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                                                                                    <journal-title>Bingöl Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi</journal-title>
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                            <issn pub-type="ppub">1309-6672</issn>
                                        <issn pub-type="epub">2618-6322</issn>
                                                                                            <publisher>
                    <publisher-name>Bingol University</publisher-name>
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                                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.29029/busbed.1797589</article-id>
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                                                            <subject>British and Irish Language, Literature and Culture</subject>
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                                            <subj-group  xml:lang="tr">
                                                            <subject>İngiliz ve İrlanda Dili, Edebiyatı ve Kültürü</subject>
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                                    <trans-title>NADİNE GORDİMER’İN THE CONSERVATIONIST ADLI ROMANINDA ANTROPOSANTRİZM, KAPİTALİZM VE EKOFEMİNİZM: EKOELEŞTİREL BİR YAKLAŞIM</trans-title>
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                                                                                                                                                                                                <article-title>ANTHROPOCENTRISM, CAPITALISM AND ECOFEMINISM IN NADINE GORDIMER’S THE CONSERVATIONIST: AN ECOCRITICAL APPROACH</article-title>
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                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6831-5007</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Aydıntürk</surname>
                                    <given-names>Mehmet</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>AĞRI İBRAHİM ÇEÇEN ÜNİVERSİTESİ</aff>
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                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4154-1298</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Geçikli</surname>
                                    <given-names>Kubilay</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>ATATÜRK ÜNİVERSİTESİ</aff>
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                                        <pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="20260428">
                    <day>04</day>
                    <month>28</month>
                    <year>2026</year>
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                                                    <issue>31</issue>
                                        <fpage>256</fpage>
                                        <lpage>266</lpage>
                        
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                                    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="20251005">
                        <day>10</day>
                        <month>05</month>
                        <year>2025</year>
                    </date>
                                                    <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="20251023">
                        <day>10</day>
                        <month>23</month>
                        <year>2025</year>
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                    <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2011, Bingöl University Journal of Social Sciences Institute</copyright-statement>
                    <copyright-year>2011</copyright-year>
                    <copyright-holder>Bingöl University Journal of Social Sciences Institute</copyright-holder>
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                            <p>Bu çalışma, Güney Afrikalı yazar Nadine Gordimer’in The Conservationist (1974) adlı romanını ekoeleştirel bir yaklaşımla incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Çalışmada, romandaki başkarakter Mehring’in doğaya, hayvanlara, yerli halka ve kadınlara yönelik tutumları üzerinden antroposantrizm, türcülük, ırkçılık ve patriyarkal bakış açılarının ekolojik sorunların temel nedenleri olduğu ortaya konmuştur. Araştırma, nitel bir edebî metin çözümlemesi olarak tasarlanmış, derin ekoloji, sosyal ekoloji ve ekofeminizm gibi yaklaşımlar kuramsal temel olarak ele alınmıştır. Bulgular, kapitalist zihniyetin doğayı ve insanları metalaştırarak sömürdüğünü, patriyarkal düzenin kadın ve doğa üzerinde aynı baskı mekanizmalarını kurduğunu, ırkçılığın ise sömürgecilik bağlamında hem insanları hem de ekosistemi olumsuz etkilediğini göstermektedir. Romanda, Mehring’in kişiliğinde somutlaşan bu sömürücü zihniyetin, sadece bireysel bir karakter değil, aynı zamanda kapitalizmin, kolonyalizmin ve ataerkil düzenin bir yansıması olduğu vurgulanmaktadır. Çalışmanın bir diğer önemli bulgusu, edebiyatın çevre sorunlarına dikkat çekme ve ekolojik farkındalık yaratma gücüdür. Gordimer’in romanı, doğanın yalnızca ekonomik bir kaynak olarak görülmesine karşı çıkarak, insan-doğa ilişkisinde etik ve bütüncül bir bakış açısının gerekliliğini ortaya koymaktadır. Bu bağlamda, çalışma hem edebiyat incelemelerine ekolojik bir katkı sağlamakta hem de günümüz çevre tartışmalarına ışık tutmaktadır.</p></trans-abstract>
                                                                                                                                    <abstract><p>This study aims to analyze South African writer Nadine Gordimer’s The Conservationist (1974) through an ecocritical lens. The research focuses on the protagonist Mehring’s attitudes toward nature, animals, indigenous people, and women, highlighting anthropocentrism, speciesism, racism, and patriarchy as fundamental sources of ecological problems. Designed as a qualitative literary text analysis, the study employs theoretical perspectives such as deep ecology, social ecology, and ecofeminism to provide a comprehensive framework. The findings indicate that the capitalist mentality commodifies both nature and human beings, patriarchal structures impose similar forms of domination on women and nature, and colonial racism contributes to the exploitation of people as well as ecosystems. In the novel, Mehring embodies not only an individual character but also the symbolic reflection of capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy. The analysis also emphasizes literature’s capacity to address environmental problems and to foster ecological awareness. Gordimer’s novel challenges the reduction of nature to a mere economic resource and underlines the necessity of an ethical and holistic perspective in human–nature relations. By demonstrating how literature can function as a cultural response to ecological crises, this study offers an interdisciplinary contribution to ecocriticism while shedding light on contemporary debates about sustainability, environmental justice, and ecological consciousness.</p></abstract>
                                                                                    
            
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                                                    <kwd>Ecocriticism</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Nadine Gordimer</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  The Conservationist</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Anthropocentrism</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Ecofeminism</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Capitalism</kwd>
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                                                    <kwd>Ekoeleştiri</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Nadine Gordimer</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  The Conservationist</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Antroposantrizm</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Ekofeminizm</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Kapitalizm</kwd>
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