64 participants from different countries of Europe were together to discuss about important environmental problems, gain some knowledge about the seriousness of the topic and think as young and dynamic people what they can do against the negative developments in this field. For seven days they were involved with the issue, they participated in workshops, visited a landfill, made presentations ...

“Cities—including their sub-urban peripheries—have become increasingly important geographical targets and institutional laboratories for a variety of neoliberal policy experiments, […] urban development corporations, public-private partnerships […] The overarching goal of such neoliberal urban policy experiments is to mobilize city space as an arena both for market-oriented economic growth and for elite consumption practices.”1 As the above string of ideas by ...

In 2015 election campaign promises, Justice and Development Party (AKP) publicly declared that it would continue to commit its previous social policies, such as universal healthcare, that have been supposedly reduced the poverty to a considerable degree since it first took office in 2002. As a proof of this success, it is asserted that there is no people left under ...

PS:EUROPE Hisar School Certificate Program titled Democratization Workshop was held on April 3 and 10 in Istanbul Bilgi University. The first day of the workshop started with the speeches of PS:EUROPE Research Fellows Edgar Şar and Alphan Telek on secularism, on the second day, Didem Seyis and Seren Selvin Korkmaz gave a speech on identity. After the speeches of PS:EUROPE ...

PS:EUROPE holds its first Hisar School Certificate Program under the name of “Democratization Workshop”. The program will begin with PS:EUROPE researchers’ presentations on their research areas and proceed with brainstorming sessions. For further information in Turkish please visit http://ps-europe.org/tr/hisar-okulu-demokratiklesme-atolyesi/ http://ps-europe.org/tr/hisar-okulu-demokratiklesme-atolyesi/

In the context of migration, Internet means ‘death of distance’ and it transforms the traditional understanding of migrant networks and migration processes by adding a new dimension. The below analysis provides an overview on the role of social networking sites, the most popular sites on the Internet, in the context of migration discourse by focusing on; migrant integration, diaspora engagement ...

This article proposes a short overview on the benefits that body movement and sports can offer for contributing to rehabilitation of displaced children. After considering diverse aspects of traumas caused by displacement in children, I will give accounts from experiences of working on body movement with children in different cases, trying to frame general common conclusions from them. This article ...

This analysis basically concentrates on the case of Alevis in Turkey and offers a snapshot of the discrimination towards the community. European Union countries such as Austria, Germany, United Kingdom, which have migrant Alevi population, began to recognize Alevilik as a religious belief and to ensure equality in the public realm. However, the question turned into a vicious circle in ...

Recent studies on the spatial inequalities in the urban sphere in Turkey underscore increasing social injustice arising from urban regeneration projects and strives for participation of local people in the decision-making process of these projects. However, in comparison to extensive and comprehensive power of this new urbanism, ability to resist it looks hardly possible, if not unrealizable. I argue that ...

As a concept violence is not one of the key notions of psychoanalysis. In Freud, we cannot see violence instead; aggression, anger sadism, masochism, pain and pleasure, crime and punishment and fear can be seen in his works. These whole concepts are used by him to explain construction of ego and subjectivity. After Freud, violence stably maintains its secondary place ...