöresel Yemeklerinin Besin Ögesi İçeriğinin Değerlendirilmesi
Afyonkarahisar mutfağı, birçok farklı kültüre ev sahipliği yapması ve farklı coğrafi bölgelere yakınlığı sayesinde yemek çeşitliliği oldukça yüksek bir mutfaktır. Yöresel yemekleri ve tescilli ürünleri ile Afyonkarahisar mutfağı yerli ve yabancı ziyaretçilerin ilgisini çekmektedir. Ayrıca 2019 yılında UNESCO Yaratıcı Şehirleri Ağı’na gastronomi alanında dâhil edilen Türkiye’deki 3 şehirden biridir. Buna rağmen, literatürde Afyonkarahisar mutfağı …
Show me your phone!’: Affect, neoliberal rationality and nationalism in Türkiye’s street interviews
As a recent cultural phenomenon, street interviews (vox pops, sokak röportajları ) in Türkiye have challenged the country’s captured media ecology and its neoliberal authoritarian establishment. Produced by journalists and circulated through social media, these interviews invite citizens to reflect on pressing national problems but soon become sites of intense political debate. In their discussions with dissidents in these interviews, pro-governm…
Networked misogyny beyond the digital: The violent devaluation of women journalists’ labor and bodies in Turkey’s masculine authoritarian regime
Following the conservative Turkish government’s political-economic capture of the news media, educated and pro-feminist women journalists have migrated online. Despite having more publicity across platforms, they face immediate prosecution based on the tweet of an anonymous troll, an informant citizen or a government official. While this is a common case of networked misogyny, inspired by Liz Kelly’s concept of the continuum of sexual violence, w…
How does a protest last? Rituals of visibility, disappearances under custody, and the Saturday Mothers in Turkey
Organizing weekly silent sit-in protests since the mid-1990s, the families of the disappeared created Turkey's longest-lasting civil disobedience movement, known as the Saturday Mothers. Ritualizing their resistance, the group maintained the feeling of solidarity among its participants, attracted spectators, and ensured public visibility. Yet, as this protest form became popular, the participants felt uncomfortable with how they were represented …
Media, Affect, and Authoritarian Futures in “New Turkey: ” Spectacular Confessions on Television in the Post-Coup Era
A spectacular shock doctrine is reformatting Turkey since the failed coup in July 2016. We examine how the television economy transformed the organization behind the coup (FETÖ) from a public secret into a spectacle. We investigate the televised confessions of former Gulenists, who revealed the scandalous FETÖ’s inner workings live on television. We argue that former Gulenists’ media performances based on confession, apology, and spectacular secr…
Researchers' Vulnerability: The Politics of Research in Official Clinical Settings in Turkey
Turkey’s failed coup as an ‘ongoing media event’ and the formation of public affect
Following the coup attempt in Turkey, former Gulenists made appearances on various television channels and disclosed intimate and spectacular information regarding their past activities. We ask: what is the political work of these televised disclosures? In answering this question, we situate the coup within the media event literature and examine the intimate work of these televised disclosures performed as part of a media event. The disclosures w…
Caring for solidarity? The intimate politics of grandmother childcare and neoliberal conservatism in urban Turkey
The number of grandmothers who provide regular care for their grandchildren and do housework for their daughters or daughters-in-law is increasing in Turkey. While perpetuating traditional gender roles for themselves as a surrogate daughter, wife, or daughter-in-law, these women nonetheless enable younger women to distance themselves from obligatory care work at home. The sociocultural concepts of kinship ties, economic need, or love for grandchi…
Gündelik Hayat, İktidar İlişkileri ve Etik Kodların Kesişiminde Etnografik Araştırma
Ethnographic research aims to understand people’s relation to all aspects of life including nature, culture, things, imagination, practice on their own terms. This research method is based on a long-term and intimate relationship between researcher and researched. This intimate relationship which is based on trust brings about a number of ethical problems. This article first of all looks at the rise of ethical codes in human subject research and …
The gendered workplaces of women garment workers in Istanbul
Drawing on 20 semi-structured interviews with women garment workers in a low-income neighbourhood of Istanbul, and observations in the ateliers where they worked, this article examines their work experiences in the gendered and sexualised work atmosphere of garment workshops. There are three interrelated levels upon which the gender-related issues emerge in women garment workers' stories. The first set of discourses portrays young female garment …
Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and State Violence: Medical Documentation of Torture in Turkey
State authorities invested in developing official expert discourses and practices to deny torture in post-1980 coup d'état Turkey. Documentation of torture was therefore crucial for the incipient human rights movement there in the 1980s. Human rights physicians used their expertise not only to treat torture victims but also to document torture and eventually found the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (HRFT) in 1990. Drawing on an ethnographic an…
The Criminalization of Physicians and the Delegitimization of Violence in Turkey
In June 2013, protests that erupted in Gezi Park in Istanbul, Turkey were met with state violence, mobilizing hundreds of native physicians to deliver emergency medical care. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in makeshift clinics during these protests, interviews with Gezi physicians and analyses of recent laws restricting emergency care provision, in this article I explore the criminalization of clinical practice through legal and coercive means…
Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and State Violence: Medical Documentation of Torture in Turkey
State authorities invested in developing official expert discourses and practices to deny torture in post-1980 coup d'état Turkey. Documentation of torture was therefore crucial for the incipient human rights movement there in the 1980s. Human rights physicians used their expertise not only to treat torture victims but also to document torture and eventually found the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (HRFT) in 1990. Drawing on an ethnographic an…
Caring for solidarity? The intimate politics of grandmother childcare and neoliberal conservatism in urban Turkey
The number of grandmothers who provide regular care for their grandchildren and do housework for their daughters or daughters-in-law is increasing in Turkey. While perpetuating traditional gender roles for themselves as a surrogate daughter, wife, or daughter-in-law, these women nonetheless enable younger women to distance themselves from obligatory care work at home. The sociocultural concepts of kinship ties, economic need, or love for grandchi…
Networked misogyny beyond the digital: The violent devaluation of women journalists’ labor and bodies in Turkey’s masculine authoritarian regime
Following the conservative Turkish government’s political-economic capture of the news media, educated and pro-feminist women journalists have migrated online. Despite having more publicity across platforms, they face immediate prosecution based on the tweet of an anonymous troll, an informant citizen or a government official. While this is a common case of networked misogyny, inspired by Liz Kelly’s concept of the continuum of sexual violence, w…
How does a protest last? Rituals of visibility, disappearances under custody, and the Saturday Mothers in Turkey
Organizing weekly silent sit-in protests since the mid-1990s, the families of the disappeared created Turkey's longest-lasting civil disobedience movement, known as the Saturday Mothers. Ritualizing their resistance, the group maintained the feeling of solidarity among its participants, attracted spectators, and ensured public visibility. Yet, as this protest form became popular, the participants felt uncomfortable with how they were represented …
Researchers' Vulnerability: The Politics of Research in Official Clinical Settings in Turkey
Media, Affect, and Authoritarian Futures in “New Turkey: ” Spectacular Confessions on Television in the Post-Coup Era
A spectacular shock doctrine is reformatting Turkey since the failed coup in July 2016. We examine how the television economy transformed the organization behind the coup (FETÖ) from a public secret into a spectacle. We investigate the televised confessions of former Gulenists, who revealed the scandalous FETÖ’s inner workings live on television. We argue that former Gulenists’ media performances based on confession, apology, and spectacular secr…
The Criminalization of Physicians and the Delegitimization of Violence in Turkey
In June 2013, protests that erupted in Gezi Park in Istanbul, Turkey were met with state violence, mobilizing hundreds of native physicians to deliver emergency medical care. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in makeshift clinics during these protests, interviews with Gezi physicians and analyses of recent laws restricting emergency care provision, in this article I explore the criminalization of clinical practice through legal and coercive means…
Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and State Violence: Medical Documentation of Torture in Turkey
State authorities invested in developing official expert discourses and practices to deny torture in post-1980 coup d'état Turkey. Documentation of torture was therefore crucial for the incipient human rights movement there in the 1980s. Human rights physicians used their expertise not only to treat torture victims but also to document torture and eventually found the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (HRFT) in 1990. Drawing on an ethnographic an…
The Criminalization of Physicians and the Delegitimization of Violence in Turkey
In June 2013, protests that erupted in Gezi Park in Istanbul, Turkey were met with state violence, mobilizing hundreds of native physicians to deliver emergency medical care. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in makeshift clinics during these protests, interviews with Gezi physicians and analyses of recent laws restricting emergency care provision, in this article I explore the criminalization of clinical practice through legal and coercive means…
Gündelik Hayat, İktidar İlişkileri ve Etik Kodların Kesişiminde Etnografik Araştırma
Ethnographic research aims to understand people’s relation to all aspects of life including nature, culture, things, imagination, practice on their own terms. This research method is based on a long-term and intimate relationship between researcher and researched. This intimate relationship which is based on trust brings about a number of ethical problems. This article first of all looks at the rise of ethical codes in human subject research and …
The gendered workplaces of women garment workers in Istanbul
Drawing on 20 semi-structured interviews with women garment workers in a low-income neighbourhood of Istanbul, and observations in the ateliers where they worked, this article examines their work experiences in the gendered and sexualised work atmosphere of garment workshops. There are three interrelated levels upon which the gender-related issues emerge in women garment workers' stories. The first set of discourses portrays young female garment …
Turkey’s failed coup as an ‘ongoing media event’ and the formation of public affect
Following the coup attempt in Turkey, former Gulenists made appearances on various television channels and disclosed intimate and spectacular information regarding their past activities. We ask: what is the political work of these televised disclosures? In answering this question, we situate the coup within the media event literature and examine the intimate work of these televised disclosures performed as part of a media event. The disclosures w…
Caring for solidarity? The intimate politics of grandmother childcare and neoliberal conservatism in urban Turkey
The number of grandmothers who provide regular care for their grandchildren and do housework for their daughters or daughters-in-law is increasing in Turkey. While perpetuating traditional gender roles for themselves as a surrogate daughter, wife, or daughter-in-law, these women nonetheless enable younger women to distance themselves from obligatory care work at home. The sociocultural concepts of kinship ties, economic need, or love for grandchi…
Media, Affect, and Authoritarian Futures in “New Turkey: ” Spectacular Confessions on Television in the Post-Coup Era
A spectacular shock doctrine is reformatting Turkey since the failed coup in July 2016. We examine how the television economy transformed the organization behind the coup (FETÖ) from a public secret into a spectacle. We investigate the televised confessions of former Gulenists, who revealed the scandalous FETÖ’s inner workings live on television. We argue that former Gulenists’ media performances based on confession, apology, and spectacular secr…
Researchers' Vulnerability: The Politics of Research in Official Clinical Settings in Turkey
How does a protest last? Rituals of visibility, disappearances under custody, and the Saturday Mothers in Turkey
Organizing weekly silent sit-in protests since the mid-1990s, the families of the disappeared created Turkey's longest-lasting civil disobedience movement, known as the Saturday Mothers. Ritualizing their resistance, the group maintained the feeling of solidarity among its participants, attracted spectators, and ensured public visibility. Yet, as this protest form became popular, the participants felt uncomfortable with how they were represented …
Networked misogyny beyond the digital: The violent devaluation of women journalists’ labor and bodies in Turkey’s masculine authoritarian regime
Following the conservative Turkish government’s political-economic capture of the news media, educated and pro-feminist women journalists have migrated online. Despite having more publicity across platforms, they face immediate prosecution based on the tweet of an anonymous troll, an informant citizen or a government official. While this is a common case of networked misogyny, inspired by Liz Kelly’s concept of the continuum of sexual violence, w…
Unesco Gastronomi Şehri Afyonkarahisar Yöresel Yemeklerinin Besin Ögesi İçeriğinin Değerlendirilmesi
Afyonkarahisar mutfağı, birçok farklı kültüre ev sahipliği yapması ve farklı coğrafi bölgelere yakınlığı sayesinde yemek çeşitliliği oldukça yüksek bir mutfaktır. Yöresel yemekleri ve tescilli ürünleri ile Afyonkarahisar mutfağı yerli ve yabancı ziyaretçilerin ilgisini çekmektedir. Ayrıca 2019 yılında UNESCO Yaratıcı Şehirleri Ağı’na gastronomi alanında dâhil edilen Türkiye’deki 3 şehirden biridir. Buna rağmen, literatürde Afyonkarahisar mutfağı …
Show me your phone!’: Affect, neoliberal rationality and nationalism in Türkiye’s street interviews
As a recent cultural phenomenon, street interviews (vox pops, sokak röportajları ) in Türkiye have challenged the country’s captured media ecology and its neoliberal authoritarian establishment. Produced by journalists and circulated through social media, these interviews invite citizens to reflect on pressing national problems but soon become sites of intense political debate. In their discussions with dissidents in these interviews, pro-governm…
Political science (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (8 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Authoritarianism (3 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)