Material politics in Turkey :  infrastructure, science, and expertise / 
[edited by] Duygu Kaşdoğan, Ekin Kurtiç, Mehmet Ekinci. 
 - vi, 286 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
 - Contemporary Turkey .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> The politics of infrastructure --  Water pipes versus power lines: GAP between the promises and practices of infrastructure buildup /  Fountains, disease, blueprints: making the water infrastructure of Istanbul visibles /  "Not for sale": coal as pedagogical infrastructure after Soma mine disaster /  Commentary /  Making material worlds scientific --  The Liminal forest: mud, science and nationalism in Turkey's forests /  Pasture-cheese diplomacy: carving knowledge in dairy technosciences /  The Social life of environmental expertise: leveraging scientific knowledge for remaking bio-cultural communities in Turkish wetlands /  "Is there oil in Turkey?": geology, oil exploration, and the indeterminate materiality of resources /  Commentary /  Translating techniques and expertise --  Smoking under a volcano: cold war base life in Turkish Thrace /  Undoctoring sport: constructing liberal bodies in postwar Turkey /  Assembling gold, manufacturing risk: technopolitics in the age of the third gold rush /  Commentary /  Afterword /  Aybike Alkan --  Asya Ece Uzmay --  Elif İrem Az --  Canay Özden-Schilling --  Hande Özkan --  Mehmet Fatih Tatari --  Caterina Scaramelli --  Zeynep Oğuz --  Ståle Knudsen --  Sertaç Şen --  Can Evren --  Tarık Nejat Dinç --  Begüm Adalet --  Andrew Barry.  Part I  1  2  3  4  Part II  5  6  7  8  9  Part III  10  11  12  13  14 
<br/><br/> "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'"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780755647880 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2024027859 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Infrastructure (Economics)--Turkey<br/>Materials--Political aspects--Turkey<br/>Science and state--Turkey<br/>Technology and state--Turkey
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Turkey--Economic policy
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HC495.C3  / M38 2025