Browsing by Author "Karaosmanoglu, Defne"

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Gastrodiplomacy in Turkey: 'saving the world' or neoliberal conservative cultural policies at work
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2023) Eser, Busra; Karaosmanoglu, Defne
Gastrodiplomacy is an external project because it is a struggle to represent and promote a country internationally. It is, however, an internal project as well since building a 'strong' nation is foremost a domestic public project. In this article, we focus on how a sense of nation is created in Turkey's gastrodiplomacy efforts and how these turn into cultural policy when we recognize the domestic public as the target. To be able to discuss gastrodiplomacy and its discontents in Turkey, we look at First Lady Emine Erdogan's use of culinary culture for promotional purposes. We particularly focus on the first gastrodiplomacy project of Turkey - the publication of a Turkish cookbook and its book launch in 2021. Our main aim is to understand how Emine Erdogan uses food to dictate a specific political agenda and how this political agenda has to do with conservative gender politics and neoliberal cultural policies.
The Unlimited Joy, 'once You Start You Can't Stop': Masculinity in Domestic Technology Commercials in Turkey
(Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2024) Karaosmanoglu, Defne; Ata, Leyla Bektas; Emgin, Bahar
Recently, studies have begun examining men's interaction with domestic space to explore changing forms of masculinity and domesticity, arguing that housework has become a leisure activity for men, with domestic technologies serving as tools (toys) for them to engage with. In this article, we explore how men in Turkish television commercials of domestic technologies are portrayed and how these portrayals construct and reconstruct discourses of domesticity and masculinity. We aim to understand men's relationship with masculinity, home and domestic work in these commercials. Alongside leisure and fun, we explore the construction of discourses of masculinity and domesticity through specific themes such as the naughty scientist, the self-seeking purchaser, and the flirtatious chef. We argue that seeing more men on screen does not democratise domesticity since the equal share of workload at home is still far from being realised even in these portrayals. We also argue that domesticity is aestheticized with the participation of men and technology. Finally, women are used as instruments by men in reconstructing their masculinity through heterosexuality.