عنوان

Conflict Geographies of Water Pollution in Thrace Region of Turkey

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TL49298

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Conflict Geographies of Water Pollution in Thrace Region of Turkey

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Eda Acara

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Queen's University (Canada)

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

277

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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor;

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Body granting the degree

Queen's University (Canada)

Text preceding or following the note

2015

Text of Note

This thesis addresses the tension between industrial development policies and environmental protection and the rising pollution levels in the City of Lüleburgaz in Thrace region, a peripheral region of Istanbul, Turkey. The environmental narratives of second- third-generation Muslim-Balkan immigrants, who began arriving in the early 20th Century, and Kurdish migrants, who arrived in Lüleburgaz in the post-1990 era, express conflict geographies of pollution across communities and between the communities and the state. Heavy pollution in the Ergene River, where the river is declared 'dead,' is not a mere accident but rather a facet of neoliberal environmental governance. A politics of non-governance Conflicting narratives of Muslim-Balkan immigrants and Kurdish migrants uncover multiple layered conflict geographies of water pollution in Thrace region by grappling with the question of how 'the nation' is continously reterritorialized within neoliberalized constructions of environment and river politics at the community and policy realms. Ethnic-class segregation leads to different community demands with regard to river pollution and environmental degradation in neighbourhoods characterized by different materialities of housing and occupation, a particular facet of non-governance that creates landscapes of invisibility. This analysis contributes to theories on 'actually existing neoliberalism' and the ways through which the nation and its various territorial practices at different epochs of neoliberalization processes not only create consent for neoliberalization practices, but also give way for historical and racialized ethnic conflicts to survive.

Geography; Water Resource Management

Subject Term

(UMI)AAI10588706;Social sciences;Earth sciences;Turkey;Water pollution

Gungorurler, Selim

Queen's University (Canada)

Call Number

1886374692; 10588706

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[Thesis]

276903

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