Critical moments of social spatialization in the neighborhood : an alternative reading of the mainstream gecekondu history

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buir.advisorHelvacıoğlu, Banu
dc.contributor.authorDemirtaş, Neslihan
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-08T18:01:20Z
dc.date.available2016-01-08T18:01:20Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.departmentDepartment of Political Science and Public Administrationen_US
dc.descriptionAnkara : The Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Bilkent Univ., 2007.en_US
dc.descriptionThesis (Ph. D.) -- Bilkent University, 2007.en_US
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references leaves 340-351.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis aims to expose an alternative local historical reading of the formation of a gecekondu space as a response to modernist consideration of gecekondu development in Turkey. The social construction of neighborhood space, which occurs at the level of social imaginary and representations as well as at the level of real interventions in the form of social practices producing a built environment, is narrated by means of insider perspectives and using qualitative techniques. In this reading, it will be made explicit that the dynamics and patterns by which the modernist, strategic interventions in local space and tactical acts of the migrants in producing their locality are closely interconnected. This interconnectedness not only sheds light to the weaknesses of the strategical practice of imposing a modernist space but also the tactical acts of migrants utilizing the loopholes in the strategical realm. Spontaneity as the defining and intrinsic quality of gecekondu settlements is mainly embedded in the diverse local agencies that lead to spatial contingencies. The ethnic identities constitute the main means by which the migrants employ certain tactics with regard to strategical policy acts and to other groups in the neighborhood. Within the context of the intertwined nature of tactic and strategy, gecekondu settlements will be discussed as a by-product of the sum of modernist strategical acts more than as unintended consequences of urban development.en_US
dc.description.degreePh.D.en_US
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dc.description.statementofresponsibilityDemirtaş, Neslihanen_US
dc.format.extentxvi, 359 leavesen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/14525
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherBilkent Universityen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectGecekonduen_US
dc.subjectSpatial Contingencyen_US
dc.subjectSpontaneityen_US
dc.subjectEthnic Identitiesen_US
dc.subjectTactic-Strategyen_US
dc.subjectSocial Spatializationen_US
dc.subject.lccHV4131.93.A5 D46 2007en_US
dc.subject.lcshSquatters--Turkey.en_US
dc.subject.lcshSquatter settlements--Turkey.en_US
dc.subject.lcshUrban policy--Turkey.en_US
dc.titleCritical moments of social spatialization in the neighborhood : an alternative reading of the mainstream gecekondu historyen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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