Material Politics in Turkey

Infrastructure, Science, and Expertise

Duygu Kasdogan, Ekin Kurtiç, Mehmet Ekinci (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2025
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-0-7556-4788-0 (ISBN)

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This book explores the role of material entities and processes in shaping political lives in Turkey. The unifying thread of its chapters is to challenge the rendering of the material world as a mere background to or object in politics, revealing the formative role of material entities and processes in political processes of infrastructure construction, knowledge production, and technical expertise in Turkey. Chapters explore the politics of material entities such as roads, canals, oilfields, and mines as well as less elaborated material sites, including military bases, soccer fields, and wetlands. In the context of Turkey’s ongoing politics of ‘modernisation’, these interdisciplinary case studies from the fields of anthropology of infrastructure and extraction, science and technology studies, and environmental humanities, provide important new analytical and theoretical approaches to understanding Turkish politics at local, national, and transnational scales.

Duygu Kasdogan is Assistant Professor of Urbanization and Environmental Problems in Political Science and Public Administration Department at Izmir Katip Çelebi University, Turkey. Ekin Kurtiç is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies at Northwestern University Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, USA Mehmet Ekinci, is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University, USA

On Materiality and Politics in Turkey: An Introduction
Duygu Kasdogan and Ekin Kurtiç
PART 1: The Politics of Infrastructure
1 Water Pipes versus Power Lines:GAP Between the Promises and Practices of Infrastructure Build-Up (Aybike Alkan)
2 Making the Water Infrastructure of Istanbul Visible: Disease, Fountains, Blueprints (1933- 1971) (Asya Ece Uzmay)
3 “Not for Sale”: Coal as a Pedagogical Infrastructure After the Soma Mine Disaster in Turkey (Elif Irem Az)
4 Commentary (Canay Özden-Schilling)
PART 2: Making Material Worlds Scientific
5 The Liminal Forest: Mud, Science and Nationalism in Turkey’s Forests (Hande Özkan)
6 Pasture-Cheese Diplomacy: Carving Knowledge in Dairy Technosciences (Mehmet Fatih Tatari)
7 The Social Life of Environmental Expertise: Leveraging Scientific Knowledge for Remaking Bio-Cultural Communities in Turkish Wetlands (Caterina Scaramelli)
8 “Is there Oil in Turkey?”: Geology, Oil Exploration, and the Indeterminate Materiality of Resources (Zeynep Oguz)
9 Commentary (Ståle Knudsen)
PART 3: Translating Techniques and Expertise
10 Smoking under a Volcano: Cold War Base Life in Turkish Thrace (Sertaç Sen)
11 Undoctoring Sport: Constructing Liberal Bodies in Postwar Turkey (Can Evren)
12 Assembling Gold, Manufacturing Risk: Technopolitics in the Age of the Third Gold Rush (Tarik Nejat Dinç)
13 Commentary (Begüm Adalet)

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.1.2025
Reihe/Serie	Contemporary Turkey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	0-7556-4788-2 / 0755647882
ISBN-13	978-0-7556-4788-0 / 9780755647880
Zustand	Neuware