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List of contents
1. Socio-Natures on The Edge: Landscapes, State and Movements in Turkey Part I Landscapes on the Edge 2. The Soils of Turkey: Nature, Science, and Crisis (1930-1960) 3. A Technopolitical Frontier: The Keban Dam Project and Southeastern Anatolia 4. From Imperial Frontier to National Heartland: Environmental History of Turkey’s Nation-Building in Its European Province of Thrace, 1920-1940 Part II State and Capital on the Edge 5. Security, Dispossession, and Industrial Meat Production in Turkey 6. Sediment in Reservoirs: A History of Dams and Forestry in Turkey 7. Informalization of Waste Regimes: The Entanglement of Urbanization, Poverty and Waste in Ankara Part III Movements on the Edge 8. Contextualizing the Rise of Environmental Movements in Turkey: Two Instances of Anti-Gold Mining Resistance 9. Coal, Ash, and Other Tales: The Making and Remaking of the Anti-Coal Movement in Aliağa, Turkey 10. Moving Stills: The Idea of Nature in New Turkish Cinema Epilogue
About the author
Onur İnal is a researcher based in the Near Eastern Studies Department, University of Vienna, Austria.
Ethemcan Turhan is a researcher based in the Environmental Humanities Laboratory, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Sweden.
Summary
This book is an exploration of the environmental makings and contested historical trajectories of environmental change in Turkey.
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"Transforming Socio-Natures in Turkey is a landmark text for understanding Turkey’s socio-environmental challenges. This interdisciplinary collection engages the reader in a growing understanding of the ecological costs of neoliberal authoritarianism in Turkey. Ultimately, the reader emerges with critical tools for building a new historical-geographical framework for environmental thought and practice." — Anna J. Secor, Professor of Human Geography, Durham University, UK
"Smart, timely, incisive - this book is a wonderful collection representing some of the best new work from emerging scholars on issues of changing socio-natures, and environmental politics in contemporary Turkey. It is precisely the sort of book I would have loved to have had years ago, but at least its time has come." — Leila M. Harris, Professor, Institute for Resources Environment and Sustainability and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, University of British Columbia, Canada
"Spanning the whole Republican era and a wide range of environmental issues, this book fills a lacuna in studies of Turkey. It provides the reader with a unique vantage point for understanding the trajectories of and contemporary consequences of the vast economic, demographic and political transformations in the country." — Ståle Knudsen, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, Norway
