Does Journalism Exist in Turkey?

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-219
Author(s):  
Altug Akin
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Structural Constraints ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
News Organizations

Abstract In this article, I analyze the post-coup media and communications environment in Turkey with a particular focus on the practice of journalism, which is becoming increasingly complicated. Following an approach that considers both the constraints imposed on journalism and struggle for news-making, this study represents an attempt to better comprehend the most recent condition of the field of journalism in Turkey, where both producing the news and making sense of the news have become increasingly arduous endeavors. In order to study the structural constraints and struggles of journalists and news organizations, I deploy Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory as a theoretical framework to scrutinize the current situation of journalism in Turkey.

An intersectional theoretical framework for exploring racialized older immigrant women’s subjectivities

2021 ◽  
pp. 146801732110084
Author(s):  
Manaal Syed
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
International Migration ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Multiple Time ◽  
Structural Constraints ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Skilled Immigration ◽  
Women's Lives

Summary Today, racialized older women’s international migration is increasingly accelerated, cyclical and transnational, illustrating the transcendence of lives across time and space. At the same time, immigration regimes regulate and restrict these seemingly unfettered mobilities using neoliberal, gendered and ageist policies that favor (younger) skilled immigration. This article addresses the question of how social work can use intersectionality perspectives to theorize racialized older immigrant women’s lives which are stretched across multiple time(s) and space(s) yet confined within highly regulated multi-tiered immigration systems. Findings This article outlines a theoretical framework grounded specifically within intersectional feminist, post-structural, and transnational aging perspectives. The framework embraces the temporality, spatiality, and transnationality of gendered, aging and migrant lives and reconsiders their agency as a performed subjectivity bound by multiple forces of institutionalized regimes. Applications This theoretical framework moves social work inquiry to a richer understanding of the migratory realities of diverse aging lives that are simultaneously in-motion and regulated within structural constraints.

Making Sense of a Seemingly Random Walk

2021 ◽  
pp. 52-70
Author(s):  
James D. Westphal
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Random Walk ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
Peer Review Process ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Process Failure

This chapter traces the origins of my research on corporate governance and describes the pitfalls and challenges that arose early in my career. Many of these pitfalls are characteristic of conducting interdisciplinary research more generally. They include criticism from discipline-based scholars, special challenges in negotiating the peer review process, failure to articulate a coherent theoretical framework in individual articles, and the struggle to articulate a coherent identity as a scholar. The lessons learned should apply broadly to conducting interdisciplinary research on virtually any topic in organization theory and strategic management.

“Filthy Lapdogs,” “Jerks,” and “Hitler”: Making Sense of Insults in International Relations

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elise Rousseau ◽  
Stephane J Baele
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
International Interactions

Abstract This paper offers an original theoretical framework for the study of insults in international relations (IR). Bringing into IR the two main theoretical approaches to aggravating language, slurs and dysphemisms, we conceptualize insults’ disruptive impact on international interactions in a way that explains their logic, consequences, and risks. Specifically, we argue that insults constitute both at once tactical tools used by international actors to achieve their interests by disrupting an interaction and modifying the payoffs associated with it and linguistic artifacts constructing and sharpening self- and other identities. The components of our theoretical framework are illustrated with a wide range of empirical cases of international insults.

Ethnicity and “Muslim fraternity”

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Gülay Türkmen
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ethnic Boundary ◽  
Sociological Literature ◽  
Boundary Making ◽  
Kurdish Conflict

The chapter begins by introducing the case with the help of vignettes from the field. After setting the stage for the empirical puzzle, it goes on to the theoretical framework and situates the research question in the broader debates on religion and conflict, paying specific attention to religion’s role as a conflict resolution tool. It then ties these debates to the sociological literature on identity formation and ethnic boundary making and introduces the fourfold typology of religious and ethnic identities in the Kurdish conflict. To elaborate on the structural changes that have brought about these identity categories it turns to Bourdieusian field theory, discusses briefly the emergence of an autonomous religious field under the AKP, and familiarizes the reader with the actors in the political and religious fields in Turkey.

Tibetan Diaspora, Mobility and Place: ‘Exiles in Their Own Homeland’

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-136
Author(s):  
Chris Vasantkumar
Keyword(s):  
Euclidean Space ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Theoretical Orientations ◽  
Tibetan Diaspora ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Critical Scrutiny ◽  
Social Topology

This article elaborates a theoretical framework for making sense of Tibetans in Tibet who live as ‘exiles in their own homeland’. Placing questions of mobility at the centre of anthropological approaches to diaspora, it subjects ‘the fact of movement’ to critical scrutiny. In so doing it calls into question three fundamental assumptions of recent work in both ‘new mobilities’ and the study of diaspora more broadly: first, that people move and territory does not; second, that ‘place(s)’ and ‘movement(s)’ are different sorts of things, and clearly distinguishable; and, third, that movement takes places only in Euclidean space. Beginning by placing recent Tibetan experiences of exile and diaspora in comparative context, it then works through recent deconstructions of the boundary between movement and place, a critique of Western ethno-epistemologies of movement, and Law and Mol’s work on social topology as theoretical orientations that might allow us to make sense of mobile homelands and diasporas in situ.

The Buzzfeedication of journalism? How traditional news organizations are talking about a new entrant to the journalistic field will surprise you!

Journalism ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 482-500 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edson C Tandoc ◽  
Joy Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
The Third ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Long Form ◽  
Journalistic Field

Guided by the framework of field theory, this study analyzes how traditional news organizations perceived, defined, and represented BuzzFeed, a website that rose to online fame through aggregation of funny memes and cat videos but has since started producing investigative and long-form journalism pieces, heralding its formal entry into the journalistic field. Four themes emerged from the analysis. First, traditional news organizations demonstrate ambivalence in defining BuzzFeed. Second, traditional news organizations invoke journalistic doxa in their representations of BuzzFeed, to some extent demonstrating how they recognize BuzzFeed as having entered the journalistic field. This is consistent with the third theme, where traditional news organizations problematize BuzzFeed’s forms of economic and cultural capital. Finally, despite some degrees of uncertainty, traditional news organizations seem to positively welcome BuzzFeed’s entry into the journalistic field, both as a transformative force and as a potential ally for preservation.

scholarly journals Russian Cinema in the Free-Market Realm

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Stojanova
Keyword(s):  
Free Market ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Central Planning ◽  
The Political ◽  
Karl Polanyi ◽  
Social Economist ◽  
Great Transformation ◽  
Russian Cinema ◽  
Breaking Work

RUSSIAN CINEMA IN THE FREE-MARKET REALM: STRATEGIES FOR SURVIVAL For a motto of this article I would like to paraphrase the title of Werner Herzog's 1974 film Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle(1) (Every Man for Himself and God Against All) to read: Every Director for Himself and the Free Market Against All. The Hungarian-born social economist and philosopher Karl Polanyi provides a useful theoretical framework for the current situation in post-Communist national cinemas. In his ground-breaking work The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time (1944) he critiques the inherent tendency of an all powerful market to subordinate and manipulate society. His famous dictum "laissez-faire was planned, central planning was not" rings more true today on the basis of post Communist experience, than at the time he wrote his book between the wars.(2) Polanyi has consistently warned against the dangers of separation...

scholarly journals Urban vitality and neighborhood design: a proposal for Campo Grande, MS, Brazil

Terr Plural ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Eliane Guaraldo ◽  
Roberto Macedo Gamarra ◽  
Ariel Pinto ◽  
Lara Louise Corte Mattos ◽  
Vanessa Aderaldo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Western Region ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Neighborhood Design ◽  
Social Segregation ◽  
Methodological Strategy

This paper concerns the practical application, in a medium city neighborhood in the central-western region of Brazil, of six parameters to support urban vitality: permeability, variety, legibility, versatility, appropriate image, and perceptual wealth, as developed by Bentley & Alcock (1999). The methodological strategy addressed the theoretical framework and the reality of the neighborhood with the support of geotechnologies and urban records. The proposed interventions exercise a combination of urban design instruments, intending to implementing elements of vitality, so reverse the current situation of urban stagnation and social segregation of the place.

scholarly journals Bourdieu’s Field Theory and Science Education: Possible Articulations and Appropriations

2021 ◽  
pp. e33830
Author(s):  
Luciana Massi ◽  
Gabriela Agostini ◽  
Matheus Monteiro Nascimento
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Science Education ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Theoretical Study ◽  
Sociology Of Science ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Specific Capital ◽  
Research Studies

Based on contributions from the sociology of science in the field of Science Education, this article aims to explore and elucidate the concept of fields, formulated by Pierre Bourdieu, in the objects of study of this area. This theoretical study is structured in three parts, which are articulated throughout the text: a synthesis of the general and invariable principles of fields; an elaboration of an analogy between the different field theories (sociology and physics); a discussion about the appropriation of field theories in research studies on Science Education that use them. We discuss the field as a social space, the agents’ habitus, the positions in the field, disputes and interests, distribution of the specific capital, limits, boundaries, and the field autonomy. An interpretation of this complex Bourdieusian concept was defended, in a way to determine the limits of the field and their agents, based on how research has appropriated it. Therefore, a theoretical framework was advanced, coming up with the possible and effective articulations between Science Education and Bourdieu’ Sociology of Science.

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