عنوان

Resistances Against Hydropower Projects as Place-based Struggles:

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انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Resistances Against Hydropower Projects as Place-based Struggles:

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Aslan, Ozlem

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

The Case of Artvin, Turkey

نام ساير پديدآوران

Nedelsky, Jennifer

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Toronto (Canada)

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2019

نام خاص و کميت اثر

307

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

University of Toronto (Canada)

امتياز متن

2019

متن يادداشت

The dissertation examines the implications of place-based action for a rethinking of democratic politics. The research is based on the struggles against hydropower projects in Artvin, a small city in the Black Sea Region of Turkey. The dissertation traces the effects of the dams as spatial interventions in the region based on the accounts of the inhabitants, field observations, official reports, and academic articles; it maps the institutional structures that enable these spatial interventions and reveals ways citizens challenge these institutional structures. The dissertation offers a phenomenological approach as an important addition to social constructivist approaches to understanding the struggles against the run-of-the-river type hydropower projects in the region. Social constructivist approaches to place-based struggles have been significant in unpacking the power dynamics within which spatial interventions are made possible and are resisted. These approaches evaluated place-based struggles based on their handling of heterogeneity and difference, their potential in dismantling of capitalism, their ability to articulate their problems in more structural terms and their ability to be extroverted and situate themselves in broader networks. Phenomenological approaches enable us to articulate the emphasis these struggles put on the significance of "implacement" as a social and physical experience for living beings. The dissertation argues that the anti-hydropower struggles in Turkey-through their emphasis on protecting "life spaces"- underlined a form of placial ethics. "Life spaces" encompassed both human networks of relationships and their embeddedness in the entire eco-system. This placial ethics challenged the existing cost-benefit analysis and redefined the destruction of landscape as a collective loss. This ethics-based politics rendered participatory collective decision-making imperative for spatial interventions and required prioritization of politics of place over partisan politics. The politics aimed at protecting life space thus redefines the nature of interests at stake as well as the nature of democratic participation.

موضوع مستند نشده

Geography

موضوع مستند نشده

Philosophy

موضوع مستند نشده

Political science

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Aslan, Ozlem

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Nedelsky, Jennifer

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y