Yardimci, Oznur orcid.org/0000-0002-2398-9857 (2020) State stigmatization in urban Turkey:Managing the 'insurgent' squatter dwellers in Dikmen Valley. Antipode. pp. 1-20. ISSN 0066-4812
Abstract
This paper contributes to the accounts of territorial stigmatisation by examining the state role in it in the case of Turkey, a country that suffers from growing state power. The existing debates are mainly restricted to its function as an economic strategy paving the way for capital accumulation through devaluing working‐class people and places. Drawing on textual analysis of political speeches, local newsletters and mainstream national newspapers and fieldwork material that include interviews and observations in Dikmen Valley where some squatter communities mobilised against the state‐imposed urban transformation project, I demonstrate that state conceptualisation of “problem people” targets the “insurgent” rather than the “unprofitable” groups. Stigma in urban settings functions in inciting the desire to meet the patterns deemed appropriate by the state, rather than the market. Moving from that, I argue that stigma is used as a state‐led political strategy, which is integral to the growing authoritarianism in Turkey.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Author. |
Keywords: | State stigmatization,urban transformation,Dikmen Valley,right to shelter struggle,insurgence,Turkey |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Politics (York) The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Sociology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 28 May 2020 10:40 |
Last Modified: | 21 Jan 2025 17:47 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12651 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/anti.12651 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:161203 |