Tolga İslam
Biographic Data
| ID | 6002610 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tolga İslam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tolga |
| FAMILY NAME | İslam |
| SIGNATURE | ISLAM T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Urban and Regional Planning Yildiz Technical University Istanbul Turkey |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2385-7141 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
When City Meets Village
This study examines how urban migrants in Turkey's North Aegean Gallipoli Peninsula recompose everyday life and how subtle rural transformations become legible through rhythmic negotiation. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 2023, we use Lefebvre's rhythmanalysis—together with Ingold's notion of the taskscape—to analyse how time, work and social relations are practically organised after relocation. Gallipoli is a late‐discovered coast…
Studentification in Conservative Turkish Cities
This study investigates the socio‐cultural impacts of studentification in two conservative cities in Turkey – Erzurum and Konya, which serve as laboratories for understanding how university student populations interact with deeply traditional communities. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with students and long‐term residents between 2016 and 2025, we investigate how the rapid expansion of higher education in Turkey has transformed these religious a…
On the dual nature of intra-urban borders
Informality, the Commons and the Paradoxes for Planning
Land formalisation Formalising landholding through the issue of legal land titles has proved to be a seductive proposition for a number of governments in the global south during the first decade of the 21 century. Much of this thinking, and indeed policy development, has been based on Hernando De Soto’s conceptualisation of dead capital, perhaps most accessibly captured in The Mystery of Capital (De Soto, 2001). The argument has been very persuas…
Informality, the Commons and the Paradoxes for Planning
Land formalisation Formalising landholding through the issue of legal land titles has proved to be a seductive proposition for a number of governments in the global south during the first decade of the 21 century. Much of this thinking, and indeed policy development, has been based on Hernando De Soto’s conceptualisation of dead capital, perhaps most accessibly captured in The Mystery of Capital (De Soto, 2001). The argument has been very persuas…
On the dual nature of intra-urban borders
Studentification in Conservative Turkish Cities
This study investigates the socio‐cultural impacts of studentification in two conservative cities in Turkey – Erzurum and Konya, which serve as laboratories for understanding how university student populations interact with deeply traditional communities. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with students and long‐term residents between 2016 and 2025, we investigate how the rapid expansion of higher education in Turkey has transformed these religious a…
When City Meets Village
This study examines how urban migrants in Turkey's North Aegean Gallipoli Peninsula recompose everyday life and how subtle rural transformations become legible through rhythmic negotiation. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 2023, we use Lefebvre's rhythmanalysis—together with Ingold's notion of the taskscape—to analyse how time, work and social relations are practically organised after relocation. Gallipoli is a late‐discovered coast…
Archaeology (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Action (physics) (1 work) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (1 work) · Argument (complex analysis) (1 work) · Capital (architecture) (1 work)