Information Package / Course Catalogue
Culture, Space and Politics
Course Code: MİÇ618
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: Third Cycle (Doctorate Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 5
Objectives of the Course

Course Content

Name of Lecturer(s)
Prof. Hüseyin ÇELİK
Learning Outcomes
1.Discuss the relationship between politics, culture and space in the context of communication and media theories.
2.Gains the ability to explain political theories through concepts such as Identity, Essentialism and Universalism.
3.Can evaluate their political systems and urban people.
4.Can evaluate political systems in the context of spatial interaction.
5.Can explain the connections between concepts with theoretical ground.
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Hayek, Friedrich A. von. The Constitution of Liberty.Chicago: Regnery, 1978, 1, 2, 6, 7, 9, ve 10. Bölümler
2.Habermas, J. (2003). Kamusallığın Yapısal Dönüşümü. (Çev. Tanıl Bora, Mithat Sancar). İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları
3.Köker, L. (1990). İki Farklı Siyaset-Bilgi Teorisi, Siyaset Bilimi İlişkileri Açısından Pozitivizm ve Eleştirel Teori, İstanbul: Ayrıntı Yayınları
4.Fontana, B. (2013). Hegemonya ve İktidar, çev. Onur Gayretli, İstanbul: Kalkedon Yayınları
5.Waltz, Kenneth. Theory of International Politics. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979, 5. Bölüm (3. Altbölüm, s. 88-101)
6.Doyle, Michael. "Kant, Liberal Legacies, and Foreign Affairs." Philosophy and Public Affairs 12, no. 3 ve 4 (Yaz ve Güz 1983): 205-235 ve 323-53.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Reflections of Modernization and Industrialization Processes
Week 2 - Theoretical
Henri Lefebvre and the Fordist-Capitalist Spaces of the Modern Period
Week 3 - Theoretical
Rational Public Discourse and the Structural Transformation of the Public Space from Habermas
Week 4 - Theoretical
Space as an Object of Semantics and Phenomenology
Week 5 - Theoretical
Space and Space Metaphors
Week 6 - Theoretical
Visual Politics
Week 7 - Theoretical
Fredric Jameson and the Unifying Powers of Dialectics
Week 8 - Intermediate Exam
Midterm
Week 9 - Theoretical
The Relationship Between Politics and Space: Political Theories of Arendt, Laclau, Mouffe and Rancière
Week 10 - Theoretical
City-People-Space Interaction: Chicago School and Louis Wirth
Week 11 - Theoretical
Political Systems, Space and Power I
Week 12 - Theoretical
Political Systems, Space and Power II
Week 13 - Theoretical
Cultural Power Area: A Gramsci and an Althusserian Reading
Week 14 - Theoretical
Identity, Essentialism and Universalism
Week 15 - Final Exam
Final Exam
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%30
Final Examination1%50
Term Assignment1%20
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory152375
Term Project28220
Midterm Examination114115
Final Examination114115
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)125
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
PÇ-1
PÇ-2
PÇ-3
PÇ-4
PÇ-5
PÇ-6
PÇ-7
PÇ-8
OÇ-1
5
4
4
5
5
4
4
4
OÇ-2
5
4
4
5
5
4
4
4
OÇ-3
5
4
4
5
5
4
4
4
OÇ-4
5
4
4
4
4
5
5
5
OÇ-5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026