Berra Topçu – Contested Spaces and Uncertain Futures: Place, Agency, and Mobilization in Old Town Istanbul 11/7/2016
Kısa süreli IFEA üyelerinin müdahalesinin bir parçası olarak11 Temmuz 2016 Pazartesi 14:30’da IFEA’daBerra Topçu (Massachusetts Amherst Üniversitesi)Sunum İngilizcedir Contested Spaces and Uncertain Futures: Place, Agency, and Mobilization in Old Town Istanbul In the past decade, Istanbul has become a key site of global and grassroots movements in the developing world for social and environmental justice. In this presentation, I use the conceptual lens of “transformational research” (Bernard and Gravlee 2014) to analyze responses to urban renewal in the historic peninsula of Istanbul, in the municipal district of Fatih. Ethnographic data was collected among expert and lay subjects, including reporters, scholar-activists, residents, city officials, and urban planners in the spring of 2015. After laying out grassroots community activism efforts among walled