Territorial Stigmatisation : Urban Renewal and Displacement in a Central Istanbul Neighbourhood
(eBook)

English

10.1515/9783839466889

Open Access https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 unrestricted online access star

In Tarlabasi, an Istanbul neighbourhood facing massive redevelopment and displacement, marginalized residents speak about belonging, stigma, and what their community means to them. Based on a long-term ethnographic study that includes interviews, photographs, and archival research, Constanze Letsch examines how territorial stigmatization is weaponized by the state and how differently stigmatized groups try to fight against the vilification of their mahalle. The contested plans of urban renewal threaten not only their homes and workplaces but a rapidly vanishing Istanbul: socio-demographic interdependencies and networks that have developed over decades.

funded by Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

In English.