Rethinking the international and security through the city

buir.advisorBilgiç, Ali
dc.contributor.authorKaracan, Sezgi
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-08T20:18:30Z
dc.date.available2016-01-08T20:18:30Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.departmentDepartment of International Relationsen_US
dc.descriptionAnkara : The Department of International Relations İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University, 2014.en_US
dc.descriptionThesis (Master's) -- Bilkent University, 2014.en_US
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references leaves 126-148.en_US
dc.description.abstractAlthough territorial physical borders are still relevant, other forms of bordering take place daily that are not in line with the imagination of the international as a space of territorially demarcated sovereign states. Urban space is a part of this identity making and spatializing process of (re)mapping the international. Engaging with practices and understandings of security reveals different experiences of urban, hence different imaginations of the city and the international. In this light, questioning the interaction between city, security and the international, this thesis asks how the bordering of cities plays in the construction of the international and its subjects through practices and understandings of (urban) security and insecurity. Firstly, different bordering practices within cities and their associated imagination of the international is examined. Then, informed by and informing such imaginations, how authorities and professionals reborder the city and how the city is made ‘safe’ against those parts of the city that are deemed as dangerous is discussed. While this gives an understanding of how the everyday is shaped by security, final part questions how urban dwellers in their daily lives shape security understandings. This thesis argues that existing politics of the international that generates insecurities and inequalities work through bordering of cities and this is depoliticized through the existing politics of security both in the ‘developed’ and ‘developing’ world. The aim of the thesis is to reach a less state-centric and a more bottom-up approach in understanding and rethinking the relationship between city, security and the international.en_US
dc.description.degreeM.A.en_US
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityKaracan, Sezgien_US
dc.embargo.release2016-09-22
dc.format.extentx, 148 leavesen_US
dc.identifier.itemidB148429
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/18350
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherBilkent Universityen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectThe İnternationalen_US
dc.subjectUrban Spaceen_US
dc.subjectBordersen_US
dc.subjectSecurityen_US
dc.subjectThe Everydayen_US
dc.subjectGlobal Cityen_US
dc.subjectGlobalizationen_US
dc.subjectUrbanizationen_US
dc.subject.lccHT110 .K37 2014en_US
dc.subject.lcshSecurity, International.en_US
dc.subject.lcshUrban Policy--Research.en_US
dc.subject.lcshUrbanization.en_US
dc.subject.lcshGlobalization.en_US
dc.subject.lcshUrbanization--Social aspectsen_US
dc.titleRethinking the international and security through the cityen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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