Assoc. Prof. Defne Karaosmanoğlu
“Social History of Household Technologies in Turkey (1930-2020): Modernization in the Everyday Lives of Women”
The project intends to present holistic historical writing focused on social, cultural, political, and technological changes that try to understand how housework-related technologies in Turkey changed the house, household, in-house roles, in-house interpersonal dynamics through their representation and use, how they removed or reproduced the distinction between public and private, modern and traditional.
The project consists of two phases: The first phase includes a media archive study covering a history of 90 years between 1930-2020. A report comprising visuals and printed texts on the history of home technologies in Turkey will be prepared due to a media archive study covering newspapers, magazines, movies, television, and online media examined through statement analysis. The second phase of the project, oral history research: In-depth interviews will be conducted with female users residing in three major cities.
A researcher, a post-doctoral researcher, a master’s fellow, two doctoral fellows and two undergraduate fellows are working on the project.
Starting on February 15, 2021, the project will continue until August 15, 2023.
Prof. Dr. Banu Baybars
Kadir Has Üniversitesi Türkiye Araştırmaları Grubu ile Global Akademi ortaklığında geliştirilen Türkiye Eğilimleri Araştırması‘nın 2021 yılı saha çalışmaları 23 Ekim-5 Kasım 2021 tarihleri arasında gerçekleştirildi. Türkiye temsiliyetine sahip 26 ilde yaşayan 18 yaş üzeri 1.000 kişiyle yapılan görüşmelere dayanan çalışmaya göre Türkiye’de halkın ana gündem maddesi “ekonomik sorunlar”. Geçtiğimiz yıla göre oranını üçe katlayan “mülteci sorunu” ikinci sıraya yerleşirken, “Koronavirüs salgını” üçüncü sırada yer aldı.
The 2021 field study of the “Turkey Trends” Survey, developed in partnership with Kadir Has University’s Turkey Research Group and Global Academy, were carried out by Akademetre Research and Strategic Planning between October 23 and November 5, 2021. Participants of the survey comprised of 1,000 people over the age of 18 residing in city centers in 26 provinces. According to the study, the main concern of the Turkish public is “economic problems”. The “refugee issue”, which tripled its percentage compared to last year, took the second place, followed by the “Coronavirus pandemic” in the third place.
Res. Asst. Mine Bertan Yılmaz and Prof. Dr. Banu Baybars
The book chapter titled “A Critical Perspective on Greenwashing Under the Roof of Corporate Environmentalism,“ co-authored by Mine Bertan Yılmaz and Prof. Dr. Banu Baybars Hawks from KHAS Public Relations and Information Department is published in Green Marketing in Emerging Economies: A Communications Perspective, a part of the “Palgrave Studies of Marketing in Emerging Economies” book series by Palgrave MacMillan.
In the study, the relationship between corporate social responsibility practices and green laundering practices is critically analyzed. Through environmental practices, the relations between transnational companies, international organizations, and non-governmental organizations are analyzed with a political economy approach.
You can review the book via this link: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-82572-0_6
Dr. İdil Akın
Previous Achievements
Dr. Akın researched at the University of Vienna within the scope of the Ernst Mach Worldwide Grant given by the Austrian Government to encourage international cooperation.
A series of social experiments conducted by Dr. Akın on the effects of previous behaviors on future decision-making mechanisms were published in the “Five Field Experimental Tests of Preferential Attachment” section of the Oxford Handbook of Social Networks.
Dr. Akın took part in the “Transformative Effects of the Global COVID19 Epidemic on Contemporary Art in Turkey”, supported by TÜBİTAK, and observed how the COVID-19 epidemic reflected on art viewing practices. The first output of the research was published in the Cultural Trends magazine with the title “Impacts of Processes of Digitalization on the Reception of Contemporary Art in Turkey During Covid-19”.