Argun Can
Biographic Data
| ID | 185404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Argun Can |
| GIVEN NAMES | Argun |
| FAMILY NAME | Can |
| SIGNATURE | CAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Istanbul Medeniyet University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1794-5989 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Longue Durée of Housing Justice
This editorial frames housing justice as a question of spatial and temporal struggle, engaging the longue durée of dispossession, endurance, and collective transformation. From the weaponisation of space–time in conditions of settler colonial domination to the quieter bureaucratic violence of eviction, precarity, and financialisation in global cities, housing injustice emerges as a slow, iterative process rather than a sudden rupture. The contrib…
Temporal Entanglements, Fragmented Spaces
What does it mean for urban planners and designers to shape places through and with time? The 2020 public health restrictions highlighted the relevance of Carlos Moreno’s et al. (2021) 15-minute-city concept, which outlined the need for a “chrono-urbanism” incorporating societal resilience micro-infrastructures. Notions of temporal planning, however, have deeper roots; Kevin Lynch’s classic imageability (1964) and place-timing studies (1972) high…
Violence against Istanbul and strategies for resistance
Confidence culture in neoliberal academia
Housing as a battlefield
Since October 2023, we have witnessed the human and material devastation brought about by the horrific mediatised genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, itself preceded by a long history of ‘urbacide’—an intentional form of urban destruction characterised by siege and denied rehabilitation (Chiodelli 2022). In his research on modern warfare and ‘domicide’ in Syria (2022), Amar Azzouz has spoken eloquently about ‘...the millions of or…
Between luck and stigma
State-led Gentrification Against the Backdrop of Urban Authoritarian Practices
This collection of interventions unites academics hailing from Latin America, the Middle East, Europe and the United States, reintroducing discussions on authoritarian state tactics and coercion into urban renewal dialogues within urban studies. During our discussions, it became apparent that urban authoritarian tactics are crucial in contemporary state-led gentrification efforts. In this introduction to the series, we aim to merge research on au…
Life-Affirmative Struggles for Home Across Borders
Issue 5.1 of the Radical Housing Journal (RHJ) examines the current state of struggles for housing and home amidst capital-accumulation-induced urban restructuring worldwide. The authors discuss the enduring impact of settler colonialism on land and housing rights, particularly for Indigenous peoples. Feminist, queer, and trans perspectives are brought to the forefront, emphasizing the leadership roles played by marginalized communities in housin…
Comparative Urbanism
Comparative Urbanism: Tactics for Global Urban Studies." Housing Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Neo-liberal authoritarian urbanism
This article analyses the relations between the rise of authoritarianism and urban development in neoliberal capitalism, based on case studies in Istanbul and São Paulo, employing the approach of comparative urbanism. We present the concept of Neo-Liberal Authoritarian Urbanism (NAU), to discuss the accentuation of coercion and loss of social legitimacy in urban politics in the post-2008 crisis context. In both cities, there is a violent steering…
Housing justice, mobilization, and financialization
In June 2022, a group of activists, students, and scholars gathered in Barcelona for the 8th annual International Geographies of Justice Summer Institute (IGJ), Housing Justice in Unequal Cities, co-sponsored by Antipode and the UCLA Institute on Inequality and Democracy. IGJ attendees included people from within movement and activist spaces, academics, and non-profit organizations who share the common vision of working toward housing justice. Th…
Housing and urbanization policies of Istanbul, Turkey from central to the local
Global economic restructuring since the 1970s, and the rollback of the welfare state in the Global North has been a major contributor to a reduction in the affordable housing stock. Similarly in the so-called Global South recent economic development has been accompanied by a lack of sustainable affordable housing and housing policies. In this short paper, I aim to analyse important policy papers from the central government of Turkey and local gov…
Shaking up the city
Shaking up the city: ignorance, inequality, and the urban question." Housing Studies, 37(7), pp. 1298–1299
The making and unmaking of Tarlabasi, Istanbul
Territorial stigmatisation has been drawing attention in the past decade as an important concept in analysing the bad reputation of run-down neighbourhoods and how this bad reputation is used and produced by state agencies. Especially, the links between territorial stigmatisation and urban policies that are followed by state-led gentrification processes have been an emerging discussion in this analysis of understanding the phenomenon of stigmatis…
Negotiating the different degrees of precarity in the UK academia during the Covid-19 pandemic
This study explores how early career academics negotiate precarity in the higher education sector in the United Kingdom under the amplified uncertainties brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our preliminary findings based on the semi-structured interviews with nine early career academics (six women and three men) shed light on varying experiences of early career academic precarity with regard to working and life routines, and their participation in …
Racial Differences in the Utilization of Guideline-Recommended and Life-Sustaining Procedures During Hospitalizations for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
Planetary gentrification (urban futures)
Producing and contesting urban marginality
This ambitious edited book, which brings together many different authors from all around the world, is the result of a four-day workshop funded by the British Council and held in Mexico in 2016. Th
Negotiating the different degrees of precarity in the UK academia during the Covid-19 pandemic
This study explores how early career academics negotiate precarity in the higher education sector in the United Kingdom under the amplified uncertainties brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our preliminary findings based on the semi-structured interviews with nine early career academics (six women and three men) shed light on varying experiences of early career academic precarity with regard to working and life routines, and their participation in …
Neo-liberal authoritarian urbanism
This article analyses the relations between the rise of authoritarianism and urban development in neoliberal capitalism, based on case studies in Istanbul and São Paulo, employing the approach of comparative urbanism. We present the concept of Neo-Liberal Authoritarian Urbanism (NAU), to discuss the accentuation of coercion and loss of social legitimacy in urban politics in the post-2008 crisis context. In both cities, there is a violent steering…
Producing and contesting urban marginality
This ambitious edited book, which brings together many different authors from all around the world, is the result of a four-day workshop funded by the British Council and held in Mexico in 2016. Th
Between luck and stigma
State-led Gentrification Against the Backdrop of Urban Authoritarian Practices
This collection of interventions unites academics hailing from Latin America, the Middle East, Europe and the United States, reintroducing discussions on authoritarian state tactics and coercion into urban renewal dialogues within urban studies. During our discussions, it became apparent that urban authoritarian tactics are crucial in contemporary state-led gentrification efforts. In this introduction to the series, we aim to merge research on au…
The making and unmaking of Tarlabasi, Istanbul
Territorial stigmatisation has been drawing attention in the past decade as an important concept in analysing the bad reputation of run-down neighbourhoods and how this bad reputation is used and produced by state agencies. Especially, the links between territorial stigmatisation and urban policies that are followed by state-led gentrification processes have been an emerging discussion in this analysis of understanding the phenomenon of stigmatis…
Planetary gentrification (urban futures)
Planetary gentrification (urban futures)
Negotiating the different degrees of precarity in the UK academia during the Covid-19 pandemic
This study explores how early career academics negotiate precarity in the higher education sector in the United Kingdom under the amplified uncertainties brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our preliminary findings based on the semi-structured interviews with nine early career academics (six women and three men) shed light on varying experiences of early career academic precarity with regard to working and life routines, and their participation in …
Racial Differences in the Utilization of Guideline-Recommended and Life-Sustaining Procedures During Hospitalizations for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
The making and unmaking of Tarlabasi, Istanbul
Territorial stigmatisation has been drawing attention in the past decade as an important concept in analysing the bad reputation of run-down neighbourhoods and how this bad reputation is used and produced by state agencies. Especially, the links between territorial stigmatisation and urban policies that are followed by state-led gentrification processes have been an emerging discussion in this analysis of understanding the phenomenon of stigmatis…
Housing justice, mobilization, and financialization
In June 2022, a group of activists, students, and scholars gathered in Barcelona for the 8th annual International Geographies of Justice Summer Institute (IGJ), Housing Justice in Unequal Cities, co-sponsored by Antipode and the UCLA Institute on Inequality and Democracy. IGJ attendees included people from within movement and activist spaces, academics, and non-profit organizations who share the common vision of working toward housing justice. Th…
Housing and urbanization policies of Istanbul, Turkey from central to the local
Global economic restructuring since the 1970s, and the rollback of the welfare state in the Global North has been a major contributor to a reduction in the affordable housing stock. Similarly in the so-called Global South recent economic development has been accompanied by a lack of sustainable affordable housing and housing policies. In this short paper, I aim to analyse important policy papers from the central government of Turkey and local gov…
Shaking up the city
Shaking up the city: ignorance, inequality, and the urban question." Housing Studies, 37(7), pp. 1298–1299
Life-Affirmative Struggles for Home Across Borders
Issue 5.1 of the Radical Housing Journal (RHJ) examines the current state of struggles for housing and home amidst capital-accumulation-induced urban restructuring worldwide. The authors discuss the enduring impact of settler colonialism on land and housing rights, particularly for Indigenous peoples. Feminist, queer, and trans perspectives are brought to the forefront, emphasizing the leadership roles played by marginalized communities in housin…
Comparative Urbanism
Comparative Urbanism: Tactics for Global Urban Studies." Housing Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Neo-liberal authoritarian urbanism
This article analyses the relations between the rise of authoritarianism and urban development in neoliberal capitalism, based on case studies in Istanbul and São Paulo, employing the approach of comparative urbanism. We present the concept of Neo-Liberal Authoritarian Urbanism (NAU), to discuss the accentuation of coercion and loss of social legitimacy in urban politics in the post-2008 crisis context. In both cities, there is a violent steering…
Housing as a battlefield
Since October 2023, we have witnessed the human and material devastation brought about by the horrific mediatised genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, itself preceded by a long history of ‘urbacide’—an intentional form of urban destruction characterised by siege and denied rehabilitation (Chiodelli 2022). In his research on modern warfare and ‘domicide’ in Syria (2022), Amar Azzouz has spoken eloquently about ‘...the millions of or…
Producing and contesting urban marginality
This ambitious edited book, which brings together many different authors from all around the world, is the result of a four-day workshop funded by the British Council and held in Mexico in 2016. Th
Between luck and stigma
State-led Gentrification Against the Backdrop of Urban Authoritarian Practices
This collection of interventions unites academics hailing from Latin America, the Middle East, Europe and the United States, reintroducing discussions on authoritarian state tactics and coercion into urban renewal dialogues within urban studies. During our discussions, it became apparent that urban authoritarian tactics are crucial in contemporary state-led gentrification efforts. In this introduction to the series, we aim to merge research on au…
The Longue Durée of Housing Justice
This editorial frames housing justice as a question of spatial and temporal struggle, engaging the longue durée of dispossession, endurance, and collective transformation. From the weaponisation of space–time in conditions of settler colonial domination to the quieter bureaucratic violence of eviction, precarity, and financialisation in global cities, housing injustice emerges as a slow, iterative process rather than a sudden rupture. The contrib…
Temporal Entanglements, Fragmented Spaces
What does it mean for urban planners and designers to shape places through and with time? The 2020 public health restrictions highlighted the relevance of Carlos Moreno’s et al. (2021) 15-minute-city concept, which outlined the need for a “chrono-urbanism” incorporating societal resilience micro-infrastructures. Notions of temporal planning, however, have deeper roots; Kevin Lynch’s classic imageability (1964) and place-timing studies (1972) high…
Violence against Istanbul and strategies for resistance
Confidence culture in neoliberal academia
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (8 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Political economy (5 works)