An Introduction to the Research of Faruk Tabak, Sociologist
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8965456 |
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| Authors | Ariel Salzmann (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 529-531 |
| Publication date | 2008-07-22 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020743808081300 |
| OpenAlex | W2068625303 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
Faruk Tabak, who died of complications following a stroke on 15 February 2008 at age fifty-four, passed his youth in central Anatolia. A childhood in industrial Eskişehir—where, he once told me, the Porsuk River's color varied with the day's textile-dye batch—and college winters in smog-enveloped Ankara made him (“a man of the north”) dream of the pristine landscapes and bright tableaus of Turkey's Mediterranean shores. Trained as an architect and later as a planner at the Middle East Technical University, Tabak charted the currents of modern hegemony, capitalism, ecology, and the spatial dispersion of populations through the deep waters of the Mediterranean's past
Ancient history · Dream · Geography · Hegemony · Planner · Political science · Shore · Geology · History · Law · Oceanography · Turkey's Politics and Society
| Highly cited | No |
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