TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kaşdoğan,Duygu
AU  - Kurtiç,Ekin
AU  - Ekinci,Mehmet
TI  - Material politics in Turkey: infrastructure, science, and expertise 
T2  - Contemporary Turkey
SN  - 9780755647880
AV  - HC495.C3 M38 2025
PY  - 2025///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - I.B. Tauris
KW  - Infrastructure (Economics)
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Materials
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Science and state
KW  - Technology and state
KW  - Economic policy
N1  - BIBINDX; Part I; The politics of infrastructure --; 1; Water pipes versus power lines: GAP between the promises and practices of infrastructure buildup; Aybike Alkan --; 2; Fountains, disease, blueprints: making the water infrastructure of Istanbul visibles; Asya Ece Uzmay --; 3; "Not for sale": coal as pedagogical infrastructure after Soma mine disaster; Elif İrem Az --; 4; Commentary; Canay Özden-Schilling --; Part II; 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 Oğuz --; 9; Commentary; Ståle Knudsen --; Part III; Translating techniques and expertise --; 10; Smoking under a volcano: cold war base life in Turkish Thrace; Sertaç Şen --; 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; Tarık Nejat Dinç --; 13; Commentary; Begüm Adalet --; 14; Afterword; Andrew Barry
N2  - "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'"--
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