Material Politics in Turkey - Infrastructure, Science, and Expertise

This book explores the role of material entities and processes in shaping political lives in Turkey. The unifying thread of its chapters is to challenge the rendering of the material world as a mere background to or object in politics, revealing the formative role of material entities and processes in political processes of infrastructure construction, knowledge production, and technical expertise in Turkey. 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, and wetlands. In the context of Turkey''s ongoing politics of ''modernisation'', these interdisciplinary case studies from the fields of anthropology of infrastructure and extraction, science and technology studies, and environmental humanities, provide important new analytical and theoretical approaches to understanding Turkish politics at local, national, and transnational scales.>

Product details

• Authors: Mehmet Ekinci, Duygu Kasdogan, Ekin Kurtic
• Assisted by: Mehmet Ekinci (Editor), Duygu Kasdogan (Editor), Ekin Kurtiç (Editor)
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.09.2024
• EAN: 9780755647880
• ISBN: 978-0-7556-4788-0
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 238 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Contemporary Turkey
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, Political science & theory, Political science and theory