Material Politics in Turkey

Duygu Kasdogan is Assistant Professor of Urbanization and Environmental Problems in Political Science and Public Administration Department at Izmir Katip Çelebi University, Turkey. Ekin Kurtiç is Assistant Professor of Development Studies in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow at Sidney Sussex College. Mehmet Ekinci, is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University, USA

On Materiality and Politics in Turkey: An Introduction
Duygu Kasdogan and Ekin Kurtiç


PART 1
The Politics of Infrastructure

1 Water Pipes versus Power Lines:
GAP Between the Promises and Practices of Infrastructure Build-Up
Aybike Alkan

2 Making the Water Infrastructure of Istanbul Visible:
Disease, Fountains, Blueprints (1933- 1971)
Asya Ece Uzmay

3 “Not for Sale”:
Coal as a Pedagogical Infrastructure After the Soma Mine Disaster
Elif Irem Az

4 Commentary
Canay Özden-Schilling


PART 2
Making Material Worlds Scientific

5 The Liminal Forest:
Mud, Science and Nationalism in Turkey’s Forests
Hande Özkan

6 Pasture-Cheese Diplomacy:
Carving Knowledge in Dairy Technosciences
Mehmet Fatih Tatari

7 The Social Life of Environmental Expertise:
Leveraging Scientific Knowledge for Remaking Bio-Cultural Communities
in Turkish Wetlands
Caterina Scaramelli

8 “Is there Oil in Turkey?”
Geology, Oil Exploration, and the Indeterminate Materiality of Resources
Zeynep Oguz

9 Commentary
Ståle Knudsen


PART 3
Translating Techniques and Expertise

10 Smoking under a Volcano:
Cold War Base Life in Turkish Thrace
Sertaç Sen

11 Undoctoring Sport:
Constructing Liberal Bodies in Postwar Turkey
Can Evren

12 Assembling Gold, Manufacturing Risk:
Technopolitics in the Age of the Third Gold Rush
Tarik Nejat Dinç

13 Commentary
Begüm Adalet

14 Afterword
Andrew Barry