Disasters as an ideological strategy for governing neoliberal urban transformation in Turkey

Insights from Izmir/Kadifekale

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ID3898523
AutoresCenk Saraçoğlu (0000-0002-4797-4879, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations Başkent University Turkey), Neslihan Demirtaş‐milz (Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology Izmir University of Economics Turkey)
Año2014
Volumen38
Número1
Páginas178-201
Fecha de publicación2014-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDisasters (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0361-3666 • E-ISSN: 1467-7717
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/disa.12038
PMID24325244
OpenAlexW2123125653
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas28
Referencias citadas23

Since the turn of the twenty-first century, Turkish cities have undergone large-scale change through a process referred to as urban transformation, involving, notably, the demolition of inner-city low-income settlements. The official authorities and business circles have resorted to various forms of discourse to justify these projects, which have led to the deportation of a significant number of people to peripheral areas. The discourse of 'natural disasters', for example, suggests that urban transformation is necessary to protect people from some pending event. Probably the most effective application of this discourse has occurred in Izmir, where the risk posed by 'landslides' has played a critical role in the settlement demolitions conducted in the huge inner-city neighbourhood of Kadifekale. By examining the case of Kadifekale, this paper provide some insights into how 'natural disasters' serve as a discourse with which to legitimise the neoliberal logic entrenched in the urban transformation process in Turkey

Civil engineering · Demolition · Deportation · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Geography · Human settlement · Ideology · Natural disaster · Neighbourhood (mathematics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Turkish · Engineering · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban Planning and Governance