The making of, and resistance to, state-led gentrification in Istanbul, Turkey

İslam, Tolga; Sakızlıoğlu, Bahar

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“…More recently, questions were raised about so-called state-led gentrification, where the state introduces programs and/or laws that intervene in the housing market (e.g., concerning rental contracts and evictions-cf. Mendes & Carmo, 2016; see also Islam & Sakızlıoğlu, 2015).…”

Section: Gentrificationmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Although the practices of resistance seem to shift, research about them is experiencing a shift, too. Although in the past Lees and colleagues repeatedly had to call for resistance to become a more important part of gentrification studies (Lees et al, 2008, Lees & Ferreri, 2016, these have recently become more common (e.g., Annunziata & Lees, 2016;Annunziata & Rivas-Alonso, 2018;Giband, 2021;Helbrecht, 2018;Holm, 2021;Islam & Sakızlıoğlu, 2015). The link to techled gentrification-and particularly to wider frameworks, is, however, rarely made.…”

Section: Protestsmentioning

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When Google announced, in October 2018, that it would not pursue its plan to open a Google Campus in Berlin-Kreuzberg, the local anti-gentrification protesters were triumphant. The retreat was widely seen to be the result of a 2-year-long fight between the tech company and local activist groups. Next to the usual gentrification issues, the protests had additionally addressed what Google as a company stands for and focused on their data policies and the underlying (economic) rationale. The article asks what role this additional critique played in the protests. It will begin with a brief introduction to the key concepts before retracing the history of the planned Google Campus in Berlin as well as of the protests against it.

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After the Life of LGBTQ Spaces: Learning from Atlanta and Istanbul

Doan

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2021

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Many gay villages (or “gayborhoods”) arose in the wake of the gay liberation movement attracted a good deal of academic research within the last 40 years. Unfortunately, this hyper focus on certain spaces often populated by white gay men has frequently eclipsed research on other types of LGBTQ areas as well as other geographies beyond the global north. This chapter aims to address this gap, taking an ordinary cities perspective (Robinson, 2006) and asking how we can develop models that are conceptually useful for understanding the life of a more diverse array of LGBTQ spaces across the globe. To answer this question we avoid linear models of change by developing a new model based on a conceptual framework derived from physics: centripetal and centrifugal forces. The advantage of this model is its explicit recognition of the ways that social, economic, and political forces and their manifestations influence queer spaces. We use two cases from relatively under-studied regions; Atlanta and Istanbul to illustrate the utility of this framework. The “in-betweenness” of these cities, linking south and north as well as west and east, makes them a haven for queers and others fleeing the conservative surroundings in the search for more attractive and welcoming places for marginalized LGBTQ individuals. This chapter draws on the authors’ lived experiences, prior research, and additional interviews to conduct a relational reading of queer spaces with emphasis on the ways that LGBTQ people circulate and congregate in a wider range of urban areas. This comparative strategy and relational reading of queer spaces expands the narrow focus from normalized narratives of gayborhoods to a broader “analysis of the heterogeneity and multiplicity of metropolitan modernities” (Roy 2009, p. 821) of queer spaces.

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Shaping of Flexibility in Urban Renewal Legal Sources in Turkey and Its Effect on Practices

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2020

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The making of, and resistance to, state-led gentrification in Istanbul, Turkey

Cited by 4 publications

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“Google Is Not a Good Neighbor”: The Google Campus Protests in Berlin

“Google Is Not a Good Neighbor”: The Google Campus Protests in Berlin

After the Life of LGBTQ Spaces: Learning from Atlanta and Istanbul

Shaping of Flexibility in Urban Renewal Legal Sources in Turkey and Its Effect on Practices

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