Publication Status of Postgraduate Theses Completed in Ankara University’s Health Sciences Institute (1984- 2023): A Biometric Study

Kafkas Journal of Medical Sciences · 2025-01-01

Material and Method:The study was prepared using a bibliometric, retrospective and descriptive design.The data were analyzed using performance analysis, and descriptive statistics were used to calculate the number and percentage distributions of the data. Results:The study determined that 3783 graduate theses (39.2% master's theses and 60.7% doctoral theses) were prepared at Ankara University's Institute of Health Sciences.25.2% of master's theses and 34.26% of doctoral theses were published, resulting in a total publication rate of 29.8% for graduate theses.Of the publications from master's and doctoral theses, 59.6% were published in international indexes, 22% in national indexes, 16.7% in citation indexes, and 1.5% in national refereed journals. Conclusion:The study revealed that the publication rate of postgraduate theses conducted in the health sciences institute of the relevant university was not high.In this context, the factors affecting the conversion of postgraduate theses into publications should be investigated, and solutions should be produced.Additionally, institutional arrangements should be established to ensure the publication of theses, and effective policies should be implemented to support this process.

Trans theoretical approaches to memory and relatedness: Potentials and suggestions at the intersections of transgender studies and queer studies

Memory Studies · 2023

• Sociology
• Sociology
• Gender studies

This article focuses on the question of, Can we study memory and its curious itineraries as spaces of kin-making? By focusing on the stories of trans mothers and trans daughters, this research aims to show how women with trans experiences play with the gendered and sexualized links between body, family, time, and memory. The article is organized into two main sections. The first part focuses on everyday practices and experiences of trans motherhoods and trans daughterhoods to illustrate how memory formation and memory transmission are crucial components in the construction of kin-ties and individual identity. Second, I turn my attention to the literature on transcultural and transgenerational memories, highlighting how scholars working across the fields of memory, kinship, and trans and queer studies enrich the scope of trans*. Engaging with trans* approaches to memory and relatedness, expands and plays with legal, political, and social experiences of spatial and temporal confinement while inviting us to attentively see lived experiences that unapologetically experiment with the links between memory and relatedness.

03 World Making Family, Time, and Memory among Trans Mothers and Daughters in Istanbul

Duke University Press eBooks · 2022 · 12 citations

• History
• Psychology
• Business

World Making

2022-08-08

Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey. Salih CanAçıksöz. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. 272 pp.

American Ethnologist · 2021

• Sociology
• Political Science
• Sociology

Queer postmemory

European Journal of Women s Studies · 2019-07-23 · 28 citations

Drawing on 10 years of activism in Turkey’s trans movement and seven months of fieldwork in Istanbul on mutually formed mother and daughter relationship among trans women, this article looks at alternative understandings of ‘inter-generational’ transmission of memory. How can we engage alternative family making processes and non-normative formations of time with memory transmission rather than merely identify ‘inter-generational’ memory in advance with pre-established non-normative systems? Or can we talk about ‘inter-generational’ memories without knowing what ‘generation’ really means? Inspired by these questions, Marianne Hirsch’s work on postmemory and narratives of self-identified trans mothers and daughters, in this article the author discusses the conceptualization of ‘queer postmemory’ in order to think critically on unmarked temporal and familial dimensions in the study of collective and personal memory. While refusing to position memory as an outcome of predetermined temporal frameworks within normative understandings of family, the author looks at strangely remembered things through glimpses of other types of time, other types of relationalities and other types of inheritability.

CHAPTER XI. “Nobody Is Going To Let You Attend Your Own Funeral”

Columbia University Press eBooks · 2019-10-23

Queer mothers and daughters: the role of queer kinship in the everyday lives of trans sex worker women in Istanbul

Sabanci University · 2014-01-01

This thesis focuses on the queer kinship experiences of trans sex worker women in Istanbul, Turkey. Based on semi-structured, in-depth interviews and participantobservation with individuals who have been part of a queer mother/daughter kinship relation, the research explores the role of queer kinship in everyday practice of trans lives, in exploring its connections to transphobia and heteronormativity. What is queer kinship? How has it developed? What are some of the meanings attached to it? In what ways is it destructive of heteronormativity and/or hegemonic family structures? What gets transmitted from mothers to daughters? Can we speak of a queer inter-generational transmission of memory and a queer postmemory as M. Hirsch conceptualizes? Departing from these questions, this research investigates the alternative forms of motherhood and daughterhood through J. Halberstam’s conceptualization of queer time and space and argues that queer kinship forms its own time zone in which normative understandings of terms such as “birth”, “generation” and “growing up” are deconstructed, and reconstructed. At the same time, this research points out the dynamics and practices in queer kinship that reproduce the binary structure of gender roles through gender reassignment process. The thesis argues that we can speak of a queer inter-generational transmission of knowledge and memory that constructs a collective identity, empowerment, and resistance against transphobic violence coming from state institutions and customers. The thesis aims to contribute to the existing literature on queer kinship and memory by exploring the everyday life practices of queer mothers and daughters among trans sex workers in Istanbul.