Tahire Erman
Biographic Data
| ID | 329538 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tahire Erman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tahire |
| FAMILY NAME | Erman |
| SIGNATURE | ERMAN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bilkent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2509-6531 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 168 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Spaces of in/formality in the Turkish humanitarian field: Spatial and discursive practices impacting refugee women
Drawing upon critical feminist theorising, this article intervenes in the debates about humanitarian aid organisations in the case of urban refugees to highlight the ubiquity of in/formal practices in their interlinkedness that increasingly shape aid distribution. By examining humanitarian enactments at three levels –the national, the district and the neighbourhood– in the case of Ankara, Turkey, the article advances theoretical discussions about…
Confronting gendered constructions of refugee deservingness and representations: Syrian refugee women strategising for humanitarian aid in Turkey
This study shows how Syrian refugee women living in Ankara cope with their systematically enforced dependency on humanitarian aid through individual and collective agency as they negotiate their inclusion into categories of deservingness and attempt to maintain this inclusion. We argue that the gendered discourses used to delineate deservingness categories in the humanitarian field clash heavily with the portrayal of Syrian refugees in Turkish pu…
Shifting responsibility in governing aging: Municipal active aging discourses in Turkey
This article investigates active aging as a tool of governing the aging population at the municipal level. Using Foucault’s framework of governmentality, it explores the techniques of governing aging via the construction of the desirable older subjectivity, reflecting upon the role of the family in caregiving. Conducting in-depth interviews with municipal officials in charge of aging programs, we illustrated that, despite regional differences in …
From informal housing to apartment housing: Exploring the ‘new social’ in a gecekondu rehousing project, Turkey
This article engages with the question of the ‘new social’ that emerges in the relocation of the poor in slum renewal projects. Drawing upon both Lefebvre’s theorization of abstract space of capital and social space of people, and the neoliberal framework in which the economic dominates the social, the complex relationship between the spatial and the social embedded in political economy is demonstrated. In the Turkish context, the ‘new social’ is…
Gendering Residential Space: From Squatter and Slum Housing to the Apartment Estates in Turkish Renewal Projects
This article argues for the need to understand gendered dimensions of space in a contextualized way. It investigates residential space in three different types of housing settings of the poor, namely, a peripheral squatter neighborhood coded by rurality, a central slum neighborhood coded by criminality, and the housing estates in squatter/slum renewal projects coded by middle–class urbanity. Based on two field studies conducted in Ankara, Turkey'…
Female domestic workers strategizing via commuting long distance: New challenges and negotiations in neoliberalizing Turkey
Rendering responsible, provoking desire: Women and home in squatter/slum renewal projects in the Turkish context
This article is situated at the intersection of urban restructuring, cultural conservatism and neoliberalism in the Turkish context to understand the new subject formations of poor women as they are relocated to high-rise apartment blocks in slum/squatter renewal projects by the prospect of homeownership via long-term mortgage loans. It contributes by showing the gendered effects of urban transformation on poor women as neoliberalism and conserva…
Formalization by the State, Re‐Informalization by the People: A Gecekondu Transformation Housing Estate as Site of Multiple Discrepancies
This article demonstrates residents' transformative practices and discusses attendant outcomes to contribute to an understanding of state‐built housing estates for people affected by urban transformation projects. It draws upon ethnographic fieldwork conducted in a social housing estate (K‐TOKI) in the Northern Ankara Entrance Urban Transformation Project (NAEUTP). It addresses questions on why formalization of informal housing takes place today,…
Ethnographie du gecekondu . Un habitat autoconstruit de la périphérie urbaine
L'auteur donne la parole à des habitants de quartiers de gecekondu (bâtisseurs sans permis de leur propre maison), qui, dans le cadre de projets de transformation urbaine, ont été relogés dans les tours de cités construites par des promoteurs publics ou privés. Le récit de leur expérience à la fois vécue et remémorée révèle une valorisation des gecekondu par leurs anciens occupants, qui contraste fortement avec la dévalorisation dont ces construc…
An Expression of Appreciation
Neighborhood Effects and Women's Agency regarding Poverty and Patriarchy in a Turkish Slum
This paper aims to understand the interplay between the neighborhood (spatial) effects of poverty, ethnicity, kin, and patriarchy, and women's agency in the context of an inner-city slum in Ankara, the capital of Turkey. It is based on a field study that focuses on the experiences of women residents-that is, rural migrants known for their dependency on neighborhood spaces-and their grown-up daughters who were raised in the city. The neighborhood …
Emergent Local Initiative and the City: The Case of Neighbourhood Associations of the Better-off Classes in Post-1990 Urban Turkey
This article investigates the voluntary local organisations of the better-off classes in the Turkish urban context. Based on empirical research conducted with four neighbourhood associations (NAs), information is provided regarding their process of establishment, leadership, autonomy, goals and projects, resources and obstacles, which points to the significance of context. The research demonstrates that Turkish NAs differ from those in the West i…
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
Gecekondu Çalışmalarında 'Öteki' Olarak Gecekondulu Kurguları
This article reviews gecekondu studies ranging from earlier to recent ones to reveal the various representations of the gecekondu people in these studies. The representation of the gecekondu people varies in different time periods, namely, the ‘rural Otherʼ in the 1950s and 1960s; the ‘exploited/disadvantaged Otherʼ in the 1970s; the ‘diversified Others in terms of ethnicity, religious sect and genderʼ, and the ‘undeserving rich Otherʼ versus the…
Money-earning activities and empowerment experiences of rural migrant women in the city
The Politics of Squatter (Gecekondu) Studies in Turkey: The Changing Representations of Rural Migrants in the Academic Discourse
The Politics of Squatter ( Gecekondu ) Studies in Turkey: The Changing Representations of Rural Migrants in the Academic Discourse
This article aims to develop a critical approach to squatter (gecekondu) studies in Turkey and investigates the various representations of the gecekondu people in these studies in different periods by placing them in their social, political and economic contexts. It details changes in the representation of the gecekondu population from the 'rural Other' in the 1950s and 1960s, to the 'disadvantaged Other' in the 1970s and early 1980s, to the 'urb…
Rural Migrants and Patriarchy in Turkish Cities
This article investigates patriarchy in the context of migration to cities in Turkey. It focuses on the ways in which patriarchy reproduces itself in the lives of migrants - for example through the local community, which reproduces traditional patriarchal control in the urban context, and through the social construction of female labour within the framework of the ideology of familialism and the housewife ideology in which women's economic contri…
Alevi politics in contemporary Turkey
In this article we attempt to cast light on Alevi politics in Turkey, mainly the diverse political orientations regarding Alevilik.' We note the differential political power the groups with different political orientations hold and their varied positionings vis-a-vis the Turkish state, as well as the competing political agendas they offer, and to which groups in the Alevi public these political agendas appeal and why. Alevilik is the second major…
Becoming "Urban" or Remaining "Rural: The Views of Turkish Rural-to-Urban Migrants on the "Integration" Question
The mass migration from rural areas to larger cities in the Third World and the rapid social changes entailed by this transformation have attracted the attention of social and political scientists since the 1950s. The problematic issue of the "integration" of rural migrants into the urban society and the changes this transformation has brought about have long been among the most studied questions. Yet they still call for more research to increase…
The Impact of Migration on Turkish Rural Women: Four Emergent Patterns
This article explores the diverse experiences of Turkish rural migrant women in the city and how city living enters the definition of gender and the distribution of power in the migrant household. It draws on data collected in an ethnographic study of migrants in Ankara, Turkey, and examines whether this migration improves or deteriorates migrant women's position in the family. Specifically, it identifies four groups of migrant women and speculat…
The meaning of city living for rural migrant women and their role in migration: The case of Turkey
Squatter (gecekondu) housing versus apartment housing: Turkish rural-to-urban migrant residents' perspectives
Alevi politics in contemporary Turkey
In this article we attempt to cast light on Alevi politics in Turkey, mainly the diverse political orientations regarding Alevilik.' We note the differential political power the groups with different political orientations hold and their varied positionings vis-a-vis the Turkish state, as well as the competing political agendas they offer, and to which groups in the Alevi public these political agendas appeal and why. Alevilik is the second major…
Money-earning activities and empowerment experiences of rural migrant women in the city
Becoming "Urban" or Remaining "Rural: The Views of Turkish Rural-to-Urban Migrants on the "Integration" Question
The mass migration from rural areas to larger cities in the Third World and the rapid social changes entailed by this transformation have attracted the attention of social and political scientists since the 1950s. The problematic issue of the "integration" of rural migrants into the urban society and the changes this transformation has brought about have long been among the most studied questions. Yet they still call for more research to increase…
Rural Migrants and Patriarchy in Turkish Cities
This article investigates patriarchy in the context of migration to cities in Turkey. It focuses on the ways in which patriarchy reproduces itself in the lives of migrants - for example through the local community, which reproduces traditional patriarchal control in the urban context, and through the social construction of female labour within the framework of the ideology of familialism and the housewife ideology in which women's economic contri…
The meaning of city living for rural migrant women and their role in migration: The case of Turkey
Rendering responsible, provoking desire: Women and home in squatter/slum renewal projects in the Turkish context
This article is situated at the intersection of urban restructuring, cultural conservatism and neoliberalism in the Turkish context to understand the new subject formations of poor women as they are relocated to high-rise apartment blocks in slum/squatter renewal projects by the prospect of homeownership via long-term mortgage loans. It contributes by showing the gendered effects of urban transformation on poor women as neoliberalism and conserva…
The Impact of Migration on Turkish Rural Women: Four Emergent Patterns
This article explores the diverse experiences of Turkish rural migrant women in the city and how city living enters the definition of gender and the distribution of power in the migrant household. It draws on data collected in an ethnographic study of migrants in Ankara, Turkey, and examines whether this migration improves or deteriorates migrant women's position in the family. Specifically, it identifies four groups of migrant women and speculat…
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
Squatter (gecekondu) housing versus apartment housing: Turkish rural-to-urban migrant residents' perspectives
Female domestic workers strategizing via commuting long distance: New challenges and negotiations in neoliberalizing Turkey
Emergent Local Initiative and the City: The Case of Neighbourhood Associations of the Better-off Classes in Post-1990 Urban Turkey
This article investigates the voluntary local organisations of the better-off classes in the Turkish urban context. Based on empirical research conducted with four neighbourhood associations (NAs), information is provided regarding their process of establishment, leadership, autonomy, goals and projects, resources and obstacles, which points to the significance of context. The research demonstrates that Turkish NAs differ from those in the West i…
Confronting gendered constructions of refugee deservingness and representations: Syrian refugee women strategising for humanitarian aid in Turkey
This study shows how Syrian refugee women living in Ankara cope with their systematically enforced dependency on humanitarian aid through individual and collective agency as they negotiate their inclusion into categories of deservingness and attempt to maintain this inclusion. We argue that the gendered discourses used to delineate deservingness categories in the humanitarian field clash heavily with the portrayal of Syrian refugees in Turkish pu…
From informal housing to apartment housing: Exploring the ‘new social’ in a gecekondu rehousing project, Turkey
This article engages with the question of the ‘new social’ that emerges in the relocation of the poor in slum renewal projects. Drawing upon both Lefebvre’s theorization of abstract space of capital and social space of people, and the neoliberal framework in which the economic dominates the social, the complex relationship between the spatial and the social embedded in political economy is demonstrated. In the Turkish context, the ‘new social’ is…
Gendering Residential Space: From Squatter and Slum Housing to the Apartment Estates in Turkish Renewal Projects
This article argues for the need to understand gendered dimensions of space in a contextualized way. It investigates residential space in three different types of housing settings of the poor, namely, a peripheral squatter neighborhood coded by rurality, a central slum neighborhood coded by criminality, and the housing estates in squatter/slum renewal projects coded by middle–class urbanity. Based on two field studies conducted in Ankara, Turkey'…
Ethnographie du gecekondu . Un habitat autoconstruit de la périphérie urbaine
L'auteur donne la parole à des habitants de quartiers de gecekondu (bâtisseurs sans permis de leur propre maison), qui, dans le cadre de projets de transformation urbaine, ont été relogés dans les tours de cités construites par des promoteurs publics ou privés. Le récit de leur expérience à la fois vécue et remémorée révèle une valorisation des gecekondu par leurs anciens occupants, qui contraste fortement avec la dévalorisation dont ces construc…
Gecekondu Çalışmalarında 'Öteki' Olarak Gecekondulu Kurguları
This article reviews gecekondu studies ranging from earlier to recent ones to reveal the various representations of the gecekondu people in these studies. The representation of the gecekondu people varies in different time periods, namely, the ‘rural Otherʼ in the 1950s and 1960s; the ‘exploited/disadvantaged Otherʼ in the 1970s; the ‘diversified Others in terms of ethnicity, religious sect and genderʼ, and the ‘undeserving rich Otherʼ versus the…
The Politics of Squatter (Gecekondu) Studies in Turkey: The Changing Representations of Rural Migrants in the Academic Discourse
The meaning of city living for rural migrant women and their role in migration: The case of Turkey
Squatter (gecekondu) housing versus apartment housing: Turkish rural-to-urban migrant residents' perspectives
Becoming "Urban" or Remaining "Rural: The Views of Turkish Rural-to-Urban Migrants on the "Integration" Question
The mass migration from rural areas to larger cities in the Third World and the rapid social changes entailed by this transformation have attracted the attention of social and political scientists since the 1950s. The problematic issue of the "integration" of rural migrants into the urban society and the changes this transformation has brought about have long been among the most studied questions. Yet they still call for more research to increase…
The Impact of Migration on Turkish Rural Women: Four Emergent Patterns
This article explores the diverse experiences of Turkish rural migrant women in the city and how city living enters the definition of gender and the distribution of power in the migrant household. It draws on data collected in an ethnographic study of migrants in Ankara, Turkey, and examines whether this migration improves or deteriorates migrant women's position in the family. Specifically, it identifies four groups of migrant women and speculat…
Alevi politics in contemporary Turkey
In this article we attempt to cast light on Alevi politics in Turkey, mainly the diverse political orientations regarding Alevilik.' We note the differential political power the groups with different political orientations hold and their varied positionings vis-a-vis the Turkish state, as well as the competing political agendas they offer, and to which groups in the Alevi public these political agendas appeal and why. Alevilik is the second major…
The Politics of Squatter (Gecekondu) Studies in Turkey: The Changing Representations of Rural Migrants in the Academic Discourse
The Politics of Squatter ( Gecekondu ) Studies in Turkey: The Changing Representations of Rural Migrants in the Academic Discourse
This article aims to develop a critical approach to squatter (gecekondu) studies in Turkey and investigates the various representations of the gecekondu people in these studies in different periods by placing them in their social, political and economic contexts. It details changes in the representation of the gecekondu population from the 'rural Other' in the 1950s and 1960s, to the 'disadvantaged Other' in the 1970s and early 1980s, to the 'urb…
Rural Migrants and Patriarchy in Turkish Cities
This article investigates patriarchy in the context of migration to cities in Turkey. It focuses on the ways in which patriarchy reproduces itself in the lives of migrants - for example through the local community, which reproduces traditional patriarchal control in the urban context, and through the social construction of female labour within the framework of the ideology of familialism and the housewife ideology in which women's economic contri…
Money-earning activities and empowerment experiences of rural migrant women in the city
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
Gecekondu Çalışmalarında 'Öteki' Olarak Gecekondulu Kurguları
This article reviews gecekondu studies ranging from earlier to recent ones to reveal the various representations of the gecekondu people in these studies. The representation of the gecekondu people varies in different time periods, namely, the ‘rural Otherʼ in the 1950s and 1960s; the ‘exploited/disadvantaged Otherʼ in the 1970s; the ‘diversified Others in terms of ethnicity, religious sect and genderʼ, and the ‘undeserving rich Otherʼ versus the…
Emergent Local Initiative and the City: The Case of Neighbourhood Associations of the Better-off Classes in Post-1990 Urban Turkey
This article investigates the voluntary local organisations of the better-off classes in the Turkish urban context. Based on empirical research conducted with four neighbourhood associations (NAs), information is provided regarding their process of establishment, leadership, autonomy, goals and projects, resources and obstacles, which points to the significance of context. The research demonstrates that Turkish NAs differ from those in the West i…
Neighborhood Effects and Women's Agency regarding Poverty and Patriarchy in a Turkish Slum
This paper aims to understand the interplay between the neighborhood (spatial) effects of poverty, ethnicity, kin, and patriarchy, and women's agency in the context of an inner-city slum in Ankara, the capital of Turkey. It is based on a field study that focuses on the experiences of women residents-that is, rural migrants known for their dependency on neighborhood spaces-and their grown-up daughters who were raised in the city. The neighborhood …
An Expression of Appreciation
Ethnographie du gecekondu . Un habitat autoconstruit de la périphérie urbaine
L'auteur donne la parole à des habitants de quartiers de gecekondu (bâtisseurs sans permis de leur propre maison), qui, dans le cadre de projets de transformation urbaine, ont été relogés dans les tours de cités construites par des promoteurs publics ou privés. Le récit de leur expérience à la fois vécue et remémorée révèle une valorisation des gecekondu par leurs anciens occupants, qui contraste fortement avec la dévalorisation dont ces construc…
Formalization by the State, Re‐Informalization by the People: A Gecekondu Transformation Housing Estate as Site of Multiple Discrepancies
This article demonstrates residents' transformative practices and discusses attendant outcomes to contribute to an understanding of state‐built housing estates for people affected by urban transformation projects. It draws upon ethnographic fieldwork conducted in a social housing estate (K‐TOKI) in the Northern Ankara Entrance Urban Transformation Project (NAEUTP). It addresses questions on why formalization of informal housing takes place today,…
Rendering responsible, provoking desire: Women and home in squatter/slum renewal projects in the Turkish context
This article is situated at the intersection of urban restructuring, cultural conservatism and neoliberalism in the Turkish context to understand the new subject formations of poor women as they are relocated to high-rise apartment blocks in slum/squatter renewal projects by the prospect of homeownership via long-term mortgage loans. It contributes by showing the gendered effects of urban transformation on poor women as neoliberalism and conserva…
Gendering Residential Space: From Squatter and Slum Housing to the Apartment Estates in Turkish Renewal Projects
This article argues for the need to understand gendered dimensions of space in a contextualized way. It investigates residential space in three different types of housing settings of the poor, namely, a peripheral squatter neighborhood coded by rurality, a central slum neighborhood coded by criminality, and the housing estates in squatter/slum renewal projects coded by middle–class urbanity. Based on two field studies conducted in Ankara, Turkey'…
Female domestic workers strategizing via commuting long distance: New challenges and negotiations in neoliberalizing Turkey
From informal housing to apartment housing: Exploring the ‘new social’ in a gecekondu rehousing project, Turkey
This article engages with the question of the ‘new social’ that emerges in the relocation of the poor in slum renewal projects. Drawing upon both Lefebvre’s theorization of abstract space of capital and social space of people, and the neoliberal framework in which the economic dominates the social, the complex relationship between the spatial and the social embedded in political economy is demonstrated. In the Turkish context, the ‘new social’ is…
Shifting responsibility in governing aging: Municipal active aging discourses in Turkey
This article investigates active aging as a tool of governing the aging population at the municipal level. Using Foucault’s framework of governmentality, it explores the techniques of governing aging via the construction of the desirable older subjectivity, reflecting upon the role of the family in caregiving. Conducting in-depth interviews with municipal officials in charge of aging programs, we illustrated that, despite regional differences in …
Confronting gendered constructions of refugee deservingness and representations: Syrian refugee women strategising for humanitarian aid in Turkey
This study shows how Syrian refugee women living in Ankara cope with their systematically enforced dependency on humanitarian aid through individual and collective agency as they negotiate their inclusion into categories of deservingness and attempt to maintain this inclusion. We argue that the gendered discourses used to delineate deservingness categories in the humanitarian field clash heavily with the portrayal of Syrian refugees in Turkish pu…
Spaces of in/formality in the Turkish humanitarian field: Spatial and discursive practices impacting refugee women
Drawing upon critical feminist theorising, this article intervenes in the debates about humanitarian aid organisations in the case of urban refugees to highlight the ubiquity of in/formal practices in their interlinkedness that increasingly shape aid distribution. By examining humanitarian enactments at three levels –the national, the district and the neighbourhood– in the case of Ankara, Turkey, the article advances theoretical discussions about…
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