Browsing by Author "Aytemiz, Pelin"

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Evdeki yabancı: Ankara'daki gürcü bakıcı kadınların gündelik hayat mücadeleleri ve taktikleri
(Başkent Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018) Koyuncu, Çağrı; Aytemiz, Pelin
Ankara'da yaşayan Gürcü bakıcı kadınlar ve işverenleri olan ev sahipleri arasındaki girift ilişkinin veçhelerini tespit etmek düşüncesiyle gerçekleştirilen bu araştırma Maduniyet çalışmaları ve gündelik hayat üzerine yazılmış eleştirel kuramdan yararlanır. Yüz yüze görüşmelerde bulunduğum aracı kurum yetkililerinin, işverenlerin ve bakıcı kadınların aktarmış oldukları deneyimler sayesinde tespit edilen veriler, Michel de Certeau'nun taktikler kavramıyla ilişkilendirilerek söylem analizi yöntemiyle çözümlenmiştir. Asıl amacı gündelik hayatın dinamizmi içerisindeki sadece belli bir boyuta karşılık gelen bakıcı kadınların kişisel alan mücadelesi ve buna karşılık ev sahiplerinin yapmış olduğu alan savunmasının analizi olan bu araştırma, nihai olarak stereotip inşası, karşılıklılık ilkesi ve taktiksel çıktılarının varlığına ışık tutmuştur. This research, which is based on the idea of identifying the aspects of the complex relationship between Georgian female domestic workers who live in Ankara and their householders who are also their employers, uses the subaltern studies and the critical theory written on everyday life. The data acquired thanks to the experiences which were told during the face-to-face interviews that I conducted with the agency officials, householders-employers and female domestic workers, were analyzed by the discourse analysis method by associating them with the concept of tactics of Michel de Certeau. This research, which aims in the first place to offer an analysis of the personal space struggle of the female domestic workers corresponding to only a certain dimension in the dynamism of everyday life and the space defence of the householders in return, ultimately shed light on the stereotype construction, the principle of reciprocity and the existence of the tactical outputs.
Making Grandfather Come Out Better Portraits of Ancestors and Digital Manipulation in Contemporary Turkey
(2015) Aytemiz, Pelin; 0000-0002-1420-7040; AFE-8592-2022
In contemporary Turkey, a growing number of lower to middle-income families bring old and often damaged photographs of their deceased family members to digital studios for restoration. Digital restoration artists, whether working online or from photography studios, retouch these photographs in often highly creative ways, such as adding color and fantasy backgrounds, or combining discrete portraits into fictional (diachronic) family portraits. Digital technologies such as the Photoshop program are here called upon to perform a very old desire: that of ensuring a dead person's continued presence. Engaging with debates on the passage from analog to digital and the relationship of photography to death, I examine this process from two perspectives. First, I focus on digital artists who understand their work in professional terms as intensely material, and in social terms as one of 'saving photographs from death'; second, I examine the renewed social potency that such digitally remastered photographs acquire in Turkish homes, where digital intervention not only ensures the continued potency of ancestral photographs in ensuring the presence of the deceased patriarch, but also enhances this presence in novel ways. Digitally remastered photographs are understood here as more than 'just' photo-realistic. They are 'more perfect' or even 'more real': their fictionality adds to their auratic character as icons of authority and makes them eminently suited for the renewed kind of social work that is demanded of them.
The Wide Open Windows of Cholera Street: On the Light and Sound Leaking Through/To the Private Space
(2018) Aytemiz, Pelin; AAE-9744-2022
Inspired by the subaltern studies the purpose of this article is to examine how the dichotomy of private/public in Metin Kacan's Agir Roman Novel is reproduced on the axis of the visual language used by Mustafa Altioklar's cinematic adaptation Cholera Street. The article is interested in the peculiar choice of slang usage and reads this as an invitation to blur the borders of private/public space that modern life demands to keep separate. In this sense, Cholera Street can also be regarded as a brilliant piece of social commentary, offering a vivid peek into the life of the "other" trapped in the peripheral neighborhood. This article unravels further how Cholera Street through visual film grammar and various metaphors sends strong critical messages about the silence of subalterns who often lack the means to speak for themselves and how the violation of privacy turns out to be a challenging act against the dominant order.