Transforming Socio-Natures in Turkey

Onur İnal is a researcher based in the Near Eastern Studies Department, University of Vienna, Austria.Ethemcan Turhan is a researcher based in the Environmental Humanities Laboratory, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Sweden.

"Transforming Socio-Natures in Turkey is a landmark text for understanding Turkey’s socio-environmental challenges. This interdisciplinary collection engages the reader in a growing understanding of the ecological costs of neoliberal authoritarianism in Turkey. Ultimately, the reader emerges with critical tools for building a new historical-geographical framework for environmental thought and practice." — Anna J. Secor, Professor of Human Geography, Durham University, UK"Smart, timely, incisive - this book is a wonderful collection representing some of the best new work from emerging scholars on issues of changing socio-natures, and environmental politics in contemporary Turkey. It is precisely the sort of book I would have loved to have had years ago, but at least its time has come." — Leila M. Harris, Professor, Institute for Resources Environment and Sustainability and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, University of British Columbia, Canada"Spanning the whole Republican era and a wide range of environmental issues, this book fills a lacuna in studies of Turkey. It provides the reader with a unique vantage point for understanding the trajectories of and contemporary consequences of the vast economic, demographic and political transformations in the country." — Ståle Knudsen, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, Norway

• 1. Socio-Natures on The Edge: Landscapes, State and Movements in Turkey Part I Landscapes on the Edge 2. The Soils of Turkey: Nature, Science, and Crisis (1930-1960) 3. A Technopolitical Frontier: The Keban Dam Project and Southeastern Anatolia 4. From Imperial Frontier to National Heartland: Environmental History of Turkey’s Nation-Building in Its European Province of Thrace, 1920-1940 Part II State and Capital on the Edge 5. Security, Dispossession, and Industrial Meat Production in Turkey 6. Sediment in Reservoirs: A History of Dams and Forestry in Turkey 7. Informalization of Waste Regimes: The Entanglement of Urbanization, Poverty and Waste in Ankara Part III Movements on the Edge 8. Contextualizing the Rise of Environmental Movements in Turkey: Two Instances of Anti-Gold Mining Resistance 9. Coal, Ash, and Other Tales: The Making and Remaking of the Anti-Coal Movement in Aliağa, Turkey 10. Moving Stills: The Idea of Nature in New Turkish Cinema Epilogue