Material politics in Turkey : infrastructure, science, and expertise / [edited by] Duygu Kaşdoğan, Ekin Kurtiç, Mehmet Ekinci.

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TextLanguage: İngilizce Series: Contemporary TurkeyPublisher: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2025Description: vi, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780755647880

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LOC classification:

HC495.C3 M38 2025

Contents:

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.

Summary: "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'"-- Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Merkez Kütüphane Genel Koleksiyon / Main Collection	Merkez Kütüphane	Genel Koleksiyon	HC 495 .C3 M38 2025 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Checked out	21/08/2025	0072100

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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'"-- Provided by publisher.

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