Browsing by Author "Ozbek, Muge"

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In the Shadow of War and Empire: Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey
(Cambridge Univ Press, 2024) Ozbek, Muge
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Reconsidering Labor Coercion Through the Logics of Im/Mobility and the Environment
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2023) Bernardi, Claudia; Shahid, Amal; Ozbek, Muge
The 'new mobilities paradigm' formulated in the early 2000s allowed scholars of labor to explore the possibilities of the concept of im/mobility as an interpretive framework for understanding processes of work and labor. This paper contributes to the continued cross-fertilization between mobility studies and labor studies by exploring the theoretical and methodological prospects of focusing on assemblages of temporal- spatial practices that simultaneously compel and confine movement. The article suggests that means, processes, and extent of labor coercion can be understood by analyzing how people are compelled to move or are confined to specific sites temporarily or permanently. It discusses how employing space and im/mobility as conceptual tools uncover the role of diffused, hierarchical layers through which labor coercion emerges. In this regard, environment emerges as a significant factor. The paper examines how mobility becomes a line of flight from sites/fields of coercion, or locks people into new forms of coercive relations; the legal/ formal or informal frameworks that regulate or govern labor im/mobility within specific sites; and how the logics of deployment and coercion overlap and mutually reinforce one another. Ultimately, it aims to contribute to the calls for non-linear, newly spatialized histories of labor processes and labor coercion.
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'we Have the Right To Work': the Rise of the 'national Economy' and Reformulating the Demands of the Women's Movement in the Pages of Kadinlar Dunyasi in the Post Balkan Wars Era
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2023) Ozbek, Muge
This article utilizes the first 100 issues of Kadinlar Dunyasi, published in 1913, to explore the emergence of new feminist discourse attributing women with new socio-economic roles, other than childrearing and household labor, in a general socio-historical context that was defined by the needs of a new national economy. The intention here is primarily to show how new visions of Ottoman womanhood emerged, radically different from the previous model of relatively modern, educated mothers and wives which had been promoted in former decades as novel, nationalist policies and projects of society began to unfold in the post-Balkan Wars era and to explore how these newer visions were represented in feminist discourse.