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Aysegul Yayla
- Dec 18, 2018
- 4 min
Gecekondus of Istanbul
This is a part of the PhD application I prepared for the “Collective action in Istanbul’s informal neighborhoods” project at University of Amsterdam. My application did not result positively but I really enjoyed doing the research about it. Reading Mike Davis' Planet of Slums book on the subject was especially great. This proposal would be an interdisciplinary approach to analyze the gecekondus of Istanbul. So please read all the "I will"s as "I would"s since probably someon
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Aysegul Yayla
- Nov 10, 2018
- 2 min
Ayşe’s Story
Ayşe: Rahat ve huzur içinde yaşayan Merhaba, ben Ayşe Öğretmen. Eskişehir’in Odunpazarı’nda otururduk. Cumhuriyet’in ilk kadın öğretmenlerindenim. İşimi çok sevdim. Çok öğrenci okuttum, mezun ettim. Rol modeli oldum birçoklarına. 1902’de Eskişehir’de doğdum. Adaşım olan teyzem büyüttü beni. Okuma yazma öğretti. Öğretmen olarak çalışmaya başlayınca Muhittin’le tanıştım. Müfettişlik yapıyordu. Uzatmalı bir nişanlısı vardı ama onun yerine benimle evlendi. 1920’lerde üç oğlumuz o
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Aysegul Yayla
- Sep 26, 2018
- 3 min
Sevgisun’s Story
Sevgisun (Fatma): Sevgi, dostluk göster anlamında 1941’de Söğüt’te doğdum. Kıvırcık saçlarımdan dolayı beni Şirley (Shirley Temple) diye severlerdi. Okulun ilk günü zil çalınca dışarı koştuğum için öğretmen beni dövdü. Babam da öğretmene kızıp herkesin içinde hıncını benden aldı. Ben dokuz yaşındayken öldü. İlkokuldan sonrasını okumadım. Ablam evlenince annemle Bursa’ya ipek fabrikasında çalışmaya gittik. Bana mışır mışır yaprak yiyen ipek böceklerini tartma görevini verdiler
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Aysegul Yayla
- Jan 21, 2014
- 7 min
From Double to Mestiza Consciousness
The below section is taken from the Introduction of my MA thesis From Double to Mestiza Consciousness as a part of the Research Master Study of Art and Literature program at the Leiden University. Identity politics require the presence of a marginalized Other. Marginalization occurs when a group of people is disadvantaged based on single or multiple constructed inequalities in a social context. This study is concentrated on the African-American and Mexican-American experience
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