Urban poverty in Turkey : development and modernisation in low-income communities / Burcu Şentürk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Şentürk, Burcu, 1984- author.

Series:

Library of modern Turkey ; 21.

Library of modern Turkey

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban poor--Turkey.

Urban poor.

Poverty--Turkey.

Poverty.

Turkey.

Physical Description:

xii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2016.

Summary:

Shanty towns-or gecekondu settlements - in large Turkish cities are mostly populated by low-income families, many of which have migrated from the villages of Central Anatolia. The rise of the Islamist party AKP in the 1990s and 2000s had a large impact on how these gecekondus are examined, and how they are perceived to reflect key issues at play in Turkish society: welfare, local identity, religious communities and the rise of civil society. Having lived in one of these neighbourhoods in Ankara, Burcu Senturk sheds light on the experience of gecekondu dwelling in Turkey. By focusing on this aspect, she brings to the fore issues such as urbanisation, modernisation and development, as well as examining the impact these kinds of phenomena have on generation gaps and the role of women in Turkish society. By using the framework of the experience of three generations of gecekondu dwellers, as a framework, Senturk is able to chart the emergence, development and the gradual breakdown of social relations, and how the dynamics of these have changed during the course of the latter half of the twentieth century. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 A Female Researcher in a Gecekondu Neighbourhood 9

2 Internal Migration and Gecekondu Communities in Turkey 20

3 Building a Gecekondu Neighborhood, Community and Identity 39

4 Urban Reforms in Ege 74

5 Dissolving of the Community 105

6 A Society in Transition 128.

ISBN:

1784536539

9781784536534

OCLC:

960712298