Dans le cadre du séminaire « Recompositions, représentations et usages de l’environnement en Turquie et dans son voisinage »Lundi 9 novembre 2015 à 14h30 à l’IFEAAyşen Eren (Université de Boğaziçi)« New Geographies Of Vulnerability Or New Geographies Of Green Energy: The Emerging Stresses On The River Valleys of Turkey With The Transformation Of Water-Energy Nexus » The Turkish hydropower sector is going through a considerable transformation in last decade. Justified by the narratives of the national energy security and emerging energy crisis, the Turkish state is committed to liberalize the energy sector. Although first steps were taken in 1980s by incrementally allowing private investment in hydropower sector to generate electricity, in early 2000s the state launched rather a radical hydropower development program to open

Dans le cadre du séminaire « Recompositions, représentations et usages de l’environnement en Turquie et dans son voisinage »Mercredi 21 octobre 2015 à 14h30 à l’IFEABengi Akbulut (chercheure indépendante)« From « iron networks » to cemented dreams: development as in-justice » « From « iron networks » to cemented dreams: development as in-justice » Development is perhaps the most controversial theme that marks the debates on contemporary Turkey. And rightly so: not only because discussions on the most effective way to achieve it are heating up once again, but also because development comes with its discontents, from communities whose living spaces are destroyed by energy projects to those bearing the detrimental health impacts of industrial pollution, from residents of entire villages submerged under water with dam constructions to miners killed

Dans le cadre du séminaire « Recompositions, représentations et usages de l’environnement en Turquie et dans son voisinage » Présentation d’ouvrage « Yeni İstanbul çalışmaları: Kente politik ekoloji çerçevesinden bakmak »Lundi 12 octobre 2015 à 17h à l’IFEAAyfer Bartu (Université de Boğaziçi)Cenk Özbay (Université de Boğaziçi)Interventions en turc Geçtiğimiz kasım ayında yayımlanan İstanbul Çalışmaları: Sınırlar, Mücadeleler, Açılımlar (Metis, 2014), hem kentin içinde bulunduğu hallere hem de araştırma odakları, soruları ve yöntemlerindeki yeniliklere vurgu yaparak, olabildiğince geniş bir açıdan İstanbul’a bakmayı hedefliyor. Kentin « devlet eliyle » küreselleştirilmesi, « büyüme » saplantısı, neoliberalizmin kent üzerindeki baskıları, hukukun taşıdığı muğlaklıkların istismar edilişi, mülksüzleştirme, mutenalaştırma, kentin dönüşüm coğrafyası, « tehlikeli » diye mimlenmiş mahallelerdeki devlet şiddeti, Gezi Parkı direnişi ve yeni kentsel muhalefet, İstanbul’u sırtında taşıyan toplumsal emek, kentteki turizm, trafik, ulaşım sorunları, hareketlilikler, kadın