Prof. HELGA İDA RİTTERSBERGER | AVESİS

Research Information System

Academic and Administrative Experience

Managerial Experience

2010 - Continues Erasmus Program Institutional Coordinator

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Sociology
2015 - 2017 Deputy Head of Department

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Sociology

Advising Theses

Space production through graffiti: Understanding the 2013 appropriation of Taksim in context

Rittersberger H. I. (Co-Advisor), Altan Altuğ T. E.

M.BERNARDONI(Student), Doctorate, 2023
The planetary-extended urbanization of valleys of the Eastern Black Sea region: The dispossession of Fırtına Valley through tourism and nature conservation

Rittersberger H. İ. (Advisor)

O.AÇAR(Student), Doctorate, 2023
CONCEPTUALIZING URBICIDE: SPACE, MEMORY, WAR, AND NECROPOLITICS

Rittersberger H. I. (Advisor)

S.BEKİROĞLU(Student), Doctorate, 2023
“Local and National” Discourse: A Tool for the De-Mobilization of Turkish Model

Rittersberger H. I., Dolcerocca A. P. C. (Co-Advisor)

M.Arca(Student), Postgraduate, 2022
Understanding Emotional Activism of the Prefigurative Multitude: Selected Cases of Migrant Solidarity Kitchens Collectives in Istanbul and Berlin

Rittersberger H. I. (Co-Advisor), Tombuş E.

H.Güney(Student), Postgraduate, 2022
GENDERED VIOLENCE, EXPLOITATION AND RESISTANCE: EXPERIENCES OF IRANIAN REFUGEE WOMEN IN YALOVA

Rittersberger H. I. (Advisor)

C.GİZEM(Student), Doctorate, 2022
LGBTI+s' resistances and spatial productions in Istanbul: A path towards the right to the city

RİTTERSBERGER H. İ. (Advisor)

N.ZEREY(Student), Doctorate, 2022
Sociological analysis of organizing dynamics of anarchist movement in Turkey

Rittersberger H. I. (Advisor)

S.KIRILMAZ(Student), Postgraduate, 2022
CONTINUITIES AND DISCONTINUITIES IN COLLECTIVE ACTION DURING THE PANDEMIC: URBAN COMMONING PRACTICES IN THE CASE OF AYRANCI, ANKARA

Rittersberger H. I. (Advisor)

U.YÜKSEL(Student), Postgraduate, 2022
Reproduction of postmodernism on representations of space a case of Denizli

Rittersberger H. I. (Advisor)

F.CAN(Student), Postgraduate, 2022
The role of political activists in counter-hegemony formation: A case study on Tuzluçayır/Ankara

Rittersberger H. I. (Advisor)

D.TANIŞ(Student), Doctorate, 2022
Digitalized local economies in Turkey: The case of Medyascope.tv

Rittersberger H. I. (Advisor)

U.DÜLGER(Student), Postgraduate, 2022
Developing People: European Transnational Governance of Migration and the two Dimensions of the EU-TR Deal

Rittersberger H. I. (Co-Advisor), Tuncer M. G.

M.Weissenbach(Student), Postgraduate, 2021
Government Techniques in the Management of the Coronavirus Outbreak: A Comparative Analysis on the Biopolitics of the UK and Turkey

Rittersberger H. I., Tuncer M. G.(Co-Advisor)

A.Mert(Student), Postgraduate, 2021
Production of space and social cohesion: Roma, Iraqis, and locals in the Ankara Neighborhood of Demirlibahçe

Rittersberger H. I. (Advisor)

H.OZAN(Student), Postgraduate, 2021
Anarchism and justice

RİTTERSBERGER H. İ. (Advisor), PARKAN B. (Advisor)

F.MERİÇ(Student), Postgraduate, 2021
The Impact of Right-Wing Populism on the Identities of German Minority Communities

Rittersberger H. İ., Tombuş E.(Co-Advisor)

A.Joseph(Student), Postgraduate, 2020
GENDERED RURAL TRANSFORMATION AND PEASANT-WORKERS: THE CASE OF THE WOMEN OF THE GREENHOUSE, WESTERN ANATOLIA, TURKEY

Rittersberger H. İ. (Co-Advisor), Hoşgör H. A.

Z.Ceren(Student), Doctorate, 2020
In search of a limit to anthropogenic impacts on ecosystems: "Fair use" of energy

Rittersberger H. İ. (Co-Advisor), Soytaş U.

M.OLCAY(Student), Doctorate, 2020
The perception and experience of spatial segregation: Dikmen 5th Stage Gecekondu Neighborhood and Park Oran Gated Community

Rittersberger H. İ. (Advisor)

E.EFTAL(Student), Postgraduate, 2020
Framing the everyday resistance in vegan lifestyle

Rittersberger H. İ. (Advisor)

T.TURGAY(Student), Postgraduate, 2020
Rethinking the State Planning: The Case of State Planning Organization Turkey

Rittersberger H. İ., Tuncer G.(Co-Advisor)

E.Aslan(Student), Postgraduate, 2019
Climate change vulnerability in agriculture and adaptation strategies of farmers to climatic stresses in Konya, Turkey

Rittersberger Tılıç H. İ. (Advisor), LELOĞLU U. M. (Co-Advisor)

M.KUŞ(Student), Doctorate, 2019
Experiences and challenges of return migration of second and third generation Turkish-Germans

Rittersberger H. İ. (Advisor)

T.İZGİN(Student), Postgraduate, 2019
European Identity Perspective of German-Turkish Students Having Resided in Turkey under Erasmus+ Scheme

Rittersberger Tılıç H. İ. (Advisor), Zırh B. C. (Co-Advisor)

D.Yaşlak(Student), Postgraduate, 2018
Constitution of Authoritarian Neoliberalism in Turkey: The Transformation of State and Economy

Rittersberger Tılıç H. İ. (Co-Advisor), Tuncer M. G.

Ö.Dede(Student), Postgraduate, 2018
Health Care System Transformation in Turkey since 2003: An Analysis of the Health Transfromation Program

Rittersberger Tılıç H. İ., Tuncer M. G.(Co-Advisor)

M.Büyükçakıroğlu(Student), Postgraduate, 2018
Neo-Ottomanism and the Politics of Memory in Turkey: Constructing an Alternative Nationalism

Rittersberger Tılıç H. İ., Tuncer M. G.(Co-Advisor)

K.Thomas(Student), Postgraduate, 2018
The Perpetual Guest: Practicing Alevi Identity in Germany, Turkey and Transnational Space

Rittersberger Tılıç H. İ. (Advisor), Tuncer M. G.(Co-Advisor)

A.Cooper(Student), Postgraduate, 2018
Socio-Spatial Analysis of a Gecekondu Transformatio Project in Ankara

Rittersberger Tılıç H. İ. (Advisor), Zırh B. C. (Advisor)

L.Cornelius(Student), Postgraduate, 2018
Symbolic boundaries and social capital mobilization among low-income workers in Sincan, Turkey

RİTTERSBERGER H. İ. (Advisor)

İ.KAAN(Student), Postgraduate, 2018
Hegemonic politics of homeownership and formation of neoliberal subjectivities: Former gecekondu residents in Gülveren - Ankara

RİTTERSBERGER H. İ. (Advisor)

C.İDEL(Student), Postgraduate, 2018
Habitus of sustainability: Daily life consumption practices among green consumers in Turkey

RİTTERSBERGER H. İ. (Advisor)

M.BOZDOĞAN(Student), Postgraduate, 2018
Kurdish Diaspora and Experiences of Violence

Rittersberger Tılıç H. İ. (Co-Advisor), Nowicka M.

F.Lüdtke(Student), Postgraduate, 2017
Encountering the Armenian Community: experiences of Armenian domestic workers in Istanbul

RİTTERSBERGER H. İ. (Advisor)

M.PAKSOY(Student), Postgraduate, 2017
The Labouring Body. The Body as Disciplined Practice and its Effects on Cultural Identification

Rittersberger Tılıç H. İ. (Co-Advisor), Tuncer M. G.

S.Kartal(Student), Postgraduate, 2016
An Analysis of Selected Cases of Environmental Movements in Turkey through an Ecofeminist Approach

Rittersberger H. I., Balaban O. (Co-Advisor)

E.SEÇKİN(Student), Postgraduate, 2016
Critique of Vulnerability Discourse Through and Altenative Development Approach

Rittersberger Tılıç H. İ. (Co-Advisor), Hoşgör H. A.

E.Çarıkçı(Student), Doctorate, 2016
Turkish Language as a Polticized Element: The Case of Turkish Nation-Building

Rittersberger Tılıç H. İ., Tuncer M. G.

T.Sevin(Student), Postgraduate, 2016
Use and perception of urban space by the upper-middle class in the "Rezidans" in Ankara as an outcome of created demand

RİTTERSBERGER H. İ. (Advisor)

F.ŞEBNEM(Student), Doctorate, 2016
Transforming constraints into strategies: The role of different forms of capital in the status passage of documented İranian migrants in Ankara, Turkey

RİTTERSBERGER H. İ. (Advisor)

Y.AKİS(Student), Doctorate, 2016
The transformation in habitus in an exchangee village in the Black Sea Region of Turkey

RİTTERSBERGER H. İ. (Advisor)

İ.ZEYNEP(Student), Doctorate, 2015
Islamic proletariat & the new middle class dynamics in the context of Gezi park protests in neoliberal Turkey

Okyayuz M., Rittersberger Tılıç H. İ.

Ö.YALÇIN(Student), Postgraduate, 2015
Framing Gezi movement in Ankara

RİTTERSBERGER H. İ. (Advisor)

A.DENİZ(Student), Doctorate, 2015
The politics of immigration policy making in Turkey between 2002-2015

BAĞCI H. (Co-Advisor), RİTTERSBERGER H. İ. (Co-Advisor)

Y.DEVLET(Student), Doctorate, 2015
Multi-dimensionality of migration: The case of post-1974 immigrants in the Bahçeli Village in the Northern Part of Cyprus

RİTTERSBERGER H. İ. (Advisor)

A.TALAT(Student), Doctorate, 2015
Spaces of conflict: Memory, musealization and heterotopiain the city of Sivas, Turkey

RİTTERSBERGER H. İ. (Advisor)

P.KARABABA(Student), Doctorate, 2015
Local actors and sustainability in the Kaz Mountains region

RİTTERSBERGER H. İ. (Advisor)

E.ŞAKAR(Student), Doctorate, 2014
Involvement of local associations as asymmetric functional equivalents to centralized disaster management agency in Düzce: A Luhmannian perspective

RİTTERSBERGER H. İ. (Advisor)

B.YOLDAŞ(Student), Doctorate, 2014
An analysis of urban struggles in the process of practices of urban commoning: Resistance on "uncommon ground" "in, for and beyond" İstanbul

RİTTERSBERGER H. İ. (Advisor)

N.BAŞAK(Student), Doctorate, 2014
Individual escapism or eco-community: Selected cases of ecovillage initiatives in Turkey

RİTTERSBERGER H. İ. (Advisor)

E.ARICAN(Student), Doctorate, 2014
Good governance in sustainable human development: A subnational case in Turkey

RİTTERSBERGER H. İ. (Advisor)

G.ÖZDEMİR(Student), Doctorate, 2013
A multi-level and multi-sited analysis of the European Union's immigration and asylum policy concerning irregular migration and its implications for Turkey: Edirne and Izmir as two major gateway cities

RİTTERSBERGER H. İ. (Advisor)

N.ELA(Student), Doctorate, 2013
IS JEWELRY STILL A CRAFT? THE ROLE OF TRUST AND WORK ETHIC IN JEWELRY SECTOR THE CASE OF ISTANBUL GRAND BAZAAR

RİTTERSBERGER H. İ. (Advisor)

Ç.ÇÖREK(Student), Postgraduate, 2011
Grassroots resistance against urban renewal: The case of Güzeltepe, İstanbul

RİTTERSBERGER H. İ. (Advisor)

N.BAŞAK(Student), Postgraduate, 2006