Bengi Akbulut – « From « iron networks » to cemented dreams: development as in-justice » 21/10/2015
« Türkiye ve Çevresinde Çevrenin Yeniden Kompozisyonları, Temsilleri ve Kullanımları » semineri kapsamında21 Ekim 2015 Çarşamba 14:30’da IFEA’daBengi Akbulut (bağımsız araştırmacı) « 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 by the hundreds. The centrality of the