Transforming socio-natures in Turkey : landscapes, state and environmental movements / edited by Onur İnal and Ethemcan Turhan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

İnal, Onur, 1979- editor.

Turhan, Ethemcan, editor.

Series:

Routledge environmental humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy--Turkey.

Environmental policy.

Environmental conditions.

Human ecology.

Turkey.

Human ecology--Turkey.

Turkey--Environmental conditions.

Landscapes.

Manners and customs.

Natural history.

Nature.

Physical Description:

xiv, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, earthscan from Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"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 Europe and Middle East) and politically (between democracy and totalitarianism). The contributors to Transforming Socio-Natures in Turkey use the toolbox of environmental humanities to explore the main political, cultural and historical factors relating to the country's socio-environmental problems. This leads not only to a better grounding of some of the historical and contemporary debates on the environment in Turkey, but also a deeper understanding of the multiplicity of framings around more-than-human interactions in the country in a time of authoritarian populism. This book will be of interest not only to students of Turkey from a variety of social science and humanities disciplines but also contribute to the larger debates on environmental change and developmentalism in the context of a global populist turn"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Socio-natures on the edge : landscapes, state and movements in Turkey / Ethemcan Turhan and Onur Inal

The soils of Turkey : nature, science, and crisis (1930-1960) / Seçil Binboga

A technopolitical frontier : the Keban Dam project and southeastern Anatolia / Dale J. Stahl

From imperial frontier to national heartland : environmental history of Turkey's nation-building in its European province of Thrace, 1920-1940 / Eda Acara

Security, dispossession, and industrial meat production in Turkey / Sezai Ozan Zeybek

Sediment in reservoirs : a history of dams and forestry in Turkey / Ekin Kurtiç

Informalization of waste regimes : the entanglement of urbanization, poverty and waste in Ankara / Gül Tuçaltan

Contextualizing the rise of environmental movements in Turkey : two instances of anti-gold mining resistance / Zehra Tasdemir Yasin

Coal, ash, and other tales : the making and remaking of the anti-coal movement in Aliaga, Turkey / Ethemcan Turhan, Begüm Özkaynak, Cem Iskender Aydin

Moving stills : the idea of nature in new Turkish cinema / Ekin Gündüz Özdemirci

Epilogue / Üstün Bilgen-Reinart.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Transforming socio-natures in Turkey.

ISBN:

9781138367692

1138367699

OCLC:

1091845963