Nihan Akyelken
Biographic Data
| ID | 3857520 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nihan Akyelken |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nihan |
| FAMILY NAME | Akyelken |
| SIGNATURE | AKYELKEN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8034-3342 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Infrastructures to work: Tracing the labour footprint of large urban infrastructure projects
Despite being mostly deemed failures, the large urban infrastructure projects (LUIPs) remain crucial for growth and development in the policy agenda. A key economic and political driver behind these projects is their impact on boosting employment. Most research mainly represents the perspectives of project promoters, planners, and funders, often focusing on the experiences of high-level professionals, politicians, and businesses. Those at the bot…
Economic vulnerabilities and pandemic mobilities: Mobility of low-income populations in İstanbul during the Covid-19 pandemic
Living with urban floods in Metro Manila: A gender approach to mobilities, work and climatic events
With this paper, I demonstrate the importance of a gendered approach to work-related mobilities, in understanding the linkages between mobilities and urban flooding. Drawing on a qualitative study conducted in the Malate district in Metro Manila, I focus on work-related mobilities of low-income communities, particularly on the impact of floods on urban mobilities. Rather than considering floods as disasters, I conceptualise floods as part of ever…
Urban conceptions of economic inequalities
Wide economic disparities are the characterizing features of contemporary urban economies. However, very little is known about how economic inequality is perceived and experienced in urban contexts. Reflecting on the current empirical thinking about perceptions of inequality and guided by Antonio Gramsci's framing of ‘conceptions of the world’, the broad meanings of attitudes and perceptions are transferred to an urban level with a view to develo…
Replacing the services sector and three-sector theory: Urbanization and control as economic sectors
Developed during the Second World War, ‘three-sector theory’ popularized the notion of the ‘services’ sector. It has quietly underpinned understandings of economic structure ever since. The limitations and influence of this basic breakdown have led to many critiques and extensions, but no replacements. Inspired by Henri Lefebvre’s The Urban Revolution (1968), we develop a four-sector model that replaces services with sectors focused on urbanizati…
Mobility-Related Economic Exclusion: Accessibility and Commuting Patterns in Industrial Zones in Turkey
Geographers have long examined the assumption that women are locally constricted and what this means for women taking up of economic opportunities. These studies have provided valuable insights into the understanding of the spatial dimension of social exclusion. However, the investigation of the role of wider economic, physical and social contexts on women’s mobility and accessibility constraints has mainly concerned the countries in North Americ…
Rethinking the links between social exclusion and transport disadvantage through the lens of social capital
Infrastructure Development and Employment: The Case of Turkey
Akyelken N. Infrastructure development and employment: the case of Turkey, Regional Studies. This study illustrates the interaction effects between human capital and transport infrastructure by taking into account the gender differences and the roles of socio-cultural factors on employment in Turkey. It is shown that a considerable part of the variation in paid employment is at a regional scale and that significant associations exist between the …
Development and Gendered Mobilities: Narratives from the Women of Mardin, Turkey
This paper addresses gendered mobilities in Mardin in the context of the implications of transport investments for the female labour market. I seek to illustrate that the relationship between infrastructure provision and gendered mobilities is entangled in a wider context which encompasses politics and cultural geographies. Drawing on theories of mobilities, I argue that a lack of understanding of the complementary and contradictory impacts of lo…
Replacing the services sector and three-sector theory: Urbanization and control as economic sectors
Developed during the Second World War, ‘three-sector theory’ popularized the notion of the ‘services’ sector. It has quietly underpinned understandings of economic structure ever since. The limitations and influence of this basic breakdown have led to many critiques and extensions, but no replacements. Inspired by Henri Lefebvre’s The Urban Revolution (1968), we develop a four-sector model that replaces services with sectors focused on urbanizati…
Development and Gendered Mobilities: Narratives from the Women of Mardin, Turkey
This paper addresses gendered mobilities in Mardin in the context of the implications of transport investments for the female labour market. I seek to illustrate that the relationship between infrastructure provision and gendered mobilities is entangled in a wider context which encompasses politics and cultural geographies. Drawing on theories of mobilities, I argue that a lack of understanding of the complementary and contradictory impacts of lo…
Living with urban floods in Metro Manila: A gender approach to mobilities, work and climatic events
With this paper, I demonstrate the importance of a gendered approach to work-related mobilities, in understanding the linkages between mobilities and urban flooding. Drawing on a qualitative study conducted in the Malate district in Metro Manila, I focus on work-related mobilities of low-income communities, particularly on the impact of floods on urban mobilities. Rather than considering floods as disasters, I conceptualise floods as part of ever…
Urban conceptions of economic inequalities
Wide economic disparities are the characterizing features of contemporary urban economies. However, very little is known about how economic inequality is perceived and experienced in urban contexts. Reflecting on the current empirical thinking about perceptions of inequality and guided by Antonio Gramsci's framing of ‘conceptions of the world’, the broad meanings of attitudes and perceptions are transferred to an urban level with a view to develo…
Infrastructure Development and Employment: The Case of Turkey
Akyelken N. Infrastructure development and employment: the case of Turkey, Regional Studies. This study illustrates the interaction effects between human capital and transport infrastructure by taking into account the gender differences and the roles of socio-cultural factors on employment in Turkey. It is shown that a considerable part of the variation in paid employment is at a regional scale and that significant associations exist between the …
Economic vulnerabilities and pandemic mobilities: Mobility of low-income populations in İstanbul during the Covid-19 pandemic
Infrastructure Development and Employment: The Case of Turkey
Akyelken N. Infrastructure development and employment: the case of Turkey, Regional Studies. This study illustrates the interaction effects between human capital and transport infrastructure by taking into account the gender differences and the roles of socio-cultural factors on employment in Turkey. It is shown that a considerable part of the variation in paid employment is at a regional scale and that significant associations exist between the …
Development and Gendered Mobilities: Narratives from the Women of Mardin, Turkey
This paper addresses gendered mobilities in Mardin in the context of the implications of transport investments for the female labour market. I seek to illustrate that the relationship between infrastructure provision and gendered mobilities is entangled in a wider context which encompasses politics and cultural geographies. Drawing on theories of mobilities, I argue that a lack of understanding of the complementary and contradictory impacts of lo…
Rethinking the links between social exclusion and transport disadvantage through the lens of social capital
Mobility-Related Economic Exclusion: Accessibility and Commuting Patterns in Industrial Zones in Turkey
Geographers have long examined the assumption that women are locally constricted and what this means for women taking up of economic opportunities. These studies have provided valuable insights into the understanding of the spatial dimension of social exclusion. However, the investigation of the role of wider economic, physical and social contexts on women’s mobility and accessibility constraints has mainly concerned the countries in North Americ…
Replacing the services sector and three-sector theory: Urbanization and control as economic sectors
Developed during the Second World War, ‘three-sector theory’ popularized the notion of the ‘services’ sector. It has quietly underpinned understandings of economic structure ever since. The limitations and influence of this basic breakdown have led to many critiques and extensions, but no replacements. Inspired by Henri Lefebvre’s The Urban Revolution (1968), we develop a four-sector model that replaces services with sectors focused on urbanizati…
Living with urban floods in Metro Manila: A gender approach to mobilities, work and climatic events
With this paper, I demonstrate the importance of a gendered approach to work-related mobilities, in understanding the linkages between mobilities and urban flooding. Drawing on a qualitative study conducted in the Malate district in Metro Manila, I focus on work-related mobilities of low-income communities, particularly on the impact of floods on urban mobilities. Rather than considering floods as disasters, I conceptualise floods as part of ever…
Urban conceptions of economic inequalities
Wide economic disparities are the characterizing features of contemporary urban economies. However, very little is known about how economic inequality is perceived and experienced in urban contexts. Reflecting on the current empirical thinking about perceptions of inequality and guided by Antonio Gramsci's framing of ‘conceptions of the world’, the broad meanings of attitudes and perceptions are transferred to an urban level with a view to develo…
Economic vulnerabilities and pandemic mobilities: Mobility of low-income populations in İstanbul during the Covid-19 pandemic
Infrastructures to work: Tracing the labour footprint of large urban infrastructure projects
Despite being mostly deemed failures, the large urban infrastructure projects (LUIPs) remain crucial for growth and development in the policy agenda. A key economic and political driver behind these projects is their impact on boosting employment. Most research mainly represents the perspectives of project promoters, planners, and funders, often focusing on the experiences of high-level professionals, politicians, and businesses. Those at the bot…
Sociology (7 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Urban Transport and Accessibility (5 works) · Economic geography (4 works) · Mobilities (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Demographic economics (2 works)