LAST VOLUME : Amme İdaresi Dergisi
NO : 2
RELEASE DATE : 2023-06-01
This paper focuses on 'do-it-yourself' urban activism that has gained increasing visibility in global North cities over the past decade and aims to demonstrate the social and political constraints of this grassroots activism that has been met with great enthusiasm in the literature on it. The literature on the subject is riddled with far-fetched 'radicalism' and 'resistance' narratives, which overshadow the more cautious efforts to understand the new functions that this ’grassroots urbanism‘, which has a long historical background, has recently acquired in line with neoliberal urban policies such as ’creative
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‘Do-It-Yourself’ Urban Activism: Radical Grassroots Politics or Complicits of Neoliberal Urbanism?
This paper focuses on 'do-it-yourself' urban activism that has gained increasing visibility in global North cities over the past decade and aims to demonstrate the social and political constraints of this grassroots activism that has been met with great enthusiasm in the literature on it. The literature on the subject is riddled with far-fetched 'radicalism' and 'resistance' narratives, which overshadow the more cautious efforts to understand the new functions that this ’grassroots urbanism‘, which has a long historical background, has recently acquired in line with neoliberal urban policies such as ’creative
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Authors: Fesih BAYRAKTAR
Page Number : 1-35
Keywords : K e n d i n - Y a p K e n t A k t i v i z m i , T a b a n Ş e h i r c i l i ğ i , N e o l i b e r a l Ş e h i r c i l i k , Y a r a t ı c ı Ş e h i r , S o y l u l a ş t ı r m a .
How Should We Understand the Anthropocene? Critical Realism, Dialectical Materialism, and the Problem of the Subject
In this study, I seek an answer to the question of how we should understand the Anthropocene from a critical realist-materialist perspective. My aim is to reveal a number of problems in the Marxist literature, taking into account the Anthropocene debates that have been going on for nearly two decades. It is stated that with the Anthropocene, humanity made radical changes in the environmental parameters of the earth, and that humanity no longer lives in the Holocene, but in a new geological age. However, it can be said that the Anthropocene has become a political concept. It is claimed that anthropocentrism is brought to the fore with the concept and all (homogeneous) humanity is held responsible for the global ecological destruction. For this reason, some Marxist ecology thinkers have proposed the concept of Capitalocene (capital-centrism), arguing that the concept obscures the effect of capitalist capital relations on nature. In this work, I argue that the focus of the discussion should be shifted from anthropocentrism or capital-centrism? to a critical realist and dialectical materialist (relationalist approach that emphasizes the ontological primacy of nature). Such an approach has the capacity to reveal which Marxist ecology approach to overcoming destruction is more satisfactory while accepting the political aspect of the Anthropocene concept. I argue that such an approach will provide an opportunity to evaluate the importance and limitations of the working classes and class struggle as a historical, social and political subject in the face of ecological destruction.
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Authors: Yelda ERÇANDIRLI
Page Number : 35-63
Keywords : A n t r o p o s e n , K a p i t a l o s e n , D o ğ a - T o p l u m İ l i ş k i s i , D i y a l e k t i k , S ı n ı f M ü c a d e l e s i
Statecraft: The Material-Politics of Public Health and Sanitary Infrastructures in 19th Century Istanbul
In 19th century Istanbul, public health and sanitary infrastructures performed a significant role in the formation of governmental state. They strived to build an urban milieu for the healthy circulation of humans, vehicles, animals, air, water, and light as well as free from feces, miasmas, and microbes. The city was a laboratory where experts involved in governing processes with biopolitical strategies and new infrastructural technologies were discovered. This paper examines the stones on which the street surfaces are paved, the underground water pipes and the sewerage network through which the wastes are drained. It looks at the contentious material-politics that lay under the infrastructures that underpin human coexistence. It addresses the material networks through which the governmental state and the population that grants it its own reality are formed. The paper draws on governmentality studies and material turn in social sciences. On the other hand, it highlights the constraints of the literature that considers sanitary infrastructures as technologies perfect for liberal governance as they are self-contained and require limited intervention. Infrastructures, mostly defined by their unnoticed nature, are visible actants of shaping state imagination in the context of Istanbul by virtue of their imperfections.
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Authors: Orhan HAYAL
Page Number : 63-95
Keywords : İ s t a n b u l , y ö n e t i m s e l d e v l e t , y e n i m a t e r y a l i z m , h a l k s a ğ l ı ğ ı , s ı h h i a l t y a p ı l a r , s o k a k d ö ş e m e s i , s u t e d a r i k i , k a n a l i z a s y o n a ğ ı .
Covid-19 Pandemic, Counter Urbanization and Village Settlements: A Research on Headmen
Covid-19 Pandemic has brought up new discussions over existing residential structures. One of these new discussions is about the rural area. During this process, the rural area has turned into a shelter for those who want to get away from the risks in the urban area and those who are at risk and suffer from economic losses. In this study, which focuses on the reverse migration that has come to the agenda with the epidemic, the effect of reverse migration in rural areas on the spatial formation of the village and access to public services is focused on. The general design of the research is based on an exploratory case study. The research was carried out with the semi-structured interview method within the scope of 27 village headmen in Merkez, Görele and Bulancak districts in Giresun province. In addition, participant observation was carried out in the mentioned villages. According to the general results of the research, those who carry out reverse migration are retirees. The orientation towards the village has affected the spatial formation of the village with the improvement of existing houses and the construction of new houses. With the increasing population presence in the villages, the demand for the quantity and quality of the basic services of the village, consisting of solid and liquid waste, drinking water and roads, has increased. Existing administrative structures are insufficient to meet these needs. According to the findings obtained, various suggestions are brought to the agenda.
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Authors: Levent MEMİŞ, Sönmez DÜZGÜN, Semih KÖSEOĞLU
Page Number : 95-
Keywords : C o v i d - 1 9 S a l g ı n ı , T e r s i n e G ö ç , K ı r s a l A l a n , K ö y Y ö n e t i m i