Istanbul Kentsel Dönüşüm

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How is tolerance reflected in urban space? Which urban actors are involved in the practices and narratives of tolerance? What are the limits of tolerance? The edited volume answers these questions by considering different forms of urban in/exclusion and participatory citizenship. By drawing together disparate yet critical writings, Doing Tolerance examines the production of space, urban struggles and tactics of power from an interdisciplinary perspective. Illustrating the paradoxes within diverse interactions, the authors focus on the conflict between heterogeneous groups of the governed, on the one hand, and the governing in urban spaces, on the other. Above all, the volume explores the divergences and convergences of participatory citizenship, as they are revealed in urban space through political, socio-economic and cultural conditions and the entanglements of social mobilities.

From the Contents:

Bariş Ülker, Measuring, Exhibiting, and Mobilizing Tolerance in Berlin

María do Mar Castro Varela & Leila Haghighat: Solidarity and the City. A Complicated Story

Bernd Belina and Jan Wehrheim: ‘Dangerous zones’: How policing space legitimizes policing race

Margit Mayer, The Promise and Limits of Participatory Discourses and Practices

Pelin Tan, Practices of Commoning and Urban Citizenship

Ömer Turan, Resistance and gift-giving: Gezi Park*

Nazlı Cabadağ & Gülden Ediger: We disperse to Berlin: Transnational entanglements of LGBTI+ movement(s) in Turkey

Yener Bayramoğlu/Begüm: Queer migrant spaces and times in Berlin and Istanbul

Julia Strutz, Spiriting off the Bad Urbanite: From the Topkapi Bus Terminal to the Panorama Museum 1453

Liza Wing Man Kam: Protest in Metropolis: Symbolisms in Play from Queen’s Pier Conservation to Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong

Giselle Andrea Osorio: What do claims for participation tell as about city planning? The experience of defenders of an environmental protected area in Bogotá, Colombia

Tania Mancheno: Behind the Walls of Paris: The inhabited history of the space in the Parisian Banlieues

Adham Hamed: What the hell has gone wrong in Egypt? An Elicitive Conflict Mapping Inquiry

Editors:

Prof. Dr. María do Mar Castro Varela teaches at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany.

Dr. Baris Ülker works at the Centre for Metropolitan Studies (CMS), Technical university of Berlin, Germany.

Kentsel dönüşüm, kentsel mekânlar üzerindeki hak sahipliğini sermaye lehine tanzim eden ve kentin fiziki ve toplumsal formunu da yine sermayenin talep ve çıkarlarına uygun olarak düzenleyerek sermayenin aşırı birikim krizine çare üreten önemli bir araç. Bu nedenle, her ne
kadar kentsel sorunların tasfiyesine ve çöküntü bölgelerinin ekonomik, fiziksel, sosyal ve çevresel koşullarına kalıcı çözüm sağlamaya yönelik
kapsamlı bir vizyon ve eylem olarak tanımlansa da (Turok, 2004), gerçekte kent yoksullarını ve emekçileri zorla tahliye ile yerlerinden ederek,
mülksüzleştirmekte ve var olan yoksulluğu düzeltmek bir yana katmerleştirmektedir.  Nitekim Harvey’e (2009) göre de, kentsel dönüşüm
küresel kapitalizmin, yeni rantlar yaratarak kendisinin neden olduğu bunalımlardan ve krizlerden kurtulma çabası, kabaca, sermaye birikiminin kentlerin dönüştürülmeleri ile emilmesidir.

Türkiye’deki uygulamaları incelediğimizde ekonomik-sosyal boyutlar içermeyen, katılımcılıktan uzak, mülksüzleştirici, yoksunlaştırıcı, tarih, kültür, doğa ve çevre kırımına yol açan projelerle karşılaşıyoruz.


For the last decade, Turkish cities have been undergoing a state-led
transformation parallel to the global trajectory restructured by neoliberal
economic policies that prioritize capital interests against public
interests and engender capital accumulation through dispossession
and displacement.  Furthermore, the urban space is redesigned in accordance with the conservative ideology and authoritarian policies of the government in order to transform the political, cultural and social spheres.

The “Growth Machine”, with its bulldozers and excavators, not only
demolishes neighbourhoods and induces forced-evictions but it also
bulldozes, inter alia, multiculturalism, pluralism, social networks, solidarity
bondages, commons, “agoras”, the very determinants that make a city and  a democratic society.

This authoritarian and antidemocratic process ignores economic and social transformation, excludes participation of communities in the decision making, destroys historical, cultural assets and spaces of memory as well as urban public spaces and causes tremendous ecological and natural devastations.