Material Politics in Turkey

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.>

Préface
This edited collection is an in-depth exploration of material politics in Turkey, bringing together critical studies of infrastructure, knowledge production and circulation, and expertise to understand Turkey's contested modernization processes.

Auteur
Duygu Kasdogan is Assistant Professor of Urbanization and Environmental Problems in Political Science and Public Administration Department at Izmir Katip Çelebi University, Turkey.Ekin Kurtiç is Assistant Professor of Development Studies in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow at Sidney Sussex College.Mehmet Ekinci, is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University, USA

Contenu
On Materiality and Politics in Turkey: An Introduction Duygu Kasdogan and Ekin Kurtiç PART 1 The Politics of Infrastructure 1 Water Pipes versus Power Lines: GAP Between the Promises and Practices of Infrastructure Build-Up Aybike Alkan 2 Making the Water Infrastructure of Istanbul Visible: Disease, Fountains, Blueprints (1933- 1971) Asya Ece Uzmay 3 Not for Sale: Coal as a Pedagogical Infrastructure After the Soma Mine Disaster Elif Irem Az 4 Commentary Canay Özden-Schilling PART 2 Making Material Worlds Scientific 5 The Liminal Forest: Mud, Science and Nationalism in Turkey's Forests Hande Özkan 6 Pasture-Cheese Diplomacy: Carving Knowledge in Dairy Technosciences Mehmet Fatih Tatari 7 The Social Life of Environmental Expertise: Leveraging Scientific Knowledge for Remaking Bio-Cultural Communities in Turkish Wetlands Caterina Scaramelli 8 Is there Oil in Turkey? Geology, Oil Exploration, and the Indeterminate Materiality of Resources Zeynep Oguz 9 Commentary Ståle Knudsen PART 3 Translating Techniques and Expertise 10 Smoking under a Volcano: Cold War Base Life in Turkish Thrace Sertaç Sen 11 Undoctoring Sport: Constructing Liberal Bodies in Postwar Turkey Can Evren 12 Assembling Gold, Manufacturing Risk: Technopolitics in the Age of the Third Gold Rush Tarik Nejat Dinç 13 Commentary Begüm Adalet 14 Afterword Andrew Barry