Ekin Kurtiç
Biographic Data
| ID | 387604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ekin Kurtiç |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ekin |
| FAMILY NAME | Kurtiç |
| SIGNATURE | KURTIÇ E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bogaziçi University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0784-6901 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Salvage work: The making of movable nature for post-submergence life
This article critically examines environmental salvage projects undertaken in northeastern Turkey by focusing on political and technoscientific actors who design and implement them. In 2012, Turkey's first project to salvage rare plants before their submergence in a dam reservoir was implemented in the Çoruh Valley. This was the first instance of resettlement and restoration efforts associated with large dams to encompass plant life. A few years …
Infrastructural Decay: Maintenance Ecologies and Labor in the Çoruh Basin
A growing ethnographic literature attends to maintenance and repair practices in the face of decay and ruination. This article explores the forms of decay that become an integral part of infrastructure maintenance. In Turkey's Çoruh Basin, hydroelectric dam constructions lead to a concern about the landscape's erosive character, which requires foresters' practices of watershed rehabilitation in the uplands to protect the dams against sediment acc…
Infrastructural politics in the Middle East and North Africa: Pasts, presents, futures
Manifestations rurales et contestation politique autour des centrales hydro-électriques en Turquie
Depuis que les projets de centrales hydro-électriques (CHE) se sont mis à proliférer dans toute la Turquie, à l'initiative des entreprises privées chargées de les construire et de les gérer, les CHE sont au cœur de l'agenda politique du pays. Quand le secteur privé a commencé à capter l'eau des rivières pour produire de l'énergie, les habitants locaux ont fait entendre leur voix pour l'empêcher, recourant à diverses pratiques et stratégies : ils …
Infrastructural Decay: Maintenance Ecologies and Labor in the Çoruh Basin
A growing ethnographic literature attends to maintenance and repair practices in the face of decay and ruination. This article explores the forms of decay that become an integral part of infrastructure maintenance. In Turkey's Çoruh Basin, hydroelectric dam constructions lead to a concern about the landscape's erosive character, which requires foresters' practices of watershed rehabilitation in the uplands to protect the dams against sediment acc…
Infrastructural politics in the Middle East and North Africa: Pasts, presents, futures
Manifestations rurales et contestation politique autour des centrales hydro-électriques en Turquie
Depuis que les projets de centrales hydro-électriques (CHE) se sont mis à proliférer dans toute la Turquie, à l'initiative des entreprises privées chargées de les construire et de les gérer, les CHE sont au cœur de l'agenda politique du pays. Quand le secteur privé a commencé à capter l'eau des rivières pour produire de l'énergie, les habitants locaux ont fait entendre leur voix pour l'empêcher, recourant à diverses pratiques et stratégies : ils …
Infrastructural politics in the Middle East and North Africa: Pasts, presents, futures
Infrastructural Decay: Maintenance Ecologies and Labor in the Çoruh Basin
A growing ethnographic literature attends to maintenance and repair practices in the face of decay and ruination. This article explores the forms of decay that become an integral part of infrastructure maintenance. In Turkey's Çoruh Basin, hydroelectric dam constructions lead to a concern about the landscape's erosive character, which requires foresters' practices of watershed rehabilitation in the uplands to protect the dams against sediment acc…
Salvage work: The making of movable nature for post-submergence life
This article critically examines environmental salvage projects undertaken in northeastern Turkey by focusing on political and technoscientific actors who design and implement them. In 2012, Turkey's first project to salvage rare plants before their submergence in a dam reservoir was implemented in the Çoruh Valley. This was the first instance of resettlement and restoration efforts associated with large dams to encompass plant life. A few years …
Political science (3 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · History (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (2 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (1 works) · Art (1 works)