The "Other of the Other" and "unregulated territories" in the urban periphery: gecekondu violence in the 2000s with a focus on the Esenler case, Istanbul

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dc.citation.epage68en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber1en_US
dc.citation.spage57en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber21en_US
dc.contributor.authorErman, T.en_US
dc.contributor.authorEken, A.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-07-28T11:57:21Z
dc.date.available2015-07-28T11:57:21Z
dc.date.issued2004-02en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of Political Science and Public Administrationen_US
dc.description.abstractThis article investigates the broader question of collective urban violence in "peripheral" (squatter) neighborhoods in the capitalist semi-periphery. Based upon a specific case, namely, the Karabayr neighborhood in Esenler, Istanbul, it aims to identify the potential sources of conflict and the conditions under which they turn into violence. To achieve this goal, first a review of the changing relationship of peripheral neighborhoods with the state is offered in a historical perspective. Then, the Karabayr neighborhood and the recent violence it experienced are briefly described, based on the information that appeared in the press and the Internet. And this is followed by a discussion of the possible causes of conflict and violence in the context of the changing conditions in the urban periphery in the 2000s. The transformation of peripheral land into commodity, the increasing physical proximity of residential groups due to land scarcity and building density, the asymmetric position of different residential groups with the state, and the unguarded socialization of the youth explain the increasing tendency towards violence in the urban periphery. In this process, the urban periphery emerges as "unregulated territories" that inhabit the "Other of the Other". © 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.en_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.cities.2003.10.008en_US
dc.identifier.issn0264-2751
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/11303
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2003.10.008en_US
dc.source.titleCitiesen_US
dc.subjectViolenceen_US
dc.subjectUrban peripheryen_US
dc.subjectGecekondu (squatter) neighborhoodsen_US
dc.subjectIstanbulen_US
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.subjectThe other of the otheren_US
dc.titleThe "Other of the Other" and "unregulated territories" in the urban periphery: gecekondu violence in the 2000s with a focus on the Esenler case, Istanbulen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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