Demi̇rtaş, Neslihan
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Demirtas-Milz, Neslihan
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| Cıtıes | 2 |
| Urban Informalities: Reflections on the Formal and Informal | 2 |
| Dısasters | 1 |
| Internatıonal Journal of Urban And Regıonal Research | 1 |
| The Kurdish Issue in Turkey: A Spatial Perspective | 1 |
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Article Citation - WoS: 36Citation - Scopus: 43Disasters as an Ideological Strategy for Governing Neoliberal Urban Transformation in Turkey: Insights From Izmir/Kadifekale(Wiley, 2014) Saracoglu, Cenk; Demirtas-Milz, NeslihanSince the turn of the twenty-first century, Turkish cities have undergone large-scale change through a process referred to as urban transformation, involving, notably, the demolition of inner-city low-income settlements. The official authorities and business circles have resorted to various forms of discourse to justify these projects, which have led to the deportation of a significant number of people to peripheral areas. The discourse of natural disasters', for example, suggests that urban transformation is necessary to protect people from some pending event. Probably the most effective application of this discourse has occurred in Izmir, where the risk posed by landslides' has played a critical role in the settlement demolitions conducted in the huge inner-city neighbourhood of Kadifekale. By examining the case of Kadifekale, this paper provide some insights into how natural disasters' serve as a discourse with which to legitimise the neoliberal logic entrenched in the urban transformation process in Turkey.Article Citation - WoS: 51Citation - Scopus: 53The Regime of Informality in Neoliberal Times in Turkey: The Case of the Kadifekale Urban Transformation Project(Wiley, 2013) Demirtas-Milz, NeslihanJuxtaposing the empirical findings of a qualitative research study of an urban transformation project in the Kadifekale squatter district of Izmir with the changed nature of urban politics in a neoliberal context, this article aims to trace the manifestations of the regime of informality in Turkey. Ethnographic consideration of the motives behind these projects, the way they have been carried out and their consequences for the lives of the inhabitants points to an extended space for informal politics tactically manoeuvred by state officials of various ranks. Particularly during the last two decades, neoliberal urban policies have triggered an intensification of power discrepancies in both the vertical and horizontal dimensions and a fragmentation of community structure in the localities mainly along socioeconomic divides. This research reveals a transition from positive/passive to negative/active uses of informality in the disposition of the state towards the urban poor when the fast and efficient conduct of urban transformation projects is in question. The characteristics of the locality as a landslide zone, the already fragmented socioeconomic structure in the neighbourhood and the dense presence of Kurdish immigrants facilitate the putting into practice of informal strategies. The immigrants who cannot define a place for themselves in the simultaneously formal and informal context of the project have been seriously disadvantaged.Book Part Citation - Scopus: 10Space, Capitalism and Kurdish Migrants in Izmir: an Analysis of Kadifekale's Transformation(Taylor and Francis Inc., 2015) Demirtas-Milz, Neslihan; Saraçoğlu C.[No abstract available]Book Part Urban Informality Reconsidered in a Neoliberal Context: Gecekondu, 1 Identity, Poverty and Islamic Philanthropism in Turkey [2016](Taylor and Francis, 2016) Demirtas-Milz, NeslihanUnder the impact of various strategies of neoliberal governance, informality has extended its space at all levels of urban politics in the last three decades in Turkey. Drawing upon a dialogue between the empirical findings of a qualitative research conducted on socio-spatial history of an Ankara gecekondu (squatter) neighbourhood and the transformed context of urban politics in the neoliberal era, this chapter attempts to trace informality in practices of state on one side and the neighbourhood community on the other. Identity policies accompanying depoliticisation policies of the post-1980 military intervention; urban entrepreneurialism/clientelism accompanying neoliberal urban land policies; and philanthropic/Islamist social assistance schemes accompanying the policies of dismantling welfare state, will be discussed with reference to their fragmentary impacts on urban poor, along socioeconomic and ethnic lines. All these dynamics as part of a neoliberal urban regime make ethnicity (sectarian identities in this particular case) relevant to poverty and deprivations of all kinds. Unlike certain approaches celebrating informality as providing tactics and spaces of existence for urban poor within the system, this chapter offers a more cautious reading of informality. © 2012 Colin McFarlane and Michael Waibel All rights reserved.Book Review Book Part Citation - Scopus: 1Urban Informality Reconsidered in a Neoliberal Context: Gecekondu, Identity, Poverty and Islamic Philanthropism in Turkey [2012](Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2012) Demirtas-Milz, NeslihanUnder the impact of various strategies of neoliberal governance, informality has extended its space at all levels of urban politics in the last three decades in Turkey. Drawing upon a dialogue between the empirical findings of a qualitative research conducted on socio-spatial history of an Ankara gecekondu (squatter) neighbourhood and the transformed context of urban politics in the neoliberal era, this chapter attempts to trace informality in practices of state on one side and the neighbourhood community on the other. Identity policies accompanying depoliticisation policies of the post-1980 military intervention; urban entrepreneurialism/clientelism accompanying neoliberal urban land policies; and philanthropic/Islamist social assistance schemes accompanying the policies of dismantling welfare state, will be discussed with reference to their fragmentary impacts on urban poor, along socioeconomic and ethnic lines. All these dynamics as part of a neoliberal urban regime make ethnicity (sectarian identities in this particular case) relevant to poverty and deprivations of all kinds. Unlike certain approaches celebrating informality as providing tactics and spaces of existence for urban poor within the system, this chapter offers a more cautious reading of informality.Article Citation - WoS: 24Citation - Scopus: 35A Socio-Spatial Analysis of Urban Transformation at a Neighborhood Scale: the Case of the Relocation of Kadifekale Inhabitants To Toki Uzundere in Izmir(Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2015) Demirli, Meltem Eranil; Ultav, Zeynep Tuna; Demirtas-Milz, NeslihanParticularly in the last two decades, urban governors have presented urban transformation projects as ideal solutions to help low-income urban residents improve their living conditions. However, the way they have been carried out and their consequences mean that these projects do not, in most cases, bring the expected improvements. Most projects involve relocating residents to new, more peripheral districts of the city, which causes social isolation and certain socio-spatial incompatibilities between their previous and new habitats. Using a case from Izmir in Turkey, this study aims to analyze such socio-spatial incompatibilities in the lives of low-income residents that are caused by relocation within the framework of urban transformation projects. One of Izmir's earliest inner-city gecekondu neighborhoods, Kadifekale was chosen by Izmir Metropolitan Municipality as a site for urban transformation due to the risk of landslide in the area. Before the start of the project, the neighborhood contained 7324 housing units accommodating rural-to-urban migrants, mainly from the southeast of Turkey. This urban transformation project aimed to relocate at least some of the inhabitants from their homes in Kadifekale to recently constructed apartment blocks in the TOKI Uzundere Public Housing Project on the periphery of the city. Although many residents were reluctant to exchange their houses for new apartments, some were persuaded to move to TOKI, which was presented as the ideal solution by the municipal officials. This study critically evaluates the Kadifekale urban transformation project, particularly with regard to the relocation of some Kadifekale residents from their one- or two-story houses in Kadifekale to apartment blocks on the periphery of the city. The analysis is based on a comparison between the socio-spatial experiences of migrants in Kadifekale and their recent experiences in Uzundere and the possibility of certain incompatibilities in these two experiences. The argument aims to demonstrate the changed conditions of social life and daily life practices as a result of altered spatial properties at a neighborhood scale: their use of outdoor spaces, the meanings they attributed to neighborhood space (intimacy of place within categories of sensual (visual and olfactory) recognition), and their sociospatial network. The argument draws both implicitly and explicitly on Henri Lefebvre's spatial triad and De Certeau's conceptualization of tactic versus strategy as the major conceptual inspirations for this study. (c) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.