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Zusatztext At a time when states of exceptions are increasingly normalised, this incisive book argues that the built environment plays a key role in the politics of emergency. The authors reveal a range of inequalities and injustices underlying the production of space in contemporary Turkey, while also highlighting forms of social resistance that resonate worldwide. Informationen zum Autor Eray Çayli , PhD (University College London, 2015), studies the spatial and visual politics of violence. Çayli is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow (2018-21) at London School of Economics and Political Science where he also teaches at postgraduate level. He is the author of Victims of Commemoration: The Architecture and Violence of ‘Confronting the Past’ in Turkey (Syracuse University Press, 2021), and guest-editor of special issues for the International Journal of Islamic Architecture (themed ‘Field as Archive / Archive as Field’) and for the Journal of Visual Culture (themed ‘Testimony as Environment: Violence, Aesthetics, Agency’). Çayli’s articles have appeared in Antipode , Environment and Planning D: Society and Space , International Journal of Urban and Regional Research , and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers , among other journals. In Turkey’s largest predominantly Kurdish inhabited city Amed/Diyarbakir, he has collaborated with the local Chamber of Architects and with the independent artist-run space Loading to coordinate free-of-charge research workshops on urban political ecology. Çayli’s first book in Turkish, Iklimin Estetigi: Antroposen Sanati ve Mimarligi Üzerine Denemeler [Climate Aesthetics: Essays on Anthropocene Art and Architecture], was published in 2020 by Everest. Pinar Aykaç , PhD (University College London, 2017), is a conservation architect with a MSc in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage from the Middle East Technical University. She holds a PhD titled ‘Musealisation as an Urban Process: The Transformation of Sultanahmet District in Istanbul’s Historic Peninsula’ from the Bartlett School of Architecture. Aykaç was involved in various conservation projects in Turkey including the Presidential Ataturk Museum Pavilion Conservation Project and the Commagene Nemrut Conservation and Development Programme. Her research interests are museums’ role in urban regeneration and heritage politics. Aykaç was a Weinberg Fellow at Columbia University’s Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America during the fall semester of 2017-2018. She is currently an assistant professor at the Middle East Technical University’s Department of Architecture. Sevcan Ercan , PhD (University College London, 2020), is a lecturer in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Istanbul Medeniyet University. She trained as an architect, receiving her BArch from Middle East Technical University, before moving further into the field of architectural history. After working on several archaeological sites and conservation projects across Turkey, Ercan relocated to London in order to pursue her MA in Architectural History followed by a PhD in Architectural History and Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Her doctoral research examined the spatial histories of displacement and emplacement in relation to communities on the island of Imbros/Gökçeada in the north Aegean. Vorwort An empirically grounded and context-specific insight into the material, spatial and bodily ways in which states of emergency operate in Turkey, through Architecture Zusammenfassung Challenging existing political analyses of the state of emergency in Turkey, this volume argues that such states are not merely predetermined by policy and legislation but are produced, regulated, distributed and contested through the built environment in both embodied and symbolic ways.Contributors use empirical critical-spatial research carried out in Tur...
