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

This volume’s excellence is partly because of the way it draws Turkey’s complex past into the present, providing an exemplary analysis of the way history becomes encoded in infrastructure.

• On Materiality and Politics in Turkey: An Introduction Duygu Kasdogan and Ekin KurtiçPART 1The Politics of Infrastructure1 Water Pipes versus Power Lines: GAP Between the Promises and Practices of Infrastructure Build-UpAybike Alkan2 Making the Water Infrastructure of Istanbul Visible: Disease, Fountains, Blueprints (1933- 1971)Asya Ece Uzmay3 “Not for Sale”: Coal as a Pedagogical Infrastructure After the Soma Mine DisasterElif Irem Az4 CommentaryCanay Özden-SchillingPART 2Making Material Worlds Scientific5 The Liminal Forest: Mud, Science and Nationalism in Turkey’s Forests Hande Özkan6 Pasture-Cheese Diplomacy: Carving Knowledge in Dairy TechnosciencesMehmet Fatih Tatari7 The Social Life of Environmental Expertise: Leveraging Scientific Knowledge for Remaking Bio-Cultural Communities in Turkish WetlandsCaterina Scaramelli8 “Is there Oil in Turkey?” Geology, Oil Exploration, and the Indeterminate Materiality of ResourcesZeynep Oguz9 CommentaryStåle KnudsenPART 3Translating Techniques and Expertise10 Smoking under a Volcano: Cold War Base Life in Turkish ThraceSertaç Sen 11 Undoctoring Sport: Constructing Liberal Bodies in Postwar TurkeyCan Evren12 Assembling Gold, Manufacturing Risk:Technopolitics in the Age of the Third Gold RushTarik Nejat Dinç13 CommentaryBegüm Adalet14 AfterwordAndrew Barry