"This book explores the role of material entities and processes in shaping political lives in Turkey, revealing the formative role of material entities and processes in political processes of infrastructure construction, knowledge production, and technical expertise. 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, wetlands, and mental healthcare institutions. These interdisciplinary case studies from the fields of anthropology, science and technology studies, history of medicine and sports, and environmental humanities, provide important new analytical and theoretical approaches to understanding Turkey's ongoing politics of 'modernisation'"--
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.
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This volumes excellence is partly because of the way it draws Turkeys complex past into the present, providing an exemplary analysis of the way history becomes encoded in infrastructure. * Kim Fortun, Professor, University of California Irvine, USA * The arrival of this edited volume focusing on material politics right after the centennial of the Republic of Turkey is remarkable. With a solid contribution to the infrastructural turn in social sciences and humanities, this book promises to be a key reference for students of Turkeys turbulent relationship with the materialities of development and modernization. * Ethemcan Turhan, Assistant Professor, University of Groningen, Netherlands *
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This edited collection is an in-depth exploration of material politics in Turkey, bringing together critical studies of infrastructure, knowledge production and circulation, and expertise to understand Turkeys contested modernization processes.
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
Elif Irem Az
4 Commentary
Canay Özden-Schilling
PART 2
Making Material Worlds Scientific
5 The Liminal Forest:
Mud, Science and Nationalism in Turkeys 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
14 Afterword
Andrew Barry
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 Assistant Professor of Development Studies in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow at Sidney Sussex College.
Mehmet Ekinci, is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University, USA
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