1st Edition

Transforming Socio-Natures in Turkey Landscapes, State and Environmental Movements

Edited By Onur İnal, Ethemcan Turhan Copyright 2020
242 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book is an exploration of the environmental makings and contested historical trajectories of environmental change in Turkey. Despite the recent proliferation of studies on the political economy of environmental change and urban transformation, until now there has not been a sufficiently complete treatment of Turkey's troubled environments, which live on the edge both geographically (between... Read more

1. Socio-Natures on The Edge: Landscapes, State and Movements in Turkey Part I Landscapes on the Edge  2. The Soils of Turkey: Nature, Science, and Crisis (1930-1960) 3. A Technopolitical Frontier: The Keban Dam Project and Southeastern Anatolia  4. From Imperial Frontier to National Heartland: Environmental History of Turkey’s Nation-Building in Its European Province of Thrace, 1920-1940  Part II State and Capital on the Edge  5. Security, Dispossession, and Industrial Meat Production in Turkey  6. Sediment in Reservoirs: A History of Dams and Forestry in Turkey  7. Informalization of Waste Regimes: The Entanglement of Urbanization, Poverty and Waste in Ankara  Part III Movements on the Edge  8. Contextualizing the Rise of Environmental Movements in Turkey: Two Instances of Anti-Gold Mining Resistance  9. Coal, Ash, and Other Tales: The Making and Remaking of the Anti-Coal Movement in Aliağa, Turkey  10. Moving Stills: The Idea of Nature in New Turkish Cinema  Epilogue

Biography

Onur İnal is a researcher based in the Near Eastern Studies Department, University of Vienna, Austria.



Ethemcan Turhan is a researcher based in the Environmental Humanities Laboratory, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Sweden.