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    A Cinematic Narration of Urban Segregation Through Migration in Turkey: an Analysis of the Film Block-C Directed by Zeki Demirkubuz
    (Intellect Ltd., 2025) Aydin, M.F.; Erdoğdu Erkarslan, Özlem; Erkarslan, Ö.; Erkarslan, Önder
    Metropolitan life is always one of the major concerns of modernity as well as the set for the cinematic art. The critical gaze of cinema throws a light on how cities provide various social and architectural contexts for diversified groups as an indispensable part of the scenario. This study delves into the portrayal of metropolitan life in Zeki Demirkubuz’s 1994 film C Blok (Block-C) through the intertwined concepts of spatial alienation, urban segregation and urban migration. Situated within the context of 1990s Istanbul, the film serves as a microcosm for exploring the social and architectural landscape of Turkish modernity. It scrutinizes the interactions between diverse social classes residing in a suburban apartment complex, offering critical insights into how western-style modernization has shaped urban spaces and individual experiences. In this context, the theoretical foundation of this research encompasses the advent of western-style modernization in Turkey, its permeation into societal realms, and the concept of spatial alienation at the social stratum. Moreover, adopting a critical thinking perspective, this study probes the notions of home and house, elucidating their implications for individuality within the framework of spatial alienation. © 2025 Intellect Ltd.
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    Urban Crisis: ‘limits To Governance of Alienation’
    (SAGE Publications Inc., 2017) Bayırbağ, Mustafa Kemal; Penpecioğlu, Mehmet
    This article aims to develop a comparative framework of analysis to study urban crises, arguing that there is a need to establish the analytical links between ‘everyday life and systemic trends and struggles’, and thus to tie together the insights produced by ‘particularistic accounts’. It examines urban crises as political phenomena and brings the Marxist notion of ‘alienation’ to the centre of attention. We argue that ‘alienation’ – as a universal mechanism facilitating capital accumulation process via dispossession, and as negative mental/emotional implications of dispossession, is useful to establish those analytical links. We identify two domains, urban economic structure and urban political system, where alienation is contained. Public authorities deploy various containment strategies in these domains to govern alienation, and urban crises occur when these strategies fail. The post-2008 wave of urban upheavals could be explained by the failure of roll-out neoliberal strategies, which constitute the basis of our comparative framework.
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    Alienated and Politicized? Young Planners’ Confrontation With Entrepreneurial and Authoritarian State Intervention in Urban Development in Turkey
    (Routledge, 2016) Penpecioğlu, Mehmet; Taşan Kok, Tuna
    Planning in Turkey is dominated by powerful market interests and authoritarian state regulation, resulting in a conflictual socio-political environment. Caught in the crossfire between interventionist urban policies and a planning education system that is oriented towards the public good, planners have come to feel alienated from their work. This paper considers how young planners respond to these challenges, drawing upon questionnaires and semi-structured in-depth interviews with planners with fewer than 10 years of experience. Their confrontation with entrepreneurial and authoritarian state interventions in urban development alienates them from their ideals, leading them to explore new ways of dealing with increasing political authority and economic neoliberalism. The participants of the study came up with a number of diverse responses related to this process. Disappointed with the practice of their profession ‘lost planners' begin searching for alternative pathways outside their practice towards a more meaningful society. In contrast, ‘profiteer planners' focus on getting more business and play a conformist and opportunistic role in the existing planning practice; while ‘struggling planners' develop alternative ways to pursue the public good by participating in urban movements. In short, they cope with alienation through politicization, solidarity and the identification of new means of engaging with society.
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    Modernlik Söylemi: Endişeli Bakışlarda Modern Birey
    (Middle East Technical University, 2010) Talu, Nilüfer
    19. yüzyılın son çeyreğinden günümüze, modernlik ve modern hayatın eleştirileri pek çok farklı disiplin üzerinden klasik teorik yazılar, imgeler, kültürel nesneler, mimari pratikler, bilimsel ve bilimsel olmayan makaleler gibi sayısız metin üzerinden beslenmektedir (1). Bu çalışmanın amacı sosyal bir durum olarak modernliği, farklı disiplinlerde üretilmiş çeşitli metinleri ile ve eşliğinde, modern bireyine odaklanarak bir söylem olarak ele almak ve analiz etmektir. Yapılan söylem analizi Michel Foucault’nun (1926-1984) Bilginin Arkeolojisi (L’archéologie du Savoir) (1969) adlı eserinde geliştirdiği kuramsal tartışma üzerine temellendirilmiştir. Temel olarak Foucaultgil bakış, eylemleri, sözleri, yazıları, imgeleri kapsayan ayrıştırılmış ifade grupları ve düzenlenmiş pratikler aracılığı ile toplumsal yaşam üzerinde bir anlam, bir etki, bir algı yaratılışının mekanizmalarını araştırır. Foucault çeşitli ve birbirinden farklı metinlerin nasıl bir araya gelerek belli bir bakış açısını ve bir söylemi oluşturduğu üzerine odaklanır.