Candan Turkkan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4120974 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Candan Turkkan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Candan |
| FAMILY NAME | Turkkan |
| SIGNATURE | TURKKAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Özyeğin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7814-3146 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Beyond the ban
Entrepreneurial Back‐to‐Landers
Recently, a new trajectory of urban‐to‐rural migration has begun to emerge in the Turkish countryside. This trajectory consists of primarily white‐collar workers, born and raised in the cities, with no background in agriculture, leaving their jobs in the cities, moving to villages and taking up farming. In this paper, through semi‐structured interviews with 83 such ‘neo‐farmers,’ I explore how they choose where to settle. I argue that even though…
Entrepreneurial back-to-landers
Screening for eligibility
Introduced in the 2000s as a component of social welfare reforms, the means test determines the eligibility of aid applicants based on previously set income categories. Replacing local committees that decided eligibility, this centralized and digitalized screening process rests on information infrastructures that are mostly invisible. This paper argues that the ways in which applicants contest the outcome of the means test, subvert the eligibilit…
Who is “deserving” of aid? Subject-formation in Istanbul’s food banks
This paper focuses on how the food banks, in working to allocate resources appropriately, constantly generate appropriate subjects, the “deserving poor”, and through processes of identification and verification, unmask the “undeserving poor”. The paper argues that process of identification, which includes practices of identification, registration, and documentation, push the applicants to self-identify and self-register as “the poor”. Next, proce…
What is the ‘alternative’? Insights from Istanbul’s food networks
Outside of the Global North, where agri-food systems have not yet consolidated into a ‘funnel shape,’ what makes an urban provisioning actor ‘alternative’ is not always clear. In this paper, I use members’ own definitions, emphases, and arguments to differentiate ‘alternative’ networks from other provisioning actors. Using data from semi-structured interviews, I show that while community-building and an affiliation with the food movement (broadly…
Wasteful or sensible? Donor imageries in İstanbul’s food banks
This paper explores how the staff of İstanbul’s food banks perceive the donors and the donations. The paper begins by exploring the literature on food banks; what food banks recover and redistribute; and the role food banks play in managing food insecurity. Next, how these three issues are represented in different models of food banks are discussed: in the non-profit model, the donors are “socially aware citizens” who contribute to the common goo…
Clean foods, motherhood and alternative food networks in contemporary Istanbul
Since the early 2000s, the numbers of alternative food networks (AFNs) in Istanbul have increased significantly. Members are usually white collar, university educated, upper middle class Istanbulites who got into the AFNs during their (or their partner’s) pregnancy. Contributing to an ongoing discussion about the exclusionary dynamics within the food movement, in this paper I trace the meanings these affluent mothers attach to “clean and fresh fo…
Magdalena Crăciun. Material Culture and Authenticity
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Entrepreneurial back-to-landers
Who is “deserving” of aid? Subject-formation in Istanbul’s food banks
This paper focuses on how the food banks, in working to allocate resources appropriately, constantly generate appropriate subjects, the “deserving poor”, and through processes of identification and verification, unmask the “undeserving poor”. The paper argues that process of identification, which includes practices of identification, registration, and documentation, push the applicants to self-identify and self-register as “the poor”. Next, proce…
Wasteful or sensible? Donor imageries in İstanbul’s food banks
This paper explores how the staff of İstanbul’s food banks perceive the donors and the donations. The paper begins by exploring the literature on food banks; what food banks recover and redistribute; and the role food banks play in managing food insecurity. Next, how these three issues are represented in different models of food banks are discussed: in the non-profit model, the donors are “socially aware citizens” who contribute to the common goo…
Clean foods, motherhood and alternative food networks in contemporary Istanbul
Since the early 2000s, the numbers of alternative food networks (AFNs) in Istanbul have increased significantly. Members are usually white collar, university educated, upper middle class Istanbulites who got into the AFNs during their (or their partner’s) pregnancy. Contributing to an ongoing discussion about the exclusionary dynamics within the food movement, in this paper I trace the meanings these affluent mothers attach to “clean and fresh fo…
Screening for eligibility
Introduced in the 2000s as a component of social welfare reforms, the means test determines the eligibility of aid applicants based on previously set income categories. Replacing local committees that decided eligibility, this centralized and digitalized screening process rests on information infrastructures that are mostly invisible. This paper argues that the ways in which applicants contest the outcome of the means test, subvert the eligibilit…
Magdalena Crăciun. Material Culture and Authenticity
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Clean foods, motherhood and alternative food networks in contemporary Istanbul
Since the early 2000s, the numbers of alternative food networks (AFNs) in Istanbul have increased significantly. Members are usually white collar, university educated, upper middle class Istanbulites who got into the AFNs during their (or their partner’s) pregnancy. Contributing to an ongoing discussion about the exclusionary dynamics within the food movement, in this paper I trace the meanings these affluent mothers attach to “clean and fresh fo…
Wasteful or sensible? Donor imageries in İstanbul’s food banks
This paper explores how the staff of İstanbul’s food banks perceive the donors and the donations. The paper begins by exploring the literature on food banks; what food banks recover and redistribute; and the role food banks play in managing food insecurity. Next, how these three issues are represented in different models of food banks are discussed: in the non-profit model, the donors are “socially aware citizens” who contribute to the common goo…
Who is “deserving” of aid? Subject-formation in Istanbul’s food banks
This paper focuses on how the food banks, in working to allocate resources appropriately, constantly generate appropriate subjects, the “deserving poor”, and through processes of identification and verification, unmask the “undeserving poor”. The paper argues that process of identification, which includes practices of identification, registration, and documentation, push the applicants to self-identify and self-register as “the poor”. Next, proce…
What is the ‘alternative’? Insights from Istanbul’s food networks
Outside of the Global North, where agri-food systems have not yet consolidated into a ‘funnel shape,’ what makes an urban provisioning actor ‘alternative’ is not always clear. In this paper, I use members’ own definitions, emphases, and arguments to differentiate ‘alternative’ networks from other provisioning actors. Using data from semi-structured interviews, I show that while community-building and an affiliation with the food movement (broadly…
Screening for eligibility
Introduced in the 2000s as a component of social welfare reforms, the means test determines the eligibility of aid applicants based on previously set income categories. Replacing local committees that decided eligibility, this centralized and digitalized screening process rests on information infrastructures that are mostly invisible. This paper argues that the ways in which applicants contest the outcome of the means test, subvert the eligibilit…
Entrepreneurial Back‐to‐Landers
Recently, a new trajectory of urban‐to‐rural migration has begun to emerge in the Turkish countryside. This trajectory consists of primarily white‐collar workers, born and raised in the cities, with no background in agriculture, leaving their jobs in the cities, moving to villages and taking up farming. In this paper, through semi‐structured interviews with 83 such ‘neo‐farmers,’ I explore how they choose where to settle. I argue that even though…
Entrepreneurial back-to-landers
Beyond the ban
Political science (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Agriculture (2 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (2 works) · Law (2 works)